Trigger reasons for apostasy from ‘Zelph on the Shelf’…

“It was such a simple thing that caused me to first start to question everything. I was chatting with a coworker. Somehow the topic of silly religions came up, after which I commented how, ‘Unlike other religions, I really like how everything in mine just makes sense.’ His response was, ‘Oh, I gotta hear this.’ And the funny thing is, one of us had to run and that was the end of the conversation.

“But it started me thinking about how I would have responded to him. And the more I thought about it, the more I realized it actually doesn’t make any more sense than any other religion. Seven years later I read the ‘Letter to a CES Director’ and I’m done.”