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Thoughts and struggles of a former Evangelical Christian learning to relate to life as a skeptic in the Deep South.

Neil Carter


    • Oct 30, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 37 EPISODES


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    Episode 107: Rhett Sings Himself Overboard (Album Review)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2022 16:32


    When Rhett McLaughlin of Good Mythical Morning left his faith, he felt like a man thrown overboard. Now he's put his journey to music. Here is my review of Human Overboard, released this September.

    Episode 106: When Your Faith Is So Heavenly Minded, It's No Earthly Good

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2022 10:29


    Evangelicals want to leave the world, not save it. Until then, all they want is to be recognized as the true protagonists of the universe.

    Episode 105: Why Christians Are So Obsessed with Israel

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2022 7:48


    Preachers like Pat Robertson can't stop making everything about Israel, even the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Here's why.

    Episode 104: Your God Has Boundary Issues

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2022 9:45


    If trees are known by their fruit, then the God of evangelical Christianity has some serious boundary problems.

    Episode 103: There's Nothing Sexy About Deconstruction

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2022 12:03


    A preacher recently suggested people are leaving the Christian faith--or at least they're mentally dismantling it--because it's the cool thing to do. He has no idea what he's talking about.

    Episode 102: Marriage Advice to a Half-Believing Couple

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2022 13:57


    One partner remains a devout evangelical Christian while the other left the faith. What will they do about the children?

    Episode 101: What's Next for Godless in Dixie?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2022 13:34


    After a long but necessary hibernation, Godless in Dixie is back at the podcasting game, this time using a more traditional format. Soon the blog itself will relaunch alongside a number of others on a new platform called OnlySky.

    Episode 30: Screen Doors and Porch Swings

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2020 10:21


    Lori Arnold explains what it feels like to be unintentionally "othered" by those still in the community of faith. It's less of a door slammed in your face and more of a screen door between you all the time, reminding you that you are still on the outside.

    Episode 29: What Atheists Wish Christians Knew about Them

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2020 15:15


    A pastor once invited me to talk to his congregation about what atheists wish Christians understood about them, fielding questions from the church afterwards. Here are the eleven things that came to mind first.

    Episode 28: Deconstructing the End of the World

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2020 18:09


    Today the church is waiting around for someone to swoop in and fix everything that's broken through divine cataclysm, removing all responsibility from them. As it turns out, the events they've been waiting for already happened a long, long time ago.

    Episode 27: Hell 2.0, Now with Fewer Flames!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2020 16:47


    Back in my day, Hell was a lake of fire. But times have changed, and modern folks want a kinder, gentler Hell. Hell 2.0 is basically like putting yourself in Time Out...forever.

    Episode 26: Absolving God from Hell

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2020 11:41


    Responsibility for every soul condemned to Hell would fall squarely into the lap of the God of the Bible, were any of these beliefs actually true. You cannot absolve an all-powerful deity from something like this, nor does the Christian faith in its original form attempt to do so.

    Episode 25: Seven Reasons to Reject Hell

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2019 11:37


    Here are seven reasons absolutely everyone---even those trying to believe the Bible---should reject the notion of Hell. And shame on anyone who feeds this horrific nonsense to children.

    Episode 24: The Bible's Attitude Toward the Life of the Mind

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2019 12:34


    The Bible begins with a story disparaging curiosity and exploration, a mood it maintains for the rest of the book. But when you view the mind strictly as a tool of worship, you invalidate learning for its own sake. Free inquiry utterly depends on, well...freedom.

    Episode 23: Paul, the True Founder of Christianity

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2019 16:04


    Virtually everything we are told Jesus said or did came to us from churches founded by Paul. As it turns out, this single detail explains more than almost anything else. Ultimately it was Paul, not Jesus, who founded the religion which eventually became the Christian faith.

    Episode 22: The Most Failed Prayer in History

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2019 10:35


    A lot of prayers have failed to materialize over the centuries, but none so fantastically as this one. And as it turns out, this one was extremely important.

    Episode 21: The Greatest Story Never Told

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2019 14:24


    Do you know how many people the Bible says were raised from the dead on Easter weekend? Here's a hint: It's a more than the number of biblical scholars, even conservatives ones, who believe this story actually happened in real life.

    Episode 20: Five Times Jesus Sounded Like a Humanist

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2019 18:39


    Jesus said a lot of things which directly contradict what humanists believe, but composite characters like him say self-contradictory things quite often. Here were five times Jesus said things which modern humanists could have said themselves.

    Episode 19: The Christmas That Wasn't

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2019 13:10


    The historicity of Jesus is still up for debate among historians. But the historicity of Christmas? Not so much.

    Episode 18: Was Jesus a Real Person?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2019 19:34


    Exactly how much evidence would you expect to find proving that a poor, itinerant rabbi lived and died in an area of the ancient Roman empire which the authorities scarcely cared about? And yet we have a decent amount of evidence pointing to the existence of *someone* even if he wasn't magic.

    Episode 17: What Does the Bible Say About Abortion?

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2019 14:39


    A brief look at what the Bible does (and doesn't) say about abortion, along with the story of how the Pro-Life movement took over evangelical Christianity.

    Episode 16: I Drew the Line at Canaan

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2019 12:40


    The only good thing one can say about the biblical account of the conquest of Canaan is that it never actually happened. Morally speaking, the story is a mess, and modern attempts to justify it show everything that's wrong with the Divine Command Theory of morality.

    Episode 15: Father Abraham Had Many Psychoses

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2019 15:12


    The New Testament doesn't praise Abraham because he didn't kill his own child, it praises him because he was going to. Nothing is innately wrong if whatever God says is right.

    Episode 14: Why We Make Gods

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2019 28:19


    A message delivered on Sunday, September 8th, 2019 to the Universalist Unitarian Church in Ellisville, Mississippi wherein I discuss three reasons why we make gods.

    Episode 13: What Lot's Wife Tells Us About the Bible

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2019 12:55


    All I ever needed to know about the Bible I learned from the story of Lot and his wife. It is a microcosm of all that is wrong with this book.

    Episode 12: None of This Really Happened

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2019 14:08


    It's not just about the miracles. Even the history in the Bible is made up. There never was an Egyptian captivity. There was no Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob. No Moses, no Aaron, no Joshua, and no Canaanite conquest. Archaeology has spoken, but the church refuses to listen.

    Episode 11: The Absurdity of a Perfect Bible

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2019 13:22


    Here are six reasons why the Bible, even when taken on its own terms, cannot be a perfect book.

    Episode 10: Why Smart People Believe Nonsense

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2019 8:32


    Smart people can still be made to believe nonsensical things...if you get to them young enough. Here are four reasons why religion works on even intelligent people, and why it's difficult to let go.

    Episode 9: How Faith Breaks Your Feeler

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2019 17:20


    Here are 8 ways the Christian faith speaks to you, and about you, that sound remarkably like an abuser.

    Episode 8: How Faith Breaks Your Thinker

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2019 25:19


    You can't raise people to believe things that don't make sense and then expect them to value rationality. Here are a handful of ways faith normalizes bad thinking.

    Episode 7: How Christianity Teaches You to Hate Yourself

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2019 13:38


    In order to be saved, you have to believe it's something you need. So no matter how low your view of your self may be, Christianity will lower it for you even further.

    Episode 6: What I Lost When I Lost My Faith

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2019 15:43


    These are the things we miss the most after leaving the evangelical Christian faith.

    Episode 5: What I Gained When I Lost My Religion

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2019 10:30


    Here are 11 things I found got better for me after leaving my religion.

    Episode 4: Leaving My Religion Was Nothing Like Entering It

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2019 9:44


    Here are six ways that leaving my faith tradition was completely unlike entering it.

    Episode 3: Our Biggest Mistake

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2019 18:06


    We didn't leave our faith because we cared too little, we left because we cared too much. We did exactly what we were told to do, but evidently we did it a little TOO well.

    Episode 2: The Two Main Reasons I Left My Faith

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2019 9:40


    I left my faith (or rather it left me) after 20 years of devoutly following Jesus. It was a death by a thousand cuts, but if I had to boil it down to two main reasons, these would be the ones.

    Episode 1: Why I Broke Up with Jesus

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2019 4:41


    All my young life I was told I needed a personal relationship with Jesus, so I threw myself into it, but in time we had to go our separate ways. Here is why I broke up with Jesus. For more articles like this one, visit GodlessInDixie.com (music by Bensound.com).

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