deconversion

A while ago, when I was reading up on the atheist / theist debate, I remember coming across multiple instances where an atheist would say: "God is a non-answer." As a Christian I remember going "what? That's a clever ruse. Just say it isn't an answer and dismiss it off-hand?" I honestly thought it was a stupid, clever trick to dismiss God. But then I've been thinking about it. "God did everything" or "God allowed everything" or "God made everything" or "God is everywhere" or "God designed everything" or "God has every answer" or "God knows" are not very useful statements. They are just as useful as "Satan is the source of all lies" or "sin is the source of all suffering" or "government corruption is caused by greed". For, if we were to honestly apply those answers in our daily lives, they would get us no where...

These newly released Gallup poll results show wonderful trends. Pass this info on to other de-con, atheist/agnostic sites by way of saying “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year” to them all. Religion is out of date Posted in LeoPardus

This year has been a bit disappointing for Santa believers. Fewer and fewer souls seem to be taking the Santa story seriously. Anti-santaists have been enticing young minds away from the Christmas magic that has been essential in the maintenance of a healthy society. They ridicule Santa as a myth, along with all the accompanying [...]

There are those who leave Christianity, or refuse to join it, yet still have nothing bad to say about Jesus. Christianity, yes, but not Jesus. For me, though, once I stopped believing that Jesus was fully God and fully human, I had a hard time seeing anything good in his teachings. The Old Testament is filled [...]

A year flies by so unbelievably fast. Yet, I simultaneously can’t believe it’s only been about a year since I admitted to myself something I had known for a long time: I no longer believed in God. It’s kind of strange. I look back on my journal entries and first few blog entries. I’ve grown [...]