When I was in high school, we started going to these Worldview Weekend conferences. I don’t remember much specifically about them–I went to a ton of these conservative type conferences over the course of my life, and they’re all pretty much the same: liberals/atheists/homosexuals/Democrats/public schools/pick your poison are destroying the country, and we must fight [...]

Joel is a preacher’s kid who has spent the last few years getting out of that. He’s still a Christian, but what strikes me about his posts are how similar they sound to what I would have written if I’d had a blog those years. Maybe that’s why I like his writing so much, and [...]

This is neat! Godless Blogger did the math on Noah’s Ark and came to some very interesting conclusions! The Bible math is, of course, off. Way off. Check it out: Now let’s talk ark dimensions. 450′ x 75′ and it had 3 stories (45′) which is 101,250 sq ft. Obviously with smaller animals it will [...]

My favorite day to be an atheist is definitely Sunday. More so now that I am staying with my parents, watching them rush around in the morning so they can make the hour drive to church while I sit cozily in my pj’s in a big comfy chair reading A Brief History of Time. I [...]

After giving an interview to James yesterday, one of the questions he asked stuck out in my mind. He asked me something along the lines of why did I think Christians were so judgmental. I said something about the dichotomy of Paul’s teachings (ie, “expel the immoral brother!”) vs. Jesus’ teachings (ie, “Judge not lest [...]

I discovered PostSecret while still in the ministry and read it faithfully every week, sobbing every time. It’s one reason how I know I have grown: I can now look at the secrets I can relate to and feel for the writer, but I don’t fall to pieces anymore. Yesterdays’ post was full of good [...]

You know there’s something wrong with the abstinence movement when young people are discouraged from reading parts of the Bible! We were encouraged not to read Song of Solomon, aka Song of Songs, as single people, because it was so sensual. I think it was because the woman is described in a way that Solomon [...]

Leah, a former Mormon who blogs at The Whore of All the Earth, asked on Thursday how we have replaced prayer in our lives if we used to be religious. I realized, a bit surprised, that I don’t miss prayer at all. In fact, I feel a lot less stressed because of it! Prayer for [...]

My parents, good Christians that they were, carefully monitored everything we watched on television. Very few modern shows were allowed, with even certain G-rated movies deemed “inappropriate.” (They have, by the way, relaxed a bit over the last few years.) Instead, we watched quite a few rather horrendous Christian B-movies. Some of these included the [...]

There is one thing I never understood about Baptist theologians. With Ph.D.’s in theology, they claim that Jesus is their best friend. How can you be best friends with someone you have to have a Ph.D. to understand? I found it rather confusing because person A believed a certain passage asserted a particular cultural value [...]