Ed Babinski found a website by former seminarian Craig Lee Duckett that has a lot of good stuff on it. This whole site is a work in progress. Be sure to see Duckett's online book, Descending Babel.



Here are 25 reasons why Duckett is no longer a Christian:



1) The world simply does not behave the way described in the Bible

2) The words used to define Christian Doctrine are representative of things whose existence cannot be 'proved' outside of language

3) The Fall of Adam & Eve (and resulting Doctrine of Original Sin) is incoherent and contrary when compared to scientific evidence and other doctrines

4) The concepts of Heaven and Hell are equally morally and ethically reprehensible

5) Historical Evidence shows much of the Old Testament was appropriated from earlier Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Canaanite, & Persian Myths

6) The Account of the Flood and Noah's Ark bears striking similarities to the Epic of Gilgamesh and other pre-dating Creation/Flood myths

7) Persian Zoroastrianism altered Jewish Doctrine during the Babylonian Captivity

8) The influence of the pseudepigraphal Book of Enoch on the mystical Good-Evil dichotomy of Christian Doctrine

9) The influence of Philo of Alexandria on the development of Christian Doctrine

10) The ancient gods and goddesses that were assimilated by the Hebrews to become Elohim EL & Yahweh YHWH

11) Myths of Dying-Resurrecting God-Men Born of Virgins that Pre-Date the Story of the God-Man Jesus

12) The Problem of Evil (Theodicy) and the Hiddenness of God

13) Natural (Empirical/Scientific) vs. Supernatural (Faith/Language-Based) Belief Systems

14) The Gospels are not 'eyewitness' accounts but anonymous third-person narratives

15) The 'Evolution' of the Christian Canon and Jesus' Godmanship

16) Saul/Paul of Tarsus and the 'Re-Creation' of the Christian Myth

17) Archaeology and Biblical claims

18) Biblical Criticism: Findings as to Who - What - When - Where - How - Why

19) The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Essenes

20) The Nag Hammadi Library, Ugaritic Texts, and Armana Tablets

21) Canonical and Extracanonical books, the Gnostics, and Church Councils

22) Examined objectively, the Bible is rife with errors, contradictions, misstatements, and inconsistencies

23) Belief, Doubt, Disbelief and Critical Thinking

24) Science and the Scientific Method

25) Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Evolution



To see these things argued for by him read this. It contains some really good books for further reading!