
I believe in God and Jesus but I don't like the cultish protestant church where they judge others to hell. I like christians and nonchristians. I have no desire to make people a Christian but I want various kinds of friends. Would you befriend me if I did not push it on you. I'm a God beliver and...
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Clayton, NM -- Nearly two years after the arrest of self proclaimed messiah Wayne Bent, NewsChannel 10 became the first media allowed inside the Strong City compound north of Clayton.Even after their spiritual leader went to prison, life continues for the group that says they're leaving everythi...
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VANCOUVER -- A British Columbia youth pastor convicted of pedophilia in Mexico is still being paid by his parish.Brad Firth, the former supervisor of youth activities at St. David's Anglican Church in Tsawwassen, has been receiving "compassionate pay" since being arrested on the Baja peninsula, a...
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Here's the place to talk about the new look around here. If you've got criticisms, please try to be specific and helpful. Image by cuellar via FlickrIt would be greatly appreciated if all comments regarding the new look are confined to this thread, or sent to me directly through the Contact Form....
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Gibson. PA -- Another allegation against a retired priest from Susquehanna county.This time, he's accused of molesting a minor at his home in Gibson nearly 20 years ago.Father Ralph Elwood Johnson was arrested Friday at State Police Barracks in Gibson.The 82-year old is charged with 15 counts eac...
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A reverend from a Detroit church was charged this morning with repeatedly molesting an underage boy.Russell Walter Schaller was arraigned on six counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct. Twenty-sixth District Judge Raymond Charron ordered the 35-year-old River Rouge man held in the Wayne Co...
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I Am Better Than Jesus (and so are you and I can prove it.)
Jesus is held up as the perfect example of morality by those who have never read his book. In this video, I prove otherwise.
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Jesus is held up as the perfect example of morality by those who have never read his book. In this video, I prove otherwise.

By Evid3nc3 -- Evid3nc3 is a PhD candidate in Intelligent Systems (a sub-discipline of Computer Science). His focus is on evidence-justified beliefs and their argumentation as a means of conflict resolution Image via Wikipediaboth in computational and human systems. This is his recently complete...
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I hate the phrase "have a blessed (often blest) day." It's so dry and trite, oftentimes delivered when someone really would rather be rude to you but they manage to spit this out instead. I run into this at Target, fast food restaurants, Walmart, and when I worked in workman's comp, often on th...
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I'm tired. I'm tired of all the yapping and yakking, back and forth, he said, she said, bullshit of Evangelical, Liberal and Fundamentalist Christians. I'm tired of all the baseless assertions, suppositions and mind bending rationalizations. I'm tired of arguing against YOUR ridiculous doctrin...
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I honestly believe that if my Christian life hadn't been a disappointing streak of shit, I probably would have stayed in the fold for another decade or five. For example, if God would have given me a "godly wife" by the age of 24 instead of leaving me stewing in headfucked self-repressed virgina...
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By Matt:I’m listening to Queen’s “I Want to Break Free” as I’m writing this. Music is such a wonderful source of inspiration in times like these.Queen via last.fmI love the world. I find that investigating the world around me is interesting, fascinating…and devastating, especially to the Christ...
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I've heard many Christians bring up 'Testing' in relation to God.We're here as a 'test'.He's 'testing' our faith.This existence is a 'test' for the next life.Testing what exactly?Let's put this into perspective. What's the point of a test exactly?A test is to discover something. It's purpose is t...
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By Avangelism ProjectJennifer is my daughter. She’s three.Puss-puss was my mother-in-law’s cat. It was hit by a car several weeks ago and, yes, its name really was Puss-puss.Last week Jennifer and I went for a walk. Just out of the driveway, she asked me to hold her hand because, “I don’t want to...
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Luke Edward McGorlick I just want to ask you: if God, who is Love, is nothing, then what is there to live for?

By randomatheistHi, I am a fairly recent deconvert by the pseudonym of randomatheist, and I am here to show you fellow Ex-Christians my deconversion story. I have been around this site before, posted a rant on Jesus, contributing to some of the discussion, although usually exposing the Christian ...
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By Bret PI'm very critical of healthcare (oxymoron) here in the United States. Our insurance premiums are sky high, our services and drugs are grossly overcharged, and the FDA is not only ineffective, but obviously corrupt.Image by dhammza via FlickrThere's not enough emphasis on exercise, diet, ...
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By SilaI just realized a new, deeper level of understanding of my anger towards my family, and it has shaken me up.I am the black sheep, the exchristian. ALL the other family members are still fundamentalist believers - my parents and five siblings, with two doing missionary work. In general th...
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Have you examined evidence, and truly tried to pick apart the bible. Or have you like some just tried work evidence around you're beliefs
If you were one of those people convinced by evidence could you talk in your response about what arguments you found convincing.
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A podcast by Dr. Marlene Winell Dr. Marlene Winell, psychologist, educator, and writer in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as author of "Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion," talks about her loss of Christian faith during an interview on the Au...
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By Naomi PrettymanImage by exfordy via FlickrI was raised in Kansas City, MO by my Charismatic Christian parents. I got "saved" when I was five years old, as do most children born into a Christian home. My mother homeschooled my seven siblings, and I and most of our friends were those from our ch...
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By Kenneth S. (via Carl S.)Image by sarowen via FlickrI was raised in a Catholic family, and went to a Catholic school for almost eight years. In my last year I had an older nun, Sister Raymond, around 65 years-old, who did not like me because I used to ask her things that she could not explain. ...
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Greetings! My conversion was a very slow but also very well thought out one. As a child I was an altar boy, family church goer and a student for 12 years at a Catholic school. Looking back, however, I never REALLY swallowed the whole silly tale. I became away of Satanism as a religion in t...
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If this has already been talked about, sorry. I didn't look. But as I was emailing a fundie friend, it reminded me of something I used to to, and now hate so much! Capitalizing every Word that has to do with God, or His Power, or His Love, or anything to do with Him! I've even seen words such...
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So I get up on Saturday morning and my naybor's lawn had been decimated by moles. It looked like the moon. I told him to get a cat. Most cats will mole hunt, mine did for 14 years and he was a scrawny little runt. Then the Baptist guy came to the door. I asked him, "Why are there no cats men...
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By WizenedSageImage by ajschu via FlickrChristian, your faith is not really in god and Jesus. Your faith is really in those men who wrote those ancient texts that now comprise the Bible. Now I’m not going to ask you to believe anything without providing evidence; I wouldn’t insult your intelligen...
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By HoundieImage by Alanna@VanIsle via FlickrSo, this morning taking my old doggie to the vet for a little procedure I noticed a sign in front of a church that is enroute. It's one of those churches where they always think they have something clever to say and post it out front for all the world t...
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I really fucking hate being my size. Everyone has to comemnt on how skinny I am, like there's nothing else to me (never mind that I went to Governor's School AND got accepted into Meredith College, and I may get a full-ride scholarship! Fuck that shit, I'm a fucking skeleton!). I have almost n...
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I was thinking about something. Some countries at a certain age, people are required to enlist in the military. I think America would be extremely different if we have a similar program to this nature. I think of the benefits such as more comradery, patriotism, less economic empowerments, crime?,...
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