Choosing Hell
If I end up in Hell I didn't choose it. It will be an inevitable result of an inability to buy the Christian religion, or any other religion for that…
Georgia’s Preservation of Religious Freedom Act and the Right to Discriminate
By now many of you have heard about Arizona S.B. 1062, which essentially grants any business or individual the right to deny services to any person based solely on their…
Gut Check for the New Atheist Jerks
Note: In this post you’ll notice that I lump various groups into a single group. I call atheists, skeptics, agnostics, and etc all Humanists – largely based on the assumption…
Book Review: Zealot by Reza Aslan
Reza Aslan has been burning up social media with his hilarious Fox News interview, which has helped his new book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth skyrocket…
Songs of the Deconverted by Jim Etchison- Review
It’s rare that I find stories that so precisely and eloquently put words to the way it felt for me as I lost my faith. It’s rare that I ever…
NakedPastor Strips Down – An interview with David Hayward
Today I’m excited to welcome David Hayward of NakedPastor.com, where he routinely practices the art of writing graffiti on the walls of religion, for an interview. Through his many controversial…
The problem with certainty
I recall being certain that God existed, that he loved me, and that he was embodied in a set of books we call the Bible. I was so certain of…
An Insurance Policy against Doubt
The Bible and the Qur’an are similar books, I’ve been clear on that before. One of the many similarities is a certain tendency to provide an insurance policy against the…
Keeping Church and State Separate – Without Compromise
Many of you have heard by now of The Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church, in Pike County Kentucky whose membership recently voted to disallow membership, marriage, and some participation in worship…
Reason for the Season
The time of year has come again where Christians all over the US are proclaiming that “Jesus is the Reason for the Season” and that they intend to “Keep Christ…