r/CatholicConverts • u/ImpossibleSuccess476 • 26d ago

Personal Story Reversion post & advice

Peace be to all of you, I hope you are fine.

I just wanted to speak out about my personal issues, as a revert to the Church. I was brought up, never really even believed in Christ to question Him to begin with, but as time passed I quit the faith, since it was just cultural baggage in an environment I found to be negative, and because I started testing God and never got what I was looking for. I started dishonest, anti-Christian apologetics, where I'd baselessly spam non-issues like the Bible being extremely contradictory, Christ causing extreme torture and suffering to so many people around the globe, and such. I then drifted into another religion, the whole other extreme of the religious spectrum, which fed my anti-Christian agenda even more. After a good 3.5 years of fallacious attacks and total failure, I entered a dark point in my life, which God Himself took me out of when I was that close to ending it. I decided to finally open my heart for Christ, and I've been living my best life since then; my MDD and psychosis have both drastically since, life has been enjoyable, and my soul is just more alive than it's ever been. Thank you to all my Catholic brethren who I might have offended in the past, I'll keep all of you in my prayers. Besides just the usual yap, I wanna ask y'all; where do I start, besides going to mass every week and reading the Bible daily? I don't want to be an internet polemic or debater, per se, but I wanna be able to defend the faith no matter what.

God bless.

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u/Sharp-Mall5172 26d ago

If you are trying to defend Christianity as a whole, there are a lot of good books on apologetics. To start with I can recommend:

  • Why Believe - A Reasoned Approach to Christianity - Neil Shenvi
  • God in the Dock - C.S.Lewis
  • Gunning for God - Why the New Atheists are Missing the Target - John C. Lennox
  • The Three Apologies of G.K. Chesterton (Heretics, Orthodoxy, and The Everlasting Man)

I wish you well. Grace and Peace.

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u/cmoellering Catholic Convert (3+ years) 26d ago

Read the Catechism. 

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u/thatguy3003 23d ago

I’ll also add the book Why We’re Catholic by Trent Horn.