It was a gradual process over several years. Eventually one or two relatively small things became the metaphorical straws that broke the camel’s back. Especially after beginning to study science and statistics in earnest, I became increasingly aware of how inconsistent it was to have different standards of evidence for religion vs science. Once I could no longer fool myself into arbitrarily moving the goalposts my beliefs collapsed very quickly.
Something else that helped me was the good ol’ Sagan standard of “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”.
Was there any specific moment where you went from Mormon to not Mormon or was it gradual? If it was sudden, what triggered it?
It was a gradual process over several years. Eventually one or two relatively small things became the metaphorical straws that broke the camel’s back.
Especially after beginning to study science and statistics in earnest, I became increasingly aware of how inconsistent it was to have different standards of evidence for religion vs science. Once I could no longer fool myself into arbitrarily moving the goalposts my beliefs collapsed very quickly.
Something else that helped me was the good ol’ Sagan standard of “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”.