Question to Former Christians

[Rev. Rye]

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 confidence in Christianity and belief in God?

No, I stopped believing due to immense fridge logic behind John 3:16; If it's really "The Gospel in a nutshell," the fact that it can be halved into "God sacrificed himself to himself to change a rule he made himself" really says a lot. And that's not getting into the unfortunate implications behind Genesis 3.

Incidentally, my relationship with my parents is actually pretty good. Admittedly, my mother is leery of my atheism, but then again, she was leery of me when I started reading Moby-Dick (surprisingly, reading Savage Grace or Journey to the End of the Night worried her little), but if I don't bring up the A-word to too many people (she prefers the term "Freethinker," since the term "atheism" tends to imply a certainty that Godel showed can't be applicable to Anything, and agnostic implies a state of indecision), she doesn't mind.

In short, do not apply Freudian Excuses to explain why anybody thinks differently than you. It only shows how naive you are.