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Chris Pratt Wants You to Think Less of Yourself

June 21, 2018 By Neil Carter

Dr. Strange: “What master do you serve?” Peter Quill: “What master do I serve? What am I supposed to say? JESUS?” (from Infinity War) Evangelical Christians get very excited whenever an A-list singer or Hollywood actor openly professes faith in Jesus, and last weekend that thrill came again when Chris Pratt (a.k.a. Andy Dwyer from Parks and Rec and Peter Quill from Guardians of the Galaxy) delivered a speech after receiving the Generation Award at the MTV Movie & TV Awards…. Read more

A Beginner’s Guide to Godless In Dixie

June 13, 2018 By Neil Carter

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Below you will find a survey of what’s appeared on Godless in Dixie over the last four or five years, starting with the top twenty or so most popular posts, followed by several categories listed in the menu below. Check them out and see which ones you missed! In the meantime, be sure to follow the blog on: Facebook | Twitter | Pinterest | YouTube Categories (Menu) Most Popular Posts Why Did I Leave My Religion? What Is Life After Religion… Read more

Why Christianity Works So Well (On Some of Us)

June 8, 2018 By Lori Arnold

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When talking about my past relationship with Christianity, I talk a lot about shame. When I think back over the thirty-odd years I lived as a Christian, as far back into my childhood as I can remember, what stands out most to me is the guilt and shame I carried for all my sins, past, present, and future. I’m often told I had a wrong understanding of my faith if shame is what I endured more than anything. Christians tell… Read more

C.S. Lewis and the Argument from Spilled Milk

June 6, 2018 By Neil Carter

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I see a quote from C.S. Lewis circulated quite a bit, and I’d like to give my response to the argument it presents. Perhaps when I am done explaining what’s wrong with it, you will start to see why Lewis admitted later in life that: Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a… Read more

How Trump’s Legal Defense Mimics Christian Apologetics

June 4, 2018 By Neil Carter

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This week during season two of The Trump Show in an episode entitled “How Far Will They Go?” we learned that as far back as January of this year President Trump’s legal defense team, comprised mostly of lawyers who have since abandoned his defense, wrote a 20 page memo to Special Counsel Robert Mueller arguing that the president cannot possibly obstruct the justice system because ultimately he himself IS the justice system. “It remains our position that the President’s actions here, by… Read more

There Is No Fear In Love

May 30, 2018 By Lori Arnold

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“Where will you be when reality strikes?” Once upon a time, my “Papaw and Mamaw” took me to their Assembly of God church’s production of Heaven’s Gates Hell’s Flames©. This is a play that Reality Outreach Ministries designed to produce in churches of various denominations all over the world using the members of the local congregations as the actors telling the stories of various people in their last moments of life and their subsequent first moments of eternity. Will they end up at… Read more

The S Word: Self-Esteem

May 22, 2018 By Lori Arnold

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I remember hearing once as a child – in a sermon or a Sunday school lesson or maybe a home group Bible study – that self-esteem should never be a focus in raising children. Focusing on a child’s self-esteem would teach them to look inside themselves for worth instead of looking to the Lord for their worth. Teach children to find their significance in Jesus, they said, and we will develop a far greater sense of value than any “self-esteem”… Read more

Help Me Do What I Do

May 16, 2018 By Neil Carter

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During the school year, for my day job I teach high school Algebra. Then I write in my “spare time” when I probably should be doing something else to help pay the bills (have you ever seen what teachers in Mississippi make?). Aside from a full itinerary of Daddy duties and a week in the woods volunteering as a cabin counselor at Camp Quest (find out more about that here), I try to use any free time I get during… Read more

What I Hear When You Say “Not All Christians”

May 13, 2018 By Neil Carter

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Not too long ago I restated my critique of the standard Christian teaching that, while it would take an eternity of suffering for me to pay the price of just my individual lifetime of sins (most of which appear to be “thought crimes”), Jesus paid for the sins of billions of people’s lifetimes over the span of a single Friday. I’m not sure how the math works out on that, but part of the fun of religion is that things… Read more

An Open Letter to Owen Strachan Upon Preaching to My Daughters

May 9, 2018 By Neil Carter

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Dear Owen, This past weekend you filled the pulpit at my family’s church, and I thought you did a commendable job of delivering your message. You were as articulate in your presentation as you were well-versed in the perspective you chose to express. Your message was also timely as it indirectly spoke to a crisis currently threatening the integrity of the Southern Baptist Convention, of which my family’s church is a noteworthy part. The question at hand is: What are… Read more