Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the hardest things about being a fully secular human is realizing that the universe couldn’t possibly care less whether I am happy or safe, or fulfilled, or even alive. It doesn’t help that most of the pieces of the universe all around me—the ones shaped like me—care about my happiness only fractionally more […]
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Magical, Mystical, Naturalistic Love
Reading Time: < 1 minute Some people have claimed that the concept of love is some magical force beyond scientific understanding and that is what makes it special. I respectfully disagree.
Posted inTrue Story
Letter to a pastor butting into a woman’s engagement to a nonbeliever
Reading Time: 4 minutes Dear Pastor Sean Nolan,
I was surprised by your desire to offer advice to a young woman, Kelly, who never asked for it. She is engaged and happy, and your first instinct was to tell her to break it off because she’s marrying someone who doesn’t believe in God.
Posted inFrom the Vault
When an engagement ring goes missing, an atheist comes to the rescue
Reading Time: < 1 minute Last week, Hayley Plack realized her 1.1-carat engagement ring was no longer on her finger and (as you can imagine) began freaking out. Her fiancé, Andrew Frank, didn’t have any leads. So they began retracing her steps:
Desperate, he and Plack searched their trash, picking through wet coffee filters and rotten lettuce. They re-rode her bus route and got a number for the people who clean the vehicles. At the metro station, they found the manager.
As riders walked past, Plack broke down.
“I’ll pray for you. Keep your faith in God,” the manager told them. “Let’s hope a godly person finds it.”
A godly person didn’t find it.
But it turns out an atheist did: