The blog has been going for quite some time, and I realize it must be a lot to wade through, for someone just finding us now. I decided to make up a page of my posts that gives a fairly good overview of my journey out of the church, and important (to me anyway) posts that may have gotten lost in the shuffle.
Personal posts:
I Am a Child of the Church This is my inaugural post, waaaaaay back in May. Hard to believe I’ve come so far in so short a time.
Our Uncommon History This post keeps popping up on the StatPress widget on the sidebar. I would dearly love to know exactly who all the people reading it, actually are. This is my post about the day “the changes” hit.
So Here’s My Thing About Christians As the subject line says. Includes video!
“The Answer is 42″ In which I discuss life, the universe, and everything.
Deconstructing my Descent into Disbelief Would you believe, science fiction saved my soul? It’s true!
We Were Not Christians We really weren’t. And I say that as an atheist.
My Year as an Ex-Member One year after I seriously started to process my exit from the church.
My First Christmas It’s not what you think.
Men Create Their Own Gods Not for the squeamish of scripture, this post quotes Gnostic texts.
“Blindsight”:
Blindsight: I Can See Clearly Now YES Level 7, Lesson 8 (This is the one with the mushroom cloud on the front.)
Blindsight Part Two: The Bible Jigsaw is a Farce An explanation of Armstrongism’s “wholistic bible” approach.
Blindsight Part Three: Funhouse Mirrors Some personal reflections.
Blindsight Part Four: “God’s Sacred Calendar ‘86-87″
Blindsight Part Five: YES Level 7, Lesson 6 “Job Learns True Righteousness”.
Blindsight Part Six: YES Fall Feast Lessons Tony wanted to know what the YES lessons said about the Day of Atonement, so I typed it up into a post. Pretty frightening stuff, indoctrinating kids to think it’s OK to starve themselves, because they’re worthless, and need to “afflict” themselves in order to be not-quite-so worthless, after the end of the world. (But we were still worthless anyway, of course, that was a given.)
Blindsight Part Seven: The Tomorrow That Never Was “Behold The Day Will Come” — and yet it didn’t.
Church Literature:
Anyone Remember Arch Bradley? – “Teach Your Children About God” booklet.
Early Days of the YES Horror: Not Just Basil’s Domain – Turns out there was another illustrator too.
“The History of God’s Church” – 3rd in a three-part series of YES Lessons.
“The spirit in man” Quotes a portion of “Just What do You Mean…..Born Again?”
Basil Wolverton Goes to War Just a taste, of some of the horrific illustrations we were subjected to, as children.
Verisimilitude: “Photo”-Realism It wasn’t just the illustrations in the YES lessons that were horrific, however.
Pontiff Without Portfolio Armstrong was our pope in every way but “the letter of the law”, as these pictures excerpted from the YES Youth Bible Lessons amply illustrate.
We are the Children of the Church Series:
The Bible Story Introduction: Part 1
The Bible Story Introduction: Part 2
The Bible Story Introduction: Part 3
The Bible Story Introduction: Part 4
Pissing off the Religious:
Monte Wolverton: Clearly, His Father’s Child Brother Basil’s little kiddie is now a minion of Junior and one of the ministers of misery in the shiny-happy-clappy-we-have-no-idea-what-we’re-talking-about-but-here-have-a-Jebus-cookie WCG.
“When reruns all become our history….” AW commenter who claims to be an apologist for the current WCG, yet strangely, he still holds fast to Sabbatarianism, tithing, British-Israelism, and “the one true church” crap.
A Response to the Quaker Gestapo Don’t piss the Quakers off, yo. They’re nothing like the guy on the front of the oatmeal box. Nor anything like they say they are, apparently.
Crackergate Part Deux They’re fighting over whether or not it’s right or wrong for them to stand up or kneel down to eat their crackers. Them Christians is crazy, yo.
Crackergate Redux: The Atheist Empire Strikes Back Check out what FSMDude is doing with his purloined Jebus crackers.
Fundies Miss so Much More “painful” truth.
I Am a Child of the Church (and what I’m doing about it) posts:
Some Heavy Reading: The Aftermath In which I go through the “Raised in Cultic Groups” paper and discuss its implications and suggestions for myself and my own personal situation.
Time Well Spent In which I recommend Marilyn Tobias’ Cult Recovery videos on Google Video.
The Painful Truth: Read This Letter
Gestapo Aside, we Policed Ourselves Doublethink, thought-stopping, self-limiting behaviours: We were experts at it.
On Blasphemy I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
The Ties That Bind Musings on the CoGBlogwars.
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