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Salvaging Santa
This year has been a bit disappointing for Santa believers. Fewer and fewer souls seem to be taking the Santa story seriously. Anti-santaists have been enticing young minds away from the Christmas magic that has been essential in the maintenance of a...
WWJD Series: Jesus, Thoughtcrime and Eternal Anguish
There are those who leave Christianity, or refuse to join it, yet still have nothing bad to say about Jesus. Christianity, yes, but not Jesus. For me, though, once I stopped believing that Jesus was fully God and fully human, I had a hard time seeing...
Hearing Voices
Imagine a blind man called Henry who, during his appendectomy, has an electronic device secretly planted deep in his ear by an mischievous surgeon called Richard. This device has the capacity to transmit sound to Henry whenever Richard wishes from ne...
The myth of the virgin birth of Jesus
We have spent a considerable time on this blog, addressing Biblical myths. HeIsSailing wrote on several myths of the Bible including the Leviathan, the creation story, the tower of Babel, the origins of languages, and the Crucifixion story. I compile...
The Inscrutable Jehovah
Theism begins with a commitment to absurdity. It revels in mysteries, embraces paradoxes, and wallows in warm credulity while reason is buried in a mudslide of illogical affirmations. It sees no need to apologize for belief where the evidence is not ...
Reasons for my de-conversion (4 of 4)
I hope I have adequately described our inherent weaknesses in cognition (Part I), emotions (Part II) and dogmatism (Part III). Perhaps I can now continue with some of the reasons why I dismiss the notion of a personal god. First, much of the ontology...
Reasons for my de-conversion (3 of 4)
In Part I, I discussed the fragility of human cognition, and the myth of the virtue of faith. In Part II, I discussed the enormous deficiency in human cognition coupled with a propensity to rely on emotions to construct our belief system. Now let...
Reasons for my de-conversion (Part II)
In Part I, I discussed the fragility of human cognition, and the myth of the virtue of faith. There remains one more important question. Why do so many people believe in a personal god? Nearly all religions posit a “god-size” hole of the psyche t...
Reasons for my de-conversion (2 of 4)
In Part I, I discussed the fragility of human cognition, and the myth of the virtue of faith. There remains one more important question. Why do so many people believe in a personal god? Nearly all religions posit a “god-size” hole of the psyche t...
Reasons for my de-conversion (Part I)
I have recently been asked by several individuals to detail the reasons behind my de-conversion from Christianity to my current position of agnosticism. As a preface to this, I’d like to state my general disposition towards Christianity. I spent ov...
Reasons for my de-conversion (1 of 4)
I have recently been asked by several individuals to detail the reasons behind my de-conversion from Christianity to my current position of agnosticism. As a preface to this, I’d like to state my general disposition towards Christianity. I spent ov...
A Bible Command that Backfires
Take a look at this verse: Titus 3:10 “Warn a divisive person once, and then warn him a second time. After that, have nothing to do with him.” Now think about it. This command says to separate from divisive people. Hmmm. Consider: by havi...
“No God” #1 trending topic on Twitter
In a classic case of irony, Christians tried to get the statement “No God, No Peace. Know God, Know Peace” to trend today on Twitter. The result of this effort was the phrase “No God” became the #1 trending topic. Please und...
My surgery: A test of my non-faith
On Monday, 12 October, a few days after my 44th birthday, I had surgery on my cervical spine to replace two degenerative discs. This could almost be classed as an emergency surgery since I started having severe pain three weeks prior when my left C7...
The Wedding Saga: My Dilemma
Hold onto your pants, boys and girls, the following sick and humorous story is true… A couple months ago, an elder at my family church was reprimanded and kicked out for having an “improper hermeneutic”. Apparently he was beginning ...
Take this, Transcendental Argument for God’s Existence…
So, I know I’ve said recently I wanted to get away from all of this, but I just couldn’t help but post this because I find it amusing… It occurred to me today that probably the core loophole in all of theism is found in the inheren...
seek and ye shall find…. but what?
I've been reading the comments here lately and I have noticed that a lot of Christian readers say the same things over and over again: "If you REALLY had been a Christian you would have never de-converted." Now the details of the statements differ ...
What can I know?
I was a seminary-trained pastor who felt responsible for those I pastored. I was responsible for telling them the truth, and more- for pointing to the Truth, the Way and the Life. My problem was that I could not figure out what the truth (or Truth) w...
Gay Scientists Isolate Christian Gene (very funny!!!)
Posted in d-C Tagged: christianity, gay, homosexuality, religion ...
The de-conversion journey of a Christian musician
My story isn’t strange—born into a Christian home, raised into a Christian lifestyle and led a faithful Christian life as an adult. I was a missionary for six years, both living overseas and operating from a stateside base from which to travel. ...
To Christians: What is morality to me, an atheist?
To my Christian readers: By far, the most common argument I see made against atheists is that while they have moral standards, they do not have a defense of morality and therefore are "borrowing" from a Theistic (e.g. Christian) worldview every time...
Do YOU believe the Bible is true?
Posted in The de-Convert Tagged: Bible, christianity, religion ...
Overcoming the “Convert Everyone” Mentality
As I have left the faith this last year and half, I have watched old ideas shed themselves from my mind systematically. One of these ideas was the mentality that said I should always be paying attention to / worrying about what other people "think". ...
Forum Feature: My de-conversion “coming out” letter to my family
Well, after finally writing down my de-conversion story, I have finally sat down to write the “coming out” letter to the family. With everyone on Facebook, it’s all eventually going to come out anyway, and I’ve frankly gotten ...
Hot-For-Jesus Former Fundie de-Conversion Story… abridged
I've been meaning to submit this story for a long time. However, whenever I feel the urge to testify regarding my former life as a born-again evangelical fundamentalist christian, I head to my blog and throw a little piece of my former self onto my ...
A Silent Departure (my de-Converstion story)
I have been reading articles here for awhile now, intending to share my own de-conversion story eventually. I must say, I’ve been impressed with the tone of this site. It seems like a great place for thoughtful interaction. For someone who is jus...
A Look Inside The Evangelical Mind
It can be easy to feel superior to theists who blindly follow around like docile then alternately hostile sheep, parroting whatever nonsense is fed to them by their minister or media of choice. They can seem stupid, however they are smart enough in s...
Walking away from Christianity gaining in popularity
theBEattitude recently posted a post on his blog entitled “Losing my religion. Why I recently walked away from Christianity.“ For the past few days the post has been one of WordPress’ top posts. According to the author on his ...
10 Reasons Atheists Are More Moral Than Religious Fundamentalists
While most atheists are faced with answering how they can be moral without a god, I have a list of 10 reasons that the irreligious are morally superior to religious fundamentalists. In my experience, the bible goes on, especially in the old testamen...
Was I saved or brainwashed?
Part 3 of My journey into and, later, out of Christianity A few weeks ago, ironically when I’d been planning to speak at an atheist meeting, I went to church with evangelical friends. I almost called them fundies, but I’m not always sure what tha...
