Deep South Atheism

I recently had the pleasure of meeting a Christian who also happens to be LGBT.  Naturally, this was very intriguing for me, for the obvious reasons.  I asked her if she could share some of her experiences with me for my blog, and she agreed.  Here is what she sent me, provided without editing or comment from me. A Rainbow Cross I remember an evening when I was sitting with the girls of my youth group.   They were chatting about what they wanted in a partner when they got married.   They wanted him to be supportive.   They wanted him to be good with kids.   They wanted him to be Christian.   They wanted him.   They only ever said ‘him’.   And no one noticed how silent I was. My parents didn’t make church a regular thing when I was a child.   I was baptized as a baby of course, and we attended Christmas and Easter services, but that was it.   It was my grandmother who regularly went to church, and she took us with her wh...

It's always fun to get into it with theists making absolutely unsubstantiated claims about their chosen deity, how the world works, history, etc etc. Most of the time, I choose to go the "for the sake of argument" route and get on the theists level, so to speak. This backfires, sometimes, when they take that to mean that I actually DO believe in Yahweh, but that I'm actually just mad at him I'm sure you have heard that before if you've spent any time in conversation with a theist.  So, to clear things up, I want to outline the four hurdles that a theist actually faces when they try and convince me of something. I'm not going to get into each of the arguments for or against... I just want to briefly explain each step along the way.  First, starting at the beginning, you have to show that the universe was created by, well, a creator of some sort. There are plenty of faulty logical arguments that attempt to prove this, which I won't get into here, but ult...