Deconversion stories from Biblical Errancy
JCW
Letter #140 from JCW of Galesburg, Michigan
Dear Mr. McKinsey. I'm writing to tell you how much I enjoyed my first two copies of BE. I have long since become an unbeliever in Christianity as a result of a 6 year search into comparative religions, philosophies, and the occult. It becomes increasingly clear after a short time that Christianity was, at best, a hodge-podge of many other cultural and religious dogmas and artifacts, not to mention the possibility that Jesus may never have existed; he may have been a composite of myth and various other characters. In any event, I read your newsletter, not to be convinced that the Bible is a load of rubbish containing at best, those same elements we find in the National Enquirer, et. al., but because I enjoy the excellent scholarship, research, and logic and appreciate what you are trying to convey to the masses. However, I think you have a tough job ahead. I am sure you are aware that the steadfast to rabid Christian does not care much for logic and when backed up against the wall, in an unanswerable position, will probably invoke that ever present main-stay of Christianity--the devil. You, via the devil, are trying to destroy the truth, etc., ad nauseum. In conclusion, you may take this letter as an indirect response to Jack Trimpey (Letter #121) that here I am, another soul freed from the fetters of stupidity and nonsense via an unbiased inquiry into available materials. It's delightful....
Note from Leaving Christianity webmaster:
JCW was very astute - a little later the following letter was written to Biblical Errancy by one of it's long term critics who had not been winning his arguments....Letter #153 (Part b)
...Did you know that Satan perverts the Word of God? Satan loves to do this. He misuses and reverses the WORD OF GOD and uses it to his own diabolical purposes. There are some ll89 chapters in the Bible and Satan, doubtless to say, has read every single chapter. HE MAY NOT BE A BIBLE LOVER, but HE IS A BIBLE READER. (1) Satan likes to take scripture out of context.... (2) Satan causes scripture to be misinterpreted! (3) He overstresses one side of a doctrine and ignores the other side. (4) Understresses certain doctrines. (5) He resists the prayers of God's servants. (6) HE BLINDS MEN TO THE TRUTH. (7) He steals the Word of God from human hearts.
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