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2026-09-02T16:15:52-07:00

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Do Atheism and Agnosticism Require Faith?

Last updated on: September 2, 2026 at 4:15 pm By Derrick Day

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Why Nonbelief Needs No Faith You have heard the move before. An atheist says, “I don’t believe in God,” and someone fires back, “Ah, but that takes just as much faith as believing.” An agnostic says, “I don’t know whether any gods exist,” and gets told that sitting on the fence is also a kind of faith. Push a little further and the last card comes down on the table: “Fine—but without religion, what could your life possibly mean?” It... Read more

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2026-08-10T09:08:12-07:00

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When Faithful People Suffer and God Stays Silent

Last updated on: August 10, 2026 at 9:08 am By Derrick Day

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It Started With the Discomfort of Death… A pastor friend of mine will bury a woman this week. Not a stranger, not a name on a prayer list — a friend. By every metric the church sells as proof of a life well-lived, she passed. She served. She showed up. She never wasted a chance to tell a room how good God was to her. And then cancer, or a clot, or whatever the body finally surrenders to, took her... Read more

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2026-07-02T10:46:43-07:00

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Dethroning Jesus and Enthroning Yourself

Last updated on: July 2, 2026 at 10:46 am By Derrick Day

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Jesus Never Asked to Be Worshipped. He Asked to Be Understood. Christianity spent two thousand years building a throne. Then it installed a Galilean carpenter on it, dressed him in gold, and told everyone to bow. Here’s the uncomfortable twist: the man may never have existed as a single historical individual at all — and the teachings assembled under his name were curated, in large part, to manufacture the very myth we’re told to worship. Which makes it stranger still... Read more

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2026-06-19T09:31:18-07:00

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Why Most Christians are Really Paulians and Jobians

Last updated on: June 19, 2026 at 9:31 am By Derrick Day

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I Don’t Care, But It Matters Let’s get this out of the way: I’m not a Christian. Haven’t been for a while. I don’t care what you believe. Honestly, if worshipping a carpenter-rabbi from Nazareth, a fiery desert prophet, or a guy who wrote letters while dodging Roman guards gives you peace, have at it. You do you. But here’s the kicker: while I don’t care for me, it absolutely matters for you. Because if you’re still carrying around the... Read more

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2026-06-08T18:51:19-07:00

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Can Religion be Intellectually Honest?

Last updated on: June 8, 2026 at 6:51 pm By Derrick Day

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Intellectual honesty and religion Intellectual honesty means you do not protect a belief from evidence just because the belief is precious to you. It means admitting uncertainty, distinguishing faith from fact, changing your mind when the case collapses, and refusing to use convenient standards only when they help your side. Intellectual honesty is one of my life tenets; it guides my thinking toward openness and not holding on to anything tightly. Religion, especially Christianity in its institutional forms, often struggles... Read more

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2026-06-01T13:59:05-07:00

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The Gospel According to the Third Eye

Last updated on: June 1, 2026 at 1:59 pm By Derrick Day

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What If “I AM” Means Self-Realization? Christianity has spent two thousand years arguing over who Jesus was while spending remarkably little time asking what Jesus (if he existed) may have actually been trying to awaken in people. Entire denominations have split over metaphysical doctrines, theories of atonement, and debates about the nature of Christ, while often overlooking the possibility that the gospels contain something more than theology. Hidden beneath the doctrines may be a roadmap of consciousness, perception, and transformation.... Read more

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2026-05-27T13:36:37-07:00

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Adam > Jesus?

Last updated on: May 27, 2026 at 1:36 pm By Derrick Day

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Christianity’s Strange Math Problem Christian theology contains a contradiction that becomes difficult to ignore once you see it. According to First Epistle to the Corinthians, “For as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive.” The verse appears in 1 Corinthians 15:22 and sounds beautifully balanced at first glance. Adam brings death into the world. Christ brings life into the world. One creates the problem while the other provides the solution. But the symmetry starts to... Read more

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2026-05-18T19:49:06-07:00

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Did Jesus Exist: The Case of the Vanishing Messiah

Last updated on: May 18, 2026 at 7:49 pm By Derrick Day

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If You Can’t Carbon-Date It, Don’t Call It History I’m going to say the quiet part out loud: if it isn’t tangible, measurable, repeatable, or at least mathematically modelable, it probably doesn’t exist outside of storytime. You can call that cold, but history survives on receipts, not vibes. We can’t CSI the first century, but we can compare claims with evidence. And when it comes to “Jesus of Nazareth, miracle worker, executed under Pilate, resurrected on the third day,” the... Read more

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2026-05-06T18:10:49-07:00

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Capitalism, Socialism, and Christians Who Ignore Jesus

Last updated on: May 6, 2026 at 6:10 pm By Derrick Day

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Somewhere between the Sermon on the Mount and the stock market open, something got lost. Jesus (assuming he actually existed) fed five thousand people on a hillside. He didn’t take names. He didn’t check tax returns. He didn’t pull aside the able-bodied men and say, “You look capable — you’re sitting this one out.” He fed them. All of them. Then he healed the sick in the crowd — lepers, the lame, a bleeding woman who hadn’t bathed in... Read more

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2026-03-12T16:51:00-07:00

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When Christian Politics Deport Compassion

Last updated on: March 12, 2026 at 4:51 pm By Derrick Day

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Faith, Fear, and Immigration Politics If you ever want to see theological gymnastics that would make the Apostle Paul pull a hamstring, just watch modern American immigration politics collide with Christianity, because nothing says “love thy neighbor” quite like cheering policies that terrify desperate families while clutching a Bible like it’s a backstage pass to righteousness. We’ve arrived at a cultural moment where aggressive immigration enforcement — particularly under Trump-era policies — became not just politically popular in certain... Read more

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