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(871) Ease of creating scripture
By Michael Runyan ~Suppose you are a scholar living around 90 AD and want to write a gospel of Jesus. You don’t know anything about Jesus, but you have copies of the gospels of Mark, Matthew, and Luke...
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Pentecostal bullying in Scotland
By Robbie ~ I joined a Pentecostal church called Struthers in Falkirk in Scotland in 1984. By 1996 I realised I was being lied to and they didn't believe their own lies.For years they tell you God does...
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Coming Out
By Sacred Skeptic ~ “To utter one’s deepest fears about their faith is for some only slightly less riskythan buying heroin on a street corner…” (Peter Enns)For several years I labored under the...
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Christian belief is all words, not action
By Michael Runyan ~ The true test of a religion’s truth claims is whether it followers, particularly the most ardent ones, behave in a way that validates the underlying dogma. Christianity fails this...
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It just does not work!
By Sunday Silence ~ I cannot do Christianity any more. Its illogical stories, inconsistent standards, and ineffectiveness have become too much for me to continue believing. I struggled with...
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The Garden of Eden: A Humanist Perspective
By Carl S ~ According to tradition, the Garden of Eden was a place where no evil existed. No pain, no suffering, no death. Perhaps it's that same “Paradise” Moslems are taught is worth dying for to...
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Playing God
By Carl S ~ I'm eighty years of age, the fourth of five children raised in a Catholic household. Three of my siblings were born eleven to fifteen years before me. My oldest brother, Ray, who had a...
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What if you're RIGHT?
By Michael Runyan ~ In 2006, Richard Dawkins gave a talk at Liberty University when a young woman asked him the question, ‘what if you’re wrong?’. His answer has been enshrined in the atheist Hall of...
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Hello, my name is Don and I am a religious addict.
By Don Shafer - ex Christian, ex pastor, ex idiot ~ It's true, I am addicted to Christianity, to Jesus, to God, to the church, to the methods and relationships and the high I get from my involvement in...
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Let’s Drop God from Public Pronouncements
By Carl S ~ Millions watched one morning after the tragic school shooting in Florida. The words of the policeman were displayed beneath him: “Student survived by the grace of God.” He should have added...
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Replacing Religious Addiction with Science Knowledge
By Carl S ~ The “spiritual” history of civilization can be a mirror of one's personal experiences: a journey, an undercurrent, even a merry-go-round going nowhere. The spiritual, or “transcendental”...
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WHERE WAS GOD?
By ex-Pastor Dan ~ I originally wrote this rant back in November, 2017, after the horrible massacre took place in a Texas Church...
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Religions are just making it up as they go along
By John Draper ~ I belong to a Facebook group called Recovering Ex-Christians. I join in the conversations, even though I don’t think I’m recovering.Truth is, I enjoyed being a Christian.In particular,...
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The Adam Bomb
By Michael Runyan ~ Many scientifically-literate Christians hold on to their faith while admitting to the truth of biological evolution. This is actually an untenable position. The New Testament...
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Christianity can exist only in a world where it is false
By Michael Runyan ~ If you were to travel to some parallel universe where Christianity is true, this is what you would find:The Bible contains a lot of scientific facts and explanations that were...
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Me and the Mormons
By John Draper ~ Things were getting dicey. You know me—push, push, push.“So what you’re telling me,” I said to the well-scrubbed missionaries, “is that you can become a God.”“Yes, that’s true,” the...
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Goodbye Jesus
By Tim Sledge ~ I cannot pinpoint the exact moment when I stopped believing in the faith that shaped my life. I would compare it to living with a persistent, unrelenting ache, and then one day,...
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Working For The Church
By WP ~ I have been a Christian my whole life but the past two years have completely broken the mind fuck spell I was placed under. Growing up my mom would take me to baptist church in Louisiana. I...
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The Empty Promise of Heaven
By Michael Runyan ~ Christianity holds out its ultimate reward, eternal life in heaven, like an apple on a stick and claims that it and only it can provide this treat to you. It is a poisoned apple....
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My Thoughts @ 80
By Carl S ~ Definitions of a Christian martyr: someone who would rather die than think. one who fears doubt more than death itself.For 1500 years, Christianity ruled the Western world. And what a...
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