Sex,Sacrifice,and Male Virgins
By blackfreethought ~ It seems like Christianity is obsessed with human sacrifices and virginity. It is more specifically concerned with virgin male sacrifices. Allow me to first discuss a few major...
View ArticleClimbing out of a black hole
By Habiba ~ Firstly I would like to introduce myself, I’ve been lurking for over a month having found the site through the 50 Proofs God is Imaginary, and it had already been a great source of strength...
View ArticleMy Son Thinks I Am Going to Hell!
By OrdinaryMan ~ In spite of the fact I am a former fundamentalist Christian and ex-pastor, my minister son and his family think I am headed for Hell. This is my response to him. I use the pen name of...
View ArticleDoes Mitt Romney Think He's a Jew?
Wile in Jerusalem Mitt Romney made an appearance at the Wailing Wall in a Yarmulka. Was he just trying to pay tribute to Orthodox tradition or does he think he’s Jewish? Perhaps both.Conservative...
View ArticleJust Thinking Can Put Things in Perspective
By Vince ~ My life is dominated by rational thought. Having just finished my undergraduate degree in chemistry at a public university and now as I'm just about to start in the Master's Program for...
View ArticleFor the Unrequited Love of God
By Tabitha ~ I’m 38 years old, and I’m the youngest of three children. I was raised in the Assembly of God churches of Washington state by a fanatical, born again, end-times, tongues-talking mother,...
View ArticleReligious OCD
By Andrea ~ I was only eleven years old at the time but, for someone so young, the OCD disorder had built up fast and become a monster. I remember it first creeping up when I was cleaning my room one...
View ArticleHow Farrah Fawcett and Bo Derek saved my sanity
By Dano ~ When I was 7 or 8, I remember going through a stage where I wanted to be like captain Tootsie. I may be the only person on the planet that remembers who Captain Tootsie was, but for all of...
View ArticleFinding Love after Your Faith is Gone
By black freethought ~ I write this essay to talk about how difficult dating is when you are an ex-christian in the black community. Although I realize for a lot of us in the atheist community, dating...
View ArticleInterloping as introspection
By Ryan ~ At 28, I sometimes wonder why it took so long for me to renounce my faith. Why did the obvious objections to theism in general and Christianity in particular not occur to me sooner? How was...
View ArticleGod vs. Love II
By Faithfool ~ After looking long and hard at the bible’s definition of love in 1 Cor 13, and seeing how far short God falls from it, I started to hunger for a more comprehensive definition of love...
View ArticleI might as well have been a robot
By Alexis ~ Hi everyone, I am a lurker here. If you are familiar with the Jesus Camp video, that was how my childhood was, except possibly even more extreme. The tears and 'jesus-is-my-boyfriend' type...
View ArticleCatholicism, Incest, an Emerging Journey
By Andie ~ I am no longer sure what the hell I am. I was raised in a household with a very devoted Catholic mother and a father who would go to Mass and piously beat his breast during Mass, as he was...
View ArticleDogmatism and Anti-intellectualism in Christianity
By Paul So ~ When I remember my former years when I use to be a Christian there was always this latent fear of the intellect that sneaks behind the scenes of the religious mind. It never really...
View ArticleWhy I'm an Atheist
By Dave H ~ I was born into a devoutly religious home. My family went to an Episcopal church. I learned very early in my life the rites and rituals of the church. It was not something that I...
View ArticleWhy Mercy and Justice contradict each other
By Paul So ~ It is often insisted by theists that while God is merciful he is also just. This insistence is usually a response to the common objection from atheists that eternal torment (or any forms...
View ArticleIt takes science to make sense of God
By S James, who considers the conscious brain a far greater weapon for understanding our world than faith ~ An example of simulated data modelled for the CMS particle detector on the Large Hadron...
View ArticleWhy!!!!!
By Tom ~ Believe (Photo credit: uglyagnes)I Deeply Believe in God. I have worked on the human body for many years. The Engineering behind this remarkable being is unbelievable. Have you had any...
View ArticlePolice, Prosecutors, Pastors
By Carl S ~ If you watch enough actual crime case programs on TV, you will see how our legal system operates. But, sometimes you will notice how it malfunctions, working against the accused and the...
View ArticleBeing Real
From Morgan ~ I would just like to say, I'm not attempting to convert anyone by any of my statements, I simply would like to give a different perspective (my perspective) of this religion that has been...
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