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May 2015

May 26, 2015

The Absurdity of Inerrancy

Even on its own terms, an inerrant Bible is an absurdity. I'll explain what I...

May 24, 2015

Each of Us Has “A Beautiful Mind”

[In honor of the unfortunate passing of John and Alicia Nash, today I'm reposting my...

May 22, 2015

The Church Doesn’t Get to Make the Rules About Sex Anymore

A few weeks ago a young friend of mine wrote a guest post for me...

May 15, 2015

Baptists in Denial: Millions Who Left the Faith Were Never True Christians

On Tuesday of this week the Pew Research Center released an updated study on the...

April 2015

April 29, 2015

Why I Don’t Fit In, and Why That’s a Good Thing

[Today's guest post is written by Beth Caplin Stoneburner, who is a YA author, a Christian,...

April 17, 2015

Ask an Atheist Day with Godless in Dixie

In case you missed it, yesterday was Ask an Atheist Day, a national day of...

April 10, 2015

A Reader Asks: How Do I Deter Proselytizers?

I am woefully behind on answering emails thanks to a busy weekend conference plus, well,...

March 2015

March 27, 2015

The “Nones” vs. the “Dones”

By now you may have heard of “the nones,” those religiously non-affiliated Americans who now...

March 25, 2015

This Week on the Humanist Hour: Godless in Dixie

Of all the labels I embrace at this point in my life, Humanist tops them all....

March 22, 2015

The Irony of Pessimistic Ex-Believers

[Today's guest post is by Kile Jones, founder and editor of the Claremont Journal of...

March 17, 2015

Why Evangelical Christianity Doesn’t Make You a Better Person

This past weekend I had to cut a much needed vacation short in order to...

March 06, 2015

Ten Things Christians Accidentally Tell Me About Themselves

Say what you want about Sigmund Freud, but bizarre obsessions aside, the man came up...

February 2015

February 22, 2015

What Can Humanism Learn from Christianity?

I have always felt compelled to maintain a critical eye toward the things I believe. In fact, for...

February 18, 2015

My Response to the Question “Why Don’t You Move On?”

Yesterday I chatted via email with a reader who wanted to know why I keep...

February 10, 2015

What’s Wrong with Telling an Atheist You’ll Pray for Her?

I know you mean well, I do. I know that “I’ll pray for you” is...

February 05, 2015

Quoting the Bible Doesn’t Work Like a Jedi Mind Trick

Don’t you love it when Christians quote the Bible to atheists? It happens a lot,...

February 01, 2015

Does the Christian Faith Make People More Loving?

I grew up Christian and I still live in a culture that is Jesus-soaked---or perhaps...

January 2015

January 25, 2015

Sex and Christianity Make Strange Bedfellows

In case you haven’t noticed, Christianity becomes exceedingly awkward around the subject of sex. For much...

January 18, 2015

You Keep Forgetting to Take Up Your Cross

Recently a reader expressed indignation because once again I compared my leaving the Christian faith...

January 15, 2015

Your Religion May Be Harmful If…

People who read this blog often find it difficult to decide where to put me on...

January 09, 2015

Presuppositional Atheism: Turning a Bad Argument Around

[Today's guest post is written by Brian (aka "The Apostate") who blogs over at A...

January 06, 2015

Please Don’t Hold Me at Arm’s Length

This is a letter I wrote a few months ago that feels like a fitting...

January 03, 2015

Does Evolution Contradict Christianity?

In my last post I asked why there isn't such a thing as Christian meteorology....

December 2014

December 28, 2014

Anti-Intellectualism and the Bible

When I was a Christian, I worked very hard at maintaining the tension between faith...

December 23, 2014

How Christianity Stunted My Relational Growth

I used to think I was a relationship expert. Boy, was I wrong. I was...

December 17, 2014

If You Have To Believe, It Probably Isn’t Real

When I was little, my parents taught me to believe there was a person who...

December 10, 2014

Why I Keep Talking to People Who Won’t Listen

There are a lot of different ways to be an atheist, just like there are a...

December 01, 2014

Do Atheists Have Faith?

If I had a nickel for every time someone told me that atheists have faith,...

November 2014

November 27, 2014

Why I Quit Believing, Explained

Dear Godless in Dixie, I read your blog on God not answering your prayers, was...

November 20, 2014

The Motive of the Questioner Is Beside the Point

When a system of belief lacks evidential support, it must compensate for this weakness by...