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My Virginity is a Piece of Cake (And You Can Eat it)
The Treasure of Renounced Faith
Leaving the Romanian Orthodox Church
Does the Bible Really Teach Family Values?
I’m an Ex-Christian Who Walked into a Buddhist Cult
Christian Romance Novels are Garbage
Atheists Must Stop Using the Word ‘Religion’
I Should Divorce the Cleveland Browns This Year
The Real Meaning of the Holy Trinity
One Way to Make Christians Instantly Toss out Salvation by Faith
The “Sinner’s Prayer” for Salvation Makes No Sense
Are Women Driving the Decline in Church Attendance?
Why We’re Ashamed to Admit the Flaws of our Religion
Who Decides What Biblical Doctrine is Orthodox?
The Evangelical Logic Fail on Abortion
This Episode of The Handmaid’s Tale Sucks
The American Duo of Political Christianities
The ‘Care List’: my deconversion story
The Bible According to Mark Twain
The Pledge of Allegiance, Reconsidered
“Unfollow” Reveals a Deep Truth About Religion
Why There Are No Religious Beliefs or Practices
Questioning Christianity Led Me Out of the Faith
Ten Reasons to Ban the Bible From Schools
Ten Thought Questions for Christians
Beliefs Are The Root of All Evil
I Came out as Gay to my Church
Christian Salesmanship and the Trivializing of Fiction
Using Anger After Being Taught to Suppress It
I Was Raised as a Christian Scientist
My Fellow Muslim Women: Does Islam Really Give You Rights?
An Open Letter to “Christianity Today”
Abortion, Homosexuality and the Truth That Lives in Nuance
If She Doesn’t Obey You, Hit Her
How a Concern for Morality Drove Me Into, Then Out of Evangelicalism
A Natural Immunity to Evangelicalism?
Any Film Titled “Leaving God” Is Going to Piss off a Few People
The Unholy Kinship of Faith, Suspended Disbelief, and Psychopathy
I want(ed) to believe (by D. Mullen)
Churches Utilize Data To Prey On Grieving, Vulnerable People
Two Very Polite Mormons Shook My Faith
Why My Personality Didn’t Match With My Religion
As Faith Faded, I Became More Myself
Review: “Atheism for Kids” by Jessica Thorpe and Teal Barnes
Christian Purity Culture Ruined My Ability to Have Male Friends
My Top 4 Reasons For Leaving Religion and God
Review: “The Anatomy of Deconversion” by John Marriott
Going From Selling God to Leaving God
How (And Why) Americans Were Programmed to Hate Atheists
When the Church Sides with the Abuser
Can Sunday School Teachers Be Wrong?
Does Life Have Meaning if God Does Not Exist?
Celebrating Thanksgiving as a Nonbeliever
Ethics aren’t an exception, they’re the rule
The Terrible Things I Was Taught
Religious Faith: A Free Pass In A Trivial Game
It’s Hard to Watch Good People Struggle With Religion
She Killed A Child To Get Into Heaven
Suddenly I Felt God Telling Me
9 Reasons I Never Tried Liberal Christianity
Christianity’s Frequent Use of the Reset Button
The Deeper Reason Why Skeptics Should Scoff at Christian Miracles
The Power of Prayer or the Power of the Mind?
The Logical Paradox of a Good God
God’s Morbid Plan for Unvaccinated Christians
Recreating Creation: 5 Ways God Could Have Improved Nature
My Year in Sister School: Part I, The Crime
Come to Think of It, Maybe We Are Living in the New Babylon
Here are 7 Proofs of Evolution
How Religion Struggles to Explain Dinosaur Pain
Do Science and Christianity Conflict?
Self Imposing Actions Affected by Religion
Leaving Religion Is the Hardest Divorce
Here’s Why No Near Death Experience Can Ever Convince a Skeptic
More Thoughts to Ponder About Prayer
To Join This Church, I Had to Waive My Right to Think Critically
Creating the Voice of Imaginary Jesus
Our Morality is Secular, Not Biblical
How Differences of Definition Divide Us
Everyone Has an A$$hole, But You Don’t Have to Be One
Why I, an Athiest, Am Looking Forward to the Afterlife
How People From an Uncontacted Island Tribe Made Me Doubt My Faith
White Evangelicals’ Travails Almost Make Me Believe in God Again
Soul (chapter from Recovering from Christianity)
Christians and the Climate Crisis
The Second Reformation of the Christian Church
The Other Side of the Prestige
You Are Not Broken and You Don’t Need to Be Saved
Surrounded by Catholics Part 1: Blessings on Everything
Oh How Easy it is to Create a God
Do Evangelicals Want Me to Suffer?
A Cult Introduced Me To a More Tolerant World
Leaving Islam — My Journey Towards Atheism
Are You Ready For Your Next Leap of Faith?
Bible Stories Never Preached in Church…Part Two
These 5-Day Summer Camps Will Do More Harm Than Good
If Jesus Lived Today, Would Religious Conservatives Label Him “Queer”?
You Were Damaged by Religion — But How Do We Prevent Others from the Same?
Ten Bible Stories Never Preached in Church
Where Does the Christian God Stand Amongst Us?
Spiritual Abuse, & How To Recognize It
No God Helped Me When I Needed It Most
Christianity Taught Me to Abuse my Children
Why Women Like Anna Duggar Stay Married
Do Christians Really Believe the Bible?
Being Bisexual in an Evangelical Church; Hidden Homophobia
“Indiana Jones” and God’s Imperfect Plan
My Mom Warned Me Not to Get the Vaccine
A New Atheist Questions the Concept of Self During an Observation at a Psychiatric Hospital
Biblical Healing, Essential Oils and Purity Culture
This Shift in Thinking Made My Deconversion Possible
Repeat After Me: I am Not ‘A Sinner’
The Ten Commandments Are Not What You Think They Are
An Atheist Goes to Church Camp
There Are No Monotheistic Religions
Covid-19 and the Problem of Evil
Death Bothers Me More as an Athiest
“The Good Place:” Doing the Afterlife Right
The Belief That Nearly Broke My Marriage
Is the New Testament Really “Nicer” than the Old Testament?
What’s the Difference Between Atheism and Religion?
Learning About Scientology Helped Me Understand the Pain of My Childhood
How Christianity Encourages Codependence
Celebrating Christmas as a Deconvert
A Family Separated By Unbelief
Bit of Green: Speaking to the Heart of Trauma-Healing
Mind Infections, Part 3: How to Quarantine Them
Why it is Logical to be an Atheist
Is Christianity Inherently Racist?
What About People Who Never Heard the Gospel?
Maintaining Mental Health During Social Distancing
Mind Infections, Part 2: How Do They Work?
My Preacher’s Kid Ex-Boyfriend
Ten Reasons Why the Bible’s Story of the Exodus is Not True
Mind Infections, Part 1: How to Recognize Them
Can Religions Be Objectively Disproved?
We Need Actual Love From Other Humans
Reality: Why I left the Christian faith (Part 2)
When Guiding Becomes Dictating
Virgin Birth of Jesus — Biblical and Biological Perspectives
Perfection: Why I left the Christian faith (Part 1)
6 Ways To Heal From Religious Indoctrination
Holy Genocide: The Danger of Bible-Based Morality
Thriving in a Mixed Secular/Religious Relationship: RfRx talk with Rebecca Williams, LMFT
How Sheep Undermine the Biblical Narrative
How Religion Controlled My Political Views
Why Do Many People Still Believe that Adam and Eve Were Real?
Dear Karen: Your Discomfort is Important
The Three Things That Would Make Me a Christian
The Religious Chasm Between Me and My Relatives
The Psychology of Religious Trauma
Was Jesus ‘The Perfect Sacrifice’?
And You Call Yourself a Christian?
Homeless in the Atlas Mountains, I Sought God — and Found Myself Instead
His Eye Is On the Sparrow… Really?
I Want(ed) to Believe (by A. Hyun)
Setting Boundaries: Sometimes It Is Easier Said Than Done
My Pilgrimage to Mecca Made Me an Agnostic Ex-Muslim
Can Anyone Be Certain that Their God is the True One?
Why “Prince Of Egypt” Is The Best Deconversion Movie Of All Time
Why Do Some Believers Long For the ‘End Times’?
If You Were An All Powerful & Good God…
Biblical Contradictions & Mass Confusion
Should I Tell People I’m Not Religious Anymore? A Flowchart
Why I Never Have Doubts about Leaving Christianity
Religious Obedience Nearly Killed Me
6 Alternatives to the ‘Loving God, Fiery Hell’ Paradox
How the Secular Therapy Project Helped Me Change My Life
In Love with a Believer: A Journey of Compromise
Coming Out as Atheist: Do It YOUR Way
Still Afraid of Going to Hell? Read This and Relax.
You Are Good, and You’re Not Going to Hell
Seven Problems in Christianity That Killed My Faith
Twirling, Twirling, Twirling Towards Freedom
Religion Holds the Mind Ransom to Irrational Beliefs
My Deconstruction and Eventual Deconversion from Fundamentalist, Evangelical Christianity
I Told God I Didn’t Believe and He Spoke to Me
If I Can Break Free From a Cult After More Than 40 Years — So Can You
The Garden of Eden Story Isn’t About the Fall of Humankind
6 Ways to Provide Better Care for Suicidal Non-Religious People
From Mormon to Agnostic: Becoming “Human Again”
A Memoir of a Lifelong Atheist
Tabula Rasa, or My Blank Pages
