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Doug / 05/29/2023

So the main purpose of this site is to expose the Truth, as I see it, to the world in order to help others who have gone through similar things I have gone through because of the huge amount of lies that have been disseminated over the centuries.

The majority of the quotes I have tried to use as much as possible are from the Authorized King James version of the “Holy Bible”. I use it mainly because this is the bible I was raised on and am accustomed to it. You may find a few samplings of other translations of the Bible, just to try to get a good idea of what the passage or words actually meant in the original.

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About Me Part 2

Doug / 05/29/2023

Be a Critical Thinker and Question All Things — I don’t just take for granted things I have always been taught. I analyze, question and search for my own answers. I want to know the REAL TRUTH. Who am I? I am just normal guy (just like you!) who believes that I have the right to the Truth without having to be bound to someone else’s teachings just because they have some great title, degree or credentials that somehow give them license to be the owners of what they say is the truth.

Why should I have to believe what anyone else says who calls themselves an authority or theologian or preacher or some self-proclaimed prophet or whoever? I believe that each person can speak to God directly and that God wants to have communication with us as his own sons and daughters.

You don’t even have to believe what I say! Look it up for yourself. Search for the truth for yourself. And above all, question, question, question. Be a critical thinker!

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About Me Part 1

Doug / 05/29/2023

First I want to say that life, for all of us, has always been somewhat of a mystery: you know that old question, “why are we here?”, “where did we come from?”, “where are we going after this?”. I never quite got all those questions answered exactly, but over the years, I have started to get a pretty good idea.
Some people think I’m an Atheist – I’m not.

This website is on one point, for the purpose of getting things straight (for one) about what I really believe in, as far as “God” goes.

You know, some people think I’m an Atheist. Well, for the record, let’s get it straight: I’m not. I just believe in God (or what ever you want to call him) in a different way. I think most people have gotten the wrong idea of what God really is. It’s just that what God really is, is very different than what the Bible portrays Him as.

In fact, strangely what we see in the Bible is a god that contradicts Himself and is a very different god in different times to different people. Then to top that off, people have made gods or even “the one true God” of human beings, which is a big mistake. I don’t claim to know what or who God is. I think God is to big and incomprehensible for any human being — to be honest.

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About My Life Part 2

Doug / 05/29/2023

Thinking for Myself

Knowing is holding a concept that you don’t just have to accept by faith, because you have evidence or facts to back it up — either that, or there is just a knowing deep inside. Sometimes knowing is just having something deep inside that you know is true, but you don’t know why or how you know — you just do. When I started thinking for myself and listening to that still small voice deep inside of my soul, that’s when things began to change, that’s when the blinders came off my eyes! That’s when the bubble that I was inside of burst and I began to see reality for the first time!

After many years there came a point in my journey through life that some things just didn’t seem to be right — things that didn’t match up to what I’d studied in the Bible. It wasn’t me that was changing, but things around me were and it was affecting me. It was as though there was a cross road and something deep down inside was saying: “Change direction”.

Upon returning to the States after years on the mission field, visiting several different churches was in the itinerary. There was never one that really seemed like home. There were still the wounds from my youth that haunted me. All the pastors and psychologists could never help find the peace that was so longed for. Gradually the realization came to me that the problem wasn’t really with me, it was with Christianity.

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About My Life Part 1

Doug / 05/04/2023

I want to focus on the parts of my life that relate to the objectives of my writings. I’m writing about things that affected me, basically in a religious sense, that have possibly affected others in the same way and others might be able to relate to.

As a child, sermons about “fire and brimstone” and the “bottomless pit”, spoken of in the bible from a very fiery preacher, were intensely frightening. Here I was, a little kid, in my imagination, lumped together with the fate of those who are destined to fall into that horrendous “bottomless pit”!

Being a little kid and understanding almost nothing of the realities of this world (much less the next one), caused much anxiety and depression and coupled with the outrageous sermons of the fire and brimstone preacher lead me into a deep and withdrawn state, not to mention sleepless nights and horrible nightmares of endlessly falling down a bottomless pit in unimaginable agony — for all eternity, with no chance of getting out — ever! And all this, mind you, in the mind of a sensitive, scared 2nd grader, with no one who could understand me or give me any comfort, much less help!