What if I told you the book of Revelation really does have something to say to our current political situation? In post-Christian discussion groups online, people often ask what we are to make of this confusing book now that we’ve left our faith, and it turns out at the moment that it might be the most relevant book in the whole Bible. What’s Revelation About? So much has been said about this book over the centuries, and most of it… Read more
January 15, 2019
Why the Book of Revelation is Suddenly Relevant
January 15, 2019 By Neil Carter
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January 10, 2019
Why God Can Never Be Wrong
January 10, 2019 By Neil Carter
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I’ve labored for years now trying to articulate the main reasons why I left my faith—or as I prefer to say, why my faith left me—but the slipperiest explanation continues to elude me. Yesterday morning I read a post from a friend that may help me capture what I’ve been trying to say. I’ll get to that in a second. But first, the question she asked. She wondered aloud how God could allow a child to be tortured and killed… Read more
January 8, 2019
An Immodest Proposal
January 8, 2019 By Neil Carter
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Imagine for a moment that you’ve been approached by an exceptionally attractive billionaire. Well, not by him personally, but by one of his employees. And he tells you that his wealthy employer wants to ask for your hand in marriage! It’s a lot to take in, right? I know. But it’s totally legit. It’s a really big commitment…a binding, lifelong contract, in fact…and the prenup contains no small amount of fine print. He is a billionaire, after all. There are… Read more
January 4, 2019
A Christ-Haunted People
January 4, 2019 By Neil Carter
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“If our hope in Christ is for this life only, we should of all mankind be the most to be pitied!” (1 Cor. 15:19) This startling admission has been rolling around inside my head since I first read it nearly three decades ago, made all the more remarkable by the fact that it came straight from the horse’s mouth—from the apostle Paul himself. Of course, most Christians would insist that Jesus was the true founder of the Christian faith, but… Read more
January 2, 2019
The Best of Godless in Dixie in 2018
January 2, 2019 By Neil Carter
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Last year was a very. long. year. Remember Yanny vs. Laurel? That was in mid-May. I reminded my children of that and they were completely incredulous. I’m old enough to remember when newsworthy events only happened once a week, or even once a month. In 2018 it seems the news cycle completely respawned every 48 hours or so, making a week feel more like a month, and a month feel more like an entire year. It feels like we all aged… Read more
December 25, 2018
Santa’s Wager: What If You’re Wrong?
December 25, 2018 By Lori Arnold
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Over the past couple of months, my six-year-old son has become more and more interested in parsing out fact from fiction. With the Christmas holidays approaching, the subject of Santa’s existence starting cropping up a lot. He began asking me questions like, “How does Santa get into Daddy’s house if Daddy doesn’t have a chimney?” or “How do the elves make toys like video games?” Like a good skeptic, I kept turning it back to him to come up with… Read more
December 11, 2018
Why Christianity Keeps Producing Hypocrites
December 11, 2018 By Neil Carter
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Few things are more central to human nature than hypocrisy. In a way, our whole existence is a lifelong attempt to “fake it till you make it.” We learn by imitation, which means we are always pretending to be something which we have not yet become…right up until the moment that we’re no longer faking it. That’s why imposter syndrome is such a common struggle. But in time we become what we mimic; as historian Will Durant reminds us in paraphrasing… Read more
December 4, 2018
Deconstructing My Religion: A CBS Documentary (Video)
December 4, 2018 By Neil Carter
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Last night CBS Religion & Culture aired a short documentary (26:55) about the ongoing struggles of people who were raised in evangelical Christian churches but later left them for any one of dozens of possible reasons. Followers of this blog know that’s very much in my wheelhouse, and some may even remember CBS Sunday Morning including me in one of their previous treatments of this subject as a part of their coverage of the Openly Secular campaign. They interviewed half… Read more
December 3, 2018
What’s a Church For, Anyway?
December 3, 2018 By Neil Carter
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I recently wrote about a revelation of sorts that I feel I need to unpack a bit more. I attended a large Baptist church in an affluent community not too far from where I live and witnessed first-hand how sincerely some white evangelicals are struggling to understand why all their valiant efforts at winning the culture wars in America haven’t actually made anything better. In fact, things seems to be getting progressively worse every day. To be sure, they’ve won… Read more
November 29, 2018
Disagreeing with You Doesn’t Mean I Hate You
November 29, 2018 By Neil Carter
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From time to time I get commenters who accuse me of hating Christians and, no matter how sincerely I implore them to show me where in my writings I demonstrate hatred for them, they always seem to just keep repeating the assertion without offering anything specific. This both fascinates me and annoys me. Granted, this accusation tends to come from people who haven’t read much at all of what I’ve written. In fact, I usually get the sense that commenters like… Read more
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