| Stories listed by reason for leaving |
|---|
| "bible god" not worthy of worship if he does exist |
There and back again... |
10.5K |
| "free will" doesn't make sense since desires not under
our control |
A decade of disillusionment |
14.3K |
| "hell" sent me to the nuthatch |
What the hell happened to me? |
1.0K |
| a homosexual break through. |
From Door Knocking to Horn Raising |
1.6K |
| a logical and reasonable examination of the facts revealed the
farce. |
Why I Don’t Believe in God, the Bible, or Christianity |
28.7K |
| a matter of principle |
In the Defernse of My own Principles |
1.6K |
| a revelation i had |
God is a Lie / It's My Choice |
7.9K |
| a year later- still not "saved" |
work, work, and more work... |
2.4K |
| able to see that humans invent/embrace religion to soothe themselves |
Christianity is Based on Logical Absurdities |
6.9K |
| absurdities |
Disinfected of the Christian Meme |
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| abuse |
sex, lies, slander and abuse in the brisbane bible belt |
4.3K |
| Here I am, shinto and loving it. |
1.1K |
| abuse of myself but especially my wife and children. |
My journey of discovery. |
1.0K |
| abused and mistreated by jews for jesus |
Escape From Jews for Jesus |
8.3K |
| abused mentaly by my "dr. jekyl and mr. hyde" husband |
Can't Ignore the Hypocrisy and Contradiction any more.... |
1.8K |
| acquisition of new knowledge that superceded the old belief structure. |
The Joy of Disillusionment - My Journey |
1.1K |
| activities of the religious right |
Disinfected of the Christian Meme |
|
| actually read the bible |
Actually Read the Bible |
0.9K |
| actually read the bible! |
Satan is in the church |
3.1K |
| actually read the bible. |
Freethinker prefer reason over 2000 year old book |
2.3K |
| admitted to myself i didn't believe it. |
My Path to Reason |
6.1K |
| after looking back on my life, it appeared that god never cared. |
After 50 yrs |
2.1K |
| all knowing? |
All knowing? All powerful? Just? |
0.5K |
| all of the hypocrisy of the bible |
Long told about, But never really thought about |
1.9K |
| all powerful? |
All knowing? All powerful? Just? |
0.5K |
| an absencse of the main charecter in the bible story ,
much like my own father was not there . |
penticostal |
1.5K |
| an honest look at my lack of belief |
Fallout from a dying religion |
2.9K |
| an ot god which resembled a cosmic imbecile |
A fools paradise |
6.9K |
| and angry that people had been lying to me and brainwashing me
since i was little about beliefs i should figure out for myself |
I've seen the light! |
5.5K |
| and blind faith just wasn't an option for me anymore |
I've seen the light! |
5.5K |
| and the more i thought about people shoving it down my throat,
the less i believed |
I've seen the light! |
5.5K |
| angels and demons is silly |
A waste of 25 years |
|
| anger at christian teachings that allow for child abuse and spousal
battering |
Finding Peace and Freedom After Years of Observing Christian
Fanatacism |
8.0K |
| answered the question why most scientists aren't |
A painful withdrawal |
2.0K |
| anti-establishment zeitgeist of the 60s. |
The never-ending search for prema |
2.8K |
| anti-scholarly aspects of churh doctrine |
Mind over Fundamentalism |
|
| antidepressants |
Story 0401 |
1.7K |
| applied reason to my beliefs. |
The Supremacy of Reason |
|
| argument from evil (ae) |
The power of the book and life. |
1.5K |
| arminian "free will" not really free |
A decade of disillusionment |
14.3K |
| arrogance towards people |
Here I am, shinto and loving it. |
1.1K |
| asked a few questions too many |
Lies, damn lies, and asking too many questions |
0.5K |
| asked god for guidance basically read reserched and realized |
why i left ALL of chrsitianity |
2.5K |
| assholeness of biblegod |
Witnessing Asshole for an Asshole God |
1.6K |
| atheism makes sense of christianity |
A waste of 25 years |
|
| athiest webpages posed questions that required real thought |
Brainwashed |
2.0K |
| bad evidence |
Astronomy |
1.3K |
| bad experinces/events |
Story 0203 |
4.3K |
| bad grammar |
If It Wasn't For Agnosticism, I Wouldn't Know What to Believe! |
1.3K |
| became horribly depressed about hell, hearing my family and friends
and most of the world would go to hell, nearly life threatning |
Story 0438 |
0.7K |
| because a whole lot of christians are assholes (i.e. homophobes,
misogynists) |
christianity oppressive to women & others (i.e. GLBT-Q) |
|
| because i asked questions, and "god" as a concept or
as a "thing" did not answer them. |
It answers nothing & changes nothing. Sad waste of time. |
4.9K |
| because i desperately wanted to. |
Opposite direction |
5.5K |
| because i discovered paganism and it just made sense... |
From Southern Baptist to Pagan |
3.6K |
| because i found a truth in the world |
Christians mess with your brain. |
2.8K |
| because i found many false and upsetting facts about the faith. |
I am FREE FROM HELL!!! |
0.8K |
| because i had the realization that christianity was a man made
tool for positive influence over the masses. |
Christianity is man-made |
5.6K |
| because i realized what terrible bullshit it all was. |
Realization |
0.2K |
| because i went back to my old religion (asatru), it called to
me, the gods appeared to me in a dream |
Walker Between Worlds |
2.3K |
| because i'm mentally unstable for such a belief system,i was
lonely and suicidal....everyone hated me. and i'm still hurt
today..everyone at church wewre gossipy and were into material
things and made fun of my situation...because you see....my
car wasn't perfect and i have balc hair so i'm also a slut. |
My Hell Here |
2.0K |
| because it only made me more depressed when they said god loved
me, but he didn't seem to love me. |
The xtian G-d is a False One |
0.5K |
| because of doubts and questions that built up over time, i began
studying the bible and the christian religion from the skeptical
side of the fence, and i came to the realization that very little
- if anything - of what i had believed as a christian was actually
true. |
Why I am an Atheist |
12.5K |
| because of the church's hatred of homosexuals and its unwillingness
to ordain me due to a divorce. i could not accept the resurrection
as factual. |
I Left Because it Supported Hate |
0.9K |
| becoming more rational |
Making my own decisions on what to believe -- or not believe |
1.6K |
| began studying philosophy and science |
The Supremacy of Reason |
|
| began to find concept of "heaven" just a bit difficult
to take seriously. |
Church of Christ minister for 10 years - What a Waste! |
2.7K |
| being dissatisfied with my life as a christian |
From good little christian girl to lesbian pagan |
2.2K |
| being exposed to paganism |
From good little christian girl to lesbian pagan |
2.2K |
| being screamed at by the preacher |
what i realized 2 |
2.1K |
| being told that if i were gay i would go to hell |
From good little christian girl to lesbian pagan |
2.2K |
| belief system didn't agree with me |
The Thin Invisible Line |
1.0K |
| belief system was incoherent |
Why I Left the Mormon Church |
2.7K |
| believe that god is loving and non-judging |
Into the arms of a loving God |
1.5K |
| bibical contradictions |
Story 0203 |
4.3K |
| bible "prophecies" are phony |
found it to be confusing, irrational. |
0.5K |
| bible absurdities |
A fools paradise |
6.9K |
| bible clashed with personal moral beliefs |
Good little fundy Christian boy goes terribly wrong |
5.2K |
| bible contradictions |
The injustice of Hell at the hands of a merciful god |
5.7K |
| Once a fundamentalist asshole, now a gay atheist |
12.2K |
| bible discrepancies |
A Curious Mind |
3.6K |
| bible errancy |
From Pentecostal to Pagan |
0.6K |
| bible god is an asshole |
Once a fundamentalist asshole, now a gay atheist |
12.2K |
| bible is one big lie |
The Dysfunctional "God's Forever Family" |
4.7K |
| bible is plagarisms of much older religions |
Pious Lies, and Assholeness of BibleGod |
3.6K |
| bible study |
No, I'm Not a Christian -- Not Anymore! |
|
| Witnessing Asshole for an Asshole God |
1.6K |
| biblical absurdities |
Atheist |
0.6K |
| biblical absurdity |
Just Showing My Support |
|
| biblical atrocities |
Street Minister becomes Atheist |
4.6K |
| biblical contradictions |
From good little christian girl to lesbian pagan |
2.2K |
| From ELCA To Secular Humanism |
|
| biblical discrepancies |
Sad but free |
4.2K |
| biblical errancy |
From incredible conversion experience to total atheism |
4.4K |
| A waste of 25 years |
|
| Natural Born Atheist |
0.4K |
| Deconverted after attending pentecostal Bible School |
|
| I learn everything the hard way |
3.0K |
| Born-Again Heathen: from Christianity to Asatru |
6.9K |
| Good little fundy Christian boy goes terribly wrong |
5.2K |
| I finally quit the fight and started living |
4.5K |
| Pious Lies, and Assholeness of BibleGod |
3.6K |
| "Losing My Religion"--again |
3.4K |
| Finally admitting the truth... |
2.3K |
| My journey... |
2.2K |
| Same Old Song |
1.6K |
| Making my own decisions on what to believe -- or not believe |
1.6K |
| RELIGION ISTHE OPIATEOF THE MASSES, most definitely |
1.5K |
| Christianity destroys hope |
1.4K |
| If It Wasn't For Agnosticism, I Wouldn't Know What to Believe! |
1.3K |
| I finally realized it wasn't my fault |
1.3K |
| Reality Shock |
1.0K |
| those darn christians |
1.0K |
| Finding Reality |
0.9K |
| From ELCA To Secular Humanism |
|
| The Christian Meme Exposed |
|
| Doubt and critical mass: how much is too much? |
|
| Oops...we were wrong! |
|
| Beware of God |
|
| Story 0020 |
|
| The Truth Shall Set You Free |
|
| Witnessing Asshole for an Asshole God |
1.6K |
| My Walk Away |
1.6K |
| There and back again... |
10.5K |
| To thine own self be true |
7.3K |
| Sad but free |
4.2K |
| biblical inconsistencies |
Former Fundamentalist Turns Atheist After Eight Years of Belief. |
2.8K |
| biblical promises not kept |
No manifestation of God |
2.0K |
| biblical teachings conflicted with personal morals |
A story of disappointment |
3.2K |
| bigotry |
Satan is in the church |
3.1K |
| bigotry (women, gays, african-americans, etc) |
Oops...we were wrong! |
|
| bigotry of church |
Christianity destroys hope |
1.4K |
| bisexual in a very hostile church |
From Nice AoG Girl to Nice Vodoun Witch |
0.4K |
| bloody history of church |
Pious Lies, and Assholeness of BibleGod |
3.6K |
| bom errancy |
My reasons for leaving. |
0.4K |
| books |
We're all in this together |
3.9K |
| boredom |
Fallout from a dying religion |
2.9K |
| Patheon of Gods |
2.3K |
| brainwashing |
Why I'm An Ex-Baptist |
4.9K |
| brainwashing in the church |
Into the arms of a loving God |
1.5K |
| brainwashing tactics |
Free at last! |
0.7K |
| breaking christ's teaching to satisfy lesser unimportant laws |
Satan is in the church |
3.1K |
| brutal history of christianity |
I finally quit the fight and started living |
4.5K |
| brutality of yaweh in old testament |
Awakened by reason and honesty |
4.2K |
| came to believe in myself rather than god |
A Deeper Shade of Grey |
0.7K |
| can not acccept eternal damnation |
A sad excuse for a God |
0.8K |
| can't trust a deity or the bible |
Glad to be free of the biblical God |
5.9K |
| carl sagan |
Making Contact With Reality |
0.3K |
| celexa |
Story 0401 |
1.7K |
| charismatism = happy-clappy fascism |
A Vision of Fascism |
2.1K |
| chose to face reality instead of taking refuge in fantasy |
From Superstition to Reason |
8.6K |
| christian attitudes to non-christians |
Reality shock through reading and thinking. |
|
| christian biblegod is sinister |
Disinfected of the Christian Meme |
|
| christian hatred of homosexuals and other faiths |
Violence and hypocrisy of Christianity made me think |
3.0K |
| christian history |
Reality shock through reading and thinking. |
|
| christian hypocrisy |
Once a fundamentalist asshole, now a gay atheist |
12.2K |
| christian hypocrites |
A Curious Mind |
3.6K |
| christian idea of god |
Blinded Right Wing Wackos - cut out the middle man |
1.2K |
| christian lifestyles |
"Losing My Religion"--again |
3.4K |
| christian lying and dishonesty |
I learn everything the hard way |
3.0K |
| christian violence and false justifications |
Violence and hypocrisy of Christianity made me think |
3.0K |
| christianity is a corrupt social system. |
Woke up |
1.1K |
| christianity is wrong |
I can't see how anyone who gives it long thought could stay christian. |
1.9K |
| christianity makes no sense |
Getting Good Laughs from TBN |
1.5K |
| christianity offered no guidance for my life |
Fallout from a dying religion |
2.9K |
| christianity's similarities to cults/cult behavior |
Disinfected of the Christian Meme |
|
| christians are hippocrites |
Disinfected of the Christian Meme |
|
| christians are hypocrites |
Christians are hypocrites |
1.0K |
| christians are legalists |
Bible Belt dun screwed up |
2.1K |
| christians aren't nicer people |
No manifestation of God |
2.0K |
| christians do not really know more about what is going on |
If It Wasn't For Agnosticism, I Wouldn't Know What to Believe! |
1.3K |
| christians no better than most other groups |
If It Wasn't For Agnosticism, I Wouldn't Know What to Believe! |
1.3K |
| christians not superior to other people |
If It Wasn't For Agnosticism, I Wouldn't Know What to Believe! |
1.3K |
| christians reality tunnel |
If It Wasn't For Agnosticism, I Wouldn't Know What to Believe! |
1.3K |
| christians were phonies |
The Dysfunctional "God's Forever Family" |
4.7K |
| church elders saw me as a serious threat to their belief |
The Christian Meme Exposed |
|
| church had nothing to offer |
No reason |
3.6K |
| church history |
Same Old Song |
1.6K |
| If It Wasn't For Agnosticism, I Wouldn't Know What to Believe! |
1.3K |
| church history (doctrinal development) |
My testimony on leaving Christianity (long) |
27.1K |
| church officials were in denial and not being straightword or
giving honest answer |
The Christian Meme Exposed |
|
| church's misogyny |
God, our abusive father |
0.9K |
| church's oppression of women |
Disinfected of the Christian Meme |
|
| claims were not true |
Why I Left the Mormon Church |
2.7K |
| cognitive dissonance |
Set Free From Christ |
6.4K |
| Educated Myself into Heresy |
3.8K |
| cognitive dissonance reduction became too much. |
xtianity almost drove me insane |
10.4K |
| college |
Losing my Religion |
|
| common sense and reading/listening of the qur'an. |
How I left Christianity for Islam |
5.5K |
| comparative religion |
Reality shock through reading and thinking. |
|
| completely illogical and horrible things "god" is supposed
to have done disqualify the bible as the "word of god".
islamic system is equally ridiculous, best we can do is promote
civilization and respect each other's individuality unless it
harms/hinders another. |
Questions which I could no longer ignore.... |
1.0K |
| concept of "faith" |
Doubt and critical mass: how much is too much? |
|
| concept of hell |
The Truth |
|
| concluded that christianity promotes more error than truth, more
harm than good |
Deconversion: Why I Said Goodbye to the Great Parent in the Sky |
|
| conflict with own ideas |
How I rode the winds of morning to atheism. |
1.1K |
| confounded by endless questions with no satisfactory answers |
Making Contact With Reality |
0.3K |
| confusion of easter sunday |
The injustice of Hell at the hands of a merciful god |
5.7K |
| congregration did not accept me for who i am. |
Embarrased |
0.5K |
| constant mean-spiritedness in many church leaders |
Church of Christ minister for 10 years - What a Waste! |
2.7K |
| contact with believers of different faiths |
Spiral |
17.8K |
| contradiction between bible's claim of god's love and existence
of hell |
A decade of disillusionment |
14.3K |
| contradiction between concept of "free will" and concept
of omnipotent god with will |
A decade of disillusionment |
14.3K |
| contradictions |
My journey of discovery. |
1.0K |
| God the infallible |
1.0K |
| Disinfected of the Christian Meme |
|
| A deconversion of a teenager |
4.3K |
| contradictions in bible |
The childhood fear of loneliness while facing death. |
2.6K |
| contradictions in resurrection accounts |
A waste of 25 years |
|
| contradictions of the bible. |
The God of the Bible is Evil |
4.8K |
| contradictions within church |
The Truth Shall Set You Free |
|
| contradictory |
the accidental gnostic |
1.9K |
| could no longer accept jesus as son of god |
From Southern Baptist to Sorta Reform Jew |
5.8K |
| could not live with disturbing and contradictory passages in
the bible. |
From Missionary Bible Translator to Agnostic |
0.5K |
| couldn't make sense of scripture, and strangely, an aborigine
myth of god sending his son as a sacrifice (i believe it went
like that). |
Pretty boring |
1.5K |
| couldn't reconcile existential concerns with evangelical ideals |
A decade of lying and running from the fundie culture. |
16.2K |
| creationism |
I learn everything the hard way |
3.0K |
| crisis concerning historical facts |
Devout Christian to Devout Pagan |
2.4K |
| critical self-examination |
My exodus. |
2.8K |
| critical thinking |
Educated Myself into Heresy |
3.8K |
| Patheon of Gods |
2.3K |
| critically read the christian scriptures |
Former Pastor, Current Atheist |
1.5K |
| cruel things xians did |
From The Outside In |
3.1K |
| cruelty of calvinism |
A decade of disillusionment |
14.3K |
| cruelty of christian god |
Sad but free |
4.2K |
| cult-like activities |
Satan is in the church |
3.1K |
| cult-like practices |
The Christian Meme Exposed |
|
| cycles of tragedy in life |
Modern Job |
2.5K |
| dancing |
Leaving the fold |
|
| death stinks. |
The God of the Bible is Evil |
4.8K |
| deep in depression, i realized that either god was manevolent
or there was no god. |
Being Gay In A Fundamentalist Church |
5.6K |
| demagogic practices of christian "leaders" |
If It Wasn't For Agnosticism, I Wouldn't Know What to Believe! |
1.3K |
| demon haunted world |
Ex-United Pentecostal |
0.3K |
| denomination wars |
Bible Belt dun screwed up |
2.1K |
| despised christians' treatment of women |
Judeo-Christians: Tyranny and Evil |
7.0K |
| didn't feel god |
my freedom and its price |
2.0K |
| didn't make sense |
Just using reason |
1.2K |
| didn't make sense any more |
Once a fundamentalist asshole, now a gay atheist |
12.2K |
| didn't want to be a total schmuck |
Lies, damn lies, and asking too many questions |
0.5K |
| didnt beleive |
A more loving way |
0.9K |
| disagreed with the identification of morality and theology |
found it to be confusing, irrational. |
0.5K |
| discovered it was not true |
I Was A Happy Christian |
6.9K |
| discovered the truth |
Escape the Dogma |
|
| discovered true meaning of aforementioned prophecies |
How I left Messianic Judaism (Jews for Jesus) |
|
| disenchantment with fundamentalism |
My Post-Christian Testimony |
|
| disgust at rise of religious right |
My Anti-testimony |
7.6K |
| disillusionment by church politics |
Born Again Pagan |
2.2K |
| disillusionment with church |
A decade of disillusionment |
14.3K |
| do not believe non-believers are going to hell |
Into the arms of a loving God |
1.5K |
| doctrine of hell and christians' indifference to it |
To thine own self be true |
7.3K |
| doesn't make sense |
Christianity is Based on Logical Absurdities |
6.9K |
| doubting bible led to crumbling away of any firm belief structure |
A decade of disillusionment |
14.3K |
| doubts about god communicating at all |
A decade of disillusionment |
14.3K |
| doubts about god communicating to pastor |
A decade of disillusionment |
14.3K |
| education |
Dishonest Bullies |
0.4K |
| How I become an atheist |
33.3K |
| emotions seemed fake and directed |
A decade of lying and running from the fundie culture. |
16.2K |
| empathy |
My Deconversion |
5.5K |
| emphasis on self-hate |
God, our abusive father |
0.9K |
| encountered honest problems with the faith |
Never thought I would be telling this story |
7.9K |
| enlightened peers |
Athiest father and the church's hypocrisy |
2.2K |
| enligtened by paul tillich & ludwig feuerbach |
VERITAS ODIT MORAS |
|
| epiphany which brewed for many years |
no hard feelings, just a personal realization |
2.2K |
| errancy of prophecies and bible |
Ex-United Pentecostal |
0.3K |
| evidence |
How I Became An Atheist. |
|
| evil god |
A Curious Mind |
3.6K |
| Devout Christian |
3.1K |
| evilness of biblegod |
Pious Lies, and Assholeness of BibleGod |
3.6K |
| evolution |
Christian to atheist to preacher and back to atheist |
9.8K |
| Pretty boring |
1.5K |
| evolution caused me to question |
Brainwashed |
2.0K |
| evolution explains away all religions |
How would I create a religion |
5.2K |
| examination of belief |
Street Minister becomes Atheist |
4.6K |
| examined arguments against pascal's wager and the christian historical
evidence |
Not wanting to be a hypocrite |
3.1K |
| examined doctrine and the christian bible and found both unreasonable
and incompatible with reason |
Zakath's Deconversion |
1.9K |
| examined the scriptures i was disillusioned |
Modern Job |
2.5K |
| exclusivism |
The Christian Meme Exposed |
|
| Oops...we were wrong! |
|
| Bible Belt dun screwed up |
2.1K |
| exclusivity of "saved" and "unsaved" among
christianity |
Awakened by reason and honesty |
4.2K |
| experience as nurse's aide |
The power of the book and life. |
1.5K |
| experiences were psychological manipulation |
Ex-United Pentecostal |
0.3K |
| exposure to diversity outside the church |
A decade of lying and running from the fundie culture. |
16.2K |
| fact vs. faith |
Outgrowing Religion |
4.2K |
| failed bible promises |
Hypocrisy, arogance, and my personal gain |
1.5K |
| failed personal prophecy |
Hypocrisy, arogance, and my personal gain |
1.5K |
| failed prophecies |
If It Wasn't For Agnosticism, I Wouldn't Know What to Believe! |
1.3K |
| failure of church and christians to adjust to today's world |
My Anti-testimony |
7.6K |
| failure of xtianity to change lives. |
Doubt and critical mass: how much is too much? |
|
| father's influence |
No reason |
3.6K |
| fear and intolerance |
Finding Peace and Freedom After Years of Observing Christian
Fanatacism |
8.0K |
| feeling of being manipulated |
Dishonest Bullies |
0.4K |
| feelings of worthlessness perpetuated by church |
Why would a smart girl convert from xtianity to Dianic Paganism? |
|
| felt like a prisoner |
my freedom and its price |
2.0K |
| felt no presence of god |
Heretic and Proud |
0.6K |
| felt true happiness and contentment in new spiritual step. |
p***** off and angry! found happiness though.... |
4.0K |
| fights |
Bible Belt dun screwed up |
2.1K |
| figured out god is make-believe |
How I Became a Sighted Person in the Land of the Blind |
1.1K |
| figured out going to church is a waste of time |
How I Became a Sighted Person in the Land of the Blind |
1.1K |
| figured out praying is talking to yourself |
How I Became a Sighted Person in the Land of the Blind |
1.1K |
| figured out the bible is just an old book |
How I Became a Sighted Person in the Land of the Blind |
1.1K |
| first: i never felt it was right to label homosexuals as hell-bound
or their sexual "orientation" as inferior |
A/G Christian turned exChristian |
6.6K |
| focus on "foreign" culture |
Born-Again Heathen: from Christianity to Asatru |
6.9K |
| following my "true self" |
My Journey to and from Bob Jones University |
2.1K |
| for my sanity |
FInally Free |
3.2K |
| forgeries by church |
Pious Lies, and Assholeness of BibleGod |
3.6K |
| found apologists to be spin doctors |
found it to be confusing, irrational. |
0.5K |
| found better explanations |
Why I Left the Mormon Church |
2.7K |
| found contradictions |
Street Minister becomes Atheist |
4.6K |
| found out it was a lie |
Looked for heaven, found hell |
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| found out that the whole story of jesus is ficional--first by
reading the christ conspiricy by acharya s., then by scouring
the internet for months afterwards looking for proof, both pro
and con, for the exsistence of jesus, and saw how the proof
that he actually exsisted was slim to none, compared to the
proof that he was fictional, which was impressive and remakedly
varied. |
No More Fake Friends |
30.5K |
| found out the "truth" |
Ex-Christadelphian |
1.1K |
| found out the truth about christianity. |
Christianity not the true faith. |
3.5K |
| found the bible to be unbelievable |
A Journey into Skepticism |
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| found the truth |
Truth reared it's ugly head |
1.3K |
| found truth |
GOD ROT |
39.1K |
| freed myself enough to doubt, then became enlightened. |
Ex Congregational Methodist |
10.1K |
| friend's help |
God is a Lie / It's My Choice |
7.9K |
| frightened by the god portrayed in the bible |
From Nice AoG Girl to Nice Vodoun Witch |
0.4K |
| fundamentalist/evangelical literature |
No, I'm Not a Christian -- Not Anymore! |
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| gave myself permission to think |
A Mind is a Precious Thing to Waste! |
2.4K |
| gays/lesbians/bisexuals/transgenders |
Disinfected of the Christian Meme |
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| genocide and slaughter throughout |
The injustice of Hell at the hands of a merciful god |
5.7K |
| giving up money to the church |
what i realized 2 |
2.1K |
| god and religion are inventions of the human imagination |
How I Got the Hell Out of Religion |
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| god didn't help |
Christians are hypocrites |
1.0K |
| god having a son(!) |
Getting Good Laughs from TBN |
1.5K |
| god having to fix something that went wrong at creation |
Getting Good Laughs from TBN |
1.5K |
| god slapped me in the face!! |
A rebirth |
1.7K |
| god wasn't there for me |
A Deeper Shade of Grey |
0.7K |
| goddess |
there is no sin . . . only I can forgive myself |
7.2K |
| going to church seemed a waste of a perfectly good sunday morning! |
My Ex-Tian-Mony |
0.8K |
| got interested in international news, saw the light |
rational child grown |
1.0K |
| got sick of one way conversations with the wall |
A fools paradise |
6.9K |
| grandmother's death |
The power of the book and life. |
1.5K |
| greed,prejudice,hatred of poor,bragging about privelege,hypocrisy,
murder/slander |
christians r elitist liars, gossips w/no conscience |
1.0K |
| grew up |
All about Life's Theater |
2.1K |
| grew up at the tender age of 7 and realised it was a load of
horse shit |
Grew Up |
1.8K |
| growing confidence in myself to make decisions |
My Anti-testimony |
7.6K |
| guilt ridden practices |
Awakening the druid within |
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| had a breakdown 5 years ago |
My Story Ex-Fundamentalist's Links |
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| had my suspicions for years, and got final confirmation of the
completely false "christ story" from reading the works
of david icke, among others. |
Story 0356 |
0.3K |
| hannah and her sisters |
The Pope looks like Skeletor... |
1.8K |
| hate |
From The Outside In |
3.1K |
| hatred, ignorance, fear, and superstition |
One night I prayed to know the truth. The next morning I discovered
I was an atheist. |
8.9K |
| haven't 'deconverted' as process but have merely continued walking
the path. |
Reversion is truly the way of the Dao... |
2.8K |
| haven't totally scrapped the religion yet. |
Leaving Fundamentalism |
3.4K |
| having gods who are just like me. |
I will not submit or kneel to their god. |
1.1K |
| hell |
Why did I believe this in the FIRST PLACE? |
1.9K |
| hell for one mistake |
what i realized 2 |
2.1K |
| hipocrisy |
Why I'm An Ex-Baptist |
4.9K |
| hipocrisy of members |
My journey... |
2.2K |
| historical inaccurracy |
The Journey |
0.6K |
| history of violence |
Awakening the druid within |
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| homophobia,broken promises,horrible people |
Mad Hatter's Tea Party |
6.2K |
| hostility towards homosexuals |
To thine own self be true |
7.3K |
| how can i be more sane than my creator? the o.t. god was an insecure
nut! |
Bible Fraud |
0.2K |
| human suffering and tragedy not consistent with the christian
god concept |
From apathetic Catholic, to Christian Fundamentalist, to apathetic
agnostic |
2.0K |
| hypocrisy |
sex, lies, slander and abuse in the brisbane bible belt |
4.3K |
| Natural Born Atheist |
0.4K |
| God is dead... we killed him. |
9.1K |
| recovering fundy |
7.8K |
| No manifestation of God |
2.0K |
| Free at last! |
0.7K |
| hypocritical doctrine and followers |
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| hypocrisy and ignorance of the church |
Hypocrisy, arogance, and my personal gain |
1.5K |
| hypocrisy by church elders |
I think, therefore, I'm not Christian. |
1.6K |
| hypocrisy by teachers |
I think, therefore, I'm not Christian. |
1.6K |
| hypocrisy in the church |
I finally quit the fight and started living |
4.5K |
| hypocrisy of fellow christians |
Making my own decisions on what to believe -- or not believe |
1.6K |
| hypocrisy of friends and church members |
To thine own self be true |
7.3K |
| hypocrisy of most christians |
From good little christian girl to lesbian pagan |
2.2K |
| hypocrisy of religion |
Ranch Style Religion - The obvious hypocrisy of Christianity |
2.2K |
| hypocrisy, cruelty, and ignorance of "christians" |
Finding Peace and Freedom After Years of Observing Christian
Fanatacism |
8.0K |
| hypocrisy, lies, the usual!! |
Freedom from religion |
3.7K |
| i 'saw the light'... of the sun in the sky, that which is reflected
upon the moon, and opened myself to the energy of nature around
me. |
A Once Altar Server now serving her own altar. )O( |
3.7K |
| i actually read the bible and thought for myself. |
From Christianity to Atheism |
9.4K |
| i allowed my mind to open. |
Salvation is in My Head |
3.5K |
| i am a born witch. simple as that. catholicism doesn't really
meld with those ideologies. |
Honoring My True Self |
1.9K |
| i became educated |
Christian mother abused me horribly |
5.3K |
| i believed in my self. |
How I become an atheist |
33.3K |
| i came to my senses and realized that my life was good because
of -my- efforts. |
Taking Responsibility for My Life |
4.1K |
| i came to peace with my doubts and accepted them as valid |
A long journey |
1.1K |
| i can't accept that my ancestors went to hell simply for being
asatru |
I will not submit or kneel to their god. |
1.1K |
| i can't precisely recall, but what sealed it was while working
on my master's degree, i studied mythology and discovered all
religions are basically the same. |
I value Reason more than Wishful Thinking |
1.6K |
| i can't think of just one reason. |
the little children had Santa and some Adults think they need
Jesus |
1.0K |
| i could do this church shit anymore |
It did save my life, but then I was miserable |
4.3K |
| i could never quite swallow the lies. |
no love or world changing truth in the church. |
1.0K |
| i could no longer suspend my disbelief during the theater of
the mass |
Hey, that kid's ringing those bells |
1.3K |
| i could not longer think of christianity credibly. the whole
nt and jesus story on critical review was a fairy tale. it
had no objective, extrabiblical confirmation. it was an irrational
way of viewing life and the world. |
A Pastor's Step Into Rational Thought |
6.2K |
| i couldn't be hypocrite, i was never able to force myself to
believe. and some teachings were obviously evil. |
Fundamentalism hurt people |
3.3K |
| i couldn't kep being a passenger in my own life. |
Credo, Credavi, Sum sine credo, Credabo |
15.9K |
| i decided it was better to be in control of my own life instead
of living by rules of hypocrite individuals. |
Bunch of hypocrites |
2.3K |
| i deconverted because i found that christians are judgmental,
they are also very audacious and arrogant. they assume they
can predict god's will of who is going to hell. i found the
tenrikyo theology to be much more truthful and more accepting
of people. |
Sin is a Lie. Only God the Parent Guides Me Now |
1.5K |
| i deconverted because i was tired of being a slave to a 6000-year-old
fairy tale. |
Tired of being a slave to a 6000-year-old fairy tale |
1.5K |
| i deconverted from religion not jesus christ |
The Truth |
1.0K |
| i deconverted slowly over the years after doing a lot of research.
i progressed more recently over the past 4 years. |
Truth Shall Set Us Free |
3.4K |
| i discovered a whole new world, met people who introduced me
to thomas paine, robert ingersoll, and critical thinking with
studying all the fallacies of logic. |
Christian dogma did not and will not survive critical examination |
1.1K |
| i don't believe jesus christ want people to believe in guilt
bases religion, to be transcendental, or narcistic |
Teen Challenge |
2.0K |
| i don't believe the world is "ours" as the bible says. |
Here I am, shinto and loving it. |
1.1K |
| i don't exactly know. |
Maker, maker what are you? |
4.5K |
| i felt like a man smashing his head against a wall |
It did save my life, but then I was miserable |
4.3K |
| i felt stupid having been at church all those years |
I've seen the light! |
5.5K |
| i finally accepted the truth that was in front of me along-that
christianity is untrue. |
My long and winding journey to the truth is over |
7.4K |
| i finally came to my senses and realized all that guilt and fear
were pointless. i finally found the truth and set myself free! |
Finally Free |
1.5K |
| i finally came to terms with the fact that being christian was
definitely not for me, and that i never really was. |
Because I've Never REALLY Been A Christian |
4.1K |
| i finally realized that the reason i never heard back from god
in my prayers was because there is no god. then i started thinking
seriously about the whole theology of christianity and it really
doesn't make sense. |
Can't understand why "salvation" took so long |
0.5K |
| i finally realized the extent to which the teachings of the bible
and christianity has damaged me in my relationship with others,
my whole outlook and view of life and the some of the mistakes
i have made in my life. |
Raised a Fundamentalist Baptist |
5.1K |
| i found fallacies in the bible |
I COULDN'T believe in Jesus |
1.7K |
| i found some clarity. |
My Spiritual Journey |
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| i found the answer. |
Satan God or Schizoaffective Disorder 295.7 |
128.5K |
| i found the christian god to be highly contradictory. |
I've been set free, and I've been bound. |
1.3K |
| i got educated about the history of the bible and religion and
how it has no basis in fact. |
Free at last from christian mind control |
12.0K |
| i got educated. |
A Weight Lifted |
2.5K |
| i got tired of people telling me what to do and how to think! |
My Ex-Tian-Mony |
0.8K |
| i graduated catholic school and was allowed to not attend church. |
How Joe Became An Atheist |
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| i hadn't. i still believe in a god. i'm not sure that much
of organized religion does. |
God .vs. Organized Religion |
3.3K |
| i have a rational, scientific view of the world and christianity
isn't either. |
Biding my time... |
3.6K |
| i haven't really deconverted, but i'm seriously questioning my
path in life, at least in this one. i don't think that traditional
christianity is for me any longer. |
Questioning |
2.0K |
| i haven't yet. |
Tired of seeing good people suffer. |
1.0K |
| i just couldn't ignore it, theological inconsistancies... |
I JUST CAN'T IGNORE IT! Theological Inconsistencies, Astrological
Tendencies |
3.5K |
| i learn't that guilt is a wasteful emotion and doubted that anuthing
i fely was anything other than emotions. my intellect demanded
something more than stories from a book. |
Escape from fear |
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| i learned that the "love" christians are supposed to
have doesn't exist |
The "love of Christ" was nothing but a lie |
4.8K |
| i learned the truth |
CHRISTIANITY NEEDS SIN TO EXIST |
3.5K |
| i left because the whole thing is a mish-mash of dumb, insane
and "impossible to follow" rules. |
It made no sense. |
3.5K |
| i matured and evolved. saw the flaws, woke up and realized it's
all nonsense based on fear. |
Woke up |
1.1K |
| i must think |
RELIGION ISTHE OPIATEOF THE MASSES, most definitely |
1.5K |
| i need absolute pure logic and faith. |
God is Absolute Pure Evil - Hail Tiamat and Apzu |
2.3K |
| i never "de-converted"...i just got tired of people
telling me that i "erred" after i became a freethinker.
the word "sin" comes from the meaning: "to miss
the mark", as in when one shoots an arrow and misses dead
center. |
I, Too, Was Punished By Catholics |
21.6K |
| i never deconverted...i woke up one day and it was all bs. i
now live life as a guilt-free human, within the context of true
morals. |
We're all worm-bait in the end |
0.9K |
| i opened my mind to think, instead of just being a part of the
"human cattle" who are lead along their entire lives
by "authorities who know the answers" |
Free at last from christian mind control |
12.0K |
| i payed attention in school and to the world around me. |
Just finding my own way. |
1.4K |
| i realized all of the horrors in the bible |
What I Realized |
0.9K |
| i realized it was hypocritical and saw errors in its history |
Why i'm glad I realized it was wrong 4 me |
0.9K |
| i realized that christianity, though it had some good points,
was a fairy story and that the real intelligence of the universe
(which/whom i call god) is sane, logical, beautiful. not the
jealous, fitful, cruel god of the bible. in junior high english
in public school, our very reverent teacher had us read and
discuss greek and roman myths and then, immediately afterward,
we read the bible up to judges for its literary merits. though
she didn't intend it, this showed me that there were no profound
differences between the first set of myths and the second! |
The childish and primitive nature of Christianity |
1.4K |
| i realized that i could question christianity, and i read every
religious text i could get my hands on. |
Coming to grips with a childhood question. |
1.7K |
| i realized that i didn't actually believe in christianity, and
that i had been brainwashed into accepting it. |
My Rational Realization |
5.0K |
| i realized that it was driving me crazy, the bible just doesn't
add up and most of all i hated it. |
A Very Chirstian Puberty |
5.5K |
| i realized that prayer was utterly useless, and thanks to the
wonders of the internet i was able to deconvert completely |
Lucky me, I'm finally free! |
5.1K |
| i realized that reality does not support christianity and its
dogma and insane judgmental assertions. |
My Rejection of Religion (after years of being a Christian) |
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| i realized that there was nothing wrong with my understanding,
it didn't make sense |
the day I became a born again un-believer |
1.0K |
| i researched the topic thoroughly and deduced that jesus did
not exist. if jesus didn't exist, neither does god since jesus
said: "i and my father are one.". |
A priest's son leaves the fold |
1.3K |
| i sat down and thought over it. |
It just never made sense to me |
3.5K |
| i simply lost my faith. |
Losing My Religion |
5.9K |
| i started asking questions in order to strengthen my faith, but
they only served to expose it for what it really was |
Tim Foust: Why I left faith |
16.9K |
| i started to believe in myself |
Tim Foust: Why I left faith |
16.9K |
| i started to think for myself |
Tim Foust: Why I left faith |
16.9K |
| i stopped going to church at 11 when my sunday school teacher
told us that animals didn't have souls. |
The Roman Empire stole my religion! |
1.9K |
| i stopped hiding from the truth and found the courage to read
some non-christian books |
From Preacher's kid to bisexual witch |
1.0K |
| i technically deconverted from a more traditional theology, into
something that i could actually understand. |
I thought I would be 'Left Behind' now I am just left of center. |
4.3K |
| i tried to prove christianity was false, because it frightened
me |
How I escaped 20 years of Christian indoctrination |
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| i used my brain. |
Concerning the Intellectual Impotence of Religion |
1.8K |
| i wanted my freedom back, my willing mine a last. |
I wanted more and less from that god |
0.9K |
| i was 4 years old and was aware of no alternative. |
It's Hell to Believe in Hell |
4.2K |
| i was a devotee until i became interested in science, rational
thinking, etc. |
My Journey to Modern Satanism |
1.4K |
| i was actually studying to become a "messianic rabbi".
in their "yeshiva" classes, they stressed that messianic
leaders should be well versed in the "other streams"
of judaism. they wanted us to be able to communicate with educated
jews. however, once i started reading some of the normative
jewish books, i too became educated, and realized that belief
in jesus was a sham. |
Escape from Messianic Judaism |
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| i was having my doubts and found myself in a bloody mess not
interested or needing to call on god... |
Re-Born-Again and still hot for jesus |
0.7K |
| i was literally in mental agony for two years when i tryed it |
I didn't think it was possible to leave, but I did |
0.8K |
| i was really deconverting for about 9 years before the final
blow. it turned out that i had a hormone imbalance that was
causing nearly all of my problems. all those years of prayer
and service yet i was "allowed" to suffer to the point
of suicide and destroying my marriage. |
Christianity Nearly Drove Me Insane |
12.1K |
| i was told because i divorced my husband and advised to marry
a christian man from the church who was under suspicion of being
sexually attracted to young children (i did not find that out
until later. |
Story 0486 |
6.9K |
| i was told i was not saved |
YHWH and Yahshua never said a thing about Jesus! |
0.6K |
| i wasn't allowed to question |
Out of the Closet as a Freethinker! |
2.3K |
| i wasn't really understanding why jesus, who never said he was
the son of god any more or less than everyone else on earth
is a child of god. i did a little reading in scripture and
realized the bible is a damned entertaining book, full of more
sex, booze, and violence than all of shakespeare's works combined,
but god is kind of a whiny, bitchy brat in the jewish scriptures
and is morphed into an angry bastard by paul in the christian
ones. |
It's not like, whoops, where'd it go? |
1.3K |
| i went through hell as a christian! |
A Long, Strange Trip |
5.0K |
| i witnessed the hypocrasies and inaccuracies, and started investigating
for myself. |
Frustrated by ignorance |
6.0K |
| i woke up |
Kicked out into truth |
6.6K |
| i wouldn't kneel to their god. |
I will not submit or kneel to their god. |
1.1K |
| i wouldn't say that i "deconverted"...i just stopped
attending church...never went but for my friend's relatives'
funerals/weddings after that, and since turning age 10. |
A Good Source |
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| i'm tired of being afraid, period. i have spent a good part of
my life in fear of a god that obviously doesn't care in the
first place. |
God creating a world to burn in Hell ... way to go!! |
2.8K |
| i've always struggled with what i know about church history,
the sources of church doctrine, my scientific knowledge, and
i finally studied the "word of god" from a historicall,
cultural. and logical perspective and found to be garbage |
From fundamentailst to Free Thinker |
5.4K |
| i've been a feminist since birth. |
I've been set free, and I've been bound. |
1.3K |
| idea of hell |
Reality shock through reading and thinking. |
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| if jesus truly lives in my heart, why do i still feel so god-damned
empty? |
Confessions of a backslidden Christian |
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| illogic of "revealed religion" in general |
Easter-Christmas Christian turns Hindu, atheist, Catholic, deist,
atheist again |
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| illogic of christ concept |
I finally realized it wasn't my fault |
1.3K |
| illogic of christian theology |
God, our abusive father |
0.9K |
| illogic of the idea of god |
My journey... |
2.2K |
| illogical |
The Dysfunctional "God's Forever Family" |
4.7K |
| illogical doctrines |
How I rode the winds of morning to atheism. |
1.1K |
| illogical reasoning |
Atheist |
0.6K |
| illogicalness and contradictions of christianity |
Be temperate- do not be a fundamentalist ! |
1.4K |
| immorality of christian doctrines |
Reality shock through reading and thinking. |
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| in a moment of self-reflection i decided i didn't really believe
it. |
Saved From Chritianity at Biola University |
4.7K |
| inability to continue and keep my sanity |
Expecting Great Things but Receiving Hardship and Confusion |
3.9K |
| inability to force myself to be unselfish |
A decade of disillusionment |
14.3K |
| inability to view calvinistic god as anything more than a sadistic
tyrant |
A decade of disillusionment |
14.3K |
| inaccuracies and flaws of bible |
From apathetic Catholic, to Christian Fundamentalist, to apathetic
agnostic |
2.0K |
| increasing unwillingness to ignore reason in combination with
meeting many others that disagreed with christianity. |
The questions that could not be answered; only ignored. |
2.7K |
| ineffectiveness of prayer |
The injustice of Hell at the hands of a merciful god |
5.7K |
| inefficacy of prayer |
Making my own decisions on what to believe -- or not believe |
1.6K |
| inherent irrational errors & myths |
Born Again Pagan |
2.2K |
| injustice of god |
The injustice of Hell at the hands of a merciful god |
5.7K |
| injustice of hell |
I learn everything the hard way |
3.0K |
| The injustice of Hell at the hands of a merciful god |
5.7K |
| The Christian Meme Exposed |
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| Disinfected of the Christian Meme |
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| insincere people |
Freethinker prefer reason over 2000 year old book |
2.3K |
| intellectual curiosity |
Losing Faith |
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| intellectual discord |
I finally quit the fight and started living |
4.5K |
| intellectual honesty demanded admitting "i don't know." |
Fundamentalism Screwed Up My Religion |
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| intellectual hypocrisy of fundamentalism |
Former Wheaton student walks away |
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| intelligence |
Patheon of Gods |
2.3K |
| internet |
We're all in this together |
3.9K |
| intolerance to other religions |
Here I am, shinto and loving it. |
1.1K |
| intolerant people |
Freethinker prefer reason over 2000 year old book |
2.3K |
| irrational |
The Dysfunctional "God's Forever Family" |
4.7K |
| irreconcileable differences. |
xtianity almost drove me insane |
10.4K |
| it ceased making sense and i decided that if the angry, mean
god that i was being shown was the real deal that i didn't want
to be a part of the group. |
The book of Fear |
2.7K |
| it didn't add up: god was supposed to change things about the
world and especially about me, and nothing changed, no matter
how hard i tried or how long i prayed. |
Still searching |
1.6K |
| it didn't make any sense |
Biding my time... |
3.6K |
| it didn't take. |
To be a good person. |
5.4K |
| it had become emotionally irrelevant |
a refugee from the evangelical/fundamentalist subculture |
0.3K |
| it just didn't make sense to me. |
My Semi-Spiritual Autobiography |
8.9K |
| it just didn't seem logical anymore |
I've seen the light! |
5.5K |
| it just doesnt make sense and it didn't no matter how i looked
at it |
I COULDN'T believe in Jesus |
1.7K |
| it just wasn't right for me. |
A Hard Choice. |
3.0K |
| it kinda happened slowly over time, with me realizing that more
and more things about the religion had been meddled with by
humans over time, or were just wrong to begin with. |
Mentally evolving away from Christianity |
5.8K |
| it made more sense, distinct things i couldn't accept |
better off Without it |
3.3K |
| it never made sense |
Out of the Closet as a Freethinker! |
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