“God’s Not Boring”: A Precocious Young Video Maker Evangelizes; Grows Up To...
In the video below, atheist vlogger Jonny Scaramanga revisits his evangelizing videos he made as a kid. I identified instantly with the adorably earnest younger Jonny here, from the first moment of his...
View ArticleBefore I Deconverted: Christmas Became A Christian Holiday To Me
I don’t have the best memory of childhood, so forgive me if my recollections are a bit scattershot. 1983-1986: My earliest memories of Christmas are of getting presents and eating big meals at big...
View ArticleWhy Would True Believers Want Us To Lie Before God?
Yesterday I reposted an excellent article from Dylan Walker’s Skeptimus Prime blog. In it he explained that the reason he refuses to participate in Christmas prayers or other religious prayers or...
View ArticleWhy a secular safe space is still important to me.
The following was written by guest contributor Amber Adamson. I struggle a lot when it comes to my feelings about friends and loved ones who belong to Abrahamic faiths. When in public, I often downplay...
View ArticleAre Religions Unfair to Women?
Yes! Next question! In case you have any doubt, you can watch some religious people make utterly vacuous and evasive attempts to weasel their way around the obvious. You can also find lots of details...
View ArticleDifferent Fundamentalists, Same Covered-Up Child Abuse
A Review of Fortney Road: Life, Death, and Deception in a Christian Cult, by Jeff C. Stevenson Review written by M. Dolon Hickmon Lately, the Internet has been flooded with revelations of a particular...
View ArticleSo you say you just want to show me God’s love
This is a guest post by Lex When I was a Christian teenager, I enjoyed Jaci Velasquez’s music. I bought every album as it came out (and I still put her Christmas album on every December). One song in...
View ArticleDepression: Pedaling With The Brakes On
The following is a guest post by Lex. I learned to ride a bike when I was a child, but didn’t have much opportunity to practice during my teen years. So the next time I had the chance to go on a ride,...
View ArticleHow Progressive Allies Hurt Marginalized Muslims and Ex-Muslims
This is a guest post by Hiba Krisht, an ex-Muslim writer and bisexual woman. It is adapted with her permission from her response on Facebook to this meme: Look, if we’re going to expound upon the...
View ArticleAfter Orlando: An Open Letter To Conservative Christians About Loving Gay People
Conservative Christians, if you loved gay, bisexual, lesbian, and transgender people you wouldn't erase or minimize the fact that Orlando was a persecutory act against them. You also wouldn't love them...
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