Latest Blog Posts for Memoirs of an ex-Christian

• Connecting the dots
  on Aug 29, 2012
  Many years ago, a group of friends and I came across one of the most spectacular sights I’ve ever seen. It was early morning in a school yard, and we stood in awe before a tree that was completely covered and surrounded by long fingers of ice that...
• What Christmas means to me
  on Dec 25, 2011
  Get ready to role your eyeballs, as I have a confession to make.  I love Christmas.  I love the lights and the decorations, the endless replaying of Christmas carols in shopping centers, the nativity scenes, the Christmas trees, the m...
• Quote
  on Oct 6, 2011 in Quotes
  "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just f...
• Mourning the death of an idea (part 2)
  on Sep 15, 2011 in Ex-Christian
  Hebrews 10:24-2: The loss of a cohesive community The ideas advanced by the brand of Christianity I grew up with may have been very bad, but the Christians I knew were really good people. Although I no longer accept the claims made by Christianity,...
• Mourning the death of an idea (part 1)
  on Sep 15, 2011 in Ex-Christian
  A feeling of loss. That is all that remained from my walk away from faith. In the early years my struggle was dominated by anger, frustration, doubt and fear. But as the crumbling theist worldview that I grew up with completed its slide into the sea...
• Mourning the death of an idea (part 1)
  on Sep 10, 2011 in Ex-Christian
• Mourning the death of an idea
  on Jun 20, 2011
  A feeling of loss.That is all that remained from my walk away from faith. In the early years my struggle was dominated by anger, frustration, doubt and fear. But as the crumbling theist worldview that I grew up with completed its slide into the sea o...
• Crying wolf . . . again
  on May 21, 2011
  The rapture will take place today. That’s according to Harold Camping, a preacher from Oakland, California. His followers, from Family Radio Worldwide, have preached that the end times will take place this year, and they have spent huge amounts of...
• Why is there something rather than nothing?
  on Apr 23, 2011 in Apologetics
  This question, related to the existence of the universe, is one that, as an atheist, I've been asked on more than one occasion. I have two responses. The first is: why not? And the second is: why God?Why not?There is a subtle, and almost hidden, prem...
• Spare the rod, teach the child
  on Feb 6, 2011 in Morality
  Dale McGowan, editor and co-author of Parenting Beyond Belief, raised an interesting point in this Reasonable Doubts podcast when asked about the difficulties of teaching moral thinking to children in a non-religious household (time stamp: 54:00). Mc...

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