So there’s this Catholic rag… Aleteia they call it. Y’all know how I feel about the Catholic Church and defenders of it, so I don’t approach new posts on Aleteia very charitably. A while back I was emailed this one: Why I cannot go back to being an atheist by Melinda Selmys and I thought to myself before reading any of it, that the answer to why this person can’t go back to being an atheist is likely because they became convinced a god… Read more
July 3, 2019
This Catholic Thinks She Knows Why You’re An Atheist – Is She Right?
July 3, 2019 By Courtney Heard
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June 21, 2019
6 UFO Cults That Are Alive & Well
June 21, 2019 By Courtney Heard
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With the news, recently, that Nxivm’s leader, Keith Rainier has been found guilty of racketeering, sex trafficking and child pornography, I thought we could talk about cults. In my research, I was truly floored at just how many strange cults are out there, still drawing people in and promising them spiritual salvation. People are so absolutely desperate in their desire for some sort of meaning to their own lives that’s “out of this world” that they’ll literally buy anything. The… Read more
June 19, 2019
Wheat Kings and Pretty Things #Innocents
June 19, 2019 By Courtney Heard
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Sundown in the Paris of the prairies Wheat kings have all treasures buried And all you hear are the rusty breezes Pushing around the weathervane Jesus Deep in the Canadian winter, in 1969, a woman’s body was found, lifeless in a snowbank in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She had been raped and brutally murdered. Gail Miller was a nursing student. She was only twenty years old. At the time, three teenaged friends had just arrived in Saskatoon from Regina, after making plans to drive across… Read more
June 18, 2019
10 Shocking Facts About The Mormon Church
June 18, 2019 By Courtney Heard
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Mormons are great people. At least, the ones I’ve met are, with very few exceptions. As you might recall, I worked for a prominent Mormon businessman at one point in time, and I got to know some of his family and many of his fellow church members. They were all, for the most part, perfectly lovely people. Not only did they seem to have huge hearts, but they were also givers, and they left their faith at the door. I… Read more
June 14, 2019
Why Do Christians Insist On Speaking To Us Like This?
June 14, 2019 By Courtney Heard
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I can’t stand condescending adults. You know the sort… the ones who talk to you like you’re five years old even though you might even be twice as old as them? It’s that tone, that waitress tone, “How are the first few bites tasting, here?” said like she’s operating a feathered puppet to coax a toddler into sharing his Lego Buzz Lightyear. That grating tone that adults usually reserve for small children. I don’t know what it is about me,… Read more
June 12, 2019
Armed Homophobes Hosting A ‘Make America Straight Again’ Conference During Orlando Pride
June 12, 2019 By Courtney Heard
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I started watching season three of the Handmaid’s Tale the other night, and it felt different from every other season. Of course, when I read the book as a teen, my brain wandered into a cloud of what-ifs? Could this sort of thing happen post-feminism? Is it something that should genuinely worry me? I concluded that Margaret Atwood was just an exceptional writer who knew how to highlight the weak spots in our civilization. I felt like she was posing… Read more
June 10, 2019
Should I Respect Your Beliefs?
June 10, 2019 By Courtney Heard
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There once was a little girl who lived in Ontario, Canada. Makayla. She was just eleven years old when she was diagnosed with leukaemia. As horrifying as this diagnosis sounds, doctors were quite hopeful that the girl would survive, giving her a seventy-five per cent chance of beating the disease. As prescribed, the young girl underwent eleven weeks of chemotherapy. Unfortunately, her treatment stopped there. You see, Makayla belonged to the New Credit First Nation and was brought up to… Read more
June 4, 2019
The Body Behind The Dumpster #Innocents
June 4, 2019 By Courtney Heard
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Content Warning: Violent crime. When detectives arrived at the grisly crime scene just off the Las Vegas strip on July 8th, 2001, they found the body of a man that had been brutally murdered and left behind a dumpster. The victim, later identified as a homeless man from St. Louis named Duran Bailey, had suffered a multitude of injuries, not the least of which was having his genitals severed and tossed aside the dumpster. He had teeth knocked out, a cracked… Read more
May 28, 2019
What Is The Point Of Discussing Religion At All?
May 28, 2019 By Courtney Heard
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Twitter, as we know, is a ripe and fruitful ground for nothing but brilliance, education and high conversational standards. The words flame and butthurt and troll are scarce and lost amongst the intellectually elite. Our Twitterial back-and-forths end wars, settle disputes and reduce crime rates. Twitter is what the United Nations only wishes it could be. LOL. If only. No, Twitter is instead a bubbling froth of mental sewage on a good day. It should, indeed, be called “Troller” rather… Read more
May 27, 2019
Love As Proof For God: Where Is The Logic In Love?
May 27, 2019 By Courtney Heard
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I was once asked by an Aussie Facebook troll who preceded this question with a very clear death threat (that I reported), What about the existence of love? If everything works from logic, then why do we keep loving the people who hurt us? (e.g family) There is no logic in that. The very phrasing of this question makes about as much sense as Ken Ham’s museum: sweet, fancy nought. There are several errors here starting with the assumption that… Read more
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