Recently I was going through all of our debit card payments, looking for
hidden subscriptions that I could cancel. To my surprise, my old blog site,
“The Christian Monist” was still active, although I had not posted
there since 2016.

The purpose of that site, which I had maintained for more than a decade, was
trying to make sense of Christianity for a crowd of people who were
disillusioned with it, contemplating leaving, or had left. My edgy thoughts
were mostly well-received on that platform.

The two things I spoke out against the most, and what I assessed as the key
issues in that disillusionment, were the irrrationalism of traditional dualistic Christianity and the new, post modern forms. By understanding these things, I hoped, it would make sense of a world that seems to have lost a sense of truth.

I have dearly missed writing here. I have created over 50
“ramblings,” which I’ve never published out of fear of retribution. I
am gun-shy these days and I know that I take personal attacks much harder than I should and I am sorry about that. But this journey out of traditional Christianity, into a more rational one, has been a long hard, thirty-year struggle uphill. Combined with my struggle in my physical life, I am weary. Dead tired.

My thoughts were never meant to challenge other people’s belief system. Never! Most of the people who have chosen to attack me had completely misunderstood what I was trying to say. I regret that. It was, as stated, conversations of empathy for the vast number of people who are leaving Christianity. Nothing more.

So going forward, I will continue to write about non-Christian things here,
my cancer, writing, my cottage, maybe a little humor, but none of the old thoughts. Those, I will exclusively post, with my typical brutal honesty, on the other site.

I am doing a provocative vlog series for those leaving Christianity called “Post Christian.” I’m almost done with that and will link future posts here. But then I will go back to writing and do it at christianmonist. 

You are welcome to join me there by subscribing to that site if you graciously want to hear what I say. I hope to build a virtual community of rational or “evidence-based” Christianity by linking other good sites to that one. God gave us reason to find truth. We are NOT children of a lessor god, us who serve a rational God. Some days, at least for me, I feel I’m the last rational Christian left on earth . . . but I know that’s  not true.

I am always thankful for my friends here and your desire to support me and
follow me. Keeping my controversial thoughts off this page should make it better for all.

Mike