In this post I tour you through the best new blog I have found this year. Toranse’s blog Speaking when the world sleeps is a must-read contributor to discussions of rape in general and of the abusiveness of Christian purity culture in particular.
Shocking! Religious zealot (and American citizen!) calls for the destruction of the United States!
May 5, 2013 By 2 Comments
God’s Embarrassing Diary
May 4, 2013 By 1 Comment
Why I Define Faith Philosophically As Inherently Irrational and Immoral
April 26, 2013 By 36 Comments
I think that people of faith are often very slippery about what they mean by the word faith. In this post I argue for why this definition I have worked out (or something very similar) should be seen as standard:
Faith is willfully committing (whether explicitly or implicitly) to a relationship (or relationships) of trust, loyalty, hope, and/or belief (a) beyond perceived rational warrant, (b) against perceived predominance of counter evidence of untrustworthiness, and/or (c) against all possible future counter-evidence that may undermine currently perceived evidence of trustworthiness.
Click the headline of this post to read my case.
Why Atheists Resent Being Told We Are Going To Hell
April 17, 2013 By 146 Comments
Yesterday I was rather surprised that one of my very most politically progressive, most liberally theist, and most pro-atheist friends asked me why atheists sometimes get upset (even apoplectic) about being told we’re going to hell. This friend asked why this should bother us if we thought the idea that we were going to hell [...]
A Powerful Account of One Ex-Christian’s Journey to Apostasy
April 7, 2013 By 18 Comments
Above is a beautifully made video that Prpl Fox made about his deconversion from Christianity. As I did, Prpl Fox deconverted as a 21 year old college senior. I recommend this video summing up his story to Christians who want to learn how to love and understand apostates and to the many atheists who identify [...]
If The Ten Commandments Really Were The Basis Of Our Legal System
January 1, 2013 By 6 Comments
If the Ten Commandments were really the basis of our laws, they’d be a lot less tolerable.
“Georgia”, A One Woman Play About Rape In Relationships
December 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
For this week’s Camels With Hammers Show I interviewed the playwright and actress Fariso Jordan about her subtle, nuanced, conversation starting one woman play Georgia which examines the theme of rape within committed relationships.
What It’s Like Being An Atheist In Saudi Arabia
November 21, 2012 By 2 Comments
William Bauer interviews a Saudi atheist: “Please bear in mind, that people are witch hunting for us…so be careful which details you use,” Jabir begins. He is right to be concerned, for he is an atheist in a country where advocating beliefs other than those of a Sunni Muslim engender imprisonment, possible torture, and a [...]
Why I Write About My Deconversion
November 11, 2012 By 16 Comments
“I aim to make clear to Christians that I was one of them, that all my life was willingly committed to their God and that all my emotions were on the side of their God when my intellect was dissuaded against my will. I was not, as much as they want to assume, looking to leave Christianity, biased against Christianity, unable or unwilling to dutifully follow the rules of Christianity, disposed against the God of Christianity, unfamiliar with the most sophisticated philosophical or theological versions of Christianity, or unfamiliar with how wonderful Christians or Christian community could be. I had been there, done that, and despite wanting nothing more than to believe, I had found that I could no longer believe–either rationally or ethically. The best arguments for the faith had failed. The best arguments against it were overwhelming. And as a matter of intellectual and moral conscience, I could no longer believe fantastic claims that had the preponderance of rational evidence stacked overwhelmingly against them. I deconverted against my will.”
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