Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

Well, GH, as you anticipated in your very first post on this thread, it hasn't lasted very long at all. Too bad. But no surprise. Agricola has given us yet another, Chapter LXVIII or so, of what the rules, expectations, guidelines and/or intent of this or that thread might be. Does anyone even under...

This is it, GH. Dissent has been quashed and posts have been edited and deleted. Even on this thread.

I have been an atheist for about 30 years. When I left the Church of Christ, like Still Here, I didn't necessarily acknowledge yet that I was an unbeliever. I just knew that what the CofC specifically and fundamentalists in general were teaching was so patently absurd that I would no longer even pay...

Well, the USA was certainly blessed that night.

I was chastised for staying home to watch President Nixon's resignation statement rather than going to some scheduled church Bible study or meeting or something like that. I wanted to see history in the making, one of the most significant events of my lifetime up to that point, but they thought I sh...

What do you recall about Wednesday nights in the Church of Christ? Did your church call it "Wednesday night services" or "Wednesday night Bible study"? What time did your church start on Wednesdays? At my church, everybody would gather in the main auditorium. There would be a wel...

Great to have you back, and great to have a fellow atheist to weigh in.

Do you think they handed out that miraculous grape juice in little bitty cups at the wedding feast?

I'll start myself, since this incident is what made me think to start the thread: I grew up in a state university town, very close to the campus, and there were several CofC students who attended there. One week, as we were all sitting in the auditorium waiting for the "next appointed time"...

The Bible verse, "Let all things be done decently and in order" (I Cor. 14:40) is one of the all time favorites in the Church of Christ denomination. It gives the elders, already authoritarian petty tyrants, carte blanche to run the show according to their inflexible and rigid standards. N...