f2PointEight
Creative Studio
Tag: Religious deconstruction
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The Devil and Me
In retrospect, my earliest religious memories were not benign ones. They were not framed in pithy clichés about love or grace or cuddly predatory animals who lost their desire to eat you. They were framed in warning. I was four years old when I first asked my mum who Satan was. It was a question…
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No, I’m not afraid of Hell
One of the most interesting conversations I had after leaving Christianity took place not in anger, or debate, but in grief. I had named my departure publicly in a Facebook post accompanied by an essay I titled, And Thus Man Created God in His Image. It was not written to provoke, but to tell the…
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Eden Revisited: A Conversation With My Former Faith
I offer this piece in two voices: the one I had fifteen years ago, and the one I carry now. The first half is taken from a blog post I wrote as a believer, convinced of Eden’s historic value, the Sabbath, and the outward-moving love of God. I have left these words mostly untouched, because…
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