My Catalog

And Other Resources for People Struggling in this Day and Age. — So…you’ve had it up to the moon with religion and have decided to leave it behind. Congratulations! You’re in a bit of a scary place. Let me reassure you, however, that it is a very good place to be. You are at a turning point, in the midst of a…

A Brief Introduction — Knowledge is power, as they say. However, knowledge without insight, context and understanding is just fact. In order to understand something fully, you have to think beyond the surface; look past what is front and center to see the full picture. When it comes to the bible, most people of…

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What can I say…? Oh Medium, How do I (not) love thee…? Let me count the ways… The mobile app sucks. The web interface is anemic. The membership fees are not worth the frustration of using this site, what with all of its glitches. …

…But It was worth it… — That is to say it was worth it for the chance opportunity to taste a little heaven on Earth, given how dull and empty life has been recently. And thank dog almighty… The weather where I live decided it wanted to creep into the 90s today, and since it rained…

How Evangelicals mastered exclusion via shame years before Cancel Culture was a thing. — I’ve noticed in recent years that a lot of churches in my area have been re-branding themselves; I suspect as a means to appeal to a younger demographic, the people of which studies have shown are abandoning organized religion just as rats abandon a sinking ship.(1) There are around twenty…

How an Atheist is Fighting Back Against Right-Wing Idiocy, and Other Observations from the Week’s News. — Welcome to Vol. 1 of my new project — And Now For Something Completely…Last Week. Yes, I’m borrowing from Monty Python and John Oliver on that one, but it’s merely an homage so get over it. That said, I’m going to periodically, usually on Sundays, make the effort to respond…

What’s been learned, what’s been reinforced. — Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Skeevy Stoner Day is here again, the one day of the year when lazy potheads get to pretend they have some social relevance. I began my Medium publishing journey a little over a year ago, one year and eleven days ago to be exact. I never…

Fat is not my fetish, and never will be. — So (not) sorry to all you big girls out there craving affection, but I’ve never once looked at a picture of a naked fat woman and found myself in a state of arousal. My erections just don’t work that way. Curvy, maybe, but definitely a thinner, proportional curvy. I’m not…