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Ahh, my loving Jehovah’s Witness brother and sister…

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Just Finished Reading The Making of the Fittest

I just finished reading Sean Carroll’s excellent book The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution. What a great book.
As somebody who has been interested in evolution since he was a kid (although for years I thought I was debunking it) I think there is little more fascinating than [...]

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For the last five years I have been in flux. It began when, after 30 years around Jehovah’s Witnesses, my faith shattered and I became a freethinker, humanist and secular Buddhist. I reprogrammed myself, or more accurately, re-educated myself. I studied more broad than deep. My goal wasn’t to become [...]

Certified Apostate

Last night I came home from work and found Cindy cleaning the kitchen. For those if you who are regular readers of my blog, my wife is Esther, Cindy is a friend who is staying with us for a few days. Anyhow, she and I got to talking and she told me about a conversation [...]

Therapy and Meditation

In early 1995, shortly after my wife had beaten cancer and my mother had given birth to my baby sister Jasmine, I was feeling as if I were at my wits end from stress. I bottled up anger, bitterness, sadness, and even joy just so I could maintain a calm demeanor in the middle [...]

Hira Hira

I completed the first draft of my book today.
It is called “Hira Hira: Journal of a Former Jehovah’s Witness” and the vast majority of it’s content is drawn from this web site. However, it’s not just a matter of taking my blog entries and putting them into a book, no, there are huge gaps [...]

RyanSutter.Net’s 700th Post!

This morning I tried riding my bike to the bus and taking it with me for the first time using the bike rack on the front of the bus. Two things to note: 1) I’m a moron for not doing this sooner and 2) I have no idea what the damn combination is to [...]

God As I Knew Him – Part 4

As I chronicled in Parts 1, 2 and 3 of this series, God and I had a long rocky relationship. We went from good buddies to uncomfortable partners to, ultimately, distant relatives. The end came far more swiftly than I had ever imagined possible.

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God As I Knew Him – Part 2

In Part 1 of my series on my evolving relationship with God I explained that as a child God was basically my supernatural defender. I counted on him to keep the demons at bay and help me not to have bad dreams. This changed, however, when I had my first encounters with sexual [...]

God As I Knew Him – Part 1

This week there has been a lot of time in my life spent on the subject of God. I went to the American Atheists convention where I met Richard Dawkins and spent a lot of time with a lot of people who don’t believe in God. While there I bought a book called [...]