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December 2018

December 09, 2018

Jesus, Santa Claus, and the Putting Away of Childish Things

Often, ex-Christians describe deconversion as being very similar to children realizing there's no Santa Claus....

December 01, 2018

The Trainwreck Continues: Christian Responses to That 6,000-10,000 Closings Figure

We've been talking lately about the rash of church closures in America. A figure of...

November 2018

November 10, 2018

Magic Christians: Gosh, If I’d Only Known!

We've been talking lately about the lamentably-common trope of Christians expressing great sadness over our...

November 03, 2018

That Time Biff Tried to Become a Radio Show Host (Just Like Bob Larson)

At the height of the Satanic Panic, my ultra-Christian first husband, Biff, concocted a plan....

August 2018

August 09, 2018

The Worst Advice Biff Got from Christians About Marriage

If there's one thing ex-Christians in the Unequally Yoked Club know, it's that our Christian...

June 2018

June 30, 2018

The No True Scotsman and Christians’ Version of Atheism

I'll show you what this fallacy is, why and how Christians use it, and why...

May 2018

May 29, 2018

The Unequally Yoked Club: The Meltdown of a Marriage

I've been wanting to return to the UYC lately, since I've seen new developments on...

May 07, 2018

“Come Sunday” – A Review (LSP #41)

Today, Lord Snow presides over a movie that might be about Christians and tackle a...

April 2018

April 23, 2018

Christian Lies About Deconversion–and EXTIMONY TIME AHOY! (LSP #39)

Christians sure have a lot of theories about deconversion, namely about why people are rejecting...

March 2018

March 11, 2018

The Last Salvo of a Failed Soulwinner: “I’ll Pray For You!”

Alas for them, this phrase--I'll pray for you!--fails on a number of fronts. I'm going...

March 09, 2018

Letters from Tim: What Christians Don’t Realize They’re Telling Us

Last week letters turned up in my mail that really encapsulated exactly what Christians do...

February 2018

February 22, 2018

The Awakening of the Young

Young people are awakening to their own power and agency, and that is very bad...

February 18, 2018

Why I Rejected Christianity (Then and Now)

Over the years I've evolved in my understanding of religion generally and Christianity specifically. My...

February 13, 2018

Captain Cassidy’s (Big Ol’ Huge) Deconversion.

In this blog's first year, I spent a few months outlining all the different elements...

February 13, 2018

No One’s Happier Than I: The Enchantment of Jack and the Beanstalk (LSP #29)

Ex-Christians have a lot of shorthand ways of talking about how it feels to be...

February 11, 2018

The Christian’s Guide to Ex-Christians: Ex-timonies and Testimonies

As usual, Christians have totally gotten the whole matter wrong about these stories--and they've revealed...

January 2018

January 29, 2018

#ExvangelicalCatchphrases (LSP #27)

An Exvangelical is someone who has walked away from evangelical Christianity, similar to how an...

January 23, 2018

Antiprocess: That Get-Out-of-Uncomfortable-Truths-Free Card

I literally didn't notice the Bible's most troublesome passages. I don't even think I was...

January 21, 2018

Bible Verses I Wish I’d Known About While I Was Christian.

The CPC also left out an awful lot of Bible verses that reveal that the...

December 2017

December 20, 2017

Herd Immunity for the Christian Bubble

The denizens of broken systems tend to take very poorly to critics outside the group--and...

December 10, 2017

But But But You Guys! Biff DID THE RESEARCH! We’re Boned!

It's quite a popular phrase encapsulating quite a popular trope in Christian testimonies, and it's...

October 2017

October 18, 2017

Evangelical Churn: Why Christian Leaders’ Orders Never Change

It took Christian leaders some time to recognize that yes indeed, they were facing not...

September 2017

September 26, 2017

Life After Deconversion: The Scary Superfluity of It All

Though many folks thought Ryan Bell's Year Without God was a stunt, I had several...

September 23, 2017

Soda’s Back on the (BYU) Menu, Folks

The administrators of BYU recently made a proclamation that really drives home exactly how out-of-touch...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

How to Keep Kids Christian For Life, According to Christians

I'll show you the weirdest and worst of those teachings here--and more importantly I'll show...

August 27, 2017

Why #EmptyThePews Is Important

Recently someone started a Twitter hashtag called #EmptyThePews to encourage Christians to let the horrifying...

August 20, 2017

The Day My Prayers Changed

One day I realized that my prayers had changed without my even noticing. But they...

August 17, 2017

Various Christian Threats, Deciphered and Decoded

Threats are a constant and deeply-woven part of Christian culture. Even the really nice parts...

August 01, 2017

The Darker Side of Artificial Meaning and Purpose

Christians have an entire mythology built around their supposed monopoly on finding meaning and purpose...

July 2017

July 29, 2017

And Yet It Moves: Dismantling the Second Myth About Meaning and Purpose

This second myth drives people to extraordinary lengths--and leads them to make life-altering bad decisions,...