Roll to Disbelieve: Gaming Super Special! (#5)
In these off-topic specials, I curate some oldies-but-goodies together on a theme. Today’s theme is GAMING.
In these off-topic specials, I curate some oldies-but-goodies together on a theme. Today’s theme is GAMING.
Whether you’re excited, a little tuckered out from all that winter cheer, or feeling distinctly Grinchy, below you’ll find some reading material from years gone past.
I took my religion’s claims seriously. In other words, I expected our claims to stand up to the same basic testing and investigation that any other claim would get. WOW, did that attitude not go over well! So today, Lord Snow Presides over how I got (gently) smacked down for daring to suggest a formal test of one of my church’s biggest miracle claims.
If you’re totally losing patience with some of the people you’re around this weekend, then come hang out here! I’ve got plenty of stuff to read, and on the internet, nobody can tell that you’re hiding in the guest bathroom.
We’ve been talking lately about how Christians treat the people they’re trying to recruit. Sales-minded Christians often borrow strategies from the Bible, and this one is no exception: cold reading. I’ll show you what it is, why Christians like it, what they think is happening when they do it, and–of course–what’s really Read more
Need some extra reading material? Stuck waiting at home for the trick-or-treaters to ring the doorbell? Want to get acquainted with some of the blog’s older hits? Here’s your Super Special! Happy Halloween!
A while ago, I wrote about why I deconverted. I’ve also written about some of the reasons I believed in Christianity. Or at least, these were the reasons I thought I believed. Today, I want to show you what the main underpinnings of my belief were, and how I figured out that those underpinnings weren’t true.
Most people have likely heard of the Bible verse advising that people must be born again in order to avoid the monstrous Hell that the Christian god created. To be sure, most Christians know about it. Fundagelicals take that idea more seriously than most other Christians do, though. I’ll show you what that phrase means to them, and why they tend to do it way more than just once.
In this blog’s first year, I spent a few months outlining all the different elements that went into my deconversion. I haven’t formally talked much about it since. Now, here, I want to put my deconversion ex-timony into one post. Here’s how–and more importantly why–I deconverted from Christianity, and why I won’t ever go back to it or any other religion.
One of the biggest lies told by fake abortion clinics is that they are actually medical clinics, meaning that they are medical offices staffed by people knowledgeable about pregnancy and facilitating and educating about all the options available for pregnant women. They’re anything but. I’ll show you the first few pages from a CPC manual scan that a reader sent to me, which ought to settle that question nicely.