Category Archive: Our Stories

Dec
01

The Younger Generation of Atheists

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I believe the internet and mass media will provide salvation.  Not immediately, and not of the religious kind.  Rather it will help repair the slurred reputation of atheists.  In the least, future generations will become more aware of many non-believing role models.  Such as Harry Potter.  Actually the fictional character did believe in all sorts …

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Jun
21

Sweet Blindness

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I attended church for years in multiple places. I asked many questions which were never answered. Indeed, it seemed that no one that I knew had ever asked themselves the questions that plagued me. One day I was in Sunday School in a Methodist church which I had been attending for several months. The teacher …

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Jun
20

Being “Saved” By The Baptists

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Early in my Junior year of high school, my mom decided to move back “home” to West Virginia. Well, it was still home for her, at least, but after a decade in Florida it was no longer home for me; I felt terribly out of place. I was a strange and lonely kid who read …

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May
22

A Spiritual Journey to Atheism

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As a child, I always had a deep reverence for the Presbyterian Church I attended in the Philadelphia suburbs. It wasn’t so much the religious teachings that inspired me as it was the ambiance – creaky wooden floors, hard brown pews, arched doorways and windows, a pleasant musty smell, rich stained-glass, colorful tapestries, graceful floral …

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May
12

More Than I Can Bear

A few years ago a close friend (whom I’ll call Tom) convinced me, against my better judgment, to visit the Sunday school class that he and his wife were attending. It was in a fundamentalist Baptist church. He was so pleased with his experience there that my wife and I finally gave in. We attended …

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