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58. truth
Sometimes it's the right move to leave a relationship if it's abusive or unhealthy, or if it was disingenuous to begin with. But what if you realize that you were the problem to begin with, or even...
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67. intrinsical
*This article was written for the Minnesota Skeptics blog, but pending its review I thought I’d post it here for a sneak peek* I’m embarrassed it took this long, really. New Christian converts have...
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72. blessing
This morning I was listening to This American Life from 29 July, a show in two acts about thugs and various kinds of thuggery. In the first act, a man in Egypt is subjected to the nightmare of...
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78. nevermore
"Unequally yoked" is a common saying among Christians, but I recently came to the conclusion that it may apply to apostates as well. The experience of leaving a religious institution is deeply...
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79. evidence
Excerpt from a letter from Thomas Jefferson to his nephew Peter Carr, Paris, Aug. 10, 1787 Religion. Your reason is now mature enough to examine this object. In the first place divest yourself of all...
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98. cranberries
The other night I watched National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation for the very first time. This was to correct an apparently serious cultural deficiency in me (although now that I’ve seen it, I’m not...
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100. singularity
This story begins with a boy, seven or eight years old, crouching outside on a mid-summer day under a clear blue sky. The boy is peering down into a puddle. It had been raining the day before and there...
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