I had a similar experience when I dropped my lifelong atheism.
I was about 35. I was watching a bunch of videos on quantum physics while I was sick and - click - not atheist anymore… went back to what I was doing.
Everyone ELSE had a conniption over it because they felt like they couldn’t set a watch by me anymore - and a change out of me, because they held me in high esteem, needled at their cognitive dissonance.
What they were thinking but would never say: “If you decided you were wrong, that means I could be wrong too, so I have to make you wrong now to protect my ego.”
According to them, I was not allowed to change my mind.
But I’m growth-focused, received better information, and simply updated my premises.
If they wanted to go, I let them.
If people are willing to drop you over this, let them show their asses and consider it a blessing to see who they really are and how fickle.
This allows room for new people who are in alignment with you to show up.
I wrote my own version of this today: christophercook.substack.com/p/day-stop…
So, did you have anyone unsubscribe after this? Or write you off (in spite of extensive agreement on other subjects) for this one tiny deviation from atheist orthodoxy?
I did!
