Worship and Praise ME!


Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008. —
A hilarious video by By Ed Current. Skeptics beware!

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I will not go back


Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008. —
From Annastasia

Hello everyone! I'm Annastasia, 32, and I'm having a really hard time right now.

I have been raised a Christian my whole life. I never knew anything else. I've been taught that all other people who did not accept Christ were going to hell regardless of belief in a higher power or a God of a different name.

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Ese cuento de que las iglesias son organizaciones sin fines de lucro es una vil mentira. Las iglesias son un tremendo negocio…


Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008. —
Por Maria R.

Cuando estaba en el cristianismo, creía firmemente en el asunto de diezmar para poder ser bendecida por Dios. Según dice la biblia, tienes que traer tus diezmos al alfolí para que haya alimento en la casa de Dios. También dice que pongas a Dios a prueba, pues él abrirá las ventanas de los cielos para derramar sus bendiciones sobre ti (si es que diezmas).

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Help for recovering from religion: book and retreat


Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008. —
By Marlene Winell

This is an excerpt from my book, "Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion." I would be interested in your feedback.

Religion is supposed to be good for you. Yet people get hurt in religious systems, sometimes seriously. I used to think that although damage was done by so-called cults, most religion is essentially benign. It could give you some comfort as a child and teach you some values, but then you grew up and away from it. It wasn’t until I looked back on my struggle to grow free of my own indoctrination, and heard the stories of others, that I realized that this kind of emotional and mental damage can be profound.

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Come out, foul demon!


Posted Tuesday, July 22, 2008. —
ANDERSON COUNTY — On Sunday an 18-year-old man returned to his home from a gay pride parade and was assaulted by his father with a baseball bat. According to the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office, the battering took place about 1 p.m. Sunday on P Street.

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How to Get Rich as a Televangelist or Faith Healer


Posted Tuesday, July 22, 2008. —
By Webmdave

"How to Get Rich as a Televangelist or Faith Healer" is quick read that is simultaneously entertaining, informative, and unfortunately, heart wrenchingly on the mark. Author Bill Wilson has written a 166-page volume that is at once funny and in some places, embarrassing -- to me. The embarrassing part was being forced to reflect on how I, members of my family, and many friends over the years have been (and some still are) stupidly suckered by Christian scam artists.

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Codex Sinaiticus gets its own website


Posted Monday, July 21, 2008. —
More than 1,600 years after it was written in Greek, one of the oldest copies of the Bible will become globally accessible online for the first time this week.

From Thursday, sections of the Codex Sinaiticus, which contains the oldest complete New Testament, will be available on the Internet, said the University of Leipzig, one of the four curators of the ancient text worldwide.

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Oh for Darwin's sake!


Posted Monday, July 21, 2008. —
“A godless religion that retains all the dogmatic posturing of the faiths it so confidently denies, with few of the consolations”

~ Rick Bayan on Atheism


Atheism is a highly secretive religion devoted to private worship of the ultimate, all powerful goddess Athe. The goal of atheists is to destroy society by persuading people to join them in their faith through cunning arguments as to why it's better than anyone else's. Legend has it that Atheists got their powers of persuasion from a four-way deal thousands of years ago between the all powerful goddess Athe, the Ghost of Christmas Past, Xenu, was supposedly left behind by Richard Dawkins, also see: Paradox.

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Religion does not make people happy. People make people happy.


Posted Sunday, July 20, 2008. —
Sent in by Andrew

The story of my faith starts out like every story here. Born and Raised in the Roman Catholic Church From Birth. Dragged To church, but eventually "became a believer". Was "Confirmed" in the church and currently a senior in a Catholic High School. You get the picture.

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Q&A about posting comments


Posted Saturday, July 19, 2008. —

Commenting using Disqus




Disqus is a comments system that’s new to this site, so I thought we should take the time to run through it to make commenters comfortable with and proficient at using it.

What is Disqus?


Disqus, pronounced discuss, is a service for blog comments. Disqus enables bloggers to make the conversations on their blogs more interactive and manageable. Our distributed comment system connects readers across blog communities, while empowering publishers in promoting their content.
In short, using Disqus is a better way for people to participate in conversations initially started by blog posts. Check out how Disqus enhances the discussion on this blog.

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Mr. Deity and the meaning and purpose of life game


Posted Saturday, July 19, 2008. —
Mr. Deity is a series of two - to four-minute comedy films created by Brian Keith Dalton and distributed by Lazy Eye Pictures. It stars Brian Keith Dalton, Jimbo Marshall, Sean Douglas, and Amy Rohren. It premiered on December 27, 2006. It was originally broadcast on youtube.com but is now broadcast on crackle.com. -- Wikipedia.

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Pastor Charged With Rape, Kidnapping


Posted Saturday, July 19, 2008. —
A former pastor of a Lutheran church in Belmont County was arraigned Friday on kidnapping and rape charges.

The charges of sexual misconduct against Peter Pilger, 36, include a period of time while he was pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church in Martins Ferry.

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I realised, once and for all, that what I believed in didn't exist


Posted Saturday, July 19, 2008. —
Sent in by Jessica

As most stories go, I had been raised in a Christian household. No we weren't the stable Christian family, and we didn't attend Church every week, but we were believers, said our prayers, read our Bibles... Well, that's a lie. I didn't actually read the Bible myself until my teens. I even tried once to read it from cover to cover (Oh dear... what a dire and feeble attempt I made... three pages in, I gave up.) I gave my life to Jesus quite young, around the age of nine or ten, blindly, and I can't recall why or how it came about exactly, but I put it down to living with Christians and witnessing people doing the act. Monkey see monkey do, right?

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I actually tried to talk to my mom about God's supposed existence


Posted Friday, July 18, 2008. —
Sent in by Jerry

Where to begin? Even as young as 5, I have never taken to Christianity. I was a star academic pupil at the earliest age. That also got me into trouble with my religious mother. You see an inquisitive mind wants to know things that a zealous Pentecostal mother from rural Arkansas doesn't want it knowing.

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I have tried to believe in Jesus


Posted Friday, July 18, 2008. —
Sent in by Mike

I'm 21 years old and was brought up in a Christian home. My mom, dad, sister, grandma's, aunts, uncles, EVERYONE I LOVE... are all Christian. YET, it still isn’t enough to influence me to believe. I have always been very truthful with myself and was told to be a leader when I was a young child. I would ask myself even at an early age, "How does one become a leader when you must follow the bible? Isn't that a contradiction?"

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