Useful resources for getting help.
There’s been a discussion on the internet recently about de-baptism.
Here’s an excellent article about it from John Beckett over at Patheos: Debaptism: You Probably Don’t Need It, But It Can Be Done
…you can’t unpour water. The baptism happened and we can’t pretend it didn’t.
John Beckett
But we can reverse its effects.
Further thoughts and resources on de-baptism after the jump.
Continue readingThis book is an excellent overview of the languages of cults, and what attracts people to them.
Continue readingA few years ago, John Becket wrote a couple of really useful articles on escaping fundamentalism, which I recommend reading if you are an ex-evangelical or an ex-fundamentalist.
I also made a video on this topic, entitled Recovering from Fundamentalism.
It can be helpful to look at religion metaphorically, because that gives us a different perspective on it than one that is merely focused on beliefs, or even values. Useful metaphors for religions include software, cookery, dancing, music, radio receivers, ex-partners, color schemes, trees, landscapes, river systems, underground root systems or rhizomes, and cities.
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