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Cold Comfort
7 Nov 2009, 12:08 pm |
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Except A Corn of Wheat...
6 Nov 2009, 4:26 am |
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Raised Catholic, now secular humanist/atheist
5 Nov 2009, 4:07 am |
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How Finding Jesus Helped Me Deconvert
4 Nov 2009, 4:23 am |
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Christian Belief Through the Lens of Cognitive Science, Part 6 of 6
3 Nov 2009, 3:57 am |
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Needing some advice
2 Nov 2009, 7:16 pm |
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The Objectively Absent God
1 Nov 2009, 4:03 pm |
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Ken Pulliam on the Dave Glover show
1 Nov 2009, 11:34 am |
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God: The Ultimate Indian Giver
31 Oct 2009, 2:31 pm |
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Unquestioning, blind faith is just plain stupid
31 Oct 2009, 2:03 pm |
I submitted this to the main ExChristian website for (potential) publication, but thought I'd put it here, too. Apologies in advance for the outrageous length, I didn't mean for that to happen! I have a vivid childhood memory from when I was perhaps eight or nine years of age. I was with my ...
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by Tony OYou all know that one thing that Xians like to put forward as their justification or rationale for a belief in gawd is that gawd provides “comfort” and “consolation” for the dying, for the grieving, or for those in crisis. I would like to tell you of something that I witnessed which give...
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OK, I'm in the library looking around and for some malevolent reason my eyes alight on a new book by this guy titled "The Faith". This crook has been around for what seems like centuries, still writing books for suckers defending "THE faith". In this one he is describing what a "true Christian...
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Quote11/12/2009 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM St. Louis, MO Louis/Sara Block, Yeshiva Boys H.S. - God STILL H8s U Liars! WBC has looked at the faces of these pushy, arrogant, Jewish youths - and they are stinking up the atmosphere with their rotten figgishness. We will picket your children where they are, w...
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ZOMGitCriss has a halloween story from Judges 19:17-the end. I had to look and see if she was right and well, have I said that the Bile is a vile and horrendous book before?And I thought I had read it all many times, but somehow I missed that one and wish I still had. Now, I could relate it to ...
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I read the following quote about capital punishment and wondered what the source is:QuoteIn the Bible, God prescribed three methods for capital punishment: stoning, the sword, and burning.What specific OT verses suggest that burning is an appropriate method for execution?Incidentally, I gathered ...
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I would LOVE to see a study done, with lie detector tests, just to see how many Christians actually BELIEVE what they say they believe. I'm sure some would pass, but seriously, if there was a long list of really good questions, what would the results be? The lie detector would probably burst in...
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The favorite magazine (Biblical Archaeology Review) of would be Christ Cultist historians has a series of articles, in the current issue, on the Secret Gospel of Mark and it’s discoverer, the late Dr Morton Smith. It examines the history of the Gospel, the discovery and publishing of the Clement...
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Quote"The most common way people give up their poweris by thinking they don't have any."-- Alice WalkerAuthorhttp://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Alice.Walker.Quote.F68C"Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succe...
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by Sharon: Bachelor of Science UMImage by ohadweb via Flickr"Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." John 12:24 KJVThis verse, attributed to Jesus in the New Testament, is glaringly wrong...
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This is my first post, but I have lurked here occasionally over the last year. I find it immensely helpful to read others' stories and experiences. I thought I would share mine.For many years, I was seen as illogical, inferior, and disallowed of having any rational thought of my own because as a ...
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I'm pretty sure I read '23 Minutes in Hell' back in the day, and tons of 'end times' crap, but has anyone ever read a book called 'One Minute After You Die'? I don't remember the author, but I remember thinking, "Gee, I'll bet this guy is a barrel of laughs in person." Christians seem to be the...
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In which museums? looking for transitional fossils or fossils/bones of ancient creatures, including hominids. i know most will be fake replicas but that should be good enough.
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Not sure where to post this, so I just post it here. I left my faith behind 3 years ago, but suffering from OCD means I'm am often left doubting myself. 'What if?' is always the blade hanging over my head. I was quite happy and content in my unbelief until I viewed a particular film that seems ...
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Quote"In truth, in the case of individuals, their actual voting is not to betaken as proof of consent, even for the time being. On the contrary, itis to be considered that, without his consent having ever been asked, aman finds himself environed by a government that he cannot resist; agovernment ...
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This is my first post so I'll keep this one short. Raised in a fundamentalist Christian family. Did all the usuals that good Christians do. Went to "Bible College" 30 years ago and forgot all that I wasn't learning anyway.Bible college was a major reason for leaving Christianity. All subjects wer...
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by CecileI submitted a deconversion story on this site back in the early 2000's which is probably long gone by now--I certainly haven't been able to relocate it--and which would have been posted long before there was ever an option on here for reader comments. At best, you could post a website o...
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I left the church 5 or 6 years ago, and struggled with anger at the church, and the people in it. I think it was the self righteous attitude, that they were somehow better than me because they knew the "truth". I felt judged. I sent emails to former pastors, and pastors, talking about my doubt...
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Just checked the website out. Cripes! I'm childfree- always will be- and this has got to be THE stupidest, most irresponsible thing I have ever seen. I mean, really, do we need idiots breeding more idiots? I haven't been here in a while; I posted a testimony almost exactly 3 years ago. I've go...
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Quote"And what sort of philosophical doctrine is this -- that numbers conferunlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights overthemselves, and vest these rights in others. ... How, then, can therights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible waycan the rights of ...
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by Marlene WinellI met Jesus in Golden Gate Park many years ago and he helped change my life. He sent me in a new direction – away from Christianity.I was reminded of it on Sunday, October 25, because it was the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, celebrated with enthusiasm at Golden Gate Park, San F...
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Ok I have never exactly had any love for telemarketers, but I think they've now rank right along side with rapists and child molesters when it comes to the scale of low lifes in this world. Beginning a few years ago when the US started the federal do not call list for telemarketers, like clockwo...
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Does it take faith to be an atheist? Does the skeptic place their faith in science and rationality in the same way believers trust God? Michael Shermer, editor of Skeptic Magazine and author of How We Believe, joins us on the show to discuss the nature of faith, skepticism and belief. Also on thi...
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by Valerie Tarico"Neurons in the brain" by Hljod.Huskona via Flickr"I had no need of that hypothesis."Over the course of the summer I wrote a series of articles about brain science and Christianity, and I promised a final installment that never came. This is it. The series asked and--within the ...
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This is an excerpt from Ex-C life, Ameens thread. I know Christians aren't suppose to reply to these threads, and not sure about what I have done here or not as being acceptable; but I felt the need to speak as I have mostly kept silent with this whole situation since it's conception. QuoteI have...
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www.christianchirp.com Apparently the guy that started this got suspended from Twitter for ONE WEEK for "supporting Rush Limbaugh" (or, as the notice said, for reply spamming). So he went out and started his own version of twitter. For christians only. How ridiculous is this?!
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A letter from Norig BI need help arguing against a Christian who is persistently citing the Christian Bible when I'm objectively explaining to her why I am a secular humanist and living my days as an atheist with compassion for my fellow man.After a few long emails passed back and forth, her late...
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This was in Sunday's paper. I tried to find an online link, but could not, so I'm typing a bit of it here. This angers me so much that these people have the fucking balls to think they can get paid for talking to themselves and have it considered valid medical treatment.QuoteAs the health care ...
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Quote"If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucketwould be elected swineherd every time,no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side."-- Orson Scott Card(1951- ) Novelisthttp://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Orson.Scott.Card.Quote.24EC"Vote: The instrument and symbol of a free man's ...
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Russell Glasser and Jen Peeples. Stealing Faith. Russell & Jen talk about whether being out as an atheist constitutes stealing the faith of another.View the full article
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Sent in by InterestedWe start with a story of a child: Myself as an early teen.The setting: a Christian youth conference with the goal of re-igniting the fire of faith in America's youth. I am standing up front with hundreds of other believers accepting Christ as their Lord and Savior.The worship...
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