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December 2013

December 24, 2013

Post-Christian (Nation) Exhaustion

Christians call their religion the "good news," but there's even better news today in the...

December 22, 2013

O Holy Night, the Stars Are Brightly Shining: Virgin Births

This time of year seems quite appropriate to talk about a virgin birth. Or rather,...

December 20, 2013

Dear Christians: Please Quit Idolizing Disgusting Hate-Filled Bigots.

There's this TV show about rich backwoods hicks with ZZ Top beards. It's called "Duck...

December 19, 2013

The Best of All Possible Worlds: The Hypocrisy of Lying About Happiness

When I was Christian, I thought that being a Christian was this awesome and wonderful...

December 18, 2013

The Unequally Yoked Club: As I Lay Dying (To Myself).

One of the hardest parts about deconverting out from under a fundagelical marriage was unlearning...

December 16, 2013

Abandoning All Hope

One of the greatest of all the benefits of Christianity is supposed to be hope....

December 11, 2013

Christianity’s “Duh Mode”

Even if it's totally contradictory, people will believe anything--if the person talking about it sounds...

December 09, 2013

The Christian’s Guide to Ex-Christians: The Atrocity Apologetics Act Needs To Stop. Now. (I’m Not Kidding)

If you've ever had a friend who was dating an extraordinarily bad person, you know...

December 08, 2013

How I Learned To Relax and Just Make Pies.

I used to have such a love-hate relationship with cooking, but especially with baking--the bane...

December 05, 2013

The Christian’s Guide to Ex-Christians: When “Experts” Aren’t Really Very Expert.

Today we're going to be talking about Christians who claim to know stuff they really...

December 03, 2013

Taking It Back

The other day I ran across this blog entry about the links between super-duper-racist rednecks...

December 01, 2013

Christian Plagiarism.

The other day, a Christian radio host accused megapastor (and smirking Lizard King of misogynists)...

November 2013

November 28, 2013

Just Leave. (Or Not.)

I've got the turkey in the oven at last (we're moving a bit late at...

November 28, 2013

We All Crazy, and We Do What We Do (and yes, that means Teo Bishop, too)

There's this guy named Teo Bishop who left Christianity to become a druid and he...

November 17, 2013

When the Scam Ends.

"There's one born every minute," the consummate showman P.T. Barnum said once, and that saying...

November 08, 2013

The Kodak Marriage

Christians' laser focus on marriage unfortunately highlights the sheer inadequacy of their rules about relationships...

November 06, 2013

The Unequally Yoked Club: The Terrible Bargain

(Content warning: lots and lots of sexism directed at Yr. Loyal Correspondent, but I'll spoiler...

November 04, 2013

The Unequally Yoked Club: He’s in Love with a Church Girl

Continuing the long tradition of evangelical urban legends and worn-out tropes in movies*, I'm in...

November 02, 2013

The Unequally Yoked Club: Why Can’t Things Just Go Back the Way They Were? (I’ll tell you why)

Welcome back. BTW, did you know that the Halloween post is where we busted 666...

November 01, 2013

“Low Christianity” and Halloween

We haven't finished talking about the Unequally Yoked Club yet, but I did want to...

October 2013

October 26, 2013

The Unequally Yoked Club: How Many Soulmates Can One Cavern Hold?

I know I've touched on the topic of soulmates before, but I ran across a...

October 25, 2013

The Unequally Yoked Club: Going Nuclear

I had this big long old post I was doing about exactly how my time...

October 23, 2013

The Unequally Yoked Club: The Bargaining Table

After Biff figured out that I was quite serious about having deconverted, the bargaining phase...

October 21, 2013

The Unequally Yoked Club: Tell Me What You Want (What You Really, Really Want).

The most powerful thing two people can do is really communicate. When there's a veil...

October 19, 2013

The Unequally Yoked Club: When Promises Must Be Broken

Remember what I mentioned last time about promises? We're going to talk about that a...

October 19, 2013

The Unequally Yoked Club: You Didn’t Sign Up For This

Before we can really get into the meat of this post, I need to say...

October 18, 2013

Defining Moments: The Second I Realized I Was in the UYC

There's a longer post coming, but here's a little sneaky-peek to get the party going,...

October 17, 2013

The Christian’s Guide to Ex-Christians: Dehumanizing the Enemy

Oprah Winfrey, who apparently didn't get the memo about labels, came out with this gem...

October 13, 2013

Change You’d Better Believe In

If there was one thing I could say that drew me to fundagelical Christianity, way...

October 10, 2013

Garbaholics Anonymous.

People keep finding my blog through searches related to the SCA and Christianity, so I've...