Monthly Archives: December 2013

The Unequally Yoked Club: The Difference Engine.

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Captain Cassidy

Long ago, Charles Babbage came up with designs for a machine that could accurately create tables of calculated numbers. He called this machine the difference engine. By turning a handle on the machine, gears and cranks would turn and it … Continue reading →

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The Unequally Yoked Club: Bad Advice, or, The Real Things I Wish I’d Known Before Getting Married.

Posted on December 29, 2013 by Captain Cassidy

I love bad advice. I admit it. I’ve always had a huge affection for bad advice snark. I mean, bad advice is engineered to cause maximum grief, drama, and division, especially when you know the original advice-seeker actually wanted to … Continue reading →

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Logical Christians.

Posted on December 26, 2013 by Captain Cassidy

I hope your holidays are going well so far! Welcome back. I realized not long ago that I’ve made references to “logical Christians” a couple of times here, and I wanted to talk about that idea a little bit now. … Continue reading →

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Post-Christian (Nation) Exhaustion.

Posted on December 24, 2013 by Captain Cassidy

Christians call their religion the “good news,” but there’s even better news today in the form of an explosive new survey about religious and spiritual opinions in America: we’re getting less religious and more accepting of reality. Who’d’a thunk? Harris … Continue reading →

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OMG UTAH! Congratz!

Posted on December 23, 2013 by Captain Cassidy

Weddings make me so emotional. They’re such a raw, visceral statement of hope and love, such a singularity of joy, a shriek of intention heard ‘cross the rooftops of the world. So yes: every state that gets equal marriage, you … Continue reading →

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O Holy Night, the Stars Are Brightly Shining: Virgin Births.

Posted on December 22, 2013 by Captain Cassidy

This time of year seems quite appropriate to talk about a virgin birth. Or rather, 46 of them and counting. In a rather surprising long-term study done over 19 years and involving 8,000 participants, researchers followed women over their lifetimes … Continue reading →

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Dear Christians: Please Quit Idolizing Disgusting Hate-Filled Bigots.

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Captain Cassidy

There’s this TV show about rich backwoods hicks with ZZ Top beards. It’s called “Duck Dynasty.” They own a successful hunting-goods company of some kind and they’re rich but they dress and groom themselves like any bunch of rednecks you’d … Continue reading →

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The Best of All Possible Worlds.

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Captain Cassidy

Yes, I saw the Harris Poll and the thing about the virgin births, and we’ll talk about those both really soon, I promise. Today I want to talk about this idea I had as a Christian where I thought that … Continue reading →

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The Unequally Yoked Club: As I Lay Dying (To Myself).

Posted on December 18, 2013 by Captain Cassidy

One of the hardest parts about deconverting out from under a fundagelical marriage was unlearning my indoctrination and re-learning all the rules for how men and women should interact. One of those ideas I had to unlearn was the idea … Continue reading →

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Abandoning All Hope.

Posted on December 16, 2013 by Captain Cassidy

One of the greatest of all the benefits of Christianity is supposed to be hope. So why do so many Christians seem to lack it? Today we’re going to look at the very sad case of a Christian man who … Continue reading →

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