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March 2016

March 18, 2016

The Happy Christian Illusion (Isn’t Real)

Many Christians buy into a narrative that their religion offers about happiness, not realizing that...

March 16, 2016

Happiness: In That Moment, They Were Euphoric

They Had That Euphoria-Euphoria-Euphoria-Euphoria Down In Their Hearts.

March 07, 2016

Captain Cassidy’s Quest for Happiness: Where It Wasn’t

One of the big threats Christian leaders make to their flocks about deconversion is that...

March 02, 2016

5 Non-Supernatural Claims Christians Make (and Why They’re Not Credible Either)

It's not hard to poke holes in Christianity's supernatural claims. Anybody with a reasonable grasp...

February 2016

February 28, 2016

Even Going At It From the Non-Literalist Angle, It’s Still Not Credible

One of the big mistakes non-believers make--especially those who've never been believers themselves--is to assume...

February 23, 2016

The Handbook: Here’s Not Why I Deconverted

Today we'll be discussing a uniquely Christian form of cold reading: their attempts to guess...

February 21, 2016

How Lying for Jesus Became So Common.

Last time we talked, I mentioned three examples of blatantly obvious lies told by Christians...

February 14, 2016

5 Things Christianity Gets Wrong About Love

It didn't take me long at all to realize that I had been stone-cold wrong...

January 2016

January 25, 2016

The Message is Not Perfect (In a Broken System).

Today we're going to look at Christianity as a social system to see why people...

January 19, 2016

How to Spot (and Reject) a Broken System: Turnover

Last time we talked about how power manifests in broken systems. Today we'll talk about...

January 15, 2016

The Broken System: When the Greater Good and Harm Don’t Exist

Last time, we began talking about broken social systems--starting with the most dangerous question someone...

January 12, 2016

The Broken System: Asking the Right Questions

I heard about this story a while ago, but I wanted to hold off on...

January 11, 2016

SHARONDA RASHANDA. (Speaking in Tongues: A Primer)

One of the weirdest practices you'll ever encounter among right-wing Christians has to be to...

January 06, 2016

We Are Witnessing the Birth of a New Trickster God

Many Christians would rather think their god is a dishonest trickster than be wrong about...

December 2015

December 31, 2015

Life: A Limited Time Offer

It astonishes me that Christians can say that our finite human lifetimes don't matter--that they...

December 29, 2015

Prohibition: Being Doomed to Repeat It

I recently watched a documentary that said some stuff that really touched a chord in...

December 18, 2015

Because That’s Where the Money’s Kept: Why They Treat Us Like Toddlers

In the same exact way, when Christians treat non-believers like children, they are showing us...

December 17, 2015

A Manifesto and Declaration of Rights and Expectations

Someone asked if I'd please post this part by itself and the idea seemed to...

December 16, 2015

Eating Candy for Dinner: Why They Treat Us Like Toddlers

Last time we met up, I was talking about how weary I am about being...

December 14, 2015

I Wish Christians Would Quit Treating Me Like I’m Their Toddler

I'm getting way, way, way over this trend of Christians treating non-believers like we're their...

December 11, 2015

Short-Circuiting the System Disconnect: Know Thyself

We've been talking lately about system design in Christianity. Today I'll show you Step 1 of...

December 08, 2015

Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin: How a Bad Idea Becomes Canon

Last time we talked about the phrase "love the sinner, hate the sin," which many...

December 03, 2015

Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin: An Essential Disconnect

There are a great many discrepancies between the goals Christians say they want to achieve,...

November 2015

November 21, 2015

Salt: The Permission Slip Christians Wanted

Today we'll be talking about the increasingly-popular Christianese phrase, "salt and light." It's one of...

November 15, 2015

Regarding Christians Who Gloat About People Burning in Hell

There is something truly grotesque about the way so many Christians seem to get off...

November 12, 2015

We Welcome Ben Carson to the Cult of “Before” Stories

A long time ago, I wrote a post called "A Cult of "Before" Stories" in...

November 10, 2015

Priorities, Priorities: Freedom 2015

Sometimes when people can't possibly achieve a goal, they start setting some downright odd priorities...

November 08, 2015

To Flounce or Not to Flounce: Christians Are Starting to Admit They’ve Lost Their Culture War.

I couldn't help but notice a major shift in the tenor of how Christians are...

October 2015

October 31, 2015

Why Evangelicals Love Halloween.

For a group of people who genuinely believe that their god is the most powerful...

October 19, 2015

Expertise, Apologetics, and David Marshall.

Recently I ran into this debate between David Marshall and Richard Carrier regarding whether or...