Category: Atheism

The first part of this series can be found here. This post is a bit longer than the others in the series, but it was hard to find a good breaking point. After coming before the congregation and publicly repenting of allowing doubts to rock our faith, my wife and I weren't happy with our… Continue reading How It Happened: My Deconversion Part 10

The first part of this series can be found here. As I said in the last post, once we told my parents and my wife's parents that we no longer believed the Bible or Christianity, the pressure really began to mount. While everyone had been worried and concerned all along, they now knew that we… Continue reading How It Happened: My Deconversion Part 9

The first part of this series can be found here. By the Fall of 2010, I no longer considered myself a Christian, even though I hadn't admitted that to anyone other than my wife and one or two others. We still attended every church service, but that was beginning to wear on us more and… Continue reading How It Happened: My Deconversion Part 8

The first part of this series can be found here. Once my parents and in-laws were aware of my doubts, the clock was ticking. Doubts as serious as mine obviously needed to be resolved, or I would be in danger of apostasy. Family get-togethers became weird at this point, because my doubts were always the… Continue reading How It Happened: My Deconversion Part 7

The first part of this series can be found here. Around April of 2010, I finally decided to talk to my parents and in-laws about my growing doubts. Though I was now aware of several problem areas in the Bible, I thought the best approach would be to tell them about the articles I had… Continue reading How It Happened: My Deconversion Part 6

Links: Part 1 // Part 2 // Part 3 In early 2010, my questions took a different track that I hadn't expected, and it happened quite by accident. I was writing material for the adult and high school Bible classes. We were about to begin a study of Christian Evidences, and I was writing a… Continue reading How It Happened: My Deconversion Part 4