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God’s Word: A Critique of the Concept Itself

Posted in Apologetics, Bible Errors, Christianity, God, Leaving the Faith, Logic, Psychology on October 18, 2009 | 17 Comments »

This blog post is inspired primarily by Grace in my previous post. I have made the claim that leaving the faith gave me a better understanding of Scripture, and it seems like a good idea to demonstrate how I think this is the case. So, I think I’m going to try a casual, laymans type [...]

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I don’t like thinking about this shit anymore

Posted in Apologetics, Christianity, Leaving the Faith, Life as a Heathen, Meaning, Ramblings on October 6, 2009 | 8 Comments »

Confession: read title. No, seriously it just occurred to me that I don’t really like thinking about Christianity and stuff anymore. It seems like such a waste of time. I figured out what I wanted. I solved the problems I needed to. I am free, at least mentally, from the chains. I feel much like [...]

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Oh shit, I didn’t realize I was still so tied up mentally due to Christianity until…

Posted in Leaving the Faith on September 29, 2009 | 16 Comments »

Leaving the faith is like untangling Christmas lights. You suddenly find, in your moment of need, that the one thing you neglected to deal with is now your biggest problem. Next thing you know, you are reviewing every single light bulb to see which ones are broken while unraveling miles of endless cord. And just [...]

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Officially a Cult?

Posted in Christianity, Leaving the Faith on August 26, 2009 | 11 Comments »

NOTE: The following contents could be depressing… Well, it happened. My parents church has passed the brink that – in my mind – makes it a cult. Defining the line between normal religion and cult is difficult. I came up with this definiton: Cult: any social group that is more difficult to leave than the [...]

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Presuppositional Atheism

Posted in Apologetics, Atheism, Goofing off, Leaving the Faith, Presuppositionalism on July 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I assert that atheism (“no gods”) is the only presupposition that actually accurately describes all spiritual religions. Therefore, every religion that asserts a spiritual realm must borrow from a materialistic worldview in order to explain the spiritual. Because every explanation of the spiritual requires using materialistic terms (any term involving time/space) then this shows the religion is entirely materialistic in nature, thus demonstrating that it has an internal contradiction and is, therefore, false.

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Why Some Men will Never Leave the Faith

Posted in Apologetics, Christianity, Leaving the Faith, Psychology, Skeptical Thought, Spirituality, Supernatural, William Lane Craig on July 28, 2009 | 12 Comments »

There is nothing like losing all ability to distinguish whether it is the Holy Spirit or a demon speaking to you. Only then did I realize that my spiritual experiences could not be trusted – all of them. And then when I discovered I had complete control over the voices, their presence, what they would say, and when they would say it did I realize that it was all in my head. I personally think it would take something like this to knock some sense into a person like William Lane Craig.

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Testing your Faith

Posted in Atheism, Christianity, Leaving the Faith on July 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Christians talk all the time about “getting to know God”. What I think they mean is “solidifying your personal theology so that you feel comfortable”. That’s all. Because if you talk to two Christians (take for example, my dad and Doug) one would think they were talking about a completely different person by the way they talk about God and what they say about him. They cannot possibly know this God, but they could possibly be inventing interpretations of the same data.

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Leaving the faith: Freedom of Expression

Posted in Happiness, Leaving the Faith, Life as a Heathen on July 20, 2009 | 6 Comments »

The last couple of months have been incredible. I am living for the first time. I do the things I want to do… the things I feel like doing. Do you have any idea what that is like, those of you who are entrapped in the mentality that all your actions and thoughts are to be submitted to an invisible deity? When was the last time you did what you fucking wanted to and did not feel guilt or shame at all?

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Writings from a Past Life

Posted in Leaving the Faith, Writing on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I have decided to upload them to google docs and publish them for any readers who would care to take a peek. I hope someone finds them encouraging or at least interesting. At the very least, I would hope they furnish some ideas on what causes a person to leave their faith.

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Leaving Faith: It’s not About Arguments

Posted in Apologetics, Christianity, Leaving the Faith, Morality, Psychology, Skeptical Thought, Spirituality, Supernatural on July 7, 2009 | 235 Comments »

It is not about the arguments.

In order for a person to leave a faith, the perceived value of leaving the faith must exceed the perceived value of staying.

Evangelism, then, is the art of marketing an idea’s value. Good evangelists dance the dance of making God’s wrath hotter and God’s salvation sweeter. The greater the perception of God’s wrath, the greater one’s perception of God’s salvation. Conversion is ones entrance into a social structure whose entire end-goal is to fine tune and balance this perception of God’s wrath and God’s salvation so that the greatest number of people convert and stay. Those faiths that achieve this balance between threats and rewards most effectively will survive and reproduce.

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