I'm fucked, but thanks.

You got out before we elected Trunp. Goddamn, you were smart.

So, fun story! The psychiatrist my dad's doctor set me up with? His secretary messed up and I FINALLY have my appointment tax day. As I was too much of a cowardly piece of shit to go through with the ERP with the last guy, I can't imagine I'll have much success, but at least this guy can prescribe too. My dad's doctor…

Um, no. I need mine, thanks. I don't share your contempt. I'm perfectly capable of accepting that lots of people can be perfectly happy without it, and that's fine. I don't think they're all going to hell or some shit, and there are plenty of good, moral atheists. That's totally fine. I, however, need mine.

Try it when you're having a crisis of faith so bad that family members confront you worried that you're suicidal. It's less fun then.

I very sincerely hope that any decent person, atheistic or religious, does good things because he's a decent person, not for eternal reward or memetic propogation or anything else. But that's just me.

Obviously the latter. It's just commerce. They're almost literally preaching to the proverbial choir for the tons of money there is to be made. I don't think belief enters into things here. It's just all about money.

That's fair enough.

While I'm not fighting or making a case, Christianity as a political movement was also something that they wanted to stamp out, so they probably didn't want a lot of people writing about it. Not a case for anything, just an observation.

I understand that while a whole bunch of scholars don't believe He was the divine son of God, the mythicist position is fringe theory that few scholars take seriously and He's generally considered to have existed.

My problem right now that I'm watching hate-theists like Dillahunty, Aron Ra, etc. and keep feeling like I must "join the fight" or whatever, which is nonsense. I love my mother, her faith sustains her, and I don't need to fight her or mock her. I wish I could convince myself of that.

Man, I thought the whole of AVC's audience was atheists.

Sounds nice. My crisis of faith is destroying my life.

I'm a cradle Catholic and find it bizarre. I spent 16 years in Catholic school, and found the fact that there were still creationists and people who took the Bible literally utterly bizarre.

You mean intelligent storytelling that makes you think ? With the money these make, they don't need to.

Just makes you look stupid in general.

I love you.

That's what happens when you shoot without a goddamn screenplay.

My crisis of faith has conflated with my OCD to the point where it's destroying my life. I think I should stay as far from this as possible.

Can you point me to a good theologian writing?