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Deconstructing From Evangelical Christianity
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Deconstructing From Evangelical Christianity
Before attending my former church, I didn't know the difference between Christianity and Evangelical Christianity. Now, my understanding is that one entails accepting the faith and worshiping privately while the other includes proselytizing. 

Religious superstitions have always been among my family. Four years ago, my journey officially began in the form of discipleship and a desire for community. But it concluded with obsessions over everyone's salvation (especially in professional settings). Acts of charity gradually became attention seeking. Primarily the attention of an all-knowing deity. 

Loosing religious belief doesn't hurt nearly as much as loosing trust in a group of people who worship so close to home. Then again, this planet is home for all of us. Maybe it's time for me to expand my sense of home. 

Hopefully, my discipleship and fallacious God-of-the-gaps reasoning can be unlearned entirely.   Dead Horse
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Great intro. Welcome aboard!

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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Welcome!
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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Welcome Woof!

Stick with the deprogramming, you'll be better off.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental. 
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Thank you everyone for the welcome. 

Removing the Christian-Judeo deity from my life has been straight forward. My trouble is the idea of the universe beginning from one source.

How many generations have associated a single monotheistic creator with cosmology/astronomy?

I'm not arguing in favor of polytheism. But the idea of one true creator is extremely biased.

If there's something mysterious or unknown, it's not because a particular deity made it so.
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salutations
"For the only way to eternal glory is a life lived in service of our Lord, FSM; Verily it is FSM who is the perfect being the name higher than all names, king of all kings and will bestow upon us all, one day, The great reclaiming"  -The Prophet Boiardi-

      Conservative trigger warning.
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Welcome! Former Pentecostal here, it was reading the Bible that started my deconstruction. It was gradual, which I think helped me avoid the 'angry phase' some atheists go through. I can't blame my parents for teaching me what they thought was true, especially when they were certain my eternal fate was at stake.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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ONE OF US, ONE OF US.
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