The bible belt is chock full of young earth creationists and the state of Tennessee is no exception. Some rational people with a basic understanding of modern science might feel this statement is exaggerated and find it hard to accept the notion that some people really do believe the universe was created in only 7 [...]
Of course in Tennessee there’s a news story about Christians going armed to church with handguns to “protect God’s people”. Duane McGray takes his Bible to church on Sunday mornings. He also takes his gun. McGray, a former chief of public safety at Nashville International Airport, is a volunteer in the security ministry at First [...]
And the survey says……Religion is going down. A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they have no religion at all. Fifteen percent of respondents said they [...]
This is the most disgusting thing I’ve heard the Catholic church do in a long time. Archibishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho of the coastal city of Recife announced that the Vatican was excommunicating the family of a local girl who had been raped and impregnated with twins by her stepfather, because they had chosen to have [...]
Living in the bible belt I come in contact with all flavours of christians from the most extreme followers to those that only use the label. Being surrounded by believers can be quite annoying and disheartening sometimes especially when being married to one. My wife is a moderate christian meaning she pretty much straddles the [...]
My Indoctrination into Christianity This is the first instalment of a multiple article series on my personal path to atheism. In this article I describe growing up and being indoctrinated into christianity. When I was a child I believed in childish things. Like everyone before the age of 10 my parents were the authority on [...]
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