Do you follow any other athiest-religious sites/forums?

[shep]

I follow the threads on this site: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1940597

[rsb]

looks like ads.

and I see EVERYTHING ,,, well I look away when you are jacking off because I am god not your personal trainer fuckhead.

[xpastor]

I'm a moderator on the Friendly Atheist Forum. I'm also a member of The Clergy Project, but that is limited to clergypersons, former or still active, who have shed all supernatural beliefs, kind of a support group, especially for the actives, who have not yet found a way to exit without facing financial disaster. For myself, I've been out of the ministry close to 30 years.

[OGirly]

I'm a moderator on the Friendly Atheist Forum. I'm also a member of The Clergy Project, but that is limited to clergypersons, former or still active, who have shed all supernatural beliefs, kind of a support group, especially for the actives, who have not yet found a way to exit without facing financial disaster. For myself, I've been out of the ministry close to 30 years.

Wow I can only imagine how difficult that must have been to leave the clergy. I can imagine there must have been quite a bit of pressure to stay. Glad to hear your free from it though. Must have been liberating to no longer have to preach something you didn't believe.

[Cyberman]

I used to be a moderator at the revamped JesusNeverExisted forum, but I haven't been able to keep up with staff duties for a hell of a long time and now the place seems to have gone belly-up. I would recommend the parent site any day: http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/

[Chad32]

This is my first one. I have read stuff in Fundies Say the Darndest Things, but never submitted anything. I've been an atheist for a pretty good while, but I didn't really think about joining an atheist centered forum until recently.

[Whateverist]

I started following this site http://www.agnosticsinternational.org/forum/portal.php around the same time I started here. I'm not as active there anymore but I do look in still from time to time.

[xpastor]

Wow I can only imagine how difficult that must have been to leave the clergy. I can imagine there must have been quite a bit of pressure to stay. Glad to hear your free from it though. Must have been liberating to no longer have to preach something you didn't believe.

There was no external pressure to stay because I knew that in a conservative denomination it would be crazy to tell others what I was thinking.

There was internal pressure to stay, in that you tell yourself, "I've believed this firmly for 20 years; my skepticism must be just a passing phase."

You're right that preaching something you don't believe results in very painful cognitive dissonance. It's not like other jobs where you can just go through the motions and get the work done and forget about it when you're finished for the day.

As I indicated, financial considerations are a big problem for a lot of unbelieving clergy. Where will you find another job to support your family? Your training isn't exactly relevant for other jobs.

It wasn't a issue for me because by the time I left, I was too strung out and depressed to even think about that. However, I got by because I was adaptable. The last 20 years of my work life, I was definitely underemployed in terms of my education and earned a bit less than a professional would expect to, but I was never unemployed for long.

[Napoléon]

I tried to follow the thinking atheist forum for a while and I know a few others on here are members. Also rationalia is good for the occasional read.

Thanks to xpastor I'm now going to check out the friendly atheist forum.

[Bittersmart]

I enjoy reading over at http://www.secularhumanism.org. It's not a message board or forum, they just have really interesting articles.