No More Credulousness

On no longer believing eight impossible things before breakfast

One of the most liberating things about being a post-evangelical is that I no longer feel the need to believe or to pretend to believe impossible, improbable, or destructive things.

Hard-core religion — at least Christianity — involves a great amount of such believing and pretending to believe impossible, improbable, and destructive things.

Let me tell you how that fell apart for me, and what I have put back together on the other side.