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Dylan Moran = Awesome

Dylan Moran, one of the funniest people on earth (judging by the brilliance of Black Books) is dead on with this one…

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Is It Possible to Build Faith In a Creator? Um…

For the most part the Watchtower and Awake! magazines stick to selling their views and managing the members of the Jehovah’s Witness community. Every once and awhile, however, they decide to take a pot shot at the nonbeliever. The latest Watchtower magazine in it’s article “Is It Possible to Build Faith in a [...]

O The Humanity!

Early on in my life as a secular humanist, my father and I were having a discussion in which he asked me how I could think that looking to humans for answers to the worlds problems could ever work.  After all, he pointed out, humans were responsible for most of the problems in the first [...]

RyanSutter.Net’s 700th Post!

This morning I tried riding my bike to the bus and taking it with me for the first time using the bike rack on the front of the bus. Two things to note: 1) I’m a moron for not doing this sooner and 2) I have no idea what the damn combination is to [...]

1 Thessalonians

I have a strange hobby.  I really get into Biblical textual criticism.  Is that weird?  Maybe so…
Today I was listening to a podcast discussion about whether there was evidence for the resurrection of Jesus.  I was finding the whole discussion moderately absurd because it seemed to be based on the idea that the Gospel accounts [...]

God As I Knew Him – Part 4

As I chronicled in Parts 1, 2 and 3 of this series, God and I had a long rocky relationship. We went from good buddies to uncomfortable partners to, ultimately, distant relatives. The end came far more swiftly than I had ever imagined possible.

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God As I Knew Him – Part 3

In Part 1 and Part 2 of my posts on my relationship with God I went from early childhood up to my decision to get baptized at the age of 16. I had been close to God and far from God but ultimately decided I agreed with his plan for the earth and decided [...]

God As I Knew Him – Part 2

In Part 1 of my series on my evolving relationship with God I explained that as a child God was basically my supernatural defender. I counted on him to keep the demons at bay and help me not to have bad dreams. This changed, however, when I had my first encounters with sexual [...]