My guest this week is Jack Robertson, host of the Musings of an ADD mind podcast. He grew up with a super Evangelical Southern Baptist mother and always went to church. As a teenager he became super religious himself until a confidant let the whole youth group know he was having sex with his girlfriend. Then he stopped going to church for a while.
Then late in his 30s Jack got heavily involved in an Oklahoma City based megachurch. He read through the bible three times.
But, jack always had questions. “In the Exodus story god is the bad guy, not Pharaoh. If man was created in god’s image then wicked pre-flood people that were so evil he needed to destroy the world would be a reflection of him.”
Jack asks himself if he really believed or if it was his ADD hyper focus on Christianity that kept him in for so long.
After a friend asked for prayer for a job interview it hit him, “how would god decide? Go with whoever had the most friends pray? The person who’s friends prayed the most? Use a prayer version of comment winner generator?”
After a deep dive into Mesopotamian history he realized it was all just stories.
The 2016 election and then his son coming out as bi-sexual finalized his decision. He no longer believes
Links
Musings of an ADD Mind
https://open.spotify.com/show/0ebZTxuf9YUOrT58H4TvRK?si=DpVTS3YwSU-BuyGTEyy5lw&utm_source=copy-link
Website
https://www.podpage.com/musings-of-an-add-mind/
Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/musngsofanaddmind/
Interact
Deconversion Anonymous Facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/deconversion
Jon Steingard
https://gracefulatheist.com/2021/01/03/jon-steingard-the-wonder-and-the-mystery-of-being/
Deconversion
https://gracefulatheist.com/2017/12/03/deconversion-how-to/
Secular Grace
https://gracefulatheist.com/2016/10/21/secular-grace/
Attribution
"Waves" track written and produced by Makaih Beats
https://makaihbeats.net/

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