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Atheist Life Hacks: How To Find A Missing Jehovah’s Witness

Courtney Heard · · 4 min read

Atheist Life Hacks: How To Find A Missing Jehovah’s Witness

I’d recently learned that Jehovah’s Witnesses are required to go door-to-door or they can face excommunication and shunning. From that day forward, I could see in my nice old lady’s eyes, she didn’t wanna be at my door any more than I wanted a visitor

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Your Stories of Atheism: Child Refused Healing Surgery

Courtney Heard · · 3 min read

Your Stories of Atheism: Child Refused Healing Surgery

This is an ongoing series featuring your stories of how you came to identify as an atheist. If you want to send me your story, you can submit it here. To read past stories, click here.The first one this week is from MikeMoeller1, a former Jehovah’s Witness: I was brought up in a Jehovah witness family. I always questioned why we didn’t have Christmas trees or celebrated anything the other kids did at school. When I was 15 I started asking questions about the bible and actually my fathers faith.

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Your Stories Of Atheism: Diversity In Shedding God

Courtney Heard · · 5 min read

Your Stories Of Atheism: Diversity In Shedding God

This is an ongoing series featuring your stories of how you came to identify as an atheist. If you want to send me your story, you can submit it here. To read past stories, click here.This first one is short and sweet and pretty much exactly the same as my own story. It comes from Mitch:I was born atheist – as, incidentally, was everyone – and nothing’s ever happened to change that.
That’s all.Here’s another quick one from Dan,I read a lot as I kid. I was indoctrinated as a Roman Catholic. I r

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Why I Don’t Think Anyone Truly Believes In God

Courtney Heard · · 6 min read

Why I Don’t Think Anyone Truly Believes In God

Before I jump right into this hypothesis of mine, I want to make a few things clear.First, Godless Mom is not an authority on either psychology or any sort of science. If I had to pick a topic to say I am any sort of an authority on, it would be the accumulation of drool while Google image searching Alexander Skarsgård or maybe how to use the retweet button on Twitter. Something like that. I’m not an authority on anything. What follows are simply my own assumptions, which I base on my own experi

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Your Stories of Atheism: Seeing The Dark

Courtney Heard · · 13 min read

Your Stories of Atheism: Seeing The Dark

GM Note: This is a guest post from Two Cult Survivor – If you would like to guest blog at godlessmom.com, you can contact me. Thank you, Two Cult Survivor!


I was born into a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses, and it never occurred to me to be anything else. As a child, I never considered “other religions,” and never fully realized that people held different views about God, Jesus, right and wrong. By the time I first heard the claim that the Jehovah’s Witnesses were a cult, I was no longer an acti

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Godless Mom is a secular lifestyle blog written by Courtney Heard, exploring evidence-based wellness, ethical living, philosophy, culture, and the realities of life without religion.

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