In order to be saved, you have to believe it's something you need. So no matter how low your view of your self may be, Christianity will lower it for you even further.

These are the things we miss the most after leaving the evangelical Christian faith.

Here are 11 things I found got better for me after leaving my religion.

Here are six ways that leaving my faith tradition was completely unlike entering it.

We didn't leave our faith because we cared too little, we left because we cared too much. We did exactly what we were told to do, but evidently we did it a little TOO well.

I left my faith (or rather it left me) after 20 years of devoutly following Jesus. It was a death by a thousand cuts, but if I had to boil it down to two main reasons, these would be the ones.

All my young life I was told I needed a personal relationship with Jesus, so I threw myself into it, but in time we had to go our separate ways. Here is why I broke up with Jesus. For more articles like this one, visit GodlessInDixie.com (music by Bensound.com).