(Εν ολίγοις, αυτή η "παπαδίνα" τα
παράτησε όλα και έγινε Διευθύντρια των Αμερικανών που αρνούνται την ύπαρξη του
Θεού! )
Χθες οι άλλοι (Αγγλικανοί των ΗΠΑ) Συνοδικώς
αποφάσισαν την "ευλογία", εντός των "ναών" των, γάμων
κιναίδων και λασβιών!!!
Όπως αντιλαμβάνεσθε μετά την τέλεση του
"μυστηρίου" οι δύο π@@στιδες ή οι δύο λεσβίες θα ανταλλάσουν το
ερωτικό φιλί--κατά τα ειωθότα τους-- έμπροσθεν όλων!!!
Σιχαμερά πράγματα, που είναι ο Προφήτης Ηλίας
(αφού εμείς δεν είμαστε άξιοι) με την Ρομφαία του να αρχίσει πρώτα από τους
ιερείς της αισχύνης....
Σατανικά φοβερά πράγματα, και (32 Ορθόδοξοι Μητροπολίτες) έσπευσαν να
υποδεχθούν τον οικουμενιστή κ. Βαρθολομαίο στη Β. Ελλάδα, αυτόν που στο ΠΣΕ
αναγνωρίζει τους αιρετικούς ως ισότιμες Εκκλησίες του Χριστού!!!
A former Methodist worship and teaching pastor who served in
ministry for 20 years before becoming an atheist has been appointed as
the American Atheist's public relations director. In an interview with The
Christian Post, she revealed that despite initially being ostracized by
friends, she is now happy and at peace with her decision.
"No it was very, very gradual. Actually there's not really one
single moment where I can look back and say ah, that was the moment. It was
kind of a slow progression," Teresa MacBain shared about her loss of faith
with CP in a phone interview on Tuesday.
After leaving her ministry earlier this year,
MacBain, a Florida resident, also served as executive director of the Clergy
Project, which offers support to former clergy members who have lost their
faith and become secularists.
"My husband and
kids were fine, they knew that things had changed for me, but extended family,
I lost those relationships. I lost all of my friendships except for one couple.
I have one maybe from the church that I'm still in contact with, but initially
they were all just very angry. They locked me out of the church and it took me
some months to collect my belongings. It was a very difficult situation,"
MacBain explained about reaction to her initial announcement.
There were those from
the church who tried to reach out and speak to her, but those discussions did
not go far.
"One pastor that
was a former colleague of mine did reach out immediately and I went and sat
down and talked to him. He discussed everything and let me share. It was kind
of an intense conversation, but after that I haven't heard from that person
anymore. I'm not really sure, I guess he just wanted to find some
answers," she said.
Unable to point to one
specific incident that made her change her mind about God and the Bible,
MacBain chronicled the train of thought that led her from the Christian faith
to her secularist reasoning today.
"It's just
theological. I had no problems with the church or the structure or the
organization. There are basically four steps that occurred over a long period
of time. One was the contradictory nature of the Bible; the lack of scientific
or historical foundation or accuracy, which took me a very, very long time to
come to terms with. That was the starting point I guess when I realized that
that wasn't true, that the Bible wasn't true. From there I moved to thinking
about all of the religions in the world and how people basically associate, in
most cases, with one religion or another based upon their own culture and how
they were raised," she said.
"So I kind of
moved into a position where I thought that all religions were equally valid and
that it kind of depended on who you were and how you were raised but that we
were all on the same journey. From there I moved to the question of the
existence of hell and trying to understand how a supreme being could create
humans that according to the Christian Bible are very weak and finite, as
compared to God. How that creature, being, entity, whatever you want to call
it, could punish them eternally in such a horrible and torturous place as hell.
So that was kind of a third discovery."
While the former
teaching pastor confessed that often during her ministry she had doubts about
her faith, now as an atheist she feels more secure about her views in life.
"I feel secure. I
feel peaceful. I just kind of clarified the doubts. All the while I was having
those doubts and trying to struggle with those issues, I always felt that it
would make me a stronger Christian. That it would make me a better pastor. It
wasn't until it really hit home for me, where I was at, that I realized that
instead of that I had actually grown much further away from my faith to the
point of I no longer had faith."
In her new position as
public relations director for American Atheists, which is one of the largest
secularist organizations in the U.S., she says that her main goal is to defend
First Amendment rights and continue fighting for the separation of church and
state.
"I think one of
the misunderstandings about what the term atheist means is that all of us think
we're 100 percent certain that no one can change our minds about the belief in
God, which isn't completely accurate. An atheist as far as what I believe means
that we don't see any evidence; we don't think there is a God. We're very
skeptical about it and choose to live our lives without God," MacBain
said.
"Instead of
looking to an outside source for the solution to humankind's problems, we see
that responsibility as [our own]. We have to reach out and support each other.
We can't say a prayer to an invisible being somewhere and expect that to be the
solution. The solution has to be when one human reaches out to another."
The Clergy Project,
with which MacBain serves in a voluntary role, was created in March 2011 as a
private, invitation only, website for "for active and former clergy who do
not hold supernatural beliefs." Starting with 52 members, it now has more
than 300 members, according to the website.
CP reporter Brittney R. Villalva contributed to this report.
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