Paul Wright
gjm11 is someone Iʼve known for years, initially through the uk.religion.christian newsgroup, and then through LiveWires. Heʼs a very clever man. Since my own loss of faith, Iʼve sometimes wondered about the very clever people I know who are Christians (gjm11 among them), and how they manage to sustain their faith in the face of (what I see as) the serious intellectual flaws in Christianity.
Unbeknown to me, gjm11 had been thinking hard about it for a while, and recently announced that he is no longer a Christian. He has an essay on the web where he outlines some of the main reasons for his deconversion. The enormous thread on uk.religion.christian which followed his announcement is, I think, interesting to anyone who wonders about how people get, keep and lose faith.
Gareth McCaughan
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