Category: Agnosticism
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Rereading the Good Book, Part 4: Revelation
Before I finish this long missive, allow me to list ten scary things I didn’t use it to say: 1. There is no God. 2. There is no afterlife. 3. Organized religion is purely destructive. 4. Atheists make better leaders. 5. All Christians are fools. 6. All Christians are bigots. 7. Christianity is evil. 8.…
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Rereading the Good Book, Part 3
By now, I was on a roll, obviously, and I think most Facebook responders were enjoying the debate. James commented, “I tend to like Pascal’s wager. Serve God. If He exists and you served Him, you are rewarded. If He doesn’t exist, you really aren’t penalized. If He does exist and you didn’t serve Him,…
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Rereading the Good Book, Part 2
Before I went to sleep on April 6, I posted this charming verse: “‘If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated her.…
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Rereading the Good Book, Part 1
There is a side of me–and this will probably come as no surprise to anyone–that loves making people analyze their lifelong assumptions. I’m in a privileged position, having been through this already when I left the Jehovah’s Witnesses at age twenty. Would I donate blood? Would I vote? If so, for which candidates? Did I…
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My Agenda
In the days and weeks before my novel hit shelves, I ran into several people who were uncomfortable with its subject matter. It was implied several times that I’d be pushing an atheist agenda. Well, much like Democrats in the Senate, we atheists and agnostics can’t seem to get our act together enough to have…