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ex narnian answering tough ideas on both sides of the wardrobe skip to content ex narnian answering tough ideas on both sides of the wardrobe menu things always work according to their nature august 16 2025 august 16 2025 john duritz ph d 2 comments i shouldn t be complaining y all i m not hungry i m not destitute i m not chronically ill or physically challenged i have a career i have a house i have family who love me i m in pretty good health and in the best shape of my life the fact that i can bench more than my body weight is a damn good clue without having a 6 figure income or a god like body i have about as good a life as it s possible to have but yeah i m going to complain and anyone who wants to chew me out for it can blow it out their ass because i am in need of two basic human comforts and my limited privilege can t fix them continue reading things always work according to their nature share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading enough already august 6 2025 august 7 2025 john duritz ph d leave a comment as an atheist who is sick to death of toxic atheist culture permeating the world like a virus i wanted to write this little psa for all you pube scratching pimple busting pizza burping evangelical anti theists who foam at the mouth over anything remotely resembling a defense of religion hopefully you ll find a modicum of patience to listen to someone who doesn t go hysterical about religion the way you do but i m not holding my breath one of our own atheists whom many of you fawn over is not in your corner he used to be one of you and he was classier and more erudite than you for sure but he s mellowing out and he s trying to do better the person who looks at everything with a sharp edge and tries to debunk and criticize everything it s easy and it s doable and i ve certainly been there i know in my family when i was living at home it was sort of constant and you can always fall back on this idea of i m just trying to get to the truth you said something i don t think is true and i m just asking you a question i m just trying to understand your view but sometimes it is just inappropriate to do that the intellect is like a knife or a chisel that you can use to tear away at false stuff but you re supposed to do it in the service of creating sculpture you re supposed to be bringing something out of whatever you re chiseling away at if you take that chisel and just knock it all the way down through then you end up with nothing alex o connor cosmic skeptic in other words it s good to be skeptical and doubtful but it can go too far for one we can become cynical treating every foreign or contrary idea with scorn and contempt which is what too many of you do just sayin or we can treat everything as an intellectual exercise and every person as a project to be completed and in so doing we dehumanize and objectify the people we oppose sensitivity and empathy are the key to good conversation and intellect should put those first which is what too many of you don t do just sayin skepticism and rationality should never be used to tear people down and put ourselves on pedestals they should be used to discover truth and forge a path to a better world i m strongly convinced religion is a prison and many theists don t yet realize it and i don t say that in judgment but as someone who was in his late 20s when he realized he was in a prison and wishes he had realized it far sooner and if i could help others realize it so that i could spare them the pain regret and waste of their lives in that prison i would but if all we do is criticize ideas for criticism s sake and treat every theist as an archnemesis our intellect is not a tool for discovering truth or creating a better world but a stick of dynamite that blows up a prisoner and not the prison i do have one objection to alex s comments chiseling away false stuff is not like building a sculpture but like searching for hidden treasures when we pursue truth we sometimes learn nothing i e we ve dug up a rock or a dirt clod or when we find something and it s unpleasant and ugly we can t apply any intellectual alchemy that will turn it into gold truth is not a raw material that we can bend to our creative and intellectual will it s an element that will react with everything around it one way or another and we can only harness it to a certain extent before conceding that it is what it is objection aside i agree with him sometimes it s proper to use your brains to sever bad ideas from good ones but it s always proper to be kind and empathetic let s do the former while doing the latter it s good for everyone all around thanks for reading assholes share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading even if i were still a christian i would think this is shit august 2 2025 august 2 2025 john duritz ph d leave a comment the cure for low self esteem is the gospel the gospel will transform your identity and self worth ashley varner continue reading even if i were still a christian i would think this is shit share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading hey christians do you even lift july 28 2025 october 11 2025 john duritz ph d leave a comment yeah yeah whatever an autistic cranky agnostic atheist is the last guy you want to hear from hell i m even worse than that annoying relative who thumps the bible while they scold you for gazing into your smartphone and dressing like a heathen but something s on my mind or if you prefer weighing heavily on my heart and my being an atheist has no bearing whatsoever on its truth continue reading hey christians do you even lift share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading shit atheists say july 20 2025 august 7 2025 john duritz ph d leave a comment fellow atheists we ve hampered our cause by needlessly perpetuating the angry atheist and dogmatic antitheist stereotypes forgoing intellectual and rational conversation with theists and turning youtube videos into shock jock entertainment and verbal abuse as if that weren t bad enough we re saying stupid shit and letting it go viral and we don t challenge it for example i present you with five irritating atheist clichés that went viral because of their wordplay and truthiness but needed to be abolished because of the excessive suckitude continue reading shit atheists say share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading when the love is gone june 30 2025 july 3 2025 john duritz ph d leave a comment some songs do more than stick in our ears y all they echo after just one listen continue reading when the love is gone share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading it s all about you june 27 2025 july 11 2025 john duritz ph d leave a comment as if we weren t rolling our eyes hard enough at kirk franklin stripping flexing posing and even twerking yes twerking during his concerts we now have another reason to send our eyes spinning toward our foreheads continue reading it s all about you share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading christian nationalism is bad for everyone including christians june 26 2025 june 27 2025 john duritz ph d leave a comment four days ago texas governor greg abbott signed a law requiring every public school in the state to display a copy of the ten commandments in every classroom if you re a christian this should alarm you continue reading christian nationalism is bad for everyone including christians share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading arrested development june 25 2025 october 11 2025 john duritz ph d leave a comment jealousy envy resentment guilt shame body image unwanted homosexuality awful memories being on the autistic spectrum wishing i could make friends i could go on and on but you get my point i m a hot mess and i may have to deal with it for the rest of my life continue reading arrested development share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading it s starting to show june 24 2025 june 25 2025 john duritz ph d leave a comment according to jason smedley s op ed in the christian post a lot of christians are second guessing and giving up their faith because they thought christianity was supposed to make their lives better and got a rude awakening when life got really hard his article doesn t help matters any besides the fact that he accuses such christians of embracing heresy which is insulting and condescending he overlooks a major problem many christians are being reborn in liberal and mainstream churches which tend to prefer inclusion and cultural relevance over doctrinal rigor that means these believers are spending more time thinking for themselves and less time swallowing every word their pastor says which is a good thing proverbs 14 15 and all so when life gets hard they re asking why and trying to figure out what s worth believing which is also a good thing whether we re christians or not i m an atheist who went through an extremely painful deconversion deconstructing is good we learn what to believe toss aside or reserve judgment for until we get more evidence this is good news for the christians in smedley s article because they will surely find better reasons to believe or realize their previous reasons were poor and if they find proof for christianity that we all need to see they prove the idea that deconstruction makes scholars out of laymen i should know that s what happened to me plus christians are not just called to follow christ they re called to take up their crosses and follow him but not before they ve counted the cost luke 14 27 28 no one should commit their lives to any doctrine or dogma without thinking it through if we re not rationally convinced of it it s not worth it and can be downright dangerous plus faith and belief should never be blind but always made with eyes wide open inasmuch as we atheists live by sagan s law that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence we ought to live by a corollary to that law and encourage others to live by it too life changing claims require sufficient reasons to change your life it seems like more christians are wondering if they have sufficient reasons that s great news it means they re thinking things out and through it means they re learning about skepticism and critical thinking and as more christians do this the christian legislators and activists who push christian nationalist measures on our society may stop looking at everyone else as a huge body of useful idiots waves are forming in a big part of the pond enough for the christian post to produce smedley s insulting op ed to warn people hey look out these people are thinking i ve had no doubt that christians can ditch dogma for reason and evidence and the really great thing is it s starting to show if you re deconstructing you re on a great path not an easy one but a great one everything you believe ought to be backed up by reason and evidence and your faith is only as good as the thing you have faith in not my idea in fact and somewhat ironically i learned this in my christian homeschooling program by a beka book one of their theology books said the quantity of the faith is determined by the quantity of the faith s object this actually helped kick my deconversion into high gear many years later share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading posts navigation older posts follow ex narnian on wordpress com newest posts things always work according to their nature enough already even if i were still a christian i would think this is shit hey christians do you even lift shit atheists say 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