those who have clearly and consciously walked away from the faith, and I will look at Christine Wicker and John W. Loftus. Guilt drove Christine Wicker, a journalist who covers the religious scene in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from the faith. As she says it in her well-written memoir, God Knows My Heart, “one day I dropped the load by the side of road. Good-bye, guilt. Good-bye, God. Hello, world.” Putting her apostasy together, she says, “The specifics of why
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