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April 2016

April 03, 2016

So Long, Self: How Christianity Teaches You to Hate Yourself

One of the great joys of living in the Bible Belt is that you can...

March 2016

March 23, 2016

C.S. Lewis and the Argument from Spilled Milk

I see a quote from C.S. Lewis circulated quite a bit, and I'd like to give...

March 22, 2016

Does Everyone Worship Something, Even Atheists?

A reader who attends church for the benefit of her still-believing husband wrote me over the...

March 13, 2016

Why Sex May Be the Greatest Threat to Christianity

I recently tweeted something of an epiphany and I'd like to take a minute to unpack...

March 08, 2016

The “Reasonable-ness” of the Christian Faith

I asked a friend of mine who is a Christian to answer the question "Is...

February 2016

February 23, 2016

What the Story of Lot Tells Me About the Bible

Years ago Robert Fulghum wrote a best-selling book entitled All I Really Need to Know I...

January 2016

January 27, 2016

Removing the Fig Leaf: A New Blog About Sexuality Without Shame

Abrahamic faiths have never been very big on celebrating the human body. While some religions...

January 08, 2016

Preacher Says Atheists Prey on Fear, Prejudice, and Ignorance

I used to think the Christian faith equipped individuals with superior tools for self-analysis and...

December 2015

December 29, 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...

December 22, 2015

My First Christmas Without Christ

About a year ago, towards the end of my deconversion, I wasn’t comfortable saying I...

December 05, 2015

My Mother, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, and Me

[Please welcome Holly Baer, who I hope will become a regular contributor to Godless in...

December 03, 2015

Who Gives Peace to the Peacemakers?

[Today's guest post is written by Galen Broaddus, a web developer, secular celebrant, and former...

November 2015

November 25, 2015

Christianity Has a Major Boundary Problem

Every holiday season, my fellow deconverts have to put up with their families for the annual...

November 20, 2015

On the Futility of Using Jesus to Make People Care

This week my social media feeds have been utterly consumed by one single topic: What...

October 2015

October 28, 2015

Babe: Learning About Humans from Watching a Pig

Religion isn’t the only thing that divides people. It’s not the only thing that makes...

October 20, 2015

Can Atheists Learn Anything from the Religious?

Fellow atheists give me a hard time because I talk a lot about fostering constructive...

October 06, 2015

The Two Main Reasons I Left My Faith

A first-time visitor to Godless in Dixie asked me this week why I went from...

October 01, 2015

When Your Faith Behaves Like a Predator

For the past week or so I have been battling chronic pain unlike anything I've...

September 2015

September 13, 2015

Evangelical Christianity and Low Self-Esteem

Like most swimmers, I try to get in some laps almost every day, but there...

August 2015

August 19, 2015

Things You Don’t Get Back After You Leave Your Faith

A friend once asked me if I gained anything of value when I lost my...

August 15, 2015

Leaving My Religion Was Nothing Like Entering It

People love to say that atheism is a religion. I can't tell you how many...

July 2015

July 27, 2015

Why Circumcision Is a Perfect Picture of the Christian Faith

For all the awkwardness evangelical Christianity displays around the subject of sex, Yahweh sure was...

July 10, 2015

The Sequel to God’s Not Dead Happened in My Classroom, But in Reverse

Given that the first installment of God's Not Dead only took $2M to make but...

July 09, 2015

Men Who Stare at Facts

Not long ago I had dinner with a friend who encouraged me to reconsider my stance...

June 2015

June 22, 2015

I Drew the Line at Canaan

I’d like to tell you about the last time I was able to stomach going...

June 12, 2015

Why God Cannot Forsake You

When I first “came out” to some of my closest friends and told them I...

June 03, 2015

All Christians Are “Cultural Christians”

In case you haven't noticed, evangelical Christians have totally missed the point of all this...

June 02, 2015

The Perils of Worshiping a Perfectionist God

[Today's guest post is written by Holly Baer, a religion and gender studies major at...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

How Christian Groveling Protects the System

At risk of adding to anyone's Duggar fatigue, something stood out to me this week...

May 28, 2015

Taking the Atheist Prayer Challenge

[Today's guest post was written by Cynthia Jeub upon completion of the year-long prayer challenge...