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April 2017

April 09, 2017

An Ideology in Search of a Godling (At Easter)

Easter may be one of the most beloved holidays of the Christian calendar, but a...

April 06, 2017

Prepare Yourself: The Easter Christian Torture Porn is Coming

Easter is here! 'Tis the Season--for Christian torture porn, that is! Are you ready?

December 2016

December 24, 2016

Faith in Humanity: Restored in Time for Christmas.

You know that sinking feeling you get when you realize that a lot of hard...

December 23, 2016

A Free Gift That is Neither Free, Nor Really a Gift

But there's one part of their vision of Christmas that is particularly grating: the idea...

December 21, 2016

The Tantrum on Christmas.

Christmas fast approaches, and with it the usual litany of Christian sermons about what they...

November 2016

November 24, 2016

How Deconverting Made Thanksgiving Better

A lot of things have changed over the years for me, but one of the...

May 2016

May 07, 2016

How the National Day of Prayer Grew Out of the Red Scare.

As I dug into the history of the National Day of Prayer, I remembered that...

May 04, 2016

My Mother’s Dress

Clothes fascinate me. They're a powerful sign of our own personal individuality and a statement...

March 2016

March 29, 2016

The False Promise of Rebirth

Today I'll show you why the Christian narrative of rebirth is a false promise, one...

March 25, 2016

Preparing for the Great Jewish Zombie Uprising of Easter

Thanks to growing up Catholic, I got really excited about Easter. The sheer number of...

February 2016

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...

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 24, 2015

The Reason for the Season

There is a "reason for the season." It's just not the one that Christians imagine.

November 2015

November 26, 2015

Thanksgiving: When Life Hands You Exploding Apple Cake…

First off: Happy Thanksgiving! I'm glad you're here. Today I want to talk about kitchen disasters. Don't...

November 25, 2015

The Google Doodle: Surprisingly, Ken Ham Was Right About Something

If you're seeing this blog post a bit late, here's the writeup about the wide-release...

October 2015

October 31, 2015

Why Evangelicals Love Halloween.

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

April 2015

April 05, 2015

Easter: I’d Rather Be a Lion.

Has nobody told Christians exactly why shepherds tend sheep?

December 2014

December 24, 2014

It’s Everybody’s Holiday (Plus: Link Love!)

I've always loved Christmas. This time of year in general is an important one for...

November 2014

November 27, 2014

Thanksgiving 2014

It's a good thing to reflect on our past year and to consider the coming...

November 26, 2014

The Real Reason for the Season

We've been talking lately about Kirk Cameron's horrible new movie, Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas, and...

November 23, 2014

(Not) His Personal Army.

Sometimes it feels like it's just too easy to run a blog that pokes fun...

November 01, 2014

The Call of the Wild, and Some Very Great News!

I'm very glad that I was in and out of Christianity before this current rush...

August 2014

August 19, 2014

Interlude: The White Man’s Flag

I need to add my wholehearted support for the people who are facing police brutality...

December 2013

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,...

November 2013

November 01, 2013

“Low Christianity” and Halloween

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