Deconversion stories from The Skeptical Review

Donald Morgan

I want you to know that I appreciate what you are doing. Yours is a noble effort. For a "backwoods teacher" with "no standing," you seem to be having quite a noticeable impact....

At one time my wife and I were very involved with a fundamentalist Bible church: I was on the board of elders and chairman of the Christian Education Committee, my wife taught Sunday School, our kids went to a Christian school, we tithed and then some. We "ate up" Christianity with a passion.

I always said that one day I was going to look into the foundation of Christianity. What got me started was that I read the Bible enough to begin to notice significant problems. I did a lot of reading, and I now have an extensive library of critical material. I'm happy to say that I am a "born-again atheist" (and have been for about fifteen years).

I too enjoy debunking Christianity. Although I have been accused of "bashing" Christianity and religion for no "good" reason, I feel that those of us in the know have a responsibility to do so. To remain silent about something this important and not tell what you know is both cowardly and uncharitable.

EDITOR'S NOTE: I don't want to sound like a broken record, but here are more former Christians testifying to the happiness that they found by rejecting their fundamentalist beliefs. We have yet to hear a former fundamentalist say, "Skepticism has made my life miserable; I was so much happier when I was a Christian fundamentalist." Nevertheless, bibliolaters continue to insist that atheists and skeptics have doomed themselves to lives of gloom and despair.

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