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My Opinion on Why Most Christian Movies Suck!

Sylia Gray

As an aspiring screenwriter, I was listening to a screenwriting podcast called “On the Page.” And in one particular episode, the host of the show Pilar Alessandra, who is also a professional screenwriting instructor and author, invited two experts from some Christian media group as guests. And they were talking about screenwriting for a niche market of religious films. (Pilar’s podcast…

Prayer in a time of crisis, a letter to theist and atheist alike.

Reverend Alex Moreschi

I have thought about writing this for some time.  It is a difficult subject to broach, but I think it is an important topic to discuss in my ongoing efforts to build bridges between theists and atheists.  After tragedies, there are many things that I see on social media, from condolences to pointing fingers to expressions of despair or solidarity. Because of the circles I…

Allies as Students and Hype Men

Jeremiah Traeger

It’s no secret that among skeptics there is a reluctance to throw support behind social justice causes. Like most things, there are a variety of reasons from person to person why allyship isn’t expressed. I could give unsympathetic reasons for some of these so-called skeptics, but I will instead address the ones who are charitable and likely are holding back for well-meaning…

A journey to truth

Nora Legions

I was born in Northwest Louisiana in a Catholic household. The second oldest of 4 (my brother, born 3 years before me, passed away soon after birth), I was the guinea pig. My parents didn’t really know how they were going to raise us all, but they knew we’d be raised in the Catholic religion. None of us three were baptized until 2 years after my youngest sister was born. We were made…

This is the story of own transgender experience…

Sylia Gray

I was born into this world as a boy to a socially conservative, Christian couple who immigrated from South Korea to the United States. I was born here but I was raised most of my early childhood in South Korea until my parents brought ourselves back to Oregon when I was five years old.  

I’ve been transgender and have always wanted to be a girl and closely identified myself as a female…

Why Skeptics Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Scientific Consensus.

Jeremiah Traeger

As we navigate the landscape of arguments on theism, science, and politics it’s common for us to get caught up in playing logical fallacy bingo, naming every fallacy that comes up in our informal debates. We pride ourselves on being able to recognize a bad argument particularly when formal logical fallacies pop up, but one appearing to be caught up in the mix is when an appeal is…

Why do YOU care about the god hypothesis?

It’s one of the most frequently presented straw men used against atheist voices. As a question asked and answered by person A in reference to person B, it’s a way for person A to assume motivations in order to potentially understand or dismiss the position of person B, and in those capacities, it is a boring and potentially harmful question. Yet, when asked personally about one’s self, it can be…

College student asks good question at Ask an Atheist event (no he did not)

Don Armel

I was dumb founded at our latest Ask an Atheist day. Most of the questions were good, curious and the SSA students responding did their best to address the issues. One of the recently graduates SSA members came back for the event and so loved to panel discussion, he has to join the head table. Joe just wanted to mix it up with the discussion and to his credit, he is a well read and well…

You Don’t Believe In God So Why Bother?

Revan

There is a trope that is often put out there by believers directed to atheists- if you don’t believe in god, you think you are just a brain in a vat,  when you die there is nothing else, why not just, live your life and not do this? I get tired of this shit.

  Why do I want to be an activist? I will tell you but first I am going to preface this by saying I am offended why have to have an…

Hate, Activism and Bathrooms

Celes Dreyer

The issue of hate has been existed in this country since its very inception, when the native peoples were callously tossed aside. That being said we cannot fix the past and simply feeling guilty is not a solution.  We have to strive to create a future that helps remove hatred that comes from fear and lack of understanding.  Hatred is a stain on our country and it continues to grow as…

Shari Smith

I have anxiety and depression, PTSD, insomnia, and suicidal ideation. I struggle with self-harm. I’ve been in the hospital and had to get stitches. I’ve been in a mental hospital. Meeting new people is extremely hard for me. Being in situations where I’m around a group of people I don’t know is hard for me. Despite that, I recently pushed myself to get out of my comfort zone, out of…

Do Atheists Have Morals?

Bobby C.

Before I can get in to the topic of this week’s article, I want to thank my very good friend Reverend Alex Moreschi for giving me this week’s topic. Do atheists have morals? That is a question many atheists are asked by Christians. Most Christians, notice I said MOST not ALL, feel that atheists cannot have morals without a belief in a God. What does it mean to be moral? What is morality…

Prayer lead to my nonbelief

Bobby C.

I was fortunate enough to be raised in the one and only true denomination in the Christian religion; Southern Baptist. If you are anything other than Southern Baptist, you are hell bound and there is no denying that fact. All of you Methodists, Lutherans, Episcopalians, Pentecostals and the other thirty-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-six another denominations residing under the…

What I’ve learned about myself: a special message from Ms. Ashley

Ms. Ashley of NRR

Hey ya’ll! Since we did not have a show this week, nor have I been on any shows this week, I need to get something off my chest…

  In the last 7 days, I have learned a lot about myself. I have learned that I am strong, dedicated, loving and smart. I found out that I can forgive people for past transgressions. My mom is not perfect and neither am I. She made some mistakes in her…

The Mistake:Where my parents failed in their indoctrination attempts.

William Cheshire

As the saying goes, I was raised on the pew. My mother is an extremely devout Pentecostal and my grandfather was a pastor for many years of a small, very conservative Pentecostal church in rural Louisiana. From my earliest memories, we were cut off from the real world in a number of ways. This went so far as to forbid watching TV, it was “of the devil” don’t you know. I remember…

Don Armel

This morning I was watching CBS Sunday Morning, who reported on the upcoming Broadway reprise on Shuffle Along. The first play starring, written and produced by blacks, first performed in 1921. I much enjoyed the story as it focused on two of the up and coming dancers. That is the point I drifted off to physics.

The dancers ability to create the illusion of floating is awe inspiring. I…