This past week, a report came out from the Associated Press: “Church Membership in US Plummets Over Past 20 Years.” A fascinating phenomenon, right? Reason is triumphing! The activists are winning! But wait. It’s not time to place any laurel wreaths just yet. “Church membership,” it says, my friend, church membership—not necessarily religious beliefs. The […]
Since my mind never shuts up, even when I tell it to, it wandered this morning toward religion in video games. I don’t know why. I don’t even bother to ask these questions any more, “Brain, whither wander you?” I play Final Fantasy XIV rather often. Most of my leisure time is dedicated toward it, because […]
After my post on Transgender Day of Visibility, which I hope went beautifully for everyone affected by it, I decided to explore more about, well, people who are transgender. I don’t understand it very well. It isn’t a subject that has ever affected me directly and not one I’ve ever examined at great length. All […]
I find it really, really funny when people talk about things they don’t know anything about but should. You see, sometimes we still pretend to know more than we really do. You do it, I do it (I try to quit doing it, but they haven’t made a patch yet). Nothing is more obvious about […]
I’m not writing here so much on my own behalf because I’m very much a small fish in the ocean at this point with my blog. Not even a small fish, I’m a piece of plankton. But I watch my favorite YouTubers, for instance, get a lot of hate for “attacking” ideas. Not just religion, […]
Yesterday morning, I took my dog to the vet. It was early and happened to be rather crowded. The book in my bag happened to be a copy of God is Not Great by the late, lamented Christopher Hitchens. I let my dog choose where to sit, and she selected a bench between an older […]
I’ve lived in the state of Arizona most of my life. Sometimes, I’m really proud of that. For instance, we just elected Kyrsten Sinema to the US Senate. Not only is she the first Democratic senator elected from Arizona since the eighties, she’s the first openly bisexual member of Congress and the second LGBT member […]
Something short-circuited my brain today. Having grown up in a secular fashion, and attended a church in my early teenage years that was not particularly enlightening, I decided to look up why exactly Christians believe Jesus fulfilled Mosaic Law–or, in other words, made it no longer apply to them. Now I’m not just referring to […]
As I mentioned in my post yesterday, I am an akiosexual. What this means, in short, is that I am asexual, but I can feel sexual attraction. However, I have no intention to act upon this sexual attraction, and it will fade the better I know a person. What this boils down to is I […]
The best class I took in university, hands down, was Gnosticism and Manichaeism. To be fair, I remember very little about the teachings of Mani after all this time, but Gnosticism…I still have my extremely beaten-up copy of the Nag Hammadi Gospels. It’s on the bookshelf behind me, so I can easily consult the spine […]
The Implied Spider 