A Texas woman who spoke out in 2013 against prayer in schools says the vicious reaction she received has driven her away from Christianity altogether.
Beaumont’s Channel 12 News reported Thursday on Amber Barnhill, who joined other non-religious demonstrators at Lamar University’s “Ask an Atheist Day” on Thursday.
Channel 12 first met Barnhill when she objected to officially mandated Christian prayers at her son’s public school pre-kindergarten class. In the wake of that news segment, Barnhill said she was the object of an outpouring of rage and abuse, including death threats.
The nastiness of the response, she said, contributed to her loss of faith in religion.
“That’s not why I lost my faith in God,” Barnhill said. “But it did have a huge impact on how quickly that happened.”
Atheist mom: Death threats from angry Christians helped kill my faith
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