@angelicajenniferr: want this to be a safe space 🫶🏼 mine was recognizing how much the fear of hell has controlled my life #deconstruction #exevangelical #religioustrauma #HealingJourney
Cognitive dissonance. Lots of things building over time 🥺
2026-08-26 04:23:25
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A Theos :
I came across an apologist by the name of Cliffe Knetchle and I was introduced to problems I had never even considered. Then I found more apologists and ironically, ended up deconstructing primarily because of them.
2026-08-25 16:21:24
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CassyJazzy :
started dating an atheist and realized he lived more like Jesus than most people at church.
2026-08-28 04:37:28
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GK1998 :
reading my bible and realizing that "using God's name in vain" was not just saying OMG but using your connection to God to manipulate others. I then realized how manipulated I had been throughout years of youth group, private school, and college
2026-10-14 03:20:53
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chris :
literally nothing supernatural happening like what happened in the bible
2026-08-25 16:05:05
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Amelia :
The Isaac and Abraham story as an adult. Realizing that I would neverrrr let a man gaslight me into killing my child to “prove I love him” so why would I expect less from a GOD???
2026-08-26 14:02:16
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Kevin :
I stopped accepting answers that didn’t make logical sense or contradicted themselves
2026-08-27 14:40:38
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🌟 :
i looked around and i was like man this would seem really insane from an outside perspective...and then it clicked lmao
2026-08-26 02:42:26
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Kyle McFerran :
When I went to Bible college and in my first biblical history and psych 101 class I learned that what I grew up spoon fed as infallible was not what the Bible taught, and that my family system was about as toxic and abusive as one gets...
Then, later that same year found out that my dad destroyed recruiting letters from 2 separate D1 NCAA colleges offering full ride basketball scholarships to make sure I went to the small NAIA D3 Christian college who JUST got their accreditation...
The irony is that being the place that shattered my faith is not lost on me. lol
2026-08-26 01:13:55
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B :
Cry night at the tween bible camp. Other kids were heaving and sobbing from the “holy spirit.” That whole situation felt wrong and gross to me already, but I was mostly sobbing because I felt nothing. I heard nothing. I assumed god didn’t want me and that I was destined for hell. It was a lot for a young kid to process, but I made it out. ❤️
2026-08-25 18:51:42
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Emelia :
why the people who were supposedly sinners and spawns of the devil were so kind but the saints and leaders were so awful and hurtful
2026-08-25 15:56:39
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EddieFelson61 :
The biggest thing for me was watching my mom have an epic meltdown because I was watching a “history of the Bible special” on the history channel. It really opened my eyes to the fact that Christian’s cannot even listen to a different perspective on Christianity.
2026-08-25 19:51:39
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Grecia | Your Small Town Masc :
Getting excommunicated for being gay 💔
2026-08-25 15:54:02
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megsworld👁️ :
I asked myself “would I even believe in this if I wasn’t raised to believe in it?”
2026-08-26 03:19:06
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GJ :
Learning how to critically think. Also, couldn’t worship a god that would send people I love to an eternal suffering for a thought crime. Lots more reasons but those are the biggest
2026-08-25 20:31:42
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OneBadMattitude :
I was a pentecostal minister, a cousin was saved under my preaching. Thanksgiving night 2012 he took his life, Sunday rolls around and as soon as I walk through the doors into the church I overheard two older women talking about how sad it was that he was now in hell. It was like a lighter switch flipped in my brain and I started deconstructing. That was the starting point but it took a few years for me to actually break away from the faith.
2026-08-25 18:31:57
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Heath Henson487 :
When I was SAd in a church and nothing was done
2026-08-25 20:43:45
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cyntheebrowngoetzmann :
Things just never added up. I never understood a father wanting his children suffer forever just because they didn’t agree/believe in him. After knowing my mom’s unconditional love I could never imagine her wanting me to suffer for ever simply just for disagreeing.
2026-08-25 23:51:58
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dannyvg :
Finding out the Bible absolutely fucking condones slavery.
2026-08-25 20:46:06
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YorkOxbendt :
for me I decided to take my faith really seriously then delved deeply into the bible. things didnt start making sense which led me down rabbit holes where I learned about things that I found about the bible that were irreconcilable. long story short and fast forward 10 years, and I reluctantly admitted to myself that atheism just makes the most sense to me, albeit an atheism thats heavy on agnosticism
2026-08-25 23:55:37
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raven anne :
When I had my daughter I realized I had to tell my perfect baby that she was a dirty sinner, worthy of hell… and I just couldn’t do it. Everything unraveled from there.
2026-08-26 04:57:02
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Sarah🏳️⚧️ :
When I came out my mom immediately deadnamed me and said I was going to hell. I haven’t willingly stepped foot into a church since.
2026-08-26 02:45:55
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Molly :
COVID. What do you mean the church didn’t support taking care of those who needed it most?? (Elderly, immune compromised, etc.) and the dominos fell from there
2026-08-26 01:43:57
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Mikayla :
I went thru cancer last year and really wanted to read the Bible for myself and make my faith my own. And truly what led to my deconstruction was reading the Bible with no preconceptions for the first time
2026-08-25 21:21:26
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