{"id":104610,"date":"2013-09-10T03:10:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T21:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=104610"},"modified":"2013-09-12T12:53:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T07:23:55","slug":"former-christian-fundamentalist-science-robbed-me-of-my-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/former-christian-fundamentalist-science-robbed-me-of-my-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Christian Fundamentalist: Science Robbed Me Of My Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author Ed Suominen explains how evolutionary biology forced him to abandon creationism &#8212; and the church<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ed Suominen was raised in a small sect of Lutheran Christianity called\u00a0Laestadianism. Of the 32,000 denominations into which Christianity has fractured, his is one of the more conservative. Members believe in the literal truth of the Bible, including the creation story. They eschew sins like drinking, dancing, watching television, wearing earrings, and playing school sports. They marry only within their own sect and believe God alone should decide how many children they have. Suominen followed the rules; he met and married the right kind of girl, and together they have 11 children.<\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/09\/09\/i_was_a_fundamentalist_until_science_changed_my_mind_partner\/\">more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/former-christian-fundamentalist-science-robbed-me-of-my-faith\/bible-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-104611\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-104611\" title=\"Bible\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bible.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bible.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bible-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<em>Credit:\u00a0Olivier Le Queinec via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/\">Shutterstock<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":104611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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