Rise and Fall of Faith: A God-to-Godless Story for Christians and Atheists

A Good Book for Christians and Non-believers WOW, what a story! You need to read this book. This is NOT an attack against religion, Christianity, or the Church. This is just one man's story of how Christianity transformed his life (for the better btw) and enveloped his identity until he came to a point where he couldn't bel. This is a captivating story told with exceptionally rare candor, from an honest heart! In The Rise and Fall of Faith, Drew Bekius viscerally pours out his heart in raw naked vulnerable honesty and emotion. I dare say that no one has ever struggled more extensively with such gut-wrenching travail, to preserve belief in their God and Savior, than Drew.His writing is . If you believe "those atheists just wanna sin!" then this book is for you. Joshudy Drew's story is one that challenges just about every belief (read: misconception) that Christians have about atheists, skeptics, nonbelievers, ex-Christians, and the like. As Drew write in the first chapter, he left the faith not as a result of "just wanting to sin" or "because h

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But too often and too quickly ardent believers dismiss such accounts as aberrations and fail to consider the real-life implications for those who make this transition. The story of religion in the twenty-first-century West has been defined, in part, by the stories of once-zealous pastors moving beyond their faith to embrace a life of reason. Why do believers trust in God the way they do? But what factors lead atheists to dismiss religious beliefs so easily? How can believers have faith in the face of known science and history? But what all