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December 2014

December 26, 2014

Male Shame: The First of the Twin Hills.

Sometimes we hear an opinion referred to as "the hill that person will die on,"...

December 24, 2014

The Ghost of Christmas Past

Most of you are familiar with the Charles Dickens classic novella, A Christmas Carol. One...

December 22, 2014

Male Shame: The Trumpet He Heard.

I've been digesting the amazing article "Male Shame" (posted right here recently, and if you...

December 19, 2014

Battle Tactics.

It's almost a routine by now. A Christian makes a religious claim, so I'll ask...

December 15, 2014

Choices That Aren’t Actually Choices.

I'm noticing lately that some Christians are starting to talk about how belief is a...

December 12, 2014

Stopping Thought.

The big problem with thought terminators like "it's a mystery" is that whatever "it" is,...

December 11, 2014

Religious Fundamentalism: A Survivor’s Story

Fundamentalism can be used to describe any religious group that adheres to a strict, literal...

December 10, 2014

Where Being Hardcore (Almost) Got Me.

When I first began to feel the stirrings of doubt as a Christian, somehow I...

December 08, 2014

More Hardcore Than Thou.

When I look back at my walk through Christianity, what stands out the most for...

December 05, 2014

Here’s Not Why I Deconverted.

I thought it would be instructional to review the reasons that are not why I...

December 03, 2014

Compartments.

Compartmentalization is what just about every single one of us does to avoid having to...

December 01, 2014

Gateway Beliefs and Demon Hands

Most of us have, as children, done or said stuff that made our parents drag...

November 2014

November 28, 2014

Why I’m Not Afraid of Hell.

The terror induced by the threat of Hell is something a lot of Christians learn...

November 28, 2014

10 Reasons Why I Would Invent Hell

(Today's guest post is by David Hayward) I think a lot about how our ideas...

November 27, 2014

Thanksgiving According to Atheists

This view of thankfulness limits gratitude to ‘what god(s) has done’. According to religion, all...

November 21, 2014

JAQing Off.

"I just wondered what your thoughts were of Jesus the man," read the recent message...

November 18, 2014

Learning to Embrace Blasphemy

You can tell how fresh a person's deconversion is by how easily he is offended by...

November 11, 2014

Losing My Religion (pt. 2)

The first letter I sent to my friends a couple of years ago in order to "come...

November 11, 2014

Losing My Religion (pt. 1)

What follows is a letter I wrote to a handful of friends a couple of...

November 11, 2014

Separating Facts and Fictions.

When a popular junior girl named Jennifer acted very friendly toward me for no reason...

November 11, 2014

Leopards Don’t Change Their Spots.

One of the things I've heard Christians say over and over is that without their...

November 11, 2014

The Weird Kid.

My adult self realizes nowadays that to many Christians, Satan is very real--and necessary. Satan's...