Re: Another Brief Ex-Christian Testimony

April Dorsey-Tyler (adorsey@netusa1.net)
Fri, 14 Feb 1997 21:05:58 -0600

Welcome to rationality!!

April

> ----------
> > From: adorsey@netusa1.net
> > To: Jim Morrison
> > Subject: Re: Living Without God (fwd)
> > Date: Friday, February 14, 1997 6:45 PM
> >
> > >
> > > Just another testimony here - I've been an atheist for about 13 years
> > now,
> > > and I am not only happier, and more content (than when I was a
> christian
> > -
> > > and yes, in spite of what you'd like to think, I was a REAL
christian)
> > but
> > > I actually have more friends, most of whom are christian, because I'm
a
> > > much more likable person, than I used to be!
> > >
> > > So there.
> > >
> > > April
> >
>
> I'll second that! I am a recent convert to Atheism, only a few months
(or
> as I like to call myself, a "Recovering Christian". :-) ).. I can
honestly
> say my life as a Christian was possibly the worst period in my life.
Xians
> can babble about "you were not a real Christian", and thats just fine -
it
> only shows they do not wish to face the fact that some people's lives are
> greatly enhanced when they leave Xianity. I was only a Christian for a
few
> months, so it was relatively short, but it was long enough to realise it
> does not work for me. I am a much happier person now than I was when I
was
> a Christian. Even before my few months of "serious" dedication to "The
> Lord", I was a semi-Christian; but now that I have shaken free of ALL
that
> superstition and fear I am a much happier person. Those days were
> basically filled with self-hate, fear, guilt, and bitterness. Thank
"God"
> I broke free!
>
> --
> Et in Arcadia Ego...
>
> Michael Rohm
> -[E-Mail]- jim.morrison@montego.com
> -[WWW]- http://www.montego.com/~jim
>
> "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions,
> a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a
> personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.
> If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the
> unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our
> science can reveal it." - Albert Einstein, 1954, from "Albert Einstein:
The
> Human Side", edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton
University
> Press
>
>
>
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