Reading Time: 8 minutes The natural inclinations of awful people tend to be awful. And such people can make an innocent visit to a neighborhood church into a horror story those guests will remember for years.
Leaving Religion
Exploring the sometimes painful, sometimes exhilarating process of leaving religion.
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The Endtimes Just Ain’t What It Used To Be
Reading Time: 10 minutes It’s nice that he accepts the science around climate change — and about humans having brought our planet to the brink of utter ecological disaster. That’s definitely nice to see from a Christian. But he’s trying to use that potential future as a way to terrorize people into accepting his religious claims.
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The Cooperative Election Study Won’t Save Christianity
Reading Time: 7 minutes Solid information can only be good to have. If we can’t identify and describe something that’s happening, we’ll have very little chance of predicting outcomes from it or influencing it. That’s why I found Ryan Burge’s recent post on Religion News kinda frustrating.
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Real Deconversion Story #19 – David N.
Reading Time: 11 minutes Here is another account in my series of real-life deconversion stories. They are often painful, psychological affairs, as you can see from the various accounts. Thank you to David Nicholls here who has provided this personal account. Please consider contributing your own, if you so desire. Please also check out my book of deconversion accounts, […]
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Why are there so many Gen Z atheists? Wrong answers only.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Evangelical Christians preach personal responsibility, but they’re unwilling to practice it.
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Pew Research Center survey shows young Americans are still marching away from religious myths
Reading Time: 2 minutes Those numbers are sure to get worse for believers as the Donald Trump era continues.
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I let my husband rape me, and here’s why
Reading Time: 17 minutes I have spent the last few weeks wondering if I should own this story or if I’ve said too much, but I think it’s time we have a very open and honest discussion about domestic violence and rape. The repercussions of shame and silence are far too great not to speak up. When we hear […]
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Faking it: The scandal of Michael Guglielmucci
Reading Time: 8 minutes The young man had a shaved-bald head and oxygen lines around his nose. Apparently, Michael Guglielmucci suffered from a serious form of terrifyingly aggressive cancer–but the well-fed 20-something still managed to belt out Christian worship music at the top of his clearly-quite-functional lungs with absolutely no trouble. Something wasn’t right about that image at all. […]