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Categories (Menu)
- Most Popular Posts
- Why Did I Leave My Religion?
- What Is Life After Religion Like?
- Christianity and Learning to Hate Yourself
- An Atheist Revisits the Bible
- An Atheist Revisits the Church
- What I Wish Christians Understood
- What I Wish Atheists Understood
- Posts About Hell
- Politics and Social Issues in America
- Family Issues: Loving Across the Divide of Faith
- Godless Goes to the Movies
- Apologetics Posts
Most Popular Posts
- What I Learned About Atheists from God’s Not Dead
- The Sequel to God’s Not Dead Happened in My Classroom, But in Reverse
- What Does the Bible Say About Abortion?
- Our Biggest Mistake: We Did As We Were Told
- Persecute Me, Please: God’s Not Dead 2 and the Evangelical Lust for Victimhood
- Ten Things Christians Accidentally Tell Me About Themselves
- Why Do Intelligent, Well-Educated People Still Believe Nonsense?
- None of This Really Happened
- The Most Fantastically Failed Prayer in History
- What Christians Mean When They Use the Word “Atheist”
- How to Love an Atheist (If You’re Very Religious)
- What Leaving My Religion Did for Me (featured in TIME)
- The “Nones” vs. the “Dones”
- Christianity Has a Major Boundary Problem
- Anti-Humanism: How Evangelicalism Taught Me the Art of Self-Loathing
Why Did I Leave My Religion?
- Why I Broke Up with Jesus
- The Two Main Reasons I Left My Faith
- Our Biggest Mistake: We Did As We Were Told
- How the Bible Helped Me to Become an Atheist
- Leaving My Religion Was Nothing Like Entering It
What Is Life After Religion Like?
- Why Even Nice Atheists Are Offensive to the Faithful
- What Leaving My Religion Did for Me (also featured in TIME)
- Things You Don’t Get Back After You Leave Your Faith
- Grieving the Loss of Your Faith (by Matt Oxley)
- The High Cost of Leaving Your Faith
- I Belong to Me: Learning Agency and Consent Outside Christianity
- How Toy Story Illustrates When I Lost My Faith
- Outgrowing Your Atheist Closet (Video)
- Where Does an Atheist Find Purpose?
- Let the Stars Be My Guide
- Becoming Human
- Learning to Feel at Home in Our Own Skin
- An Atheist’s Take on the “Spirituality” of Sex
- Songs of My Deconversion
- Letting Go of a God Who Holds Everything
- Without an Afterlife, How Do You Deal with Grief?
- Finding Good Without God
- How Do You Deal with Your Own Fear of Death?
- Removing the Fig Leaf: A New Blog About Sexuality Without Shame
- The Perils of Worshiping a Perfectionist God (by Holly Baer)
- Why Don’t You Move On?
Christianity and Learning to Hate Yourself
- Anti-Humanism: How Evangelicalism Taught Me the Art of Self-Loathing
- So Long, Self: How Christianity Teaches You to Hate Yourself
- Evangelical Christianity and Low Self-Esteem
- Body Shame 101: Lies the Church Told Me about My Own Sexuality (by Dani Kelley)
- We Are Not Broken
- How Faith Breaks Your Thinker
- How Faith Breaks Your Feeler
- The Dark Side of Grace
- Are Human Beings Fundamentally Wicked?
- Is Humanity Fundamentally “Broken?” (A Conversation)
- Christianity Has a Major Boundary Problem
- How Christianity Stunted My Relational Growth
- The Church Doesn’t Get to Make the Rules About Sex Anymore
- Why Circumcision is a Perfect Picture of the Christian Faith
- The Predatory Side of Religion
- Shame on You for Thinking Prayer Does Anything
An Atheist Revisits the Bible
- The Absurdity of Inerrancy
- The Greatest Story Never Told
- What Does the Bible Say About Abortion?
- None of This Really Happened
- An Atheist’s Defense of the Historicity of Jesus
- Paul, the True Founder of Christianity
- Loving Jesus But Not the Bible
- Anti-Intellectualism and the Bible
- Father Abraham Had Many Psychoses
- What the Story of Lot Tells Me About the Bible
- I Drew the Line at Canaan
- But That Was Just the Old Testament, Right?
- How Hell Became the Opposite of What It Was Meant to Be
- Five Times When Jesus Sounded Like a Humanist
- It’s Better to Give Than to Receive
- The God of the Bible Is Not Above Performing Party Tricks
- The Christmas that Wasn’t
- Deconstructing the End of the World
An Atheist Revisits the Church
- Dear Church, You’re Weird
- The Dark Side of Grace
- God as a Terrible Parent
- Why Christians Don’t Like Sharing Their Faith
What I Wish Christians Understood
- What Atheists Wish Christians Knew About Them (Video)
- How to Love an Atheist (If You’re Very Religious)
- Please Don’t Hold Me at Arm’s Length
- Your Religion May Be Harmful If…
- Christianity Has a Major Boundary Problem
- Shoot Christians Say to Me (Video)
- You Were Never Really One of Us
- Can You Choose NOT to Believe?
- It’s a Religion, Too, Not Just a Relationship
- Your Love Is Toxic
- It’s Not Just the Messengers, It’s the Message, Too
- On the Futility of Using Jesus to Make People Care
- What I Hear When You Say “Not All Christians”
- Quoting the Bible Doesn’t Work Like a Jedi Mind Trick
- What Praising God in the Storm Reveals About Faith
- The Kind of Church That Benefits the World
- Agnostic or Atheist? What’s the Difference? (Video)
- Does Everyone Worship Something?
- Why Atheists Like Me Keep Talking About God
What I Wish Atheists Understood
- Why Do Intelligent, Well-Educated People Still Believe Nonsense?
- What Can Humanism Learn from Christianity?
- Maybe Fighting God Isn’t the Point
- What Christians Mean When They Use the Word “Atheist”
- Why I Believed the Bible for As Long As I Did
- Stop Saying That Teaching Children Creationism Is Child Abuse
- Critiquing Religion without Being a Jerk
- I Am Not a Freethinker (and Neither Are You)
- The Diplomats and Firebrands Can Be Friends (Video)
- The Core of the Christian Faith Isn’t Intellectual, It’s Emotional
- When Beliefs Are “Too Big to Fail”
- September 11th and the Birth of New Atheism
- What Lies Beneath the Suit of Armor
- It’s All About the Cape
- Why I Keep Talking to People Who Won’t Listen
- The Sociology of Belief
- The Real Roots of Our Beliefs
- How Faith is Like Playing Minecraft
- Maybe Belief Is a Matter of Choice for Some
- Thirty Percent of Americans Are Really Atheists? Says Who?
- Why Abrasive Atheism Will Always Sell Better
- It’s Past Time for Atheism to Grow Up
- Religion Isn’t Our Biggest Problem
Posts About Hell
- Why I Reject Hell and Why You Should, Too
- FAQ: Do You Ever Still Worry About Hell?
- Absolving God from Hell
- Hell 2.0: Same Eternal Punishment, Now With Fewer Flames!
- Is It Loving to Warn People About Hell?
- You’re (Not) Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone?
- How Hell Became the Opposite of What It Was Meant to Be
Politics and Social Issues in America
- Religious Liberty Is a Two-Edged Sword
- Persecute Me, Please: God’s Not Dead 2 and the Evangelical Lust for Victimhood
- Setting the Record Straight: Correcting Tim Keller’s Faulty Historical Vision
- Do We Really Want More Religion in Our Politics?
- Billy Graham Was Not a Great Man
- Without Evangelicals, the Republican Party Would Be History
- GOP: The Anti-Jesus Party
- How the GOP Convinced Evangelicals to Neglect the Poor
- Evangelicals Just Don’t Care
- On the Futility of Using Jesus to Make People Care
- When Bullies Think They’re Victims
- The Return of Jesus and the Radicalization of American Politics
- Baptists Should Know Better Than to Declare the Bible the Official State Book
- What Riots in Ferguson Should Tell Us About the State of Our Union
- Evangelicals Have a Hard Time Seeing Racism
- Why Can’t You See the System Is Rigged?
- Donald Trump and the Missing White Voter
- The Real Reason Trump Was Elected
- When Being a Good Christian Means Being a Bad American
- When Political Pandering Turns Dangerous (Video)
- Religion Isn’t Our Biggest Problem
Family Issues: Loving Across the Divide of Faith
- Advice for the Unequally Yoked
- Help! My Husband Has Become an Atheist!
- Help! My Grandchildren Are Becoming Calvinists
- FAQ: Advice About “Coming Out” Atheist to My Spouse?
- In Faith and In Doubt: Practical Help for Mixed Faith Marriages (book review)
- Should Atheists Attend Church Functions to Please Family and Friends?
- When Tribe Trumps Family
- When the In-Laws Try to Help
- Why Does Apostasy Hurt Some More Than Others?
Godless Goes to the Movies
- How Toy Story Illustrates When I Lost My Faith
- How the Wizard of Oz Illustrates Leaving Your Faith
- Nim’s Island and the Reason for God
- Faith and the Power of a Magic Feather
- God Does Exist (Review of A Beautiful Mind)
- Groundhog Day: Finding Purpose Even If There’s No Tomorrow
- What I Learned About Atheists from God’s Not Dead
- Persecute Me, Please: God’s Not Dead 2 and the Evangelical Lust for Victimhood
- Parables of Belief: A Beautiful Mind, Watchmen, and Castaway
- Big Fish and the Resurrection of Jesus
- Chocolat and the Impotence of Religion
- Into the Woods: A Closer Look at Our Scapegoats and Reviled Saviors
- Interstellar Dilemma: What Would Yahweh Do?
- Men Who Stare at Facts
- Babe: Learning About Humans from Watching a Pig
- My Life in Movies: Inception
- My Life in Movies: The Matrix
- The Last Jedi and Losing Your Religion
Apologetics Posts
- Apologetics Isn’t for the Lost, It’s for the Saved
- What Will Save Us from Our Own Subjectivity?
- How Faith Breaks Your Thinker
- Confronting the Lies
- The Most Fantastically Failed Prayer in History
- But What If You’re Wrong?
- What If Christianity Were True?
- Shoot Christians Say to Me (Video)
- Do Atheists Have Faith?
- John Piper and the Art of Not Answering a Question
- Apologetics: Preaching to the Choir
- The Christian’s Wager: Why Faith Is a Bigger Gamble Than Disbelief
- Does Science Really “Make the Case for God?”
- C.S. Lewis and the Argument from Spilled Milk
- Changing the Subject
- The Motive of the Questioner Is Beside the Point
- Presuppositional Atheism: Turning a Bad Argument Around (by The Apostate)
- Does It Take Faith to Be an Atheist?
- I Drew the Line at Canaan
- Why God Cannot Forsake You
- Games Christians Play: Making Your Faith Impossible to Disprove (see also abridged version)
- How Can Atheists Have Morals? (part one) and (part two)
- Why Don’t We Have Christian Meteorology?
- Does Evolution Contradict Christianity?
- The Core of the Christian Faith Isn’t Intellectual, It’s Emotional
- Advice for Our Young Apologist Friends
- Religion and the Nepotism of the Mind
- What Lies Beneath the Suit of Armor