Undeniably Here

[brewer]

Welcome Woof. Hoot might be more appropriate for your avatar.

Curious about your change. Was there one specific experience that began this new path. Maybe the weight of the entire experience?

Thanks, brewer.

I'd say it's been the weight of the entire experience, but a few things have had a more significant impact than others. My journey from passionate follower of Christ to head-shaking skeptic has, chronologically, gone something like this:

• Abandoning the biblical literalism so common in evangelicalism, particularly the interepretation of Genesis 1-11 that posits a young earth and global flood
  
• Recognizing that Christianity, especially the American flavor of it, is a community of fear (as evidenced in its attitudes and actions toward those who are not part of the religious in-group)
  
• Recognizing that Christianity inflicts a good deal of harm on women, including those (or, maybe, especially those) within its congregations
  
• Recognizing that Christianity has embraced an anti-intellectual approach to nearly every facet of science, politics, and culture
  
• Prompted by all of the above, re-evaluating the evidence, both scientific and historical, for Christianity
  
• Concluding that the evidence is a bit too thin
  

There you have it.

~jamie

Thank you. I left for most of those reasons also but, it sounds like, at a much younger age.