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THE BELL I COULD NOT UN-RING

On Dec. 14, 2012 news emerged about a room full of children massacred by a mad man with a machine gun in Newtown, Connecticut. Like millions of others, I wept. I knelt on my living room floor, shaken by the incalculable cruelty … Continue reading

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I LOVE BEING AN ATHEIST

I JUST CAN’T KEEP IT IN! I love being an Atheist. I love the freedom of thinking for myself. Don’t you? Isn’t this freedom wonderful? Atheism is wonderful. If a God exists, I’ll be happy to acknowledge Him. While we … Continue reading

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Dangerous thought #7, “Love Does Not Require a God”

IS LOVE POSSIBLE WITHOUT GOD? ABSOLUTELY. I did not choose to become an Atheist. It just happened. But in that Godless void, I felt a powerful need to rebuild my beliefs from the ground up. Rather than fashion a new religion to replace … Continue reading

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Dangerous Thought #5 – “Man Created God in His Image”

April 11, 2013. I was a Christian for so many years. Yet, how did I miss this? A closer look at the Old Testament reveals God to be an impossible ogre No different from a regular stone age barbarian. “Some boys came out of the … Continue reading

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Dangerous Thought #4 – “Might the Success of Jesus be Largely Attributed to His Threat of Hell?

February 2013. Jesus threatened eternal damnation. This terrifying new idea must have coerced many people then just as it does today. “Be baptized and believe” or “Be condemned to Hell” – JESUS (John 6:53-54) (Mark 16:16) The old Testament says nothing … Continue reading

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My First Christmas Without Jesus – 2012

Journal Entries: January 22, 2013: Christmas was sad this year. For the first time I felt no faith and no purpose for a Jesus. Lack of faith was not the main reason for the sadness – it was the news and … Continue reading

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Dangerous Thought #3 – “The Crazy People are not Misinterpreting Their Religion. They are Following it”

Extremist –  “Someone who accepts God’s Word exactly as written.” January, 2013 Up to this point it had been inconceivable to me that religion was the reason for the awful behavior of certain Christians and Muslims I had been reading about in … Continue reading

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Losing My Religion – The Beginning of the End

It was October, 2012 and the news from Pakistan was a shock. A little girl had been shot in the head by a member of the Taleban on a school bus somewhere in Pakistan. It was part of an attack on a … Continue reading

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