Apostate necromancer, lost sailor, ship run aground 🏝️

Apostasy is generally not a self-definition: few former believers call themselves apostates due to the term's negative connotation.

For so long I tried to hide my religious background because I was ashamed of it. It felt like deception and betrayal, failure and hopeless, endless emptiness.

Yet it has become important for me to embrace my heritage, to take up my birthright.

I did come to be an atheist, to silence ⅁od after He destroyed all those who came before Him, He who would take no name. But my experience is so much more than the abence of evidence that came after.

I am an apostate. Sit down for a while, I'll tell you a story...