Recently, a Christian blogger wrote a piece for CNN about why young people seem to be fleeing Christianity. Her conclusion: “What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.” She thinks that if churches become more ritualistic (an appeal to nostalgia Read more
One of the more aggravating redefinitions toxic Christians regularly pull involves the word “convenience.” Like their other redefined words, this one’s been so stretched and warped it barely looks like its dictionary definition or common usage. Of course, not just Christians do it. Shortly after dumping Biff, I dated an Read more
What’s it like leaving Christianity? It’s like discovering you don’t need fixing–that you have value and worth as a person just because you breathe. It’s like finding out that you were scared all this time of a big cardboard cut-out that just looked like a monster in the semi-dark of Read more
The leader of the largest organized ring of child molesters on the planet, Pope Francis, says he’s not going to judge gay priests just for being gay. Yep. You heard him. Ain’t that nice of him? Let’s just see how magnanimous this kindhearted reversal really is. * His church helped Read more
Christianity’s been quietly redefining the word “love” to the point where I can’t really be sure that any Christian I talk to who uses that word is actually using it in a way that I would ever recognize.
I think it’s time we started a new direction here, and by happy chance, the direction actually landed on my lap not long ago. I ended up in a Facebook discussion regarding whether or not a Christian might feel deceived, duped, betrayed, or otherwise violated upon dying and discovering s/he Read more
I’ve been thinking lately about exactly why I reject Christianity and what I would consider validity with regard to its various claims. My answers are not what Christians might imagine!
One of the quotes going around the atheist movement is this one popularized by Carl Sagan: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” And that sentence would have spelled the end of my belief much faster if I’d heard it many years ago. It’s definitely on my list of “Stuff I Wish Read more
A bit of housekeeping: Richard Carrier is coming out with a book that deals with the historicity of Jesus Christ. I’m planning to get it at some point once it’s released and I’ll let y’all know what I thought. It should be interesting to see how my amateur analysis holds Read more
The burden of proof is a term used in debates that indicates who has to prove a claim that’s been put forth. As RationalWiki puts it, the burden of proof is the obligation that somebody presenting a new or remarkable idea has to provide evidence to support it. It is Read more