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St. Thomas	\| Move to Bottom Author
Rank:none Score: 0 Posts: 160 From: Registered: 06/26/2001 Time spent: 0 hours	(Date Posted:08/04/2003 3:40 AM) The WA Web Site:?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comThis is the most crucial to our future and the most difficult to pull off successfully. For starters we need a place to host the web site that we intend to create.For the time being I will host the site on my own web space at the university server where I work.We can get the page started and worry about paying for a commercial host (perhaps even with our own domain name) later.The web page will become the heart of our community ?or at least the clearinghouse zone.As suggested by past posts, we will have on our site at minimum an FAQ, articles helpful to walkaways, and links to other sites.Later perhaps we can even have regular columns from members, and other special stuff.I want this thread to elicit both suggestions for what to put on the web site as well as specific FAQs, articles, and helpful links.I obviously do not have the time to go through all the 48,000 plus posts top find the gems of information and advice.But, YOU folks do ?at least you to collectively.So, get on it?please.If you find past posts that contain good information, helpful advice, or poignant prose that you think should be brought to the fore (in a web site), PLEASE POST THE URL OF THE POST HERE.Also, if you find helpful articles or web site links currently on the web somewhere, PLEASE POST THEM HERE.I would also like to start an FAQ, so please post any questions that you think newbies (or even oldies) might have about walking away. -------------------------------------------------------------- --St. Thomas Administrator, Walk Away Board "If your beliefs are written in stone, your mind is made of rock."

foxmaiden	\| Move to Top \| Move to Bottom 1#
Rank:none Score:0 Posts:205 From: Registered: 07/21/2002 Time spent: 0 hours	(Date Posted:08/09/2003 8:53 AM) I like this idea and am interested in joining in to make it happen. I'll start by posting my own collection of links that I have collected during my walk away. Homosexuality Can homosexuals remain Christian (the answer here is yes) http://http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_chri.htm Soulforce (politically active Gay Christians working for social justice) http://http://www.soulforce.org/index.shtml Two sites with evidence that homosexuals are not pedophiles ( a little off topic, but the religious right is actively promoting this belief and I've been hit in the face with it by my own father -- good to get the facts) http://http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_chil.htm http://http://www.robincmiller.com/gayles4.htm Biblical Errancy http://http://www.atheists.org/church/realbible.html http://http://members.aol.com/ckbloomfld/index.html http://http://www.cygnus-study.com/ http://http://www.thenazareneway.com/new_testament_biblical_inconsistencies.htm http://http://www.truthbeknown.com/bible.htm http://http://members.cox.net/galatians/tension.htm http://http://www.webster.sk.ca/greenwich/bible-a.htm http://http://members.cox.net/galatians/Wheless2.htm http://http://www.mindspring.com/~bab5/BIB/toc.htm Christian answers to biblical contradictions http://http://www.apologeticspress.org/rr/abdiscr/abdiscr.htm http://http://www.carm.org/bible_difficulties.htm ugh, I'm getting tired of all this cut and paste. this is only a small fraction of what I have. -------------------------------------------------------------- So what do I have to do to get you to admit who is speaking? Admit it and change everything! This is your own voice echoing off the walls of God. - Rumi

foxmaiden	\| Move to Top \| Move to Bottom 2#
Rank:none Score:0 Posts:205 From: Registered: 07/21/2002 Time spent: 0 hours	(Date Posted:08/09/2003 9:03 AM) I have an idea. How about we divide up the various pages we want and make subcomittees for them. We can all agree on the style/format for the pages and a person will be responsible for compiling all the info for each page and programming it in HTML. Then we can just FTP St. Thomas the pages and he can coordinate the links between them. (e.g. make a nvigation bar) So I hearby volunteer to program the links page. I already have a lot of content for it. I can superimpose whatever wall paper and font etc. we want whenever we decide what we like. What other pages will we need? HOME FAQ LINKS WA TESTIMONIES ARTICLES PEARLS OF WISDOM FROM OUR WA THREADS I'll start making the links page --- please post or e-mail me any links you think should be included. LINK TOPIC IDEAS Biblical Errancy Homosexuality Myth and Christianity Liberal Christianity Christian Parody Evolution/Creationism Atheism Secular Humanism Skepticism/Free thought Recovery from Fundamentalism Books (with amazon links) -------------------------------------------------------------- So what do I have to do to get you to admit who is speaking? Admit it and change everything! This is your own voice echoing off the walls of God. - Rumi

rhiana	\| Move to Top \| Move to Bottom 3#
Rank:none Score:0 Posts:469 From: Registered: 09/08/2002 Time spent: 0 hours	(Date Posted:08/09/2003 11:28 AM) How about a link to the board?

foxmaiden	\| Move to Top \| Move to Bottom 4#
Rank:none Score:0 Posts:205 From: Registered: 07/21/2002 Time spent: 0 hours	(Date Posted:08/09/2003 11:06 PM) Reply to : rhiana How about a link to the board? of course. Actually, when I first found this forum it was from a link on a home page called "Walk Away". This site no longer exists, but there are still links to it out there in cyberland and a review of it here. http://www.challenging-atheism.com/a_review_of_walk_away.htm here is the old URL of the previous WA website http://www.ifas.org/wa/index.html Does anyone know who ran this site and what happened to the contents? -------------------------------------------------------------- So what do I have to do to get you to admit who is speaking? Admit it and change everything! This is your own voice echoing off the walls of God. - Rumi

Chirpy	\| Move to Top \| Move to Bottom 5#
From: Registered: 03/06/2003 Time spent: 0 hours	(Date Posted:08/10/2003 12:57 AM) I made some notes from the old walkaway site in July last year. I didn't have a computer at the time so was using the ones in the libraries. The main sections in the website were features, articles, resources and books. There was a list of early warning signs to look out for in somebody who was getting obsessed with fundamentalist christianity and under "Beware those invitations" there were typical invites to be wary of such as "join us at a non-denominational bible study". There was also a list of questions to ask proselytisers. Under Resources were Personal Pages and one of the stories was called "Why I started. Why I left."

Waynus	\| Move to Top \| Move to Bottom 6#
Rank:none Score:0 Posts:173 From: Registered: 06/19/2002 Time spent: 0 hours	(Date Posted:08/10/2003 5:26 AM) Does anyone know who ran this site and what happened to the content ? I found the site in an archive http://web.archive.org/web/20020601072818/http://www.ifas.org/wa/index.html hope it helps. -------------------------------------------------------------- There is no fire like hatred, no rushing river like craving, and no snare like illusion. Buddha Random thoughts at http://waynus.blogspot.com/

St. Thomas	\| Move to Top \| Move to Bottom 7#
Rank:none Score:0 Posts:160 From: Registered: 06/26/2001 Time spent: 0 hours	(Date Posted:08/11/2003 1:36 AM) The original Walk Away web site was run by the folks at the Institute for First Amendment Studies (IFAS). As Chirpy noted, this site had a great number of resources -including great articles, links, and lists of "warning signs" and helps. It is a shame that much of this is possibly lost. Guess we will have to recreate it. Soon after taking over this board in 2001 I was in brief email contact with their web master. But, it did not last long and she basically told me good luck and that I was on my own. They never answered any of my emails after that. In the last few months their WA site has vanishished as well as their IFAS site. I do know that Dan Barker (famous atheist that was once a fundy music minister) was on their board of directors. But, I have been unable to dig up any info on what happened to these folks. If anyone knows anything, please post to this board. But, in any case, it looks like we are on our own as far as a web presense for the time being. Foxmaiden, you GO GIRL! Thanks for your links and info. That is just the thing I am looking for. You have created a great list for starters. I like the idea of dividing up the work into committees. If we get more responses to this thread, maybe we will have enough volunteers to do just that. In the meantime, we'll go with your topic list . I hereby make an appeal for links, information, and past posts that would fall under the topics and areas as noted by Foxmaiden. To reiterate, these general areas are: FAQ LINKS WA TESTIMONIES ARTICLES PEARLS OF WISDOM FROM OUR WA THREADS The specific topics are as follows: LINK TOPIC IDEAS Biblical Errancy Homosexuality Myth and Christianity Liberal Christianity Christian Parody Evolution/Creationism Atheism Secular Humanism Skepticism/Free thought Recovery from Fundamentalism Books (with amazon links) If anyone has addition topics or areas or comments, please respond. -------------------------------------------------------------- --St. Thomas Administrator, Walk Away Board "If your beliefs are written in stone, your mind is made of rock."

St. Thomas	\| Move to Top \| Move to Bottom 8#
Rank:none Score:0 Posts:160 From: Registered: 06/26/2001 Time spent: 0 hours	(Date Posted:08/11/2003 1:47 AM) It seems to me that many of these topics dealing with things like biblical inerrancy, creationism, and atheism (for example) have been very well handled by other site such as internet infidels. Although, we can link to such information, I would like to concentrate for the moment on areas and topics that deal specifically with giving support and information to "walk aways." Thus, I think topic areas such as Recovery from Fundamentalism and Books (with links to reviews), are perfect areas for our new web site. So, scour the internet and past WA posts for gems to include. Operators are standing by. -------------------------------------------------------------- --St. Thomas Administrator, Walk Away Board "If your beliefs are written in stone, your mind is made of rock."

foxmaiden	\| Move to Top \| Move to Bottom 9#
Rank:none Score:0 Posts:205 From: Registered: 07/21/2002 Time spent: 0 hours	(Date Posted:08/11/2003 4:08 AM) I've started programming a link page and will share it for ideas and feedback in a week or so. -------------------------------------------------------------- So what do I have to do to get you to admit who is speaking? Admit it and change everything! This is your own voice echoing off the walls of God. - Rumi

nologoboy	\| Move to Top \| Move to Bottom 10#
Rank:none Score:0 Posts:513 From: Registered: 07/24/2001 Time spent: 0 hours	(Date Posted:08/11/2003 6:08 AM) Reply to : foxmaiden I've started programming a link page and will share it for ideas and feedback in a week or so. fox, just wanted to thank you very much for picking up the reigns and running with this. i think that it's awesome that you are getting something done. -------------------------------------------------------------- "In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we have been taught." -Baba Dioum

nologoboy	\| Move to Top \| Move to Bottom 11#
Rank:none Score:0 Posts:513 From: Registered: 07/24/2001 Time spent: 0 hours