atheism ⁽¹⁷⁾

"You are being fooled by the Devil." This is something you'll hear from that vocal minority of Christians who take things much more literally than the average bear, and who therefore interpret passages in the Bible about Satan as referring to a literal creature. Since…

"You're just going through a phase" is probably one of the more infuriating things we hear from the religious. Strangely, it doesn't only come from our parents, although they are a rich source of it. As a parent myself I can assure you from bitter…

"The fool says in his heart, 'there is no God'" (Psalms 14:1) This is one of the Bible verses that the religious will quote as a supposed refutation of atheism. It tries to make a case for belief in God with what seems at first…

In my dealings with the religious, especially those of my family who have remained within, there's been an occasional grace-note of jealousy. They rightly perceive the greater freedom afforded by a life that is no longer guided by arbitrary restrictions created to keep the priestly…

"God still loves you" is something atheists will hear from the religious toward the end of one of those conversations where the religious participant is starting to figure out there isn't going to be a reconversion. Not today, at any rate. This is meant to…