John Loftus
John W. Loftus (1954–) is an American author who writes about his conversion from Christianity to atheism.
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During his almost twenty years as an evangelical Christian and Christian apologist, he experienced growing doubt about the tenets of the Christian faith. In the late 1990s he experienced a crisis of faith that led him to reject Christianity altogether. He eventually wrote a book laying out his case against Christianity, which was published in 2008 as Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity. Later in that same year he self-published a companion book entitled, Why I Became an Atheist: Personal Reflections and Additional Arguments.
His book The Outsider Test for Faith proposes a method for evaluating religious belief from an outsider's perspective.
He also edited the anthology The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails, (Amherst, NY Prometheus Books 2010) ISBN 978-1-61614-168-4 and The End of Christianity (Amherst, NY Prometheus Books 2011) ISBN 978-1-61614-413-5. In 2012 he collaborated with Randal Rauser on a book entitled God or Godless.
He founded the website Debunking Christianity, prior to which he was a contributor to Freethought Blogs, before he left due to differences of opinion.
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