Glad to find these forums

[everythingafter]

HI everyone. My name is Jeremy. I'm a newspaper editor from Georgia and recently turned skeptic. I say skeptic because I would say I'm riding the line between agnosticism and atheism at the moment. I'm a former believer and once played in a contemporary praise band and the whole nine yards. Through my 20s, I began having serious doubts about my faith and religion in general, and in July 2009, I "came out," as they say, on my blog, which links back to my Facebook account, which my family and friends read. It was obviously a shock to them, and they have handled it much worse than I have, and probably a little worse than I expected. I am actually exceedingly more happy now than before, as I'm sure many of you will understand. So, I just wanted to say greetings and hopefully my story may help some of you and vice versa. For background on me, here is the post I made last summer to family and friends in case it might help someone else. And if you check my blog these days, I quite often take religion and faith to task, which is still, one year later, hard for my family to deal with. I'm currently reading and picking apart "Handbook of Christian Apologetics."

I hope to meet some folks with common experiences through this forum. Take care!

[TheDarkestOfAngels]

You are certainly in an excellent business to have the ability to be skeptical about the things you hear. It's only going to help you here and everywhere, even if the bigwigs in the news industry still put 'ethics' on the backburners. Though please understand that my distaste for news comes mostly from places like FOX news. I only refer to them as a news organization in name only, of course.

In any case, welcome to atheist forums.
Just hand your soul to the guy with the reddish skin and pointed goatee and you'll fit right in.

[Shell B]

I don't have a common experience, thankfully.

Welcome and good luck with your deconversion.

[fr0d0]

Welcome Jeremy.

A quote from your blog post:

"We have, indeed, for centuries, received nothing at all but silence from the God of the Old Testament"

People receive the same from God all the time to my knowledge

[Cego_Colher]

hi, welcome

[everythingafter]

You are certainly in an excellent business to have the ability to be skeptical about the things you hear. It's only going to help you here and everywhere, even if the bigwigs in the news industry still put 'ethics' on the backburners. Though please understand that my distaste for news comes mostly from places like FOX news. I only refer to them as a news organization in name only, of course.

In any case, welcome to atheist forums.
Just hand your soul to the guy with the reddish skin and pointed goatee and you'll fit right in.

Thanks Angels. I certainly understand your distaste for news coming FOX, which is, of course, entertainment and mind-warping, not news and certainly not journalism. Thanks, in any case!

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Welcome Jeremy.

A quote from your blog post:

"We have, indeed, for centuries, received nothing at all but silence from the God of the Old Testament"

People receive the same from God all the time to my knowledge

Thanks fr0d0!

By that statement, I meant a tangible nothing, if that makes sense. I can't account for whatever folks claim they hear in their heads. lol

[chasm]

Welcome to the forums! We love Georgia.

[theVOID]

Welcome everythingafter!

Why exactly do you refrain from calling yourself an atheist?

[fr0d0]

By that statement, I meant a tangible nothing, if that makes sense. I can't account for whatever folks claim they hear in their heads. lol

It always was a tangible nothing if you chose to look at it in that way. I know people who make the same claims now. Why/ how do you dismiss one and not the other?

[Nitsuj]

Hey there!