Yeah of course the cognitive dissonance was reduced. That made the process much less painful, but it was in no way a retreat back to faith. If anything, most of the cognitive dissonance was already inherent in what I was pretending to believe.
Yeah of course the cognitive dissonance was reduced. That made the process much less painful, but it was in no way a retreat back to faith. If anything, most of the cognitive dissonance was already inherent in what I was pretending to believe.