172 posts tagged de-conversion

Kieran Bennett analyzed 117 Deconversion Stories at Positive Atheism and classified the reasons people claim they left Christianity. Note that these are not disproofs of religion or even necessarily good reasons, just individuals' reasons for leaving.

There’s a really interesting post by Kieran Bennett at a faithless blogger analysing over 100 accounts of why people left their Christian faith.  Interestingly hypocritical churches came fourth in the list.

On Good Friday, 1973, my parents caught me smoking. It wasn’t the first time I’d been caught, but it was the last. This wasn’t because I quit immediately, per their demands. It was, rather, because I quickly grew fairly skilled at hiding my vice from them. Oh, they continued to harbor suspicions, but they never again caught me in the act.

Why do Christians deconvert? How can we support or encourage them to do so? This has been the subject of some debate in the Atheist community. To answer these questions I’ve sat down and considered one of the largest archives of deconversion stories on the internet.

The week in fundie . . . No doubt by now you’ve all heard tell of “Sister Mary Bernadett” and “Bishop John Peter Bushey,” who left a dead woman to rot on the toilet in their house. The two have been charged with causing mental harm to a child, after they tried to convince a boy living in the house

The subject of prayer has been widely debated over the years. We’ve discussed this topic on several occasions including Simen’s What’s the Point with Prayer?, MysteryOfIniquity’s Prayer: Communion with yourself, and LeoPardus’ Praying my way to losing faith.

Vestiges of God Posted on May 11, 2008 by Zoe May 11, 2004 Musings When I travel around on the back of our motorcycle, there is much time to just be. I love it, I’m swallowed up in it, I’m lost. It’s a good lost. I don’t know how else to explain it. Yesterday, as we traveled, we passed a pre-historic site on the side of the road.

The Uncoiling of Zoe Posted on May 8, 2008 by Zoe I’ve had another dream that has me yelling at the boys who keep climbing over my backyard fence in order to get into our neighbours back yard. This dream has me frustrated beyond measure. I think what I’m doing is continuing my need to establish boundaries with that old patriarchal belief system.

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April Dreams Posted on May 4, 2008 by Zoe *NOTE:  If you are reading this site and the URL in your address bar reads anything other then http://acomplicatedsalvationreborn.wordpress.com/ you are reading from a site that STOLE my blog post which is a copyrighted all rights reserved post.  Just so