Deconversion stories from The Skeptical Review

Rob Savarie

Happiness Found "out of" Christ...

I have enjoyed reading The Skeptical Review since 1994. Your articles are timely, informative, and satisfy my need for a clear and logical systematic refutation of the claims of the Bible and of its believers. Please find enclosed a money order to cover the cost of resubscribing for another year.

If I am "addicted" (as some will say) to Farrell Till's "Review," it is because of the good effect it has had on my life over these past few years. The more of Till's philosophy I adopt, that much more is my behavior positively modified. I can attribute much of my success at becoming more unfettered in the mind and less demanding on my physical body to Farrell Till's contribution. For this, I wish to thank him publicly in this column, i.e., "The Mailbag."

I was a Bible-believer of the Jehovah's Witness type from 1987 to 1992. In 1992, I came to the realization that my leaders were liars and that I had to tell my "brothers and sisters" that this was so. I started writing letters to them to warn them of the lies being told by the governing body, only to find myself excommunicated two weeks into my campaign.

From 1992 to 1994, I searched for the "true truth" of the Bible. For a while there, I thought I had found it in the Fundamentalist Protestant Baptist Christian Church, but then I met Farrell Till in his devastatingly logical publication, The Skeptical Review. Now I know what that "true truth" of the Bible really is: It is not to be trusted.

EDITOR'S NOTE: A familiar Christian claim is that happiness can be found only "in Jesus," but as long-time subscribers know, we have published many letters from former Christians who consistently tell us that escaping from the fetters of religious superstition brought them a satisfaction and happiness that they had never found in Christianity. Mr. Savarie's letter is just one of the latest.

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