from Marlene Winell Greetings to all of you helping people recover from religious damage, Keep up the good work. As a therapist working with clients in this area, I know that people need all the support they can get. (If you don't know me yet, I've attached a brief bio at the end of this letter.) Now registering: RELEASE AND RECLAIM II An advanced weekend intensive for moving beyond religious indoctrination and reclaiming a life of joy, creativity, and connection. Led by Marlene Winell, Ph.D. Letting go of your authoritarian religion can be exciting and liberating. At first there are frightening and painful feelings as the process of recovery begins. Then you feel stronger and you realize that you need some personal development to become the person you want to be. This workshop is designed to take you beyond basic healing and help you reconstruct your life in a way that is functional and allows full, confident expression of who you are. The weekend is a powerful group experie...

I feel so hurt and angry right now. I guess I could take just so much 'crap' from people during a time when I was down. My husband died unexpectedly when my children were only little. Quite a number of christians who I knew would say things to me like "god is your husband' or 'god is a father to the fatherless'. It all sounded so 'good and right', but to me they were just empty words that meant nothing. Although I felt alot of guilt because I couldn't really understand what was said to me. I would think to myself, well if god is supposed to be a father to the fatherless, where is he when the kids are off playing in a grand final (very important to them) and they wanted their dad there to cheer them from the sidelines as he would do. My cheering wasn't quite the same. Or where is he when they are sick, and they wanted their dad. My oldest daughter who was just 11 years old when her dad died was a real 'daddy's girl'. My kids m...

First of all, I'd like to give thanks to you for your trouble to run this site. I'm a Korean woman who're very interested in the Christianity. In Korea, we have 10 million of Christians, and some of them are very weird and lunatic. They even demonstrated while the World Cup period, because our soccer supporters' name is "Red Devil". I do hate them because they always threat about "hell". Anyway...I have a question to the Christians. Did all the people of Old Testament go to hell? (None of them believed Jesus Christ as their Savior.) Even Moses, Isayah, Solomon, king David, etc? You guys say, only through Jesus Christ people can go to heaven. And, before the Christ, the poor people have all gone to hell, right? (This is what I've heard from ministers.) I think Christianity is a very funny religion. (Or a Myth?) It's a pleasure for me to read those people who have the same thought. Have a good weekend~! Jennifer Lee

Hi Every One, Very interesting site and I have been here quite a few times. It is a relief actually to find it. I am still caught in the web of Christianity, but am convinced it to be untrue. I just wanted to call out really, to some people that understand. I feel a gulf has opened between me and the people I dearly love and don't want to lose- but I can't connect. It's like they live in a parallell universe. And yet the "world" doesn't understand either - so here I am popular in both worlds, successful, but alone. What do I do? Big bang, public announcement, or go along with the flow? Could the "right" thing be to live out my days a lie - to protect the hearts of my dearest friends and relatives? I have learnt to be a good actor in the last ten years after all.... Any way no point to make, no axe to grind, but just wanting some empathy and advice. From Lonely