Greetings
Offline Hello, I'm new here and thought I should introduce myself.
I am a born again abortion who, after spending 20 years of my life as a deeply committed Christian, walked away from the faith a little over a year ago. I am (was?) a licensed and ordained minister in Texas, I have a BA in Biblical Studies and I obtained 70 hours towards a Masters of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary before deciding it was all bullshit.
I am married and have 3 kids and almost everyone I know in my life is Jesusified. It's a lonely existence for me, not all of them are aware of what I now think, but I am tired of pretending and seek to be more vocal about my atheism. My wife knows and I recently made my pastor aware of it to. I still go to church to keep the peace with the family, but all it does is fuel the atheist fire within me.
My loved ones who know about this think I will come back to God, but I don't see that happening outside of some severe brain trauma.
Anyway, I'm enjoying many of the discussions I see here.
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So you were once aborted?
Wait wut?
^ lol.
Welcome! I'm not sure we have anyone as close to having held such a lofty position in the church as you, but there's certainly a lot of people in similar family predicaments. I hope for the best, and enjoy your time here!
Enlightened Atheist, Gaming God.
he was a born-again xtian but now that he's left the faith his rebirth has been aborted.
"Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, show me the steep and thorny way to heaven. Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. And recks not his own rede."
Welcome and congratulations!
Thanks for the welcomes. I probably should have mentioned that I have a very twisted sense of humor. The church wasn't able to indoctrinate that out of me.
http://csmith1974.wordpress.com/
Welcome on board, that avatar of yours tells me you have a twisted sense of humor, I love that in a pervert.
Have you ever heard of the Atheist experience of Austin?
"Very funny Scotty; now beam down our clothes."
VEGETARIAN: Ancient Hindu word for "lousy hunter"
If man was formed from dirt, why is there still dirt?
Ah, yes the avatar. I love Photoshop! I also created Jesus advertisements for Jack Daniels, Trojan, and the "Legalize it" campaign, but I can't seem to upload photos from my hard drive.
I've been to the Atheist Experience website and watched some of the videos which I really enjoyed, but I haven't spent a great deal of time there yet.
http://csmith1974.wordpress.com/
Well, I use any of the free image hosting sites and then link them here. For example, here is one that I have on photobucket (quote the post to see hoe I do it):
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I hadn't thought of linking photobucket images. These should pave my way straight to hell if there should be such a thing.
(Sorry to the easily offended, I mean no harm............ well ..........maybe a little harm)
http://csmith1974.wordpress.com/
Welcome to the forum!
Wow.....those pictures are really offensive. I think I would be offended if was Christian, but I'm not, ha!
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, | As I foretold you, were all spirits, and | Are melted into air, into thin air; | And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, | The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, | The solemn temples, the great globe itself, - Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, | And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, | Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff | As dreams are made on, and our little life | Is rounded with a sleep. - Shakespeare
I never can tell where the line is or when I've crossed it. But every Christian I know insists that Jesus had a bitchin' sense of humor so I don't think he would mind and therefore, neither should they.
I would do some with the prophet Muhammad, but I don't want to end up having my head cut off with a rusty machete by some guy in a hood chanting "allahu ackbar".
http://csmith1974.wordpress.com/
Welcome, I think your pictures are bitchin' and offensive. Keep up the good work, offending christians is half the job of an atheist
But seriously the great thing about the internet is that no one knows who you are. So you can troll as many theist as you want ;D
Then you are not trying hard enough.
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Wow. That's a tough road. Sorry to hear that you got so deep first.
There's a difference between truth and social expedience. The latter often makes for an easier life. Personally, I don't bring up being atheist, because I'd rather just relax most of the time. It takes a fairly insistent theist to get me in an argumentative mood (when the context isn't an atheist event). I'm just saying I imagine you're doing the neighborly thing, and I can't see anything wrong with that.
I don't wish either on you.
Excellent! And welcome. I hope you have fun.
If you remember any of your apologetics, let me know. Always good for a laugh, having a debate. If you want, I'll go toe-to-toe arguing the God side (which I find hilarious). Nigel's not bad at it, either, apparently.
Saint Will: no gyration without funkstification.
fabulae! nil satis firmi video quam ob rem accipere hunc mi expediat metum. - Terence
One more reason to not believe in hell would be if there were someone who decided to send you there because of photoshopped images. Yeah, that's worth eternal hellfire.
That would mean that St. Peter would have to have a policy set up the same as the idiots who decided that people carrying nail clippers on planes are dangerous.
Pilot: Ah! He got me with the nail clippers! Ow! That ripped my shirt! What the hell is wrong with you? I just ironed that!
Terrorist: I'm taking this plane hostage!
Co-pilot: Dude, a pencil is scarier than that shit.
Terrorist: I also have a pencil!
Co-pilot: What an idio--
Pilot: You just bought a one-way ticket to an ass-whuppin', dickhead.
Saint Will: no gyration without funkstification.
fabulae! nil satis firmi video quam ob rem accipere hunc mi expediat metum. - Terence
You can credit them to me if you want. I'd enjoy stomping on a few idiots in the name of self defense. I just suck too much at drawing persons to be able to do it myself. lol.
Enlightened Atheist, Gaming God.