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TheThinkingAtheist

Letter to a Christian Spouse

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The Thinking Atheist

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🗓️ 31 May 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

A former Christian informs his wife that he's now an atheist. She threatens to divorce him. Seth Andrews has a short message for her, and for anyone who finds himself or herself "unequally yoked" with a non-believer.


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0:00.0

I released a video today called Letter to a Christian Spouse, and it covers in a shorter form on video.

0:07.1

It's just me talking into a camera, but it is a message from me to the believing spouse of an apostate.

0:13.4

I met this guy in Arkansas last week. I was on a speaking engagement, and he had told me a story.

0:19.6

He and his wife, on the day they were married were both

0:21.7

Christians. They had that God belief in common. And then he went through a journey in his life where

0:28.0

he realized he no longer believed and he sort of came out. He told his wife, look, I just don't

0:33.8

believe this anymore. And it caused a real strain on the marriage. In fact,

0:39.4

she told him outright, she didn't want to stay married to a non-believer. They got two kids in

0:45.8

toe, you know, what's going to happen with the children? And I think as they left it, she just said,

0:50.9

I don't want to hear it anymore. You know, don't talk to me anymore about

0:55.1

this and the subject sort of off limits. Who knows what the future holds for these two?

1:01.6

But I haven't stopped thinking about this guy and what I might say to his wife if I ever had

1:08.7

the opportunity to do so. And so that's what the video is. And if you are

1:13.2

more inclined to enjoy a radio podcast version, an audio version of this, the radio show is sort of a

1:21.0

more in-depth message from me to you. I am speaking now to the spouse of sort of a newly minted non-believer, or maybe the parent of a

1:31.2

child who has come out as an atheist, or maybe you're simply close friends, or you were close

1:36.7

friends, and now your friend has informed you. They no longer believe in God. Maybe they sent you

1:42.7

the link, hoping you would listen and perhaps

1:45.4

get some insight into what they're going through. That's what I want to accomplish. I want to

1:49.9

communicate to you just a little bit of how your loved one got to that point in their lives,

1:56.1

because I've been down that path in my own life. You know, I can imagine this husband, this guy.

2:03.3

It comes to this moment in his life when he decides, I'm going to figure it out.

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