"If You Leave Christianity, You Were Never a True Christian in the First Place"

It's an frustrating and senseless argument I've heard many times before. It's rather insulting to those of us that are former fundamentalists, many of whom built their entire lives around the faith, and had many days of inner struggle in making the decision to leave the faith.

Lately, two well known Christians have been making this argument publicly, fundamentalist Ray Comfort, and liberal Christian blogger John Shore.

For those of you who may not know who he is, Ray Comfort, along with his good friend Kirk Cameron, are two of the most notable promoters of Creationism out there. (Perhaps besides Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis and Creation Museum infamy).

Yes, if the name is starting to sound familiar now, Ray Comfort and 80's actor Kirk Cameron are the guys responsible for the Banana argument for Creationism, and the Crocoduck argument:





(Ugly looking creature, isn't it?)

A former fundamentalist left a comment for him on his facebook page talking about her dedication to her former faith, and her longing then to hear something, anything from god, and never getting an answer Notice his response: