Analyzing Christianity
Authenticity, and how TRUE CHRISTIANITY™ destroys it
We’re going to look at how Christians market themselves as the only place to find authenticity, and then we’ll see how their tribe tramples it to the ground.
Gaming
Competitive gaming: Gamemaster vs. players
When it comes to gaming, I’m all about creating and telling a great story with other people. But there’s a lid for every pot, and long ago my pot was shaped differently. When I first got involved in tabletop gaming and video games, I found my bliss in competitive gaming, Read more
Analyzing Christianity
How to tell if you’re a TRUE CHRISTIAN™, according to TRUE CHRISTIANS™
The simple truth of the matter is that every Christian is a TRUE CHRISTIAN™ — because none of them really are.
Analyzing Christianity
Certainty about uncertainty: The surefire solution to deconstruction
‘Is God even real?’ I cried aloud with a cracking voice. ‘Or is that, too, just a lie?’ And the ceiling answered as it always had: with silence.
Analyzing Christianity
Christians think they don’t change their message—it changes them, except they do and it doesn’t
Out of every bit of Christianese I’ve heard lately, this might be one of the chirpiest and most annoying.
Analyzing Christianity
Not one jot or tittle: How evangelicals constantly change the Bible
Evangelicals have long ago figured out ways to change whatever they want in the Bible.
Analyzing Christianity
Prayer: Why Christians always ‘forget to pray’
If prayer worked even in the bastardized way that Southern Baptists think it works, nobody’d ever need reminding to do it.
Analyzing Christianity
Confuse ’em and lose ’em: Christian thought stoppers
Thought stoppers are super-meaningful-sounding statements that don’t actually say anything substantive—and can’t really even be defined at all. The further into wackadoodlery a flavor of Christianity is, the more thought stoppers we’ll find there, and for good reason.
Analyzing Christianity
Knowledge: Starting from scratch after deconversion
Unlearning all the faulty logic and pseudoscience I’d learned while Christian was tough. But I had a much tougher time with unlearning how I’d learned how to learn and what knowing something actually means. I’d thought I had a handle on how to assess and absorb knowledge, but I was completely wrong.
Analyzing Christianity
The pro-life clinic manual that deconverted me from Christianity
I started reading this CPC manual as a firm, fervent Christian. I ended it weeping, devastated, and windmilling my arms over the ledge of apostasy.