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Ben Reed: Deconversion from Church of Christ

Published: June 5, 2023, midnight

b'This week\\u2019s guest is Ben Reed. Ben grew up in the Church of Christ with a cappella music, no clapping, no raised hands, no prophecies, no miracles, but also no demons.

\\u201cCompared to the more charismatic denominations, the Church of Christ is pretty boring\\u2026I think that\\u2019s kind of why I stayed so long because it wasn\\u2019t that exhausting.\\u201d

Ben\\u2019s years in the church were good\\u2014no cognitive dissonance or serious trauma\\u2014until 2020.

\\u201cIt wasn\\u2019t until Covid hit that I really started waking up, and I saw how Christians were acting about the masking and the vaccines, and I was thinking, Do you not see the moral implications and the examples that we are supposed to set here?\\u201d

By 2022 and a chance encounter with some Mormons, too many questions were surfacing. Cheekily thanking \\u201cthe gods of atheism,\\u201d Ben is now able to ask questions and expect serious evidence before he can be convinced of something.

It seems that \\u201cthe promises of Christianity are found outside of it\\u201d.

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Attribution

"Waves" track written and produced by Makaih Beats
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