Allan Bevere\u2019s tips for diagnosing and curing unreformed fundamentalism<\/a> on Facebook. That post of his sure has generated a lot of interesting reflection and discussion!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If someone moves from fundamentalist religion to fundamentalist atheism, or vice versa, they haven\u2019t actually converted or deconverted. It is only when you move from fundamentalism to a more mature and balanced view that you\u2019ve actually undergone a fundamental change. I wrote the above words when sharing Allan Bevere\u2019s tips for diagnosing and curing unreformed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":32263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[511,871,872,2180,2547,3675,3678,9854,10179],"class_list":["post-32257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fundamentalism-religion","tag-allan-bevere","tag-atheist","tag-atheists","tag-conversion","tag-deconversion","tag-fundamentalism-religion","tag-fundamentalists","tag-quote","tag-religious"],"yoast_head":"\n
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