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    Thread: Question to Former Christians
Post: RE: Question to Former Christians

(October 16, 2010 at 2:50 am)Zen Badger Wrote: (October 15, 2010 at 12:36 pm)Sherry Wrote: What on earth is a spooky sunvisor?Quote:That is when a sinner gets in a fatal car wreck within a week af...
Sherry Christianity 50 13677 October 16, 2010 at 2:56 pm
    Thread: Question to Former Christians
Post: RE: Question to Former Christians

(October 15, 2010 at 10:38 am)Gilligan Wrote: (October 7, 2010 at 10:22 am)Sherry Wrote: (October 7, 2010 at 8:35 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: (April 13, 2010 at 2:55 pm)Sherry Wrote: Why did you ex...
Sherry Christianity 50 13677 October 15, 2010 at 12:36 pm
    Thread: Numismatic Evidence for the Bible
Post: RE: Numismatic Evidence for the Bible

(April 13, 2010 at 12:19 pm)Darwinian Wrote: Why do you keep showing this? [Image: http://www.glynn.k12.ga.us/BHS/academics...ddle02.jpg] Are you saying that you were beaten into believing what yo...
Sherry Religion 67 24570 October 14, 2010 at 11:47 am
    Thread: Glad to hear church wasn't the reason
Post: RE: Glad to hear church wasn't the reason

(October 7, 2010 at 11:22 am)leo-rcc Wrote: (October 7, 2010 at 10:51 am)Sherry Wrote: Why would they be glad to hear that wasn't the reason? Probably because then the reason for deconversion is j...
Sherry Christianity 11 4778 October 7, 2010 at 11:26 am
    Thread: Glad to hear church wasn't the reason
Post: RE: Glad to hear church wasn't the reason

So what would make testimonies of deconversion that does not indicate they left because they were hurt by the church make the testimony more acceptable?
Sherry Christianity 11 4778 October 7, 2010 at 11:06 am
    Thread: Glad to hear church wasn't the reason
Post: RE: Glad to hear church wasn't the reason

(October 7, 2010 at 10:55 am)Chuck Wrote: (October 7, 2010 at 10:51 am)Sherry Wrote: I have heard some atheists say that they are glad to hear that "I had a bad experience at church or was mistrea...
Sherry Christianity 11 4778 October 7, 2010 at 10:56 am
    Thread: Glad to hear church wasn't the reason
Post: Glad to hear church wasn't the reason

When hearing an account of deconversion I have heard some atheists say that they are glad to hear that "I had a bad experience at church or was mistreated by Christians" as NOT being the reason for so...
Sherry Christianity 11 4778 October 7, 2010 at 10:51 am
    Thread: Question to Former Christians
Post: RE: Question to Former Christians

(October 7, 2010 at 8:35 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: (April 13, 2010 at 2:55 pm)Sherry Wrote: Why did you expect your parents to be flawless, and when you discovered they were only human like everyone ...
Sherry Christianity 50 13677 October 7, 2010 at 10:22 am
    Thread: Question to Former Christians
Post: RE: Question to Former Christians

So you're saying it might not be the parents fault as Wilkerson stated? Even if the parents "did everything right" as far as trying to be true?
Sherry Christianity 50 13677 October 6, 2010 at 5:01 pm
    Thread: What to do...
Post: RE: What to do...

(September 26, 2010 at 3:19 pm)Nitsuj Wrote: All right, first off: I'm not a born debater, so I need a little help. The kids at my Catholic school have leaned I'm an atheist, and are saying stuff li...
Sherry Christianity 30 5475 October 6, 2010 at 5:00 pm
    Thread: Question to Former Christians
Post: RE: Question to Former Christians

Isn't that the reason people raised in a Christian home lose their faith? Can that happen even if the parents were loving and tried to practice what they preach most of the time?
Sherry Christianity 50 13677 October 6, 2010 at 4:54 pm
    Thread: Question to Former Christians
Post: RE: Question to Former Christians

I got the assumption and subsequent rejection of God I mentioned in my OP from a paragraph in a book by David Wilkerson in which a father is trying to talk to his son about Jesus. The boy replied "Bu...
Sherry Christianity 50 13677 October 6, 2010 at 4:05 pm
    Thread: Past Lives
Post: RE: Past Lives

(April 13, 2010 at 3:31 pm)Saerules Wrote: (April 13, 2010 at 2:07 pm)Sherry Wrote: Has your child ever talked about a past life or exhibited phobias that may be related to a traumatic death ? A ...
Sherry Religion 28 7242 April 13, 2010 at 3:34 pm
    Thread: Question to Former Christians
Post: RE: Question to Former Christians

(April 13, 2010 at 2:58 pm)Darwinian Wrote: Is this a question, a statement, or an assumption. It sounds as if you are telling us about ourselves rather than asking. A little of each.
Sherry Christianity 50 13677 April 13, 2010 at 3:06 pm
    Thread: Question to Former Christians
Post: Question to Former Christians

Why did you expect your parents to be flawless, and when you discovered they were only human like everyone else and imperfect, you assumed they were phony and hypocrites, and as a result you lost con...
Sherry Christianity 50 13677 April 13, 2010 at 2:55 pm
    Thread: Manipulation
Post: Manipulation

Why do many people allow everyone except Christians to manipulate them? By that I don't mean physically, but having power over them.
Sherry Religion 15 3442 April 13, 2010 at 2:26 pm
    Thread: Hello from Idaho
Post: RE: Hello from Idaho

(April 13, 2010 at 2:06 pm)Darwinian Wrote: Quote:Hopefully things will calm down some. Gilligan and myself have been on Yahoo Answers (R&S) and have seen the venom some atheists can spew at Ch...
Sherry Introductions 29 6419 April 13, 2010 at 2:09 pm
    Thread: Past Lives
Post: Past Lives

Has your child ever talked about a past life or exhibited phobias that may be related to a traumatic death ?
Sherry Religion 28 7242 April 13, 2010 at 2:07 pm
    Thread: Hello from Idaho
Post: RE: Hello from Idaho

(April 13, 2010 at 1:59 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: I assure you I'm just having a bit of a bad day (and a few 'badish' (at least) days lately). I probably should have stayed away from the forums tod...
Sherry Introductions 29 6419 April 13, 2010 at 2:04 pm
    Thread: Hello from Idaho
Post: RE: Hello from Idaho

(April 13, 2010 at 1:51 pm)Paul the Human Wrote: Welcome, Sherry. I'm new here myself. I think you'll find it mostly friendly here, but there is certainly a certain impatience with circular logic a...
Sherry Introductions 29 6419 April 13, 2010 at 1:54 pm