tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3424478.post114609204140205057..comments2023-05-15T03:17:32.214-05:00Comments on Letters to the Webmaster: Thank you for a great siteDave Van Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08288914445803411893noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3424478.post-1147309050214513702006-05-10T19:57:00.000-05:002006-05-10T19:57:00.000-05:00testtestAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3424478.post-1146293373768599872006-04-29T01:49:00.000-05:002006-04-29T01:49:00.000-05:00Anoy-mous #1,000,000,000,...etc.. "Todays Apostat...Anoy-mous #1,000,000,000,...etc..<BR/> "Todays Apostates are Tomorrows<BR/> Prophets"!!!!! Thanks for reminding us of how stupid you guys are!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3424478.post-1146240457617214852006-04-28T11:07:00.000-05:002006-04-28T11:07:00.000-05:00Hi Thackerie, Thanks for the comments. Yes, b...Hi Thackerie,<BR/><BR/> Thanks for the comments. Yes, being able to look at superstition squarely, see it for what it is, and cast it off is truly an awesome thing. Perhaps significantly more people will benefit from being able to do so now that information is so readily available through the internet; that could easily be the one of the major factors that will change the "equation". Rationalism thrives on free-flowing information and debate, but it is anathema to religion. Time will tell.Jim Arvohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15494085654138988523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3424478.post-1146239276366077582006-04-28T10:47:00.000-05:002006-04-28T10:47:00.000-05:00Forgot to say this before — another thing I like a...Forgot to say this before — another thing I like about this site is that, while it's very interesting to read about what you believed and what you put up with when you were christians (which intrigues my morbid curiosity), even more important is that it gives me hope that logical thinking CAN triumph over superstition. The truth did indeed set you free! You ex-christians are awesome, intelligent and courageous and I think you should be proud of yourselves. Happy weekend, everyone!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3424478.post-1146227257773540212006-04-28T07:27:00.000-05:002006-04-28T07:27:00.000-05:00Joris,Thanks for your lucidity and insight. We ap...Joris,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your lucidity and insight. We apostates finally came to the same conclusion as you did early on. Late bloomers, I guess. :)J. C. Samuelsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15419433044496164303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3424478.post-1146177754178912322006-04-27T17:42:00.000-05:002006-04-27T17:42:00.000-05:00Thanks a lot, Joris, good posting.I've always been...Thanks a lot, Joris, good posting.<BR/>I've always been an atheist, too. Parents, were Southern Baptist, and until I got big enough to skin out of it, the week was full of choir practice, prayer meetin', training union, royal embassadors...<BR/><BR/>I admit it, in my teenage years for about six months, I thought it was me, why couldn't I see it if everyone else did, and seemed to see it so clearly. So I tried, and found out that it was like a girl I knew said about it, it was all a "pound of smoke."<BR/><BR/>I don't think people are stupid for being believers, people have needs and most of them aren't able to think originally. But I've spent 'way too many nights wondering if I'd see the morning, knowing that there were people trying to kill me, so I know why fear will make you think in an odd way. Strange, though, at the points where it was reckoned that we probably wouldn't survive, I got calm, and never felt freer in my life. Happy, even, because I saw that nothing really mattered. No, I never called on any gods. About as many called on gods as did on their mothers with about the same observeable result.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3424478.post-1146136573395083442006-04-27T06:16:00.000-05:002006-04-27T06:16:00.000-05:00Thank you, Joris. Great post! Like you, I was neve...Thank you, Joris. Great post! Like you, I was never a christian. I found this site through salon.com where it was referenced in an advice column (the letter seeking advice was from some poor kid whose nutty parents had enrolled him in a christian college and who was suffering an emotional crisis because he couldn't believe the nonsense they were trying to brainwash him with and he was being tormented by his "good" and godly teachers and classmates once they found out he had doubts). <BR/><BR/>Anyway, I stuck around because, like you, I've always been interested in religion and why people believe in obviously untrue things. (The christian response is "faith," which really means nothing more than "I believe because I believe," i.e., no rational thought involved at all.) I've found some of the ex-testimonies and forum comments from the apostates fascinating - and they certainly reinforce my rather low opinion of fundies.<BR/><BR/>Oh, but unlike you, I have spoken in tongues - just to show a pentecostal nutcase how easily anyone can fake that b.s. It's easy; just open your mouth and let loose with a string of syllables. Of course, the nutter had a quick response for that; he said I was speaking a real language but it was the language of Satan (god's evil twin, I suppose). Sheesh! Christians - infuriating and laughable all at the same time!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3424478.post-1146116641440551192006-04-27T00:44:00.000-05:002006-04-27T00:44:00.000-05:00AnonymousI just love your comment, it has really m...Anonymous<BR/><BR/>I just love your comment, it has really made my afternoon I cant stop laughing it's very entertaining. <BR/><BR/>I can see the spit spurting from your lips as you type "You guys at Ex-Christian and that crazy look you must get in your eyes when you are talking to non believers , you are in fact one of the lunatics I have been noticing a lot of lately.. <BR/><BR/>Here's to mental illnes god love you <BR/><BR/>Praise MithraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3424478.post-1146106882809322332006-04-26T22:01:00.000-05:002006-04-26T22:01:00.000-05:00Anonymous fundy said:You guys at Ex-Christian you ...Anonymous fundy said:<BR/><BR/>You guys at Ex-Christian you are a bunch of apostates, you are not some enlightened people of reason. <BR/><BR/>But Look at Me! Right here ! Look Look at Me!<BR/><BR/>I have the Key to all knowledge, I'm a Christian and you're not!<BR/>But!<BR/>I'm totally enlightened, read what I said below.<BR/><BR/>May God open your hearts once again for the love of Christ, who died on the bloody cross of calvary to redeem us. Priase to Jesus, my Savior! <BR/><BR/>Now see ME! Look at how Smart I am! I just repeated something I've heard before, Look at Me! See how smart and intelligent I am?<BR/><BR/>I'm a Christian, just bristling with smarts. <BR/><BR/>See the difference? See how Smart I am? Look at me, I'm a Christian and you're Not! See how Smart I am?<BR/>But!<BR/>I'm saved, and you're not! See Me! See how Smart I am?<BR/><BR/>But I'm ashamed to leave my name!<BR/><BR/>If I were the webmaster, I would scrubb everyone of you stinking brainwashed ignorant fundies posts!Steven Bentlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16139666223082953913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3424478.post-1146105628005150652006-04-26T21:40:00.000-05:002006-04-26T21:40:00.000-05:00Anonymous: "The epistle of Peter and the book of ...Anonymous: "The epistle of Peter and the book of Revelation tell us that in that last days the Christian church will experience the trauma of apostasy."<BR/><BR/><B>Starting with Peter, your "god" respects no person...</B><BR/><BR/>1 Peter 1:17 - "And if ye call upon the Father, who without respect of persons, jugeth according to every man's work."<BR/><BR/>Deuteronomy 10:17 - "For the Lord your God ... regardeth not persons."<BR/><BR/>2 Chronicles 19:7 - "For there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons."<BR/><BR/>Acts 10:34 - "God is no respecter of persons."<BR/><BR/>Romans 2:11 - "For there is no respect of persons with God."<BR/><BR/>Galatians 2:6 - "God accepteth no man's person."<BR/><BR/>Ephesians 6:9 - "Neither is there respect of persons with him."<BR/><BR/>Colossians 3:25 - "There is no respect of persons."<BR/><BR/>Not only does your "god" not respect any person of his own creation, to include you anonymous, but we are all predestined according to his will. Therefore, blame your "god" for creating apostates according to his pleasure.<BR/><BR/>Ephesians 1:4-5 - "According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: <B>Having predestinated us</B> unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, <B>according to the good pleasure of his will,</B>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3424478.post-1146100343956645112006-04-26T20:12:00.000-05:002006-04-26T20:12:00.000-05:00anonymous....you can bitch and moan about us all y...anonymous....<BR/><BR/>you can bitch and moan about us all you want.we've heard all the b.s christians have been polluting the planet with for the past 2000 years and find it lacking any substance.<BR/><BR/>go do something productive with your lifeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3424478.post-1146096955245998842006-04-26T19:15:00.000-05:002006-04-26T19:15:00.000-05:00This is a site for apostates: The epistle of Peter...This is a site for apostates: <BR/>The epistle of Peter and the book of Revelation tell us that in that last days the Christian church will experience the trauma of apostasy. It is leaving the truth of the Bible for vain philosophies of the world. You guys at Ex-Christian you are a bunch of apostates, you are not some enlightened people of reason. May God open your hearts once again for the love of Christ, who died on the bloody cross of calvary to redeem us. Priase to Jesus, my Savior!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3424478.post-1146093416695043712006-04-26T18:16:00.000-05:002006-04-26T18:16:00.000-05:00Well said, Joris. Especially the general hint of "...Well said, Joris. Especially the general hint of "do unto others . . ." aimed fairly at religious nutters. Of all persuasions. When good people selflessly do good things, it matters not what drives them.Perryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10462113585749419367noreply@blogger.com