Reading Time: < 1 minute Todd is dead. Dead. But what does that even mean? What is death? What even is Todd? What happens when a god kills itself?
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Whittenberger’s Heaven & Hell – What Would Yours Be?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Here is what Gary Whittenberger offered as his coherent version of heaven and hell in response to my article on the notion that heaven and hell are binary and yet all of human moral activities sit along various different continua. Thanks for this interesting article. You said “The only sensible way around this is some […]
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Naturalistic Afterlife: If Theists Can Do It, Why Can’t We?
Reading Time: 2 minutes The other day, Rizdek made some fascinating comments that aligned typical theistic epistemology with what can then be applied to nontheistic claims. His comments were as follows: It seems either that something came literally from nothing/nothingness or that something exists eternally. I understand the theist believes that something which exists eternally, in a timeless state, […]
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To Hell With It
Reading Time: < 1 minute Blinky wonders and Spatsby has answers. Believe it all with or without good reason or you’ll be sorry. Thus saith holy deity, Todd.
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7 Reasons to Stop Believing in Hell
Reading Time: 9 minutes I receive a good many emails and private messages from friends who still struggle with the fear of Hell. The curious thing about this is that most of these people have quit believing in God for all intents and purposes. Most of them have left the religions of their youth (or of their young adult […]
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Spider baby VIII – All Spiders Go to Heaven
Reading Time: < 1 minute Stephanie the spider, alas, is no more. But what lessons will be learned from her tragic loss?
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Is Belief in Hell Inherently Hateful?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Exclusionary theologies are common, but that doesn’t make them benign.
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I’m Not Responsible For My Son’s Soul
Reading Time: 4 minutes Because I don’t believe in a wrathful god or an afterlife of pain, I don’t feel a responsibility to turn my son into an ideological carbon copy of me.
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Ten Questions About Christianity: Answered.
Reading Time: 9 minutes Nobody needs to ask stuff they already know. There’s a certain element of insularity and naivete to these questions that is almost charming.
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Why Do Anti-Choice Christians Believe Abortion Is Bad?
Reading Time: 2 minutes What opportunity does earthly life offer besides the opportunity to damn ourselves?