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My URL: http://redheadedskeptic.com

About Me: Atheism is still pretty new to me. I grew up as a fundamentalist Christian. I was married to a Southern Baptist minister, but divorced him after eschewing the denomination, and later, the entire religion. We share joint custody with our 2-year old daughter.

With that part of my life over, I just recently married a wonderful man who makes me happy. It has been an incredibly difficult journey to get to where I am, but well worth it. I can't wait to see where life takes me next.

I am now a student and writer, hoping to someday enter medical school, though I am not sure I will. I have my personal blog at the above address, and I am the Little Rock Atheism examiner for Examiner.com. You can find that page at http://www.examiner.com/x-8831-Little-Rock-Atheism-Examiner

School/College/University: University of Arkansas

Profession: Pre-med Student/Writer

Age Group: 22-30

City and State (For Member Searching): Fayetteville, Arkansas

Country (For Member Searching): United States

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So, I had to move back in with my fundamentalist parents while my husband studies for the bar and we set up his practice (I am going to be his office manager and business promoter while I go to…

Posted on July 18, 2010 at 12:12am 6 Comments 0 Likes

So, I had to move back in with my fundamentalist parents while my husband studies for the bar and we set up his practice (I am going to be his office manager and business promoter while I go to school). I won't write this on my regular blog because I have readers whose comments I do enjoy that are Christian. But here, where there are only atheists, I will say:THE CHRISTIANS ARE DRIVING ME CRAAAAAAZY!!!! And I do mean crazy. If I don't get out of here soon, I am going to have a nervous… Continue

Rant on My Own Stupidity

Posted on March 3, 2009 at 7:05pm 9 Comments 0 Likes

I, like many, used to be a conservative Christian. I attended a small, Southern Baptist college. And now, I am thinking WHY? I wrote a blog post on my public-everyone-can-read-it blog, Redheaded Skeptic, and de-Conversion picked it up. It sure did create a stir on my Facebook inbox!

Not only did I receive a few odd responses (and one crazy, come back to Jesus book of an email), but I am realizing I… Continue

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Logan Grado commented on Laura's blog post 'No Title'

Hey, I attended a catholic school for four years. It took all my self control to not tell everyone there they were idiots. I don't want to tell you the number of saturday schools I got for skipping mass (every month there was school mass. I hid…

Jul 21, 2010

Jimmy Charles Nuckolls commented on Laura's blog post 'No Title'

I share your pain Laura. My wife and adult children all are subjected to my atheist rantings nearly daily. But my sisters and cousins are all fundamentalist christians in Kansas of all places and have never been exposed to anything else. Just their…

Jul 19, 2010

The Big Blue Frog commented on Laura's blog post 'No Title'

My in laws are all fundamentalist Southern Baptists, so I can feel your pain. I could never imagine living with them for very long. I did live with them for a month or so while my wife and I were dating. I think I blocked it out of my memory,…

Jul 18, 2010

James M. Martin commented on Laura's blog post 'No Title'

Hang in there, Laura! Learn to process the information in an intellectual way. Remember without exhibiting it, you are superior to them because when you do the right thing it is because this is what you do, not what "God" demands of you to…

Jul 18, 2010

Petra Polovina commented on Laura's blog post 'No Title'

I can definitely relate, even though I came back to visit for the summer voluntarily. Collectively, my family goes to church about five days out of seven and I'm expected to accompany them. They constantly grill me about getting baptized - they…

Jul 18, 2010

So, I had to move back in with my fundamentalist parents while my husband studies for the bar and we set up his practice (I am going to be his office manager and business promoter while I go to…

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Atheists for a Vigorous Space Program

This is a group for atheists who are interested in encouraging and fostering an effective space program for the purpose of exploration, technological development, resource development, energy production, and the long term survival of humanity.

Laura joined Eric Husby's group Jul 2, 2010

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Preston replied to Laura's discussion 'Julia Sweeney coming to Fayetteville this Saturday!' in the group Arkansas Atheists

Hello, I will be in the Fayettevile area in August and the first week of September. I hope to meet some of the Fayetteville Freethinkers when there.

May 28, 2010

can I just drop out of school and pretend to have a degree I can use???

Status posted by Laura Nov 8, 2009

Laura commented on Christy Gonzalez's blog post 'Stupid Religious Bumper Stickers'

I never can decide which I hate worse: religious bumper stickers or church signs?

Nov 8, 2009

Laura commented on Curtis Edward Clark's blog post 'Higher Power'

congrats on being sober and finding your higher power! :)

Nov 8, 2009

Laura commented on Rita D's blog post 'My Deconversion'

very nice. Thanks for sharing. If you mentioned this and I missed it, my apologies, but did you experience any sort of fall out from friends/family when you deconverted?

Nov 8, 2009

Laura replied to John D's discussion 'Teen Depression - need advice' in the group Parenting Little Heathens

oh, I'm so sorry! I was going to say some of the same things that have already been said, but since you've already been given great advice, just know that you are doing the right thing. And I definitely agree about the chemical thing.…

Nov 6, 2009

Laura replied to Larissa Rivera's discussion 'Recovering....' in the group Recovering from Religion

It gets better. I fought being an atheist, too, but now I'm happy. I'm happy as an atheist and happier than I've ever been in my life. And I have a lot of problems, so that's saying something! :) And I'm sorry about your…

Nov 6, 2009

Laura commented on Darrel Ray's blog post 'Controversy'

Well, we all know very religious people don't have a sense of humor about themselves, which is why we need to recover! Learning that it's okay to not take ourselves so seriously is part of the process. ;)

Nov 6, 2009

Recovering from Religion

Unless you were raised by atheist parents, you probably had some recovering to do when you left religion. The purpose of RR is to provide a landing place for people when they jump from religion.See More

Laura joined Darrel Ray's group Nov 6, 2009

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At 12:20pm on May 16, 2011, Ruth Anthony-Gardner said…: Greetings, Laura! I notice you haven't been active at Atheist Nexus for a long time. <sigh> Sometimes it can seem a bit fragmented, with different groups for every interest. Please consider a group for socializing, where we talk about whatever's on our minds, Hang With Friends. :D You might feel more at home. We'd be glad to hear your story about living with your fundamentalist parents as an adult.

At 6:18pm on January 13, 2010, Renee Hendricks said…: Voted for you in that poll!

At 11:56pm on January 12, 2010, Renee Hendricks said…: Well I *have* to add you as a friend here :) I read your blog and you're the reason I found the place :D

At 11:55pm on January 12, 2010, Roy The Infidel said…: KIlroy was here. :)

At 12:54pm on December 22, 2009, World Walker said…: Found you through your blog... found that from the Friendly Atheist. Seth was here. :)

At 9:02am on December 18, 2009, Larian LeQuella said…: I am not stalking you! But I do enjoy reading your posts and blogs! :)

At 12:11pm on November 28, 2009, matt m said…: Thanksgiving, like winter solstice(aka christmas) is fun minus the superstition and claims of miracles(virgin birth,angels,astrologers .... need I go on ?)our religious history is something we should cherish as a part of our heritage ,We should keep the good stuff like getting together with family, good food ,socializing etc and throw away all the nonsensical stuff.So we can still enjoy Christmas and Thanksgiving without the irrational and more so I would say because I finally had sex on christmas last year ,this was hard for me even after becoming a rationalist because I always had this picture of Jesus up there going "just don't fuck on my birthday will ya"? .And I suspect there are many fellow primates of mine that have the same issue ,to them I would like to say make this Christmas extra special :)

Cheers,

At 2:03am on November 6, 2009, John Q. Antichrist or Rosco said…: Very cool! I live in the lovely metropolis of Ozark. Sux for me! :o)

I can't let a Ken Ham mention go without a picture!

At 1:38am on November 6, 2009, John Q. Antichrist or Rosco said…: I just read that you had to sit through a Ken Ham lecture. I chose to witness his wackiness this summer. I took a vacation to the east coast and stopped by the ole Creation Museum for a few giggles. I have plenty of pictures on my profile from the day. Ham is a special kind of special!

At 1:19am on June 20, 2009, Gecko, Seth...brother of Richie! said…: Very much enjoyed reading your blog posts at Redheaded Skeptic. You write well and in your own ranting ( not in a bad way) deliver an important message.
We appreciate you.