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deconversion | Black, White and Gray

Some Christian sociologists did some research into why people leave, by looking at 50 de-conversion "testimonies". Results: intellectual problems (hell, suffering, reliability of the Bible); God's failure to answer prayer; other Christians responding to doubt in trite or unhelpful ways. Contact with unbelievers wasn't often cited as a cause of de-conversion.
(tags: psychology de-conversion christianity religion sociology)

I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave | Mother Jones

"My brief, backbreaking, rage-inducing, low-paying, dildo-packing time inside the online-shipping machine."
(tags: economics work warehouse poverty shopping shipping online amazon)

Why Richard Dawkins is still an atheist - Guest Voices - The Washington Post

Paula Kirby on the recent "Dawkins admits he's an agnostic!" stories following his debate with Cuddly Rowan Bear. "Religious commentators have become so excited at the thought of his conversion that I almost don’t have the heart to break it to them that he said nothing in Thursday’s discussion that he hadn’t already said six years ago in "The God Delusion""
(tags: the god delusion religion agnosticism paula-kirby richard-dawkins dawkins atheism)