After all the shenanigans over at WordPress, I’ve decided to start publishing on Medium. You can follow me there if you like. I have 15 subscribers here, so I’ll probably be importing you over there after the waiting period is over. I don’t know yet all the ins-and-outs of how Medium works so hopefully it […]
Remember when Trump visited the town of “Pleasure” (our town’s name is Paradise, which also starts with the letter P and means something intrinsically nice) after the Camp Fire in 2018? He did a background check on us first.
In many ways I think that Calvary Chapel and the movement it was part of the 1970s is responsible for the current right wing religious fanaticism that is engulfing country.
The Eschatological Roots of Our Predicament Read More »
We gave our lives to the church. Leaving the church was something we agonized over. After so much sacrifice, it hurts to just be dismissed as if we never counted.
Book Review—The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church Read More »
On July 24, 2024, at Upper Park in Chico, California, a man set his car on fire and pushed it off a 60-foot embankment. The dry vegetation around it was quickly engulfed in flames and the fire spread rapidly, climbing the ridge into the forest and eventually growing over 400,000 acres, reaching all the way
I would like this book list to correspond to a sort of roadmap, a progression from, say, a mainline Christian to a full-blown ethical progressive atheist and humanist, who has a sure foundation for morality apart from religion. I’m not all the way there yet, as I have some books on my “to-read” list that
A Deconstruction Reading List Read More »
I don’t talk about it much, especially as time has passed and I’ve moved on with my life, but 25 years ago I was in a band. We recorded a demo, and then the lead singer signed a record contract. We changed our name and re-recorded the demo material along with some new songs for
Owning your Accomplishments Read More »
I was a Calvinist before I became an atheist. I was very Calvinist, in fact. It got to the point where I had eventually achieved such a robust Reformation theology that I accepted the idea that God could actually choose to send me to hell for eternity. I figured if it were to happen, it
Annihilationism and Your Pet Cat Read More »
I am an agnostic Jesus-follower. That is, science and reason tell me that Yahweh, even if he existed, was a murderous tyrant, and so if Christians teach that Jesus was the son of Yahweh, or that Jesus believed he was doing the will of Yahweh, or that Yahweh raised Jesus from the dead, that these claims must be false.
When I was an Agnostic Read More »
Since I began deconstructing my faith 10-12 years ago, I have been keeping notes in Evernote with various tags (later Notion, as I had to abandon Evernote due to its constantly-increasing fees and restrictions). I even made a Mind Map of all the points I had developed. Two of the the several organizing points were
Theodicy, Slavery, and CSA Read More »