Letting Go of Jesus and Erin
By Tania ~ The time has come to say another “goodbye.”The door has closed. I don't know if it will open again. If it will, my guess is that it won't be anytime soon.I've grieved. I'm not sure I'll ever...
View ArticleDear Christian, You May Think You Understand Me, But You Don’t
By Tim Wolf ~ After a long period of growing doubts about my Christian faith, I realized a few years ago that I had become a non-believer. Yes, I’m an atheist. Since that realization, I’ve begun the...
View ArticleHow God's Light Blinded Me
By Mason Torrey ~ After 32 years of being a dedicated Christian, Mason Torrey stumbles across difficult logic and faces the hardest decision of his life. "When you look head on into a light source, you...
View ArticleIf You Don’t Believe
By Carl S ~ American linguist Noam Chomsky once remarked, “If you don’t believe in free speech for those you despise, then you don’t believe in free speech.” This would also apply to beliefs...
View ArticleShame on you, GOD!
By ijustwanttobeyourfriend! ~ What would you think of a father who could help his child as he/she is drowning but just watches and does nothing? What would you think of a father who watched his...
View ArticleHearing the Still Small Voice of Reason.
By Carolyn Hyppolite ~ There was never a time when the question of God was not important in my life. As a child, I was disinclined to believe. I was appalled by the story of the testing of Abraham—God...
View ArticleSomeday
By Carl S ~ History. What place in history the present crisis in Iraq will occupy no one knows. The current conflict between the forces of ISIS and everyone else dominates. This is a religious war, as...
View ArticleThomas Jefferson, the First Amendment, and Why We Can't Stop Fighting About...
By Valerie Tarico ~ In 1878, the Supreme Court of the United States wrestled with a religious freedom case focused on Mormons and polygamy. In the written decision, Chief Justice Morrison Waite...
View ArticleMy Exodus from Christianity
By Almost There ~ I have been through the most terrible, dreadful time of my life, emotionally, in the last few years so its kind of hard knowing where to start, there is so much to say I just want to...
View ArticleDirt and Magic
By Lauren Tyree ~ For decades I took the Bible’s creation account as historical fact. I knew the world’s first human was molded by the same hands that knit me together in my mother’s womb.1 God’s own...
View ArticleFollow up to "CRUCIFIED BY CHRISTIAN BEST FRIEND"
By Teal ~ Thanks to the Ex-Christian subscribers for all your kind and wise comments on my story a few months ago--this will sound silly, but I've been trying (without success) all this time to access...
View ArticleThis Apostate Hearts the Church of England
By Carolyn Hyppolite ~ I am probably doing the Church of England no favors by praising them. After all, I am an apostate. I am now part of “the world.” The very fact that I should consider their...
View ArticleIf Jesus is so important, why don't believers take him seriously?
By Carl S. ~ Let's face some important facts: First of all, to a great deal of the religious in this world, Jesus is irrelevant. The Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, non-theists and Deists regard the...
View ArticleThe Problem of Good
By WizenedSage (Galen Rose) ~ In religious debate, much is made of the “problem of evil;” that is, if god is good, then why is there so much evil in the world. Personally, I think the problem of good...
View ArticleTim Minchin - The Good Book (Live)
The End Book (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Tim Minchin -- The Good Book
View ArticleForgiveness in a post-religious worldview
By sinner ~ For me as an ex-christian, now that I don't have a rulebook to follow, I generally adopt the value of "Ahimsa" a Pali/Sanskrit word meaning do no harm. Or the Wiccan idea of 'An it harm...
View ArticleWhy Everyone Else's Religion is Crazy
By Carolyn Hyppolite ~ So you’re an atheist now. You have left behind one of the many gods that humanity has invented to comfort themselves and control others and you look askance at the pious...
View ArticleMy Cruise Ship Captivity
By undercover agnostic ~ This is not a polished, well-scripted piece. I just need to vent. I hope that’s okay. A few weeks ago my in-laws invited my husband and I along with siblings and nieces and...
View ArticleLosing Fear
By Melissa ~ I grew up in a chaotic environment, lack of love or care. I always felt I was missing something and with the sexual trauma I suffered as a teenager I turned to partying to help myself...
View ArticleWasting your life away
By blackfreethought03 ~ One of the biggest issues I have with 21st Century Christianity deals with how it focuses on living for the future as opposed to living in the present moment. The doctrine...
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