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An Ex-Pastor’s Dilemma
Bruce Gerencser, age 25, Ordination 1983, Emmanuel Baptist Church Buckeye Lake, Ohio Contrary to what some of my critics say, I have no great need to convert others to what they derisively call the...
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Polly and Bruce, Two Godless Peas in a Pod
Bruce and Polly Gerencser, Summer 2015 Several months back, I asked readers to submit questions they would like me to answer. If you would like to ask a question, please leave your question here....
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I Ran the Other Way When I Saw You
Repost 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 pizza at a restaurant we have a Groupon for. Son...
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How Fundamentalist Christianity Affected My View of Money and Material Things
Our hillbilly mansion. We lived in this 720 square foot mobile home for five years, all eight of us. We paid $2,800 for it. I tore out closets, replaced floors, etc to make it livable. We heated it...
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How Do You Get the Elephant Out of the Room?
Those of us who have Christian family often refer to our unbelief as the elephant in the room. Polly and I last attended church in November 2008. For a time, Polly’s mom would ask her to attend church...
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What Should We Do About Bruce?
Comic by Jason Dodge It has been twelve years since I last pastored a church. While I had many opportunities to pastor again in the years before my deconversion, I was no longer willing to go through...
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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 54, my mother turned a .357 magnum Ruger revolver toward her chest and pulled the trigger. The bullet tore a hole...
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The Preacher Boy and the Pastor’s Daughter
It seems like yesterday… The early days of fall have arrived and the young preacher boy busily loads his possessions into a dilapidated, dented Plymouth. It’s time for me to go, he says to his Mom. I...
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The Night I Set My Life on Fire
Bryan Times Advertisement for Our Father’s House, West Unity, Ohio Family and close friends know that I can be temperamental and impetuous. I am quick to make decisions, and doing so has, for the most...
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Fifteen Years of Marriage and Not One ‘Just the Two of Us’ Date
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 and moved to Newark, Ohio. We later moved to Buckeye...
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Leaving Christianity: Why I Was an Old Man Before I Deconverted
Bruce Gerencser, 2016 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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Evangelical Man Questions Whether I Preached the “Real” Jesus
Regardless of what I do to ward off bloodsucking Evangelical vampires, they continue to send me emails detailing their opinions about my past and present life. The notice on the Contact page makes it...
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Depression and Lightening the Load
I have battled depression most of my adult life. For many years, I denied that I was depressed, attributing my melancholy to God testing or trying me, Satan tempting me, or God punishing me for this...
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I Am God and I Love You So Much
I regularly correspond with a handful of Evangelical pastors, missionaries, and evangelists who are having doubts about their faith. While some of them have deconverted — albeit secretly — others are...
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Evangelical Pastor Says I am Sick Because God is Judging Me
Email From the Peanut Gallery Another day, another email from one of God’s chosen ones informing me that they have plumbed the depths of life and determined that I am either saved, but backslidden,...
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We’ve Only Just Begun
Bruce and Polly Gerencser, Summer 2015 Forty years ago, a young man from the flatland of rural northwest Ohio moved to Pontiac, Michigan to study for the ministry. Also enrolled at Midwestern Baptist...
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Bruce, You Were Religious, but Lost
I have been told countless times that the reason I am an atheist today is because I never met the R-E-A-L Jesus or that I was religious, but lost. Just today, a man by the name of Ralph Ugarte left a...
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Why Christians Bombard Evangelicals-Turned-Atheists with Repetitive Words
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. — Albert Einstein As an outspoken atheist and writer, I frequently come in contact with Christians who think they...
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Is the Bible the Most Powerful Book on Earth?
Never underestimate the power of God’s word! It is far more powerful than any of us could ever imagine. Consider the spoken word of God. It is so powerful that God spoke the world into existence. …....
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Christians Say the Darnedest Things: Fundamentalist Man Lets Bruce Gerencser...
What follows is a comment received today on the post Why I Hate Jesus. The man who left this comment read the following posts before he began his rant against me. These posts are listed in the order...
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