Religion

Some people might not find religion interesting, but I sure do. Particularly since I was brought up in a Christian family, the history and development of Christianity is my main interest, but I also like learning about all other kinds of belief systems. I can remember back when I was young, and some of my favorite books were on the subject of mythology. I guess I've never lost interest in learning about the stories humans tell themselves to help make sense of our world.

Currently, I'm a member of the North Texas Church of Freethought, and I'm also a regular guest of the First Baptist Church of Colleyville's "Faith and Reason" Sunday School class, led by Kevin Harris.

My Easter Challenge resurrection narrative harmonization can be found here.

I've also placed my literary analysis of the two Ten Commandments narratives here.

The Blasphemy Challenge is a project conceived of by the Rational Response Squad in collaboration with Brian Flemming, the director of the documentary, "The God Who Wasn't There." The rationale for the challenge is derived from Mark 3:29, and claims that denying the Holy Spirit is a sin serious enough to merit permanent and irreversible damnation. Participants were asked to commit this act, and post a video of this to YouTube. I decided that I wanted to weigh in on this issue, and so I submitted the following:

And again for good measure, with some members of the North Texas Church of Freethought:

If you'd like to see the story that Nightline produced on the Rational Response Squad and the Blasphemy Challenge, featuring Brian Sapient, it's right here:

I used to be a Christian, but now I'm an atheist. Rather than give a long explanation of how this happened, I'll give an autobiographical book list that's more meaningful: