By an Alabamian ~
I admit that I am powerless to change the fact that I have been
Christian for a good part of my life.
I realize that I have within me the power to free myself from the
harmful part of my Christian past and that I am no longer bound by
promises or covenants which I was induced to make based on the false
promises of Christianity.
I make to myself a firm promise to listen in the future only to
reason, rationality, and factual evidence in making decisions about
how I should live my life, rejecting all emotional appeals,
guilt-inducing threats, myths, pretty stories, promises of castles in
the air, and superstition.
I make a searching and fearless moral and intellectual inventory of
myself with the purpose of recognizing in myself those weaknesses
which induced me to remain Christian for so long.
I am able to list the specific reasons why I can no longer be Christian.
I make the decision to do what is right, and to accept whatever the
consequences may be for acknowledging the lies and living accordingly.
I begin working through each of my Christianity-related problems of
mind, body, and relationships.
I make a list of those for whom it would be important to know of my
decision and the changes I am making in my life, and prepare myself
emotionally to discuss my decision with them all, realizing that many
may react with hurt, anger, emotional outbursts, or other
unpleasantness.
I discuss my decision with them (except in those cases where I think
it would cause greater harm to do so than not) in a calm, friendly and
loving way, without argument.
I continue to take personal inventory, and where I find artifacts of
Christianity, I carefully consider whether they should continue to be
a part of my life, or whether I should discard them.
I seek out truth wherever I can find it.
Having had an awakening and renewal as the result of these steps, I
try to be helpful to other recovering or doubting Christians, and to
practice these principles in all of my affairs.
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