Why I abandoned religion: a personal story
Up to this point, I've made one post on religion, where I took a look at how religion presents itself in Finland, and shortly mentioned my personal views on it in the introduction to this blog. Apart from that, I really haven't talked about it, even though I feel pretty passionately about it. So, I've decided to change that. This post, as the title suggests, will. I be about my personal experiences with religion and how that led me to abandon religion altogether. The motivation for this post is the fact that many people still find it weird that somebody would leave their religion. There are also a lot of misconceptions about the reasons behind the decision to leave religion. So, I really just want to put my experiences out there to try and fix some of them. In my previous post on this topic, I mentioned that around 73% of the Finnish population are a part of some religious group, with the overwhelming majority, around 71% adhering to the Lutheran branch of Christianity....