My Interview With The (Other) Deconverted Man

I’ve written before how men are also victimized by the damaging teachings of purity culture. I’ve written 3 articles in this series so far, but unfortunately, there’s still more to discuss. Here are three more ways purity culture harms men: Dating anxiety When you’re told that you shouldn’t even consider dating a…

Christians often say things that sound nice, cute, and pleasant, but when you dig into what these things actually mean, you’ll find pretty horrifying implications. Some of the things on this list I was even guilty of saying myself. It wasn’t until I had some distance from the Church that…

I would describe my personal faith deconstruction journey as happening over a looooong period of time. In fact, I probably took the longest possible route to get there. For me, little things fell away one at a time. I feel like I deconstructed little parts of the Church and Christian…

It’s no secret that deconstructing your faith is very difficult. Not only that, but life immediately on the other side of religion can be very difficult as well. This is because leaving your religion and deconverting is a lot more than ceasing to believe in dogma. Leaving your religion results…

A few weeks ago, I posted the following tweet: “What would you say is the BIGGEST reason you left Christianity?” (By the way, if you aren’t yet following me on Twitter, you totally should). This tweet was my most popular to date, generating hundreds of comments and responses. …

Masculinity gets bad rap, especially in online deconstruction places, usually because they tend to combine the concepts of patriarchy and masculinity all into one. Sometimes masculinity is demonized and people might make the mistake of taking all masculinity and rounding it up to “toxic masculinity” which just isn’t the case. …

Have you ever spoken to someone who believes the earth is flat? My god. If you thought Christians evangelizing you on the street were bad, Flat-Earthers are at least a hundred times more intense when it comes to trying to get you to believe as they do. And if you…

Oh shit, it’s time to talk about porn! Pretty much no practicing Christian is willing to admit this, but porn is very important in the life of a Christian man. No matter what he tells the men in his small group, he’s regularly: Watching porn Masturbating Lusting after the girls…