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Tacky, dude. Pretty tacky. How do you know she's telling the truth? But you are using this account (of which you have no way of verifying) to make statements regarding him and his parenting.
I'm sure NO kid has EVER made a false statement or alleged abuse that didn't actually happen regarding their parents, huh?
You must be a fan of Phillips of the Westboro-Baptist Church, huh?...You should see what some of his apostate children stated...
Many Christians look upon a story like this as little more than an extreme reaction to a bad childhood under strict authoritative religious and/or fundamentalist parents.
That's not a new story. I have to admit to a certain amount of skepticism myself.
I am more impressed by converts to atheism that had no such traumatic childhoods.
Many Christians look upon a story like this as little more than an extreme reaction to a bad childhood under strict authoritative religious and/or fundamentalist parents.
That's not a new story. I have to admit to a certain amount of skepticism myself.
I am more impressed by converts to atheism that had no such traumatic childhoods.
I still have to point out that the childhood in Rachel's case does not seem to have been a factor in her deconversion. It was purely and simply reading the Bible and eventually being overwhelmed by increasing doubt that it was reliable.
I still have to point out that the childhood in Rachel's case does not seem to have been a factor in her deconversion. It was purely and simply reading the Bible and eventually being overwhelmed by increasing doubt that it was reliable.
However, you cannot claim to know if or how much it did factor into it. She may not even know.
Even just on this message board there are plenty of people who have found the Bible to be unreliable, Christianity to be untenable but still have beliefs of a god of one sort or another and are not atheists.
I'm not saying she isn't sincere but just that atheism declared without an emotion filled background makes a less suspect tale.
However, you cannot claim to know if or how much it did factor into it. She may not even know.
Even just on this message board there are plenty of people who have found the Bible to be unreliable, Christianity to be untenable but still have beliefs of a god of one sort or another and are not atheists.
I'm not saying she isn't sincere but just that atheism declared without an emotion filled background makes a less suspect tale.
I take your point. However, comparing the conversion accounts of William O'Hair and Rachel Slick, the former is all about the home life and the fall out from it and how helpful faith could be, and nothing about evidential reasons to believe. Rachel's was maikng no mention of a bad reaction to home life and that seemed to have made no difference to her faith after she left home (and she says for reasons that were not relevant). It is all about studying the Bible and doubting that it was reliable. In fact a rather small thing in itself - after all, witnesses don't always agree but it was the thing that released the pent -up torrent of doubt.
I would suggest that, to read some covering up of a reaction against a domineering father is really not even reading between the lines but writing something in between the lines, because the story as it is does not please some people.
I would love for Rachel to come here and clarify, but as an atheist Icon, she is now too far above..
Tacky, dude. Pretty tacky. How do you know she's telling the truth? But you are using this account (of which you have no way of verifying) to make statements regarding him and his parenting.
I'm sure NO kid has EVER made a false statement or alleged abuse that didn't actually happen regarding their parents, huh?
Ah I see ... if an atheist says her Christian parents abused her, then she MUST be lying about it.
Christians never do anything wrong, remember. Christ didn't die on the cross for Christians because they're already perfect.
Also remember, the way some Christians treat their kids, they don't consider abuse.
After so many statements made by Vizio on the subject of morality , it might be with him, anything goes.
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but it was the thing that released the pent -up torrent of doubt.
