I'm surprised at how difficult it is for skeptics to release faith.

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8. I found ex-Theists needing to share their trauma

In one 'Free Thinker' group (the A word was not always welcomed), an atheistic world view was not enough. You had to have been Theistic, born and raised, to be a 'real' Free Thinker. Some sub groups formed who shared past religious experiences. Some of these groups were held together by their past trauma. I understand the need to talk through a hurtful past. And I'm not interested in being a voyeur to other's suffering. But it can be exclusionary when that's all the group is about.

And of course discounting other's atheism because its not like your atheism just seems like the same hair splitting dogma that causes people to leave faith groups.