religion ⁽³⁵⁾

"It's all part of God's plan" is something I have heard religious people say to people who have just suffered some very negative life event. Anything from a bad breakup, to a fire or other disaster, all the way to the death of a family…

"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…