Sometimes Christians say that I or my philosophy express Christian ideals excellently. Sometimes atheists should revolt against such comments. But I usually love them. [Read more…]
After I Deconverted: I’ve Usually Felt Honored and Understood When Christians See Me As “Still Christian”
January 13, 2014 by Leave a Comment
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My Discussion of Gays With Right Wing Radio Host Jesse Lee Peterson (Free Audio and Transcript)
January 2, 2014 by Leave a Comment
On December 11, 2013 I appeared on the nationally syndicated Jesse Lee Peterson Show to discuss my blog post “How I Wish The Homosexuality Debate Would Go”. Usually old episodes of the show can only be heard with a subscription, but you can listen to my appearance for free by using this link for Camels [Read More…]
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Kidnapped for Christ
December 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Christian homophobia combined with sadistic Christian authoritarian fetishism of “discipline” leads to this: The Kickstarter to help finish this documentary is here. From the Kickstarter, Kidnapped for Christ follows the stories of several American teenagers who were taken from their homes and sent to an Evangelical Christian reform school known as Escuela Caribe located in the [Read More…]
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How My Best Friend Helped End My Faith and then Became an Openly Gay Monk
November 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
John Hazlet was my best friend in college. We were both philosophy majors and Christians at Grove City College, one of the nation’s most politically conservative and religiously evangelical respected liberal arts institutions. John’s struggles with his homosexuality (which he initially revealed only to me) and with suicidal ideation, and his unrestrained and relentless skeptical [Read More…]
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“No True Christian Would Do That…”
November 10, 2013 by Leave a Comment
What’s really going on when someone says that a member of their group can’t really be a TRUE member of their group because of something they said or did. There’s a lot more going on than just saying “No True Scotsman Fallacy” and being done with it acknowledges. [Read more…]
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“You Can’t Stop Teenagers From Having Sex”
November 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Don’t say “You can’t stop teenagers from having sex”. It’s not true. You can stop some of them. (I held out! And I know plenty of others who did too.) You just can’t stop enough of them with abstinence-only stuff and you just shouldn’t AIM to stop all of them with repressive anti-sex messaging. And you shouldn’t send the message to teenagers that every teenager has sex. That just says “everyone is doing it”, which pressures them to do it and makes them feel bad about themselves when they can’t find a partner or don’t want one. [Read more…]
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Is Philosophy Just A Guy Thing? Not In My Classroom. (A Response To William Lane Craig)
October 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
According to a woman named Alexandra, writing into his site, Reasonable Faith, William Lane Craig’s April newsletter “casually stereotype[d] men and women, and complain[ed] that the church is becoming increasingly feminized, and has difficulties in attracting men.” In reply to the letter, Craig proceeded to make his case that Christian apologetics has a “peculiar attraction” to [Read More…]
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Carrier Responds To Me On Whether To Argue About Historical Jesus
October 23, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In a piece called “Fincke Is Right, Arguing Jesus Didn’t Exist Should Not Be a Strategy”, Richard Carrier agrees with my thesis and my arguments in my post from Saturday. In that post I said that atheists who are laypeople with respect to history should wait for the consensus among history scholars to change before [Read More…]
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When I Deconverted: I Experienced Something Like A Spiritual Break Up
October 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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 interest or experience with missionary work. But even at Grove City, this one classmate of mine stood out to me as exuding [Read More…]
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