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March 2015

March 02, 2015

A Sure Knowledge of Suffering.

When we mistakenly believe that our suffering has some purpose and cause, we start thinking...

February 2015

February 27, 2015

The Wearisome Immorality of Miracles.

When Christians warble about this or that miracle they think happened, I'm hearing something else...

February 25, 2015

Here Is Why That Miracle Claim Does Not Impress Me.

"I couldn't ever go back!" cried the Christian to me. "I've seen too many miracles!*"...

February 23, 2015

Living a Comforting Lie.

A lot of people I knew, when this movie came out, were just floored--stunned!--that Cypher...

February 20, 2015

A Skill I Had Somehow Skipped.

Somehow I missed learning about critical thinking in school.

February 19, 2015

What Christians Mean When They Use the Word “Atheist”

Christian media outlets are fond of touting the latest story about a “former atheist” becoming...

February 18, 2015

Knowing: Adaptability.

We've been talking about how to know what's true and what's false. Well, one big...

February 16, 2015

Knowing: The Uncertainty Principle.

It's not a good thing to make assertions about stuff without support for ourselves. Sounding...

February 11, 2015

Knowing: The Other Way of Knowing (Isn’t).

Somehow along the way, a lot of people in this world seem to have selectively...

February 09, 2015

Knowing: Starting From Scratch.

Unlearning all the faulty logic and pseudoscience I'd learned while Christian was tough, but I...

February 06, 2015

How Not Alone You Are.

When one is first contemplating the loss of one's religion, one can start feeling really...

February 04, 2015

Good Christians (Are Another Symptom of the Problem).

Last time we met, I was going over why Bad Christians aren't really the big...

February 02, 2015

Bad Christians (Are Not The Problem).

Now that I'm out of the religion, yes, I do regard the behavior of Christians...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

Reconnecting the Disconnect.

I'm not some ingenue who bounced briefly into one lukewarm church and then danced out...

January 28, 2015

Yes, We Talk About Being Ex-Christians. And That’s Okay.

When we deconvert from religion--especially if the experience was traumatic--we've got a lot to get...

January 28, 2015

What is Real?

Many products are designed to imitate the real thing. There is plastic decking that looks...

January 26, 2015

I Kind of Knew, Long Before I Realized I Knew.

I prayed on my own, sure, but not as much as I knew I should...

January 23, 2015

Glorification of the Wrong Things: Over-Dependence.

It floors me that Christians imagine their god as not only condoning their utter dependence...

January 21, 2015

Making Changes.

Last time we hung out, I shared why I was afraid of change. But I...

January 19, 2015

Fear of Change.

I want to share today the reasons why I myself struggled with making changes. I've...

January 16, 2015

What Changed, and What Didn’t.

All I knew about apostasy was what my church preached on the subject, so you...

January 14, 2015

Disqualified.

All those apologetics, which I was slowly starting to debunk and unravel? To go by...

January 12, 2015

The Day I Found the Guru on the Mountain

In this little leatherbound journal, I had recorded how--a few months after I'd quit going...

January 09, 2015

Why Life is Meaningful.

There are a lot of false dichotomies and false dilemmas in Christianity ("you're either with...

January 07, 2015

A Strange Sort of Evolution.

I think I've mentioned--probably only a few dozen times, sorry--that I deconverted in my mid-20s....

January 05, 2015

The Meaning of Life.

One thing that Christianity definitely does well is convince its people that without its teachings,...

January 02, 2015

The Scary Superfluity of It All.

Mr. Bell began his journey with one question. It seems like there's always one question...

January 01, 2015

A Year Without God Led Ryan Bell to Life Without God

One year ago, Ryan Bell made the news when he announced his plan to live...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

Male Shame: Broken Promises.

One of the darkest secrets of male indoctrination into shame is that this training makes...

December 29, 2014

Male Shame: The Heart of the Second Hill.

Last time we hung out, I discussed why Christianity's leaders are so concerned about women's...