Category Archives: Featured Prose

Honesty

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Rastaban

Honesty is about being brave enough to embrace life as it is in reality. It’s about taking our clothes off—figuratively and literally—and loving ourselves just as we are. It’s not about making up feel-good stories about heaven, or hoping for … Continue reading →

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God & Penises & Vaginas

Posted on April 12, 2009 by Rastaban

Isn’t sex just about the most unlikely thing to be God’s handiwork? Imagine the Almighty sitting alone in the vastness of heaven with only His alter-ego Son and Holy Ghost to entertain Himself. Imagine Him after trillions of years trying … Continue reading →

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Fictitious Intermediaries & Death

Posted on November 6, 2007 by Rastaban

Instead of worshiping God, which we see as a fictitious intermediary inserted between us and life, atheists worship life direct. We prefer our tonic strong, not weakened with sweet lies. We want to drink the truth about life, not willingly … Continue reading →

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6 Points for a Graduation Speech

Posted on September 28, 2006 by Rastaban

First: I’m only a beginner at life. I’ve never been alive before — this is my first time. That means I’m going to make mistakes. That’s ok. Understand that it’s only inexperience. I’ll try to understand your mistakes if you’ll … Continue reading →

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A Few Broad Strokes

Posted on September 8, 2006 by Rastaban

Religious atheism can be seen as an attempt to fix religion’s flaws and eliminate its untenable assertions. Most of those flaws revolve around the concept of a spiritual world separate and remote from the physical world of bodies we inhabit … Continue reading →

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the Naked Atheist

Posted on June 10, 2006 by Rastaban

Had the gods bodies like men and women, desire would be the elixir, passion the holy sacrament, coitus the zenith of heaven. But the gods are forever bodiless, and so bodily delight — the greatest wonderment of all — became … Continue reading →

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