by lepton | Jan 8, 2016 | Faith, Social Situations
Finding that less educated people’s church attendance has dropped off more than their more educated counterparts: In the 1970s, a new study finds, half of white Americans with a high school education attended church at least monthly. Now only 37 percent do. In...
by lepton | Jan 6, 2016 | Faith, Mental Illness, Semantics
Great comment on a thread on the Ex-Christian subreddit asking why Christians are so uptight about Mental Health treatment: Because a mental illness is essentially an illness of the consciousness, which is what people probably mean when they talk about a soul. So in...
by lepton | Jan 3, 2016 | Faith
For those on a desktop or laptop with Flash installed my other blog had a Religiosity and Wealth 2007 Pew Report chart with actual country names on the data points. That was before they had nice things like d3.js to do charts in.
by lepton | Dec 24, 2015 | Faith, Mental Illness, Poetry, Power Dynamic
pointing to Jesus in defense of Christianity is like pointing to the product packaging in defense of a product’s quality when you admit you’re suicidal to someone you want that relationship generally kills itself (don’t lean against your invisible...
by lepton | Dec 24, 2015 | Faith, Personal, Poetry
life rarely decrements gently you usually lose a lot of things at once I don’t see anything redemptive in any of my suffering, at least not in any way shape or form that offers any benefit to me. As one of my poems suggest, suffering may build character in...
