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Questions: Bruce, What Will Happen to This Blog After You Die?

I put out the call to readers, asking them for questions they would like me to answer. If you have a question, please leave it here or email me. All questions will be answered in the order in which...

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Your Invitation to Hear My Speech for Atheists of Florida This Sunday

I have the honor of speaking at the monthly meeting of the Atheists of Florida this Sunday, August 29, 2021, at 5:00 pm (EDT). This event is open to the public. After my speech, there will be a...

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Bruce, You Are a “Quitter”

Recently, an Evangelical preacher had this to say about me: Yes, we called BG [Bruce Gerencser] a quitter as that was a common theme throughout his life. He quit on high school, college, his church,...

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Listen to My Speech for the Atheists of Florida Monthly Meeting

I had the honor of speaking at the monthly meeting of the Atheists of Florida this past Sunday, August 29, 202 After my speech, I answered questions from the crowd. Several friends and family members...

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The Four Marks of a False Convert According to Jordan Standridge

Elmer Gantry, played by Burt Lancaster (1960), preaching on the evils of evolution I was a part of the Christian church for fifty years. I made a public profession of faith at age fifteen, attended an...

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Dr. Bill Clark Makes All Sorts of Claims About My Life, But Provides No...

Over the weekend, I received the following email (sent twice) from an Evangelical man named Bill Clark. Clark is a Christian psychologist at Valleydale Christian Counseling in Birmingham, Alabama....

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I Ran the Other Way When I Saw You

Repost from 2015-2016. Edited, updated, and corrected. Son number four stopped over after work and he is sleeping on the couch. He is babysitting Bethany so Polly and I can go to Grand Rapids and eat...

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Polly and Bruce, Two Godless Peas in a Pod

Polly and Bruce Gerencser, Our Father’s House, West Unity, Ohio Circa 2000 Several years ago, Kenneth asked: I am currently married to a Southern Baptist woman who is likely never going to change her...

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“Dr.” David Tee Continues to Foam at the Mouth Over This Blog

Another day, another post written by “Dr.” David Tee (David Thiessen, Theologyarcheology, TEWSNBN) detailing his objections to something I have written or his continued hemorrhoidal inflammation over...

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A Few Thoughts About Mental Illness and Depression

Bruce and his mom, July 1957 Originally written 2011, edited, corrected. At the age of fifty-four, my mother turned a .357 magnum Ruger revolver toward her chest and pulled the trigger. The bullet...

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The Preacher Boy and the Pastor’s Daughter

Updated, corrected, and expanded It seems like yesterday . . . The early days of Fall have arrived and the young preacher boy busily loads his possessions into a dilapidated, rusty Plymouth. It’s time...

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Leaving Christianity: Why I Was an Old Man Before I Deconverted

Bruce Gerencser, 2021 I am often asked why it took me so long to deconvert. Some people suggest that I must have really been stupid to have spent most of my life believing in a God that doesn’t exist....

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Life in the Ministry: Fifteen Years of Marriage and Not One ‘Just the Two of...

Bruce and Polly Gerencser, Sweetheart Banquet, 1985 A few months after our first wedding anniversary, Polly and I packed up all of our worldly goods into a late-60s Chey Impala and an AMC Gremlin that...

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Evangelical Pastor Questions Whether I Preached the “Real” Jesus

Repost from 2015-2016. Edited, updated, and corrected. Regardless of what I do to ward off bloodsucking Evangelical vampires, they continue to send me emails detailing their opinions about my past and...

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How Do Evangelical Christians Explain My Life?

Rather than asking each of my Evangelical critics to “explain” my life, I thought I’d let the inspired, inerrant, infallible Word of God answer for them: Little children, it is the last time: and as...

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