Reading Time: 9 minutes I can never figure out if I’m an atheist, or agnostic. It’s a silly struggle I have whenever something hits me right in the soul.
Parenthood
Posted inParenting & Family
I’m nonreligious, and I kind of hope reincarnation is a real thing
Reading Time: 2 minutes Like a good little Evangelical, I spent much of my childhood worried about going to heaven. Though, it wasn’t all bad. The idea that I’d get to see my little sister who passed away as a baby was comforting. When I left Christianity in my early adult years, I had no trouble ditching the Bible, […]
Posted inReligion
An Evangelical Site Tries Hard to Ignore Their Single Moms
Reading Time: 8 minutes In the April issue of Christianity Today (CT), their cover story involved the most hilarious bait-and-switch attempt I think I’ve ever seen from any Christian site, like seriously ever. In this story, CT tried to pretend that there’s some big groundswell of single evangelical women (and some men) who are adopting children rather than waiting for marriage and procreation. Today, let’s look at this story they ran — and the real one they absolutely, positively did not want to discuss — about evangelical single moms.
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The New Low Birthrate Moral Panic Evangelicals Are Stirring Up
Reading Time: 10 minutes In the wake of the pandemic, many countries are experiencing a drop in their birthrate. That won’t be surprising or big news to most of us. Nor would most of us be surprised to learn that American evangelicals themselves aren’t immune to the social forces that influence everyone else’s family planning decisions. But evangelical leaders are certainly upset about all of this. They’re trying to blame the decreasing birthrate on sin and evil ickie straw feminism, instead of taking responsibility for what’s probably actually happening. Today, let me show you the story itself — and then show you how evangelicals are freaking out about it for all the wrong reasons.
Posted inLGBTQ, Religion
The Worst ‘Father’ in the World
Reading Time: 9 minutes From all the Daddy God blathering to the Heavenly Father crowd, Christians can’t resist comparing their imaginary friend to a real live father. And more than that, in their viewpoint, he’s not just exactly like a real live father–he’s better than any human father could ever be. Today, let me show you why that idea is both nonsensical and insulting to decent fathers everywhere.
Posted inReligion
The Broken System: How Predators Keep the Prey in the Fold
Reading Time: 9 minutes Predators gravitate toward these systems because they are a reliable source of the prey they desire. Today, I’ll show you how the masters of the broken system keep the prey in the sheepfold.
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A Eulogy For My Father: All We Have Is Love
Reading Time: 8 minutes An hour or so ago, right as I sat down to write a post today, I got word that my father had passed away. (I apologize in advance if this post contains more information than you ever needed about my personal life.) Today, let me show you how weird people can get about love, and yet how precious it is for all the weirdness that erupts around it.
Posted inLGBTQ, Religion
The Gaze of Dead Children Follows Me Today
Reading Time: 12 minutes These stories are related. They both reflect an endemic issue within Christianity: its broken systems’ inability to recognize basic human rights.
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Evangelical Churn and the Chain of Pain.
Reading Time: 9 minutes As the religion becomes more and more extremist and polarized, we’ll be seeing more and more people damaged by it. Christianity–especially the right-wing versions of it–has managed to press into its adherents’ lives one of the cruelest and most heartless deceptions imaginable, and those adherents’ innocent children are the ones paying the price.
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I Wish Christians Would Quit Treating Me Like I’m Their Toddler.
Reading Time: 10 minutes I’m getting way, way, way over this trend of Christians treating non-believers like we’re their toddlers and they’re our parents. Today I’m going to show you why they do it.