Neil Carter

Evangelicals: Kids are too young to decide about their own sexuality. Also them: Kayleigh just made a profession of faith at 4 years old! We’re so happy! 🎉

@ingersoll_bob It is. I’ve been taking hiatus from writing because I started a new job that took about 8 months of intensive traveling and training. It’s finally done, and I hope to pick it up again before long. I definitely want to finish that series for sure.

@ingersoll_bob Thank you. Xitter hasn’t impressed me of late. But mostly I’m starting a new job that’s kept my social media presence to a minimum. I’m still here though, I promise 😁 And I’ll likely have a lot to say once I get going again

If the Apostle Paul were a bit older, he wouldn’t have to “buffet his body” to punish himself for being human. All he’d have to do is eat spicy food, and that would pretty much do it.

@adanie5 These “last days” sure have been going on for a loooong time

My dad’s weekly text. 😁 But who is NOT going to church today? Me!! I have to work. 💃 🕺🏼 Oh & yes, gay people & the Dems r destroying families-according to my dad. 😆

@RogueArtemis Glad to hear I wasn’t the only one. It was like the internet before there was an internet

Elonbros: OMG Elon read the entire encyclopedia as a kid! Me, an autistic person:

@BradTheAuthor @adanie5 “One function of a wife” is one of the cringier things I’ve seen in a sentence now

@godlessindixie @adanie5 Thats one function of a wife, assuming they want kids. Don't see how thats wrong. Im an evangelical and know plenty of evangelical women who work, and plenty who choose not too.

Having a lot of kids doesnt mean you're IBLP. Some people just want a lot of kids.

@adanie5 @BradTheAuthor I still say that evangelicalism is really fundamentalism with an updated haircut. Peel back the marketing layer and the theology is still wrapped around patriarchy. They still believe a woman is for making and raising babies

@BradTheAuthor True, but three of the families I know for sure are. Like I said, I’m not sure about the others. I don’t know them as well.

@freethink901 Update: Having technical difficulties with the site. Hoping to get them resolved before too late in the day. Either way, it looks like I’ve got some catching up to do 😬

Wonder if @godlessindixie has a working link or copy of his essay "Greatest Story Never Told" maybe a repost for Easter?

@freethink901 Funny you should mention it. I was just thinking about doing that

@ErinLouis666 That’s gotta chafe a little

@JoelRenkema @sewistwrites Follow-up: Historians can find no evidence that Hebrews were ever in Egypt at all. They appear to have emerged gradually in Canaan around the time the Bible stories claim they invaded it

@sewistwrites The pyramids of Giza were roughly 1,000 years old when Abraham visited Egypt.

@Rennythecat_ Same

A service dog except people can pet him and stuff and the service is he helps you make friends and be social. I need this service.

@godless_mom My favorite is when they name a specific sin because they’re only telling on themselves. What they don’t understand is that when we screw up, we don’t get to pretend it’s erased by magic.

@sarahmccammon I’ve been on the other end of that situation, so I’m curious to hear what works. My gut says if exhaustion is the root cause, then more rest has to come in somewhere in the day/week before it gets any easier. I’m sure if you explain that to the children they’ll understand 😆

I don’t care what it is; since becoming a mom I routinely struggle to stay awake through movies (at home at the end of the week). It’s becoming…a minor issue in my personal life. Does anyone else have this? I try but by the time I actually have two hours free I’m too wiped out!

@GodlessLiz I wrote a whole article about this with a list of the top 25 lies we were told, but Patheos deleted it. I should go resurrect that one for OnlySky. It'll be interesting to see if I still agree with all of it 😆

What’s something your former religion told you about relationships, sex, or marriage that you later learned was inaccurate or a lie?

@is4Christianity @SecularOutpost And yet the Bible portrays a deity who constantly intervenes. So I fail to see the value in a Christian positing deism as a workaround.

@SecularOutpost “It by no means follows from Supernaturalism that Miracles of any sort do in fact occur. God (the primary thing) may never in fact interfere with the natural system He has created.”  C.S.Lewis

@funnyhorse @GodlessLiz Speak for yourself. Those were delicious 😁

@GodlessLiz Potluck lunch

What’s a ritual or belief unknown to most outsiders from your former religion that you now realize is ridiculous and nutty?

People at work probably think I’m boring, but they don’t know. When I’m by myself I’m hilarious.

@iamAtheistGirl @johnmaddox @TheoreticalBS

@johnmaddox @TheoreticalBS why are you so obsessed with atheists? why does our doubt bother you so much?

This atheist (@TheoreticalBS ) says I'm a tool for asking why I should take him seriously...but based on HIS PROFILE, it seems pretty reasonable to wonder if he's a troll/parody. But in his mind, this makes ME the troll. And Twitter atheists wonder why I call them out. 🙄🙄

@philvischer Produced by Seth Rogen, I’m sure

This thread is what happens when a funny idea (a veggie version of the Book of Revelation), meets AI art. It's... intense.