Monthly Archives: April 2014

A Quick Little Housekeeping Post

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Captain Cassidy

Housekeeping stuff– * For some reason a slew of feedback comments just came in. Some of them are a few days old. I’ve got no idea why I didn’t see them before here or in my email, but I think … Continue reading →

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Differing Conversations. (We Can’t Both Be Right, Part II)

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Captain Cassidy

Have you ever talked to somebody who tells you one thing but tells someone else something entirely different? We call such a person two-faced and we don’t generally like or trust somebody like that. Mitt Romney very famously “flip-flopped” his … Continue reading →

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When We Can’t Both Be Right.

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Captain Cassidy

Sometimes it happens that two people have two completely opposing opinions about something. We can take identical lists of objective facts, filter them through a big variety of cultural conditioning, expectations, mores, and personal inclinations, and come out with an … Continue reading →

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Heaven is (Not) For Real.

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Captain Cassidy

I remember seeing Heaven is For Real at the checkout stand somewhere a while ago and just groaning inwardly at yet another attempt by Christians to cash in on humanity’s ignorance of whatever lies beyond death (if anything–which we’ll talk … Continue reading →

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The Sand’s Just Fine.

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Captain Cassidy

When Rachel Held Evans wrote her beautifully moving piece in the wake of the World Vision brouhaha, How Evangelicals Won a Culture War And Lost a Generation, it was a cry from the heart: she, like many other evangelicals, has … Continue reading →

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Fact-Checking.

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Captain Cassidy

I talk about my past in the Christian faith a lot, and I know that what I say can sound kind of outrageous sometimes. That’s why I want to go over a bit about what I do to ensure that … Continue reading →

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He’s Not a Zombie. Or a Lich.

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Captain Cassidy

I need to clear up a small gaming-related confusion. See, we may joke about Jesus being a Jewish zombie, but I’m sorry to tell you: he’s not a zombie. That meme running around Facebook is right–sort of. It is however wrong about him being a lich. So here is how I figured out what the character of Jesus really is. Continue reading →

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Dividing to Conquer.

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Captain Cassidy

Welcome back. We’ve talked here before about Doug Phillips, uber-patriarch and onetime leader of the now-somewhat-defunct Vision Forum (I wonder if Kirk Cameron still associates with them?); onetime rock-star of the homeschooling movement and mentor to countless right-wing slavering-at-the-mouth fundies … Continue reading →

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Permission Slips.

Posted on April 18, 2014 by Captain Cassidy

Greetings and salutations! Once again, a warm welcome to the new folks coming in from Reddit. Y’all have been overwhelmingly kind and it is vastly appreciated. Today I want to talk about something that was sparked in me the other … Continue reading →

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On the Making of Mini-Mes.

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Captain Cassidy

A while ago there was a movie out called I, Robot. One of its most disturbing scenes, to me, was one in which the hero must search for a robot who is hiding in a factory among a sea of … Continue reading →

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