Famous Lost Words: WOTM Watchdog

Can you believe it? There is a website that is “an international group of concerned freethinkers who are dedicated to exposing the hypocrisies, logical fallacies, and outright lies employed by “Way of the Master” and its affiliated ministries.” Pretty darn silly, er, foolish. ‘Nuff said. You can check it out by clicking here, but why?

The Gospel According to Disney

This is an article from the 2004 British online edition of The Guardian that explains clearly why Disney has an aversion to the One True God. Disney may have colonised the imagination of the world’s children for the best part of 80 years, but – remarkably in one of the world’s most ostentatiously Christian countries – the

Famous Lost Words: Ex-Christian.net

Here is a website devoted exclusively to “encouraging” ex-Christians to feel comfortable about leaving the faith. The site features “de-conversion” testimonials like this one: “In 2000 I became a born again Christian, I read the bible, I went to church, I listened to Christian music, I guess you could say I “lived” the Christian life.

Famous Lost Words: Advice Columnist

The L.A. Times features advice columnist Carolyn Hax regularly. Read her answer to a person whose co-worker is a rather obnoxious Christian..

Dear Carolyn: My co-worker seems to have made it her mission to convert me.

null She treats every conversation as if it’s a chance to make points about her religious beliefs. I can’t even congratulate her for getting shoes on sale without her saying something like, “The Lord favors His own!”

If we’re working on a project together, she’ll say, “Oh, last night I was thinking about our report and the Lord told me we should….”

She works in the next cube, so I can hear her on the phone with her church friends, all pumped up about how “people are going to try to shut you up, but you’ve got to speak up for Jesus!”

I just keep repeating, “Well, you know I’m not a believer.”

But my inclination to be respectful of others’ views seems to put me at a disadvantage with someone who doesn’t respect mine.

Here’s Carolyn’s advice: