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March 24, 2023 / Courtney / Inspiration

atheism for lent, day 31: de-nomination

Ever since I started following the work of Dr. Peter Rollins a few years ago, I’ve occasionally heard him mentioned a certain philosopher. Because I am American and have had limited exposure to the English accent spoken in Peter’s home city of Belfast, I always thought he was talking about someone named “John McMarion.” It’s …

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March 23, 2023 / Courtney / Inspiration

atheism for lent, day 30: atrophy of our “wonder” muscle

I can’t believe it’s only 10 days until this Lenten practice is finished for 2023. Forty days of daily theological/mystical/atheistic study seems insurmountable, viewed all in one piece. But by the end of today, we’ll have completed 3/4 of this decentralizing, destabilizing non-tradition. As intense and, at times, tiring as it’s been, I’m going to …

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March 23, 2023 / Courtney / Random

atheism for lent, day 29: the core is missing

Today’s reflection is sort of in my wheelhouse and sort of not. It is, in that it’s all about art. It isn’t, in that the art in question is abstract expressionism. Not exactly the milieu of this fantasy artist who strives for realism in her paintings. So, yay! I get my horizons expanded.  😊  Barnett …

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March 21, 2023 / Courtney / Inspiration

atheism for lent, day 28: kill your God

In 1943, French philosopher Simone Weil (pronounced “vay”) died at the age of 34 after a lifetime of poor health, a tuberculosis infection, and, possibly, self-starvation. She wrote extensively throughout her life, but her writings didn’t become famous until a decade or two after her death. Born into an affluent Jewish family, she was noted …

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March 20, 2023 / Courtney / Inspiration

atheism for lent, day 27: resist

If I am mathing right, we are now in our fourth week of Atheism for Lent 2023. As I wrote yesterday, we’re now delving into the thinkers who — let’s see if I get this right, too — negate the negation of the negation of the negation of the affirmation. Or somesuch. At any rate, …

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March 19, 2023 / Courtney / Inspiration

atheism for lent, day 26: death of god theology

This coming AfL week, we’ll be looking at thinkers who propone “death of God” theology from within confessional Christianity. All of these thinkers are well-read in the atheistic thinkers we looked at last week. This week’s confessional Christian thinkers remain sensitive to the idea that our beliefs in God speak about ourselves as much as …

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March 18, 2023 / Courtney / Inspiration

atheism for lent, day 25: covid edition, pt. 10: and how does that make you feel?

Welp, love him or loathe him, today we’re talking about Sigmund Freud, who was a chain-smoker and underwent more than 30 cancer surgeries. Guess he had quite the oral fixation. He was also a Jewish atheist, and his four sisters died in Nazi concentration camps. The Nazis had burned his books in 1933, and he …

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March 17, 2023 / Courtney / Inspiration

atheism for lent, day 24: covid edition, pt. 9: snoozing through Sartre

I am on Day 9 of covid and the brainfog has finally mostly cleared — mostly — so I think yesterday will have been my final “covid edition” of Afl’23. Thank Ipthar. Considering what a hard time I’ve had getting through today’s reading, I’ve decided the brainfog is still present, so I’ve made this a …

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March 16, 2023 / Courtney / Inspiration

atheism for lent, day 23: covid edition, pt. 8: Emma and Rabia

In 1869, a girl was born in the Russian Empire in what is now Lithuania. She was born into an Orthodox Lithuanian Jewish family consisting of various siblings, an emotionally distant mother, and an extremely abusive father who didn’t think Jewish girls needed an education beyond knowing how to prepare gefillte fish and make babies. …

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March 15, 2023 / Courtney / Inspiration

atheism for lent, day 22: covid edition, pt. 7: one reason i quit the church

Today is my Day 7 for covid, and it’s the first day since getting sick that I’ve woken up feeling slightly better. I was able to cook breakfast for 10yo and myself without having to sit down and, having cooked breakfast, I don’t feel like I must immediately lie down again. I still feel like …

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Courtney Cantrell writes fantasy and sci-fi, reads all manner of books, has lost all ability to watch regular network TV, and possesses vorpal unicorn morphing powers. She is made mostly of coffee and chocolate.

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