Josh Helton
Name - Josh Helton Born – 1980 Location – Hays, KS Label – Atheist Former Affiliation – Methodist My Story I was brought up in a Methodist household, going to church most every Sunday as long as I can remember. I came from a small town (roughly 1500-2000 people), and almost everybody there went to one of the many churches there. I was intrigued by the stories, but never once truly believed in them. I felt like there was something wrong with me for the longest time. I thought that there was something missing in my mind, that I was defective somehow for not believing. I...
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Name: Andy Carrington Born: May 1975 Location: Gosport, UK Label: Atheist, Humanist Former Religion: Christianity To God and Back Again: The Story of a born again Atheist My name is Andy, although I was baptised Andrew. I grew up in a stable home with a permanent mum and a sometimes aloof dad; dad was a military man and so often travelled during my younger years. I grew up predominantly on the south coast of the UK, in and around Gosport and Fareham. I attended public schools of a reasonable calibre and left with an average education. From the age of sixteen I was myself serving in the Royal...
Read MoreJD aka James
Name: JD, James Born: 1980 Location: U.S. Label: Atheist Former Religious Affiliation: I was raised a Christian in the Methodist church and stayed there until the end of high school. My Story I don’t say “atheist” because I know. I say it because I want to understand things as they are, not as some soothsayer foretold they would be, or old bearded theologian reckoned they should be, or even how some god may will them to be. Billions of beings are expressing, through whatever means they’re given, their unique angles on this grand evolutionary experiment and I would...
Read MoreRebecca Skinner – Australian Atheist
Name: Rebecca Skinner Born: 1974 Location: Northern Territory, Australia Label: Atheist Former Religious Affiliation: Catholic, Pagan, Generic Christian About Me: I have questioned my “faith” since the age of 14 and finally in my early 30s’ I stopped “letting go and letting god” and I “let go of god” and my life changed dramatically for the better. I’m a wife, a mother, a daughter, a friend, a human rights activist – a loving, caring, compassionate human being! I am a godless heathen and extremely proud of it. I encourage anybody who...
Read MoreMike Haynes – Springfield Area Free Thinker
Name: Mike Haynes Born: August 11, 1963 Location: Virden, IL Organization affiliation: Springfield Area Free Thinkers (Springfield, IL), Abraham Lincoln UU Congregation Humanism Discussion Group Label: Atheist Former Religious Affiliation: Baptist My Story: I’m a computer programmer, currently living in Central Illinois with my wife and two dogs. I’m 48 years old. Married for 28 years. I grew up in a Baptist home in a small Southern Missouri town. I gave up on Christianity in my mid-twenties when I started thinking and reading the Bible and couldn’t make sense of it all....
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