Category: My Kid & Religion

What are you doing to make life more bearable for you, your family, and even complete strangers? 

If you’ve followed this blog for a while or know me in person you’ll likely know of my negative experiences with Western Christianity. It has been well over a decade since my wife and I attended church. I’ve not worked for a church in about three years. Our children have yet to attend a church […]

They would often put church participation above spending time with family. Skipping birthday parties, graduations, or sporting events in order to attend church was something done on a regular basis. This bothered me. And it is eventually what began my walking away from that faith.

Including his teachers, civil leaders and me. I’ve always been a very “by the rules” type of person. I was raised to follow the rules. If I didn’t listen the first time my parents said something there was a price to pay for it. I was never afraid of abuse, but I understood what was […]

What I miss most about my church attending days is the community.

I like the idea of a loving creator but can't reconcile the existence of one with all of the pain in this world.

I was only the good kid out of fear of God's punishment.

Religion can be such a divisive thing. I am struggling with how (or even if) I want to introduce and integrate religion into my son’s early life.