{"id":1930,"date":"2016-08-07T11:27:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T18:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=1930"},"modified":"2016-08-07T11:27:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T18:27:43","slug":"ineffective-deconversion-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/ineffective-deconversion-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ineffective Deconversion Pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in an ostensibly reform-Jewish household that didn't even take <em>that<\/em> seriously, atheism was easy for me, so I don't know how hard deconversion is, how much it hurts, or how much of one's entire conception of self is trashed in the process and can't be recovered.<\/p>\n<p>As an atheist, it's tempting to say, &quot;Look, it's not that bad: God doesn't <em>exist<\/em> exist, but you can still go to church and praise God and stuff if you want; it's just that there are benefits to being honest about what you're actually doing and why.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, I suspect that this is not a very convincing sell.<\/p>\n<p>Applications to other topics are\u2014as always\u2014left as an exercise to the reader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in an ostensibly reform-Jewish household that didn't even take that seriously, atheism was easy for me, so I don't know how hard deconversion is, how much it hurts, or how much of one's entire conception of self is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/ineffective-deconversion-pitch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}