Religious Oppression, Healing, and My Journey to Self-Love
By Danae ~ Self-love is a journey that cannot begin until you dig into your past and try to figure out just when, where and why you ever learned self-hate to begin with. It’s taken me years to learn...
View ArticleFinally Freed from the Shackles of Guilt & Doubt
By Liz ~ In a recent life experience, where I met with a cohort from a previous and equally important year abroad, I realized that who I "am" is not who I am at all...During a weekend in the beautiful...
View ArticleTimes Must be Difficult for True Believers
By Carl S. ~ It has to be difficult to raise children to be serious believers of one‘s own religion. To raise yet another generation to carry the baggage of traditional, sectarian, unresolved problems...
View ArticleWhy I'm Not A Christian Anymore
By Myra ~ I'm not a christian anymore because of all the different religions I have come across, Christians are the most judgmental little pricks I've met. They tell people they're going to hell for...
View ArticleIn Honor of LGBT Month - It's Only Natural
Rainbow flag (LGBT movement) LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) Pride flag (Photo credit: Wikipedia)By Ex-Pastor Dan ~ The issuance of Barack Obama’s Presidential Proclamation declaring June to...
View ArticleFull of contradictions
By The Educated ~ I was raised into Christianity from birth. Ever since I can remember, I was going to church, forced of course, by an indoctrinating family. I even had a brief stint around age 13 in...
View ArticleThe "Anecdote as Proof" Game
By WizenedSage (Galen Rose) ~ A while back, looking for insight into theistic thinking, I read a book titled, “Life, God, and Other Small Topics: Conversations from Socrates in the City” Edited by Eric...
View ArticleEyes Open with a Heart Full of Questions
By ebgrammar ~Throughout my transformation away from Christianity, more and more questions pop into my head. In rather unusual, expeditious fashion I am able to sort them out and move on in a way I was...
View ArticleQuestioning: The Sincere Search
By sincere seeker ~ I have read with great interest many postings here from ex-Christians and i am very impressed by what I read by sincere posters both Christians and ex-Christians alike.I struggle...
View ArticleMy Journey from Dogma to Peace
By Crystal ~ Oh, where to start?!Like many around me, I was brought up in a Christian upbringing. A Narcissistic Christian mother, but an Agnostic/Atheist father.Because of the abuse that I suffered at...
View ArticleWhen "GOD" heals
By Rev. Ex-Evangelist ~ I hate going to the doctor. I hate hearing of friends who are having to go for testing and medical procedures. Science and research has supplied us with wonderful cures and...
View ArticleI Just Realized Christianity Makes Sense
By Apostate Paul ~ I used to think that the Christian gospel message was totally messed up.I mean, basically the gospel message starts out by saying that there is an all-powerful God that set up a...
View ArticleA complete waste of brain power...
By Sarah R. ~ Where do I begin?So I'm a African American woman who grew up in the church from ever since I can remember. I didn't like the days where I'm constantly getting up on Sunday mornings,...
View ArticleHoney, I Shrunk My Faith!
By Daniel out of the Lion's Den ~ My wife caught me medicating with cannabis… alright, she caught me smoking pot. But when you say it like that, you think of a teenager enveloped in a plume of bong...
View ArticleSpiritual Evolution: Why I Am an Ex-Minister
By Zachary ~ Allow me to first familiarize whoever may read this with who I am. Who I am is a natural born thinker. I have thought about things all my life, a question asker. For twenty-one years now...
View ArticleTwenty Vile Quotes Against Women By Church Leaders from St. Augustine to Mark...
By Valerie Tarico ~ What with diatribes about entertainers who invite rape and moms who are destroying America by supporting their families . . . with ignorant arguments about fetuses that masturbate,...
View ArticleCaught in Limbo
By Wolfdreamer ~ I've been lurking on this site for four years. For four years I've been taking comfort in the wisdom and the stories that all of you have shared. Now it is my turn, for I can't take...
View ArticleAddressing and Refuting the Cosmological Fine Tuning Argument for Design
By psychman 33 ~ I wrote this for a Facebook forum I frequent. But I think that it may be of some use here.Due to the fact that this argument keeps being advanced, despite being addressed and shown to...
View ArticleFarewell to Faith
From TheThinkingAtheistJackie, William and Rachel each came from religious homes. So what made them question, and ultimately reject, the belief systems of their childhood? We let them explain...in...
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