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Allen Dexter

Posted by Amanda Brown on Aug 21, 2011 in Essays | 9 comments

Name: Allen Dexter Born:1934 Location: Cottonwood, Arizona Former Religious Affiliation:  Armstrongist Worldwide Church of God Label: Atheist THE BUMPY RIDE TO ATHEISM   by Allen C. Dexter Most Americans don’t start out as atheists.  Religion has become an insidious constant in American society.  If you were born an American and didn’t have a Jewish, Arabic or Asiatic name, it was almost a foregone conclusion that you were “Christian.”  In most parts of the USA, it was unthinkable that you wouldn’t be. In my North Dakota youth, atheism was a foreign idea.  There...