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  • Welcoming 2006

    Well, 2005 has been one hell of an interesting year. Well, Ok, it’s been one truly fucked up year. From God’s wrath on the poor heathen Asian countries this time a year ago to the senseless murder of a helpless brain-dead woman, to the introduction of...

  • Christian School Set Ablaze

    And not with the power of the Holy Spirit either! Some of you may remember the Not So Brief History of my Religious Upbringing , in which I talk at length about the Christian school I attended as a teenager. Well, someone went and set it on fire. It was...

  • Sorry Dad

    Ok, I've recieved criticism by a couple of friends for "picking" on my father. I want to make it clear that I am in no way picking on him at all. I respect my father and love him dearly. I am not trying to convert him or diminish his beliefs at all. Everyone...

  • The Christian

    My father, bless his soul, disagrees with my chosen philosophy of atheism. I don't disparage his beliefs at all (he's not an extremist) but we have had a conversation or two about mine, and he is understandably concerned for my soul. This morning he sent...

  • Strange Encounter

    I must move once again. The owner of the house I'm renting is selling, so I'm looking for a new rental. Of course I'm looking online, but another great resource is the local paper, in this case the Glastonbury Citizen, as I'm looking to move closer to...

  • Been on a slump lately

    I know I haven't been very consistent with updating my blog. But hey I've been busy ... no really ... I have, I swear. I was in Florida for a week getting my head stuffed with Microsoft marketing, then I was visiting my parents in Hudson, FL, went fishing...

  • I've found God

    Sometimes, in someone's life, ther comes a point where all the questioning, all the whys, all the searching for answers and meaning becomes too much, almost to the point where it becomes pointless. For all of these years I have been discarding the teachings...

  • A (not so brief) History of My Religious Upbringing

    Well, I'm sitting here in the middle of a Saturday afternoon, because my date cancelled on me. Ok, well not so much a date, actually just spending an afternoon with a good friend who also happens to be completely unavailable, but feels sufficient pity on me to occasionally indulge my idea of her as a surrogate girlfriend of some sort. Jeez, I need help. So instead of exploring all of the cultural wonders of Hartford, I thought I'd take some time and just rant about one of my favorite topics,...

  • Why I'm an Atheist

    Religion is a topic that is always highly emotional. You cannot state a belief that is extraordinarily different from someone else's with defenses going up, and individual prejudices being shown. Even stranger and more remarkable is that while tolerance for different religions is higher today than ever before (with the exception of some third world extremist groups), tolerance for an absence of religion is nearly non-existent. It's interesting to note however, that if two intelligent, civiliz...

  • General Disclaimer

    I make no effort to check sources, it is not my intention to present evidence, it is not my intention to be an accurate source of information. I am not a large scale political blog, nor do I aspire to be. If my sources are innacurate, it stands to reason...