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Ex-Pastor Turned American Atheist Director Tells How She Lost Faith
Christian Post ^ | 07/12/2012 | Stoyan Zaimov

Posted on 07/12/2012 9:34:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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Terea MacBain appointed as public relations director for American Atheists poses for this undated pho
1 posted on 07/12/2012 9:34:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Did she ever really believe in Jesus?


2 posted on 07/12/2012 9:39:11 AM PDT by lurk
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To: lurk

Good way to cancel out any validity in her story. No way to really tell.


3 posted on 07/12/2012 9:43:49 AM PDT by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t think she ever had FAITH to begin with. She has no true religious insight. The worst part of it is the effect on her immediate family - really bad.


4 posted on 07/12/2012 9:45:17 AM PDT by marychesnutfan
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To: SeekAndFind

In light of scripture’s teachings against women assuming a public role in congregational worship (cf I Corinthians 14 & I Timothy 2), her faith couldn’t have been too Bible based anyway. That’s the problem. Once Christians, quasi Christians and pseudo Christians start ignoring plain Bible teaching, there is no logical stopping point.


5 posted on 07/12/2012 9:47:50 AM PDT by LouAvul
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To: lurk

Psalm 14:1
“The fool[a] says in his heart,
“There is no God.”
They are corrupt, their deeds are vile;
there is no one who does good.”

I’d say that about covers this one!


6 posted on 07/12/2012 9:47:59 AM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now.)
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To: SeekAndFind

—One was the contradictory nature of the Bible;—

IOW, she had no personal relationship with Christ. The Bible is not the foundation of the relationship. It enhances it.

Do I stop believing my wife exists if I find apparent contradictions in her diary?


7 posted on 07/12/2012 9:50:42 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: lurk

—Did she ever really believe in Jesus?—

This.

I’ve read stories of long time servers in the ministry, some even relatively famous that completely gave up the faith. The real question is, “did they REALLY believe, or were they just going along with something that seemed to make sense - at first”.


8 posted on 07/12/2012 9:51:51 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: SeekAndFind

She gives the appearance of a tolerant and reasonable person. However history has shown that when people like her (former religous people turned athiest)obtain power they can become nasty terrible people. The Mexican, Russian. and Cuban revolutions were full of born again athiests who tortured and killed the people they had once worshipped with and even their own families. It will be interesting to follow her career.


9 posted on 07/12/2012 9:53:07 AM PDT by allendale
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To: lurk
Did she ever really believe in Jesus?

I would guess, no.

10 posted on 07/12/2012 10:01:23 AM PDT by Mark17 (California, where English is a foreign language)
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To: SeekAndFind

“she is now happy and at peace with her decision.”

She will be until she faces Christ at the White Throne Judgment.


11 posted on 07/12/2012 10:04:31 AM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: SeekAndFind
This woman's story is not unique but it does high light the reason one’s understanding, and therefore faith, of the Scriptures needs to be based upon an accurate knowledge and not falsehood.

How many people have wrestled with the notion that the God that Jesus worshiped would torture people for eons and that after setting up them up for failure and such things.

But this was a pastor, a shepherd and as such had a responsibility not just for their own faith but those she taught to vigorously seek out the truth of the Bible and it is evident this simply never took place.

A soldier who doesn't practice constantly with their sword soon looses its protection.

12 posted on 07/12/2012 10:06:31 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: SeekAndFind
"Instead of looking to an outside source for the solution to humankind's problems, we see that responsibility as [our own]. We have to reach out and support each other. We can't say a prayer to an invisible being somewhere and expect that to be the solution. The solution has to be when one human reaches out to another."

Sounds like she had a flawed notion of God from the beginning. God isn't there to 'solve our problems'. He made us rational beings to do that for ourselves. However, if we have no moral underpinnings for our actions, our problems will never be solved.

I guess she needs to ask herself, in the absence of some sort of morality, which is, at its base, religious teaching of some sort, how are humans supposed to 'reach out to each other', and solve any of our problems in a just manner?

13 posted on 07/12/2012 10:11:16 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SeekAndFind
A former Methodist worship and teaching pastor who served in ministry for 20 years before becoming an atheist has been appointed as the American Atheist's public relations director. In an interview with The Christian Post, she revealed that despite initially being ostracized by friends, she is now happy and at peace with her decision.

Probably had a lot to do with the fact that she was acting directly contrary to God's Word.

14 posted on 07/12/2012 10:14:15 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (not voting for the lesser of two evils)
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To: lurk

She didn’t say much about Him, did she? She used the word “Christian” but never used the word “Christ”.


15 posted on 07/12/2012 10:14:33 AM PDT by Terry Mross ( To all my kin: Do not attempt to contact me as long as you love obama.)
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To: cuban leaf

I suspect Mizz MacBain’s problem wasn’t so much that the Bible is “contradictory,” but that it was contradicting HER.


16 posted on 07/12/2012 10:16:57 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (not voting for the lesser of two evils)
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To: SeekAndFind
"Ex-Pastor....tells how she..."

Nothing left to explain....."she" doesn't believe anything in the bible if "she" thinks "she's" ever qualified to be a pastor.

17 posted on 07/12/2012 10:17:18 AM PDT by zerosix (native sunflower)
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To: marychesnutfan
I agree completely. I never could understand how anyone who comes to the conclusion that the Lord Jesus is the Son of God and builds a love relation with Him, could ever find or imagine ANYTHING that would dissolve that relationship.
18 posted on 07/12/2012 10:17:47 AM PDT by fish hawk (Religion: Man's attempt to gain salvation or the approbation of God by his own works)
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To: SeekAndFind

“The solution has to be when one human reaches out to another.”

Name me one atheistic charity.


20 posted on 07/12/2012 10:19:32 AM PDT by Country Gal (May your relationship with Christ be more important than your religion.)
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