Consciencebound

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Below is a conversation that I had via email with a friend of mine from the past that i have not talked to in a long time. He had just heard that I had left the faith and I believe him to be a very sincere man. I wanted to try and point out how easy it is to be blinded by our own beliefs that we do not listen to people who are opposing us. I know that I have done this myself and am probably guilty of still doing it but I want to try and be as open as possible to what the truth is and that means truly listening to people’s questions and thinking them through. This can be a hard thing to do especially when you have Read the rest of this entry »

Leaving The Fold: Testimonies Of Former Fundamentalists

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Mostly because I could identify with so much of the personal experiences of the people who wrote in it. Ed Babinksi has collected various people’s “testimonies” of their experience with fundamentalist Evangelical Christianity. From a review on Amazon, “33 former Christian fundamentalists explain how and why they first embraced, and later abandoned, that belief system. Of these, eight have become atheists, eight (including Babinski) agnostics, one a wiccan, and one a Zen Buddhist; the remainder have remained Christian” Read the rest of this entry »