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Life After Christian Fundamentalism

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Recovering from the side effects of Christian fundamentalism is not easy.

•The ongoing fear of Hell
•Rejection from family members
•Ongoing guilt
•Loss of community

If you can relate, join.
This is not a debate group.

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This group was born out of my meeting with Nate Phelps during the American Atheist Convention in Atlanta.

My wife Angela and I took Nate and his fiancée Angela out to enjoy the evilness of The Varsity. Almost instantly we hit it off, and felt like we had been friends for years. Not only did we have similar backgrounds, but we all shared the desire to help others who were leaving Christian fundamentalism.

I asked Nate to write about his experiences in Atlanta on my blog Life Without Faith. He graciously accepted and you can read it here.

As support for this group, Nate has graciously allowed Atheist Nexus to post the entire transcript of his Atlanta speech. It is long, emotionally moving, and a must read. Check it out here.

Below is a documentary on Nate's Family entitled, "Fall From Grace."

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Here is a recent news story featuring my former church:

Brother Richard

Nate's Website: Nate Phelps
My Personal Website: Life Without Faith

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Comment by Izzi on March 7, 2010 at 6:35am: Glen, I may be interested in such a collaboration, certainly! I started writing about my own exit story, but now I am gathering info on certain aspects of charismatic/pentacostal religion to be included in a novel I am planning. In fact, that was was lead me to atheist nexus.

Comment by Izzi on March 7, 2010 at 6:28am: Hi! About 15 years ago I left the staunch, no-name, so-called "Two-by-twos" faith. Anyone else here who came out of that exclusive group? They dress very conservatively and generally believe they are the only correct way to heaven.

Comment by Leigh K on February 10, 2010 at 5:04pm: Thought I'd share this link. This family has been worried that they will lose all friends in their community based on their discovery that they do NOT believe:
http://wonderfulpages.com/doodad/2009/11/an-open-letter-to-our-frie...

Comment by Warren on February 10, 2010 at 1:58pm: Hello everyone. I am a former member of a cult branch of the United Church of Christ and AA. I am very happy this group exists and I joined so that I can continue to deprogram myself and to converse online with individuals who have successfully left their belief in god and fundamentalist christian woo behind.

Comment by Tom Harris on February 7, 2010 at 3:15pm: Grats, Brittany! Keep up the good fight!

Comment by Brittany Evanovich on February 7, 2010 at 2:59am: Joined because I was raised Methodist, was switched to Baptist by my cousin, spent 12 years in a very fundamentalist church/vacation bible school/bible camp/youth group/puppet ministry/county fair ministry environment before being transfered to three years of VERY fundamentalist Christian school where I heard tales during field trips to other churches and Baptist conventions of "Christian soldiers" wanting to "do something" about abortion clinics (I think you get the idea as to what that something was) so I left. Well, that reason and the fact that they were pushing creation science down my evolution-clinging brain. I spent two years going to their "science" fairs only to be disappointed that no one would listen to me that they might be wrong. I am now 13 years church free, I still live in West Virginia in a very Christian Bible Belt area, but it's with my atheist fiance and his wonderful atheist friends and cousin that I spend most of my time. I am now an antitheist and I proudly even deconverted my mom. If any younger people need help or support in this group just let me know. I'm only 24 and it's still pretty hard for me to get over some superstitions or thoughts of hell in my mind even though I'm more rational and know they don't exist...

Comment by Chris Highland on November 15, 2009 at 3:46pm: For non-theist support, celebrating life cycles, counseling, inspiration, creative music. . .maybe we ought to explore the Online Congregation model? This is from Current TV.

Comment by Timo Ostrander on November 14, 2009 at 10:13pm: Just joined. Raised as a Pentecostal in the UPC. Extricated myself at the age of 17. Still deprogramming. Hardest part for me is dealing with loved ones who've been clinging to it for so long.

Comment by Chris Highland on November 13, 2009 at 10:21pm: Thanks Glen (and in reply to Julia). As you've seen, Life After Faith is published online and I continue to add and edit. I've sent the book or proposal to several publishers and looked into more self-publishing, but so far nothing. My first four books were published by a local publisher and I self-published two more through Amazon's Booksurge. I know of others, but just wondering if anyone had a suggestion of a path I hadn't thought of. Prometheus wasn't interested, and another guy said he would publish and then disappeared. To Robert--it may always be painful to exit, and seems to take many years. Yet, what's the alternative? Hang in there.

Comment by Glen Barton on October 29, 2009 at 7:55pm: oh... i should have read further - to the post 4 down where Chris Highland talks about his book - Life After Faith. Sorry Chris!

I think what were thinking about is quite different - more peoples personal stories, but I'd be very interested to read your book as well - the synopsis looks great.