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Long road out
20 Nov 2009, 3:37 pm |
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Parenting Beyond Belief
19 Nov 2009, 9:18 pm |
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Big Butter Jesus
19 Nov 2009, 9:21 pm |
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Ever Notice... ?
18 Nov 2009, 4:54 pm |
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Keeping the Faith
18 Nov 2009, 4:23 pm |
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Evangelist Tony Alamo Sentenced to 175 Years for Taking Girls Across State Lines for Sex
17 Nov 2009, 7:44 pm |
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Ministers from Community of Christ Church among those charged in sex case
17 Nov 2009, 7:32 pm |
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Report: Homosexuality No Factor in Abusive Priests
17 Nov 2009, 7:25 pm |
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Whose Morals Should Decide My Childbearing? -- An Open Letter to the Catholic Bishops
17 Nov 2009, 4:18 am |
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Still Trying to Escape
16 Nov 2009, 9:40 am |
I haven't posted much about my grandmother here, so let me offer a brief description: abusive, manipulative, power-hungry, self-pitying...and smart enough to mostly get away with it. Two years ago, it became clear that she was only getting worse, and it was my cousins who were paying the price....
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Sent in by Anonymous Image by a hundred visions and revisions via FlickrI was born into a Christian home, my parents both having been raised in the faith, as Baptists. At the time of my birth, in the 1960's, they attended a large non-denominational evangelical church in the Northeast where I was...
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Thanks to ShallowByThyGame for the original links to these videos. I thought they should be posted, pinned even, in the testimonies section. Enjoy.
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Hey everyone. I think I'm having some kind of identity or personal crisis and have been since May or so. I've been up and down for months, struggling with what I worry is either some kind of severe depression or worse. Just a bit of history about me: I was first exposed to Christianity when I was...
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I am laying in bed, and I am utterly fuming; I can't turn it off. So what do I do? Well I get up and log onto ex-christian.net of course!First and foremost, I am coming off an anti-depressant. For the most part the withdrawal has been minor. I can't believe how much I am learning about life/reali...
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King of Kings (Also known as "Touchdown Jesus" or "Big Butter Jesus"), is a 62-foot-tall sculpture of Jesus just outside of Cincinnati. Jesus appears to be rising from the waters behind the amphitheater at Monroe's Solid Rock Church.Music by Heywood Banks, the version originally broadcast on the ...
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Image via WikipediaI have not read the actual book (Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion), but I thought it was an apt title for my own story as a parent, because in the end, even with everything I dealt with as a child myself, I somehow managed to parent beyo...
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In “Twelve Caears” written around 112 CE, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (aka Suetonius) recorded the following:"As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of one Chrestus, he expelled them from Rome."For a very long time apologists have tried to pass this off as a reference to...
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Recently, some people from my past life (religious) were posting incessantly about the Arizona Assemblies of God Youth Convention 2009 in Phoenix. They posted pictures of this rock band that was leading "worship" and all the special effects lights with teenagers going crazy for it. Every time the...
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OK, I was actually looking for an article I read a while back, a study about the lower rate of depression in believers (you may have heard this before- but, this particular study showed that the lower rate of depression was actually found in people who believed in Heaven only, while those who al...
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Love the Hell Out of Each OtherI thought some of you Christians would like this one too and since I don't see you all venture out of this area much, I thought this would be a good place to share this with everyone.It is from Center for Progressive Christianity, similar to Sea of Faith (started wi...
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I can understand laissez-faire/small gov't conservatives because they're looking out for #1. And then you have chest-thumping "blood and soil" types like Pat Buchanan who fear the brown hordes.What I don't get is cultural/moral conservatives that aren't particularly religious. They're against a...
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by Neal StoneImage by benuski via FlickrEver notice that the Creator of the Universe always needs money -- money that is a monetary system created by man?Ever notice that when one out of 100 is cured of cancer it's considered a miracle? What about the other 99?Ever notice that Christians like to...
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by Janus GraydenFor most of us who left religion, the schism wasn't a swift knife stroke but a slow, and oftentimes painful, process. This is especially true for those whose entire lives were completely entangled with their faith.If you've ever had the misfortune of crossing paths with a prickly...
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Anyone have any theories or opinions about incorruptibles? I am trying to post the link here, not sure if it will work. I was reading about this phenomenon last night, and was fascinated by it. But it seems to be a way for the Catholic Church to prove they are the One True Way. Were these bod...
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While they're not blood-thirsty as the uber-right wing Fox News devotees who foam at the mouth if they even hear the word "liberal," the family values people are one of the most annoying groups out there. You have to put up with them yelling at us for cohabiting, having pre-marital sex, enjoying...
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Apparently, this is the kryptonite of questions to ask an Anti-Abortion Activist.... YouTube Video
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Image via WikipediaEvangelist Tony Alamo was sentenced Friday to 175 years in prison for taking little girls as young as 9 across state lines to have sex with them. The decision punishes him for the rest of his life for molesting children he took as “brides” in his ministry. Alamo, 75, had ...
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints via last.fmLEXINGTON, MO (AP) -- Authorities on Wednesday were searching a rural property in western Missouri for bodies and buried glass jars containing notes written more than 15 years ago by children who may have documented sexual abuse by five m...
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BALTIMORE (AP) -- A preliminary report commissioned by the nation's Roman Catholic bishops on the roots of the clergy sex abuse scandal found no evidence that gay priests are more likely than heterosexual clergy to molest children, the lead authors of the study said Tuesday.The full report by res...
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In lieu of any new content, I present a series of lectures given at a recent event regarding evolution and politics. Sponsored by the Kansas City chapter of Americans United and Kansas Citizens for Science 11/6/09 at Johnson County Community College. EnjoyView the full article
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By Valerie TaricoDear Bishops –In our struggle to get health care for all, you saw an opportunity to make sure that American women can’t afford abortions, a way to be the deciders for all of us. You look at someone like me who has had an abortion, and you see a sin. Perhaps you think that those...
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My good friend and soon-to-be-ex roomie's gone fundy. It just started a few days ago, but we're both having some personal problems right now. Unfortunately, she went kind of nuts after the death of her mother a month ago and hasn't been dealing with it well.Actually, she hasn't been dealing with ...
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C.S. Lewis may be the most celebrated Christian apologist of our time. His reputation for thoughtfulness and eloquence of speech has earned him many admirers even amongst non-believers. For this episode the doubtcasters consider the main argument of his most popular apologetic work, Mere Christia...
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I am currently in my third go at christianity, which depresses me a little because I didn't retain the lessons of my previous two.My first go was as a child. My parents sent me to a baptist church and I simply accepted everything taught to me there. I learned the books of the bible and the popula...
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Something that constantly bothers me is how much of life and how many of life's lessons we just grow up believing because that's the way we're taught.It's ingrained in our culture, and most people, theist or not, don't tend to think about it.How many times have you said or muttered "well nobody's...
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Subject: RECALL NOTICE 2 Chronicles. 7:14"If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land." RECALL NOTICE:The Maker of all human beings (GOD) is re...
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by AntI am 24 years old...I became a Christian during the early part of my junior year of high school after a close friend of mine, a neighbor, witnessed the Gospel of Jesus Christ to me incessantly over weeks spent playing basketball out in the street. Eventually, I let the jargon sink in, and ...
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by MichaelImage by Jonathan Gill via Flickr I guess one could call me a de-converting Christian. I am still a little on the fence, but leaning towards the non-Christian side. My story is something of a mystery even to me.I was raised in a Christian home, with Christians of various stripes and ...
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Sent in by LisaImage by star5112 via FlickrYesterday, one of my daughter's friends had a terrible accident. Her husband called my daughter from the hospital. And here's what happened then:My daughter and her husband called another friend to go pick up the couple's baby from the hospital. My da...
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