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Problem with Annhiliationism
By Paul So ~ A recent article in this website criticized Annhiliationism specifically because it assumes that God’s divine retribution on people are unjust, and from there the author of the article...
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On Friends and Change
The following is a post from the blog (Why I No Longer Believe) that I've established to log my recent deconversion and the fallout thereof.By Anthony Toohey ~ One of the difficult parts of the...
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A Matter of Trust
By Carl S ~ No one at my wife's church asks me what I think of their pastor. They probably don't want to know anymore than they would want to know what I have to say about the beliefs pushed there. My...
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God, why did you put me here?
Son of a preacher man ~ Home life of fear, I don't want to sin, I don't want to sin! Look out, their watching your every move, just waiting to see one of your sins. Hide things in your room, they dam...
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Christians - A Future That They Weren't Counting On
By Yak ~ This past week a volcanologist with LiveScience leaked a small story of what started as monitoring a relatively normal, dormant volcano in Bolivia, but turned out to be a 40-mile wide area of...
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What is a person?
By Valerie Tarico ~ This week the citizens of Mississippi will vote whether to legally assign the status of “personhood” to any human egg that has been penetrated by a sperm. I, for one, think that...
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My journey away from the cross
By Kylm ~ Wow, I am so excited to have found this site! I joined immediately. It is such a relief to find a group of people who think like I do! I live in the Bible Belt of the USA, a very hard place...
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Never Ending Story
By Heero Yuy ~ “History is much like an endless waltz, the three beats of war, peace, and revolution continue on forever.”- Gundam Wing Endless Waltz“Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the...
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The righter you get it
By Jane Douglas ~ People coming out of a life of faith face a whole lot of challenges. Often our leaving costs us all or at least most of our friends. Our support networks vanish overnight and we have...
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Some things not to say
By Gina Marie ~ I have been struggling with my faith for the past year and a half. I really have no idea where I will end up at the end of this journey, but I have encountered some very frustrating...
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Artless Christianity Part 1: The Dark Side of Noah's Hubris
By Justin B ~ When I was a Christian, wearing the "facade" of being doubtless and patently pious was generally advised among some churches. Before you enter the church, you are filled with the...
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Trauma from Leaving Religion
Understanding Religious Trauma Syndrome: Trauma from Leaving Religion (Part 3 of 3) by Dr. Marlene Winell ~ Religious Trauma Syndrome (RTS) is a function of both the chronic abuses of harmful religion...
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How I Spent My Autumn Vacation
By Carl S ~ To tell the truth, "vacation” isn’t the natural word for the time, as it consisted mostly of traveling and visiting we would not ordinarily choose to do, and eating out almost constantly....
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What Pascal didn't wager
By hellboundsoul ~ I’ve never had much affinity for Pascal’s Wager. The whole thing is pretty hard to take seriously with the heap of objections that immediately come to mind after hearing it. However,...
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On Stereotyping
By Discordia ~ Every now and then it pops up in postings here about how stupid and religious everyone in the South is. While everyone is entitled to their opinions, that entitlement doesn’t mean I have...
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Deconversion wasn't a Decision - It was an Inevitability
By Katie ~ It’s a bit difficult to pull up the relevant details of my deconversion from the recesses of my mind, but there is far less pressure laying it out before fellow nonbelievers rather than...
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Free of brainwashing
By Simone ~ Editor's note: This submission comes from Switzerland.I am very happy to join ex-christians. We probably left Christianity for different reasons... I will try to summarize my testimony.Well...
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Not an "ex"-Christian
By Celia ~ I'm not an ex-Christian, but I'm fighting with God none-the-less. I fell in love with Jesus when I was four. It was the deep, like-warm-melted-wax-flowing-through-my-heart falling in love...
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Biblical Law in Our Time?
By WizenedSage (Galen Rose) ~ The Age of Enlightenment, centered upon the 18th century, marked a dramatic, secular shift in Western culture from dependence on authority to an appreciation of evidence...
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The decent
By Son of a preacher man ~ I am the Lord your God:If I even dare to question the absolute truth of the bible I deserve to be beaten. Later becomes "Why am I so unprepared for the real world, God where...
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