How Did You Lose Your Religion?

Finally top Bible scholar "Professor Bart D. Ehrman" leaves Christianity.

Bart D. Ehrman is an American New Testament scholar and textual critic of early Christianity. He is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written about how the original New Testament texts were frequently altered by scribes for a variety of reasons, and argues that these alterations affect the interpretation of the texts.
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Dr Bart D Ehrman - Bible Scholar - The Truth about The Bible

Don't believe anything starting 3:25. There is also not a rag of truth in the Quran or Judaism. There is no god and you know it. If you don't, go learn Science and study history. LOL

How did this Liberal Atheist end up in a Foxhole?

Losing your faith, losing your heroes - The Atheist Experience #634

Joe from Montreal (Canada) lost his faith a few years ago and no longer sees his religious parents as heroes. Jeff and Matt talk about similar experiences.

Segment of The Atheist Experience #634 of December 6, 2009, with Matt Dillahunty and Jeff Dee. Topic: Viewer calls.

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Deconversion Stories: How To Become An Atheist - The Atheist Experience #588

Deconversion Stories: How To Become An Atheist (The Atheist Experience #588 with Russell Glasser, Tracie Harris & Charity Spiers).

An Ernest Call - The Atheist Experience #627

Former Christian Ernest from Harrisburg, PA used to go to supermarkets to throw people out of their wheelchairs...

Segment of The Atheist Experience #627 of October 18, 2009, with Matt Dillahunty and Don Baker. Topic: The Bible vs. Pro-Life.

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Pissed off Catholic Mom

Parental advice for ex-Christians - The Atheist Experience #631

Robin and her husband from Cartersville, Georgia used to be Sunday school teachers until about two years ago, when they left their church and never went back. She came to the conclusion thet religion was harmful and that everyone would be better off without it, but doesn't know exactly what to tell her young children that were brought op in the church. Robin watched the documentary "Jesus Camp" both before and after her deconversion...

Segment of The Atheist Experience TV Show #631 of November 15, 2009. With Matt Dillahunty and Jeff Dee. Topic: Viewer calls.

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Theme song: "Listen to Reason" by Bryan Steeksma
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A Deconversion story - Robin Savage - The Infidel Guy Show

(2005) Former Preacher's wife and former serious Christian Fundamentalist, is Robin Savage. Robin talks to us about her slow evolution away from Christianity.

An Alternative to Religion

Finding the right religion may be less important than finding the alternative to having one.

Everybody Is Born An Atheist

Everybody is an atheist with respect to all the gods humanity has ever believed in; some of us just go one god further ...

Ricky Gervais on Atheism

Ricky Gervais talks about how he became an Atheist...

Seeking Truth: How Christians Discover Atheism

The Atheist Experience

Seeking Truth: How Christians Discover Atheism.

Carolyn's Story

"He broke my connection to all that is holy."

Carolyn recalls that all she ever wanted in life was to serve in the church. Her pastor's betrayal robbed her of that and stole her spirituality. When her pastor's overtures began, Carolyn was in her early 30s and had been a member of a Lutheran congregation for ten years. Nearing completion of seminary, she was seeking a direction for her life. She was active in her congregation and the minister of youth; she looked to her pastor as her mentor and supervisor.

One Ash Wednesday, Carolyn was in tears, full of doubts about her faith. Her husband suggested that she contact the pastor for guidance. The pastor told her that she was in crisis and offered to rearrange his schedule to provide a counseling session at her home. After the first session, the pastor told Carolyn that he "thinks of her as a man thinks of a woman" and hugged her.

Despite her misgivings about this incident, because of his position in the church Carolyn trusted him and benefitted from the spiritual guidance. As they continued to meet, the pastor told Carolyn that they were "spiritual lovers" and mentioned St. Francis and St. Claire, knowing they were her favorite saints. On another occasion, he kissed her on the lips in his office, but said it was a mistake and would never happen again. He told her he was concerned about her marriage. Carolyn recalls he used a particular Bible story to encourage her to forsake her children and husband and follow him.

One day in counseling he raped her. Afterwards, he said, "I knew you wanted that. We need to keep this secret because it would ruin the church." The pastor told Carolyn that God had put her on earth for him, and used the language of incarnational theology to make this point. He sexualized the liturgy and Bible stories.

"If this was any other man, I would have known it was not right," said Carolyn. "But church is supposed to be a sanctuary. I couldn't make sense of what was happening. He broke my connection to all that is holy."

Carolyn said all she had ever wanted was to serve the church and teach her children to love God, but all that has been taken away from her. She and her family left the church where the abuse occurred, and have tried since to join other congregations but without success. Her children want nothing to do with organized religion and have doubts about God.

"What hurts me the most is that this wasn't just physical rape," she said. "It was spiritual rape."

The Deconversion of Richard Dawkins

This is the "Deconversion of Richard Dawkins!" The footage recorded here came from The God Delusion Debate that was held at UAB on Oct 3, 2007.