Atheist Survey Results Letting Go of Faith Beliefs Summary: Rebecca Fox unpacks the results of a large survey of ex-believers conducted online and based on the responses reflects on the process of letting go of beliefs.
To find out more: https://HowWeLetGo.org (survey data and detailed report)
Behind-the-Scenes Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/how-we-let-go
How We Let Go on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HowWeLetGo
The Poem 'It's Okay (to Let Go)' is available as a standalone video here: https://youtu.be/rYR1MAak5XA
To support people currently letting go of faith beliefs:
https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org/
https://exmuslims.org/
https://www.faithtofaithless.com/
Date Released: 5 December 2019
Written and illustrated by Rebecca Fox.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rebeccaonpaper (follow her)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebeccaonpaper (follow her)
Podcast: https://seekerandskeptic.com/
YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/seekerandskeptic
Website: http://rebeccaonpaper.com
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Rebecca-Fox/e/B078Q7KLLB/
Produced by Anthony Magnabosco.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/magnabosco (follow me)
YouTube: https://youtube.com/magnabosco210 (tons of videos)
Facebook: https://facebook.com/magnabosco210 (like my page)
Website: https://anthonymagnabosco.com (contact me, appearances)
Sound Design by Philipp Grzemba.
Voice Actors (in order of appearance):
00:23 and 14:49 Eric Murphy “I was like a deep sea diver slowly rising to the surface and stopping to decompress at regular intervals...I recall at one specific point being rather surprised to discover that I no longer believed, I had not expected that. It was like I’d broken surface and discovered a whole new world.” —Anon
04:40 Objectively Dan “After hours of fasting and prayer, I heard a voice that I believed at the time was god. I also used to feel a full-body tingling during meditation and prayer, and could walk around for hours feeling that tingling, feeling as though my awareness to my surroundings was heightened. The full-body tingling happened more than 100 times in my life.”—Anon
05:00 Lloyd Evans “I still don't have an answer for it: A pastor prayed over me to receive the indwelling of the spirit. I felt a warmth begin in my belly that radiated upward and out of my mouth. It’s the only truly supernatural, or at least unexplained, event in my life.”—Vinny
06:55 Jenna Belk “The kid next door shot a hummingbird in our yard with a BB gun. I remember holding the bird as the life drained out of it, blood coating its jeweled feathers. I prayed so hard for this little bird to be saved. That’s when the seed of doubt was planted.”—Teresa
08:56 Vi La Bianca “My worst case scenario? That I was wrong, God was real, and I was going to hell.”—Envy
09:03 Thomas Westbrook “[That] I would burn for all eternity in a lake of fire, tormented by demons.”—Anon
09:10 Cat Rose “Eternal Damnation” —Tamarra
15:21 Vi La Bianca “Out here you can breathe.”—Elizabeth
Audio Only: Unavailable.
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Spotted on: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/12/06/this-video-explains-why-hundreds-of-atheists-walked-away-from-religion/
SE Resources: https://tinyurl.com/abm-se-resources
SE Community: https://tinyurl.com/abm-se-community
SE Discord Server: https://discord.gg/sKap3zM
Music (in order of appearance)
'When We Found The Horizon' by Late Night Feeler*
'Land of My Fathers' by The 126ers*
'New Land' by Albis*
'Orange Foot' by Dan Henig*
'Stranger Danger' by Fran*
'Deliberate Thought' by Kevin MacLeod*
'Slowly Until We Get There' by Joey Pecoraro*
'Float' by Emily A. Sprague*
'When We Found The Horizon' by Late Night Feeler*
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* Provided courtesy YouTube.
References:
YouGov poll: Belief in Ghosts: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2014/10/31/ghosts-exist-say-1-3-brits
39.6% experience sleep paralysis.
PubMed article: Sleep Paralysis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11422869
Waterfall displays: http://news.janegoodall.org/2017/06/06/evolution-spirituality-and-humanity/
Stephen Fry on God, The Meaning of Life, RTE One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=25&v=-suvkwNYSQo
Edited w/PowerDirector.
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