Tag Archives: Catholic Church

God’s Not Dead: Moving Targets.

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Captain Cassidy

I wonder if any of this movie’s fans realize that saying “I liked this movie a lot” translates in outsiders’ heads to “I endorse this movie’s treatment of you.” Continue reading →

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I’m Still Not a Francis Fangirl.

Posted on February 8, 2015 by Captain Cassidy

I’m still not a Pope Francis fangirl. Here’s why. Continue reading →

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Leaping from Floe to Floe.

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Captain Cassidy

Our dear friend Charles at Skeptic Journey has brought something up that I wanted to talk about today: the growing sense of flailing that I get from modern Christian organizations as they try to stem the tide of apostates and … Continue reading →

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What’s Your Sign?

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Captain Cassidy

I was reading today about some horoscope writer who is sick and about how her fans are very upset that she can’t write their horoscopes on time, and it made me remember some woo I briefly got into in the … 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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“Low Christianity” and Halloween.

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Captain Cassidy

We haven’t finished talking about the Unequally Yoked Club yet, but I did want to talk briefly about Halloween. I hope you all had a wonderful one, however you spent it! I’ve talked before about “low Christianity” and “high Christianity.” … Continue reading →

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Leaving Religion: Words Have Power.

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Captain Cassidy

Liberal. Conservative. Trinitarian. Jesus-Name. Man. Woman. Gay. Straight. Christian. Marcionite. Atheist. Deist. Pantheist. Agnostic. Pagan. Neo-Pagan. Traditionalist Pagan. Reconstructionist Pagan. Eclectic Pagan. It seems like our entire lives are just made up of labels and defining ourselves with carefully-chosen words, … Continue reading →

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This Just In: The Pope’s Hoping We Forgot Everything.

Posted on July 30, 2013 by Captain Cassidy

The leader of the largest organized ring of child molesters on the planet, Pope Francis, says he’s not going to judge gay priests just for being gay. Yep. You heard him. Ain’t that nice of him? Let’s just see how … Continue reading →

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Superhero Jesus.

Posted on June 22, 2013 by Captain Cassidy

(Trigger warning: Mistreatment of a child.) We’re going to start by backing up a little in time. Okay, by a “little” I mean 40 years-ish, but what’s a few decades between friends? After my mother remarried a serviceman when I … Continue reading →

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