tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6211409678921393693.post421466374435415021..comments2024-01-04T07:28:40.043-05:00Comments on God is a myth!: The Miracle MongersChatpilothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03550924322118366351noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6211409678921393693.post-27461863610822309852014-05-18T08:57:16.521-04:002014-05-18T08:57:16.521-04:00Thanks Byron, I deconverted in 94' way before ...Thanks Byron, I deconverted in 94' way before John Loftus and atheist books were popular. My first hurdle was trying to find explanations to all of the subjective experiences I had as an evangelist and how to explain the apparent miracles I had witnessed. It took a book by John MacArthur called Charismatic Chaos to get me to a place where I could begin to question the charismatic aspects of my ministry. The very title blew me away when I saw it in the book store. The rest was history. It was a long and painful six year journey before I was free from the effects of my formerly deeply embedded indoctrination. Chatpilothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03550924322118366351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6211409678921393693.post-9621677546382389612014-05-17T23:54:06.823-04:002014-05-17T23:54:06.823-04:00I have not yet read the OTF, but I will do so in t...I have not yet read the OTF, but I will do so in the future. I was a Baptist fundamentalist so I particularly "enjoyed" (metaphor for accelerating my deconversion which was painful at times) reading his book, "Why I Became An Atheist" (WIBAA) where he pointed out problems with inerrancy. For me, I could justify anything as long as it agreed with the Bible, and dismiss anything that disagreed. But I had a good bit of cognitive dissonance concerning Genesis, and that opened my mind a bit to the idea that God's Word "could be" (ha ha ha) errant and therefore not divine in origin. WIBAA was a blast of fresh air I didn't know was fresh and didn't know I needed. I'm sure the OTF is more philosophically based, which I am less knowledgeable about, so I have been putting it off. But all of John Loftus' books that I have read so far have been great. And again, good blog post!Byroniachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14946794635613455210noreply@blogger.com