Rachel Love - The Day God Died

2013, English, Rachel Love,

Full title: "The Day God Died: The Year was 1966 and the Times Declared God Was Dead"

"My childhood beliefs and church life explored as a young child to my present age. I look back to 1966 and the New York Times declared "God is Dead" and the decades it took me to realize the reality of that headline. This book is my view of church from someone who drank the Kool-Aid."

I interviewed Rachel in 2014, and this is what she told me about this book: "This is the third book of my story about my spiritual past and church. This book was a reach back into my past and this time I was able to face some of those ghosts. I allowed myself to travel back in time as a child of the sixties and narrate my experiences as I grew up in a broken but religious family."

"I shared openly about my involvement in church and how that turned my family against me in the long run. I wrote what I did despite the cost of doing so in hopes that the message would help others. But in writing this book and the others I learned a lot about myself and was able to understand better the lessons along the way. So in essence the writing of these books was therapy."

"At what age did I transition? I was forty-three when the decision to correct my gender was made. Some influences came from therapists and doctors as I was struggling with some stress issues at the time. I am sorry to say that I had no support from family and friends at the time. The opposite in fact. I was disowned, ridiculed, and hurt by them. I had death threats, job transfers, and lawsuits. In a very short time after sharing my decision, my life turned upside down! I was shocked and totally surprised at the reaction I received."

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