Mailbag – Why Did You Leave the Church?
I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, that’s largely because I’ve been preparing for a live debate coming up on September 17th between myself and Rip Snow…
Why Cling to Faith?
Those who fully embrace doubt do so at the expense of every comfort they've ever known.
Defending God and Genocide
I don’t spend the time on Facebook and Twitter making trouble (read: attempting to dialogue with Christians) that I once did . I do, on occasion, find reason enough to…
World Vision, Gay Marriage, and the Death Throes of the Christian Religion
Note: This blog would have been posted much sooner than it was – unfortunately a series of unfortunate events have occurred around myself and some of my friends, including the…
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…
On Being Nothing: Strong Belief, Strong Doubt, and the Skeptics Role
Authors note: This post will use a lot of Christian catch phrases and paraphrase a lot of Bible verses, so if I use the term “soul” I’m not stating…
Testimony of a Dying Man
Last night a friend of me sent something to me from a friend of his who is dying. I don’t know the man who wrote this personally and his name…
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…
Tragedy sans God
Prior to last week I had never been to a funeral for a friend. I’ve been to funerals of course; when the parents of one of my friends died and…
Finding common ground with an evangelist street preacher
What’s a street preacher doing here? This last Saturday I was doing some audio work at the local Pondtown Festival; a little arts, crafts, and music festival in the tiny…