Gazing upon the very first page Amy had handed me of this "thing" she was working on changed my life. To live along side your fellow human beings without knowing what exactly they are capable of is astounding.



Amy Black's words, to many, are more than truth; they are an agonizing reality. Her imagery, comparisons and amazingly truthful, yet anonymous confessions wrapped into a 512 KB file on a computer (or a 159 page printout) introduce and affirm the world of ex-Christianity the way it is.

-R. Heartless

Breaking Up With Jesus: Amy Black
`Out of these convertites`, said Shakespeare, `there is much matter to be heard and learnt.`
Shakespeare was of course referring to characters in As You Like It, who had left the restrictive courtly world behind them, preferring to roam free in the forest, and thus find their true selves.
Amy Black would probably prefer the word `deconvertites`, and for her this sense of freedom found, of happiness ahead, has far more significance. Breaking Up With Jesus is Amy`s vivid and honest account of her own journey away from the guilt-laden and smothering influence of her religious upbringing.
Many Atheist writers, myself included, have found this journey easy; we have gleefully attacked the gawky history of religions, their ridiculous scriptures, their crass concepts and assumptions. Amy, however, shows us the person who remains when Jesus, God and all their earthly representatives and trappings have been left behind, a person so much more valuable to herself and to everyone she meets, because, as she says simply, `People are just people.`
Just people? If Amy is anything to go by, shedding belief produces happier people, freer people – and stronger people, for she has no hesitation in turning on her erstwhile tormentors from time to time, with scathing effect. Amy writes:-

Chances are, if you’ve had any face time with
the religious powers that be, you have seen this ugliness
first hand. It’s disheartening, at the very least, to realize that you could get treated just as crappy at a fast-food joint and at least have a hamburger to show for it.

Breaking Up With Jesus will warm the hearts of unbelievers, and may make converts of its own. My best advice is, read Amy`s book and – as Jesus once said – Go thou and do likewise. As Amy says, all you have to do is:-

Let go. Let go of trying to be perfect. Let go of worrying
that if God exists he must be mad at you. Let go of trying
to be something that you're not, and just be.

Brian Smallerhat. brian@howtobeanatheist.com

I enjoyed this book. A lot of it resonated with my experience of leaving the Church, and eventually Christianity, behind. I wish she had a paperback available to order.

thank you for writing this book. i'm in chapter 2 now and youre really speaking about things that i went through...constant nightmares about hell and other godly guilt that lasted for years after i gave up christianity...this book means so much....that whole religion was a big huge mind-f*ck to me, a complete waste of years of my life, and when i quit it, it tormented me for many more years. i didnt know any other people who went through this so your voice is really meaningful even now.

I´ve read the preview and I think I would certainly read whole the book - if the topic was more relevant for me.
I can´t "break up with Jesus", cause we were never dating... ;-)
Anyway - I like it.