When I Deconverted: I Experienced Something Like A Spiritual Break Up
1996-2000: At Grove City College, the evangelical Christian college where I was an undergraduate, it was common to the point of utterly mundane to meet spiritually intense people who had one degree of...
View ArticleGod, Objective Morality, and the Difference Between Knowing and Accounting For
Many theists think, and argue, that God must exist for objective morality to exist.This claim can be interpreted more than one way. When arguing with theists, it is shrewd, for purposes of honesty,...
View ArticleBetween a Veil and a Dark Place
A huge gap in the religion and atheist blogospheres has recently been filled–an entire blog network devoted to ex-Muslim bloggers now exists. It’s called ExMuslim Blogs. I doubt I need to tell you why...
View ArticleAmerican Humanist Association Stops Public School From Allowing...
In the video below, Megyn Kelly is extremely obnoxious and hostile to American Humanist Association President Roy Speckhardt for having the audacity to stop a school from violating the Constitution....
View ArticleNot In JT’s Backyard
Back in the olden days before I read blogs (or wrote one), I used to listen to pundits who were intellectually or morally infuriatingly wrong and get so frustrated. There would be three related...
View ArticleMy Interview With Blind, Openly Atheist Congressional Candidate James Woods...
James Woods is running for a seat in the United States Congress. He is running unopposed in the Democratic primary for Arizona’s 5th Congressional District. He is blind and an open atheist. Below is...
View ArticleHandy Summation of Legal Limits on Prayer at Legislative Sessions
Greece v. Galloway gave much too much latitude for sectarian prayer at legislative meetings. (I’m against all ceremonial prayers at all government sponsored events for the reasons I spelled out in this...
View ArticleSecular Coalition’s Lobby Day 2014 and Top 51 Must Read List
So, I just got an e-mail alerting me to two neat things from Secular Coalition For America. The first thing is that they have published a list recommending 51 “must read” sources of news and opinion...
View ArticleJohn Oliver Brings Hilarious Skeptical Education
John Oliver is doing a spectacular job in his show of mainstreaming the sorts of critical analyses that you often have to turn to the scientific community or the skeptics community for. He’s hilarious...
View ArticleBefore and After I Deconverted: The Development of My Sexual Imagination
This post is sexually explicit. Don’t read it if that makes you uncomfortable. And it’s about my own personal sexual interests. So you’ve been doubly warned if that makes you doubly uncomfortable. When...
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