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Author: Ray Garton

Ray Garton is the best-selling author of Live Girls and Crucifax (1987 and 1988 respectively, both available from E-Reads Books), as well as dozens of other novels of horror and suspense. He has received the Grand Master Award from the World Horror Convention. This essay is adapted from one that appeared under the title “I Was a Child, So I Believed” in The American Rationalist.

The Faith I Left Behind
Why I Am Not a Seventh-day Adventist
Free Inquiry Volume 34, No. 2
February / March 2014
Ray Garton

Becoming an atheist doesn’t happen overnight. For me, it’s been a lifelong process.

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