Leaving Religion » 2009 http://leavingreligion.com Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:57:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 The end of a decade… http://leavingreligion.com/2009/12/the-end-of-a-decade/ http://leavingreligion.com/2009/12/the-end-of-a-decade/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:57:32 +0000 leavingreligion http://leavingreligion.com/?p=384 Well, there it goes… the first decade of the 2000’s, over.  It’s been good.  I rode two financial downturns… but certainly enjoyed the booms before them.  I traveled, got married, moved around, worked at a few places and then decided it was time to start writing about my past as a religious zealot and why I left it behind, and what I think about all of that now.

While I only started this blog in 2009, many of the things I write about are thoughts I’ve pondered over many years.  The beginning of this decade is when I officially started telling people that I had left my religion, when I really felt like I had left my religion, and was no longer looking over my shoulder for the wrath of the big guy upstairs.  The beginning of this decade was a feeling of absolute freedom… in 2000 I was open about leaving my religion, I left my job, traveled solo for some time and really started to know myself, and… like myself.

While the decade had massive events that were horrific… I would rate this a good decade for me, personally.  I got married, grew a lot in a career I like, met some amazing people who are now some of my dearest friends, challenged myself, got healthy, and did all kinds of other good things.  This doesn’t mean I didn’t have my share of disappointment (getting laid of, twice, during the tech bust comes to mind), but overall, the positive in my life outweighed the negative.  Thankfully.

I left my religion… was open about it… and still had a great decade (in fact, some of my best years ever); and I was always taught that life was no good without God… so, as I go into 2010… I call bullshit on this theory.  I’ve officially tested it, and the exact opposite appears to be true.

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