Nihilists Have More Fun

Shoutout to KXOL Mega 96.3 Los Angeles, the perpetual soundtrack of my car!  I grew up on radio, a very different type of radio than this station: primarily conservative talkshows and Evangelical sermons, although I do remember a time when I was younger and K-Earth 101 occupied a larger amount of my parents' listening time. I've never really gotten into TV or podcasts, but good old zero-effort, zero-decision-making radio stations are my thing. Mega 96.3 has a wonderful group of people hosting and deejaying their station who are full of positive and inspiring things to say, and there have been several times on my way to work in the morning when I've found myself thinking how refreshing it is to hear people who don't agree on everything still having a good time together. Disagreements on religious perspectives come up for instance, and nobody sounds angry! This morning, the hosts started talking about why fewer people are going to church these days and then patched in the...

When I first decided to write the book that became Our Fatal Sincerity  I envisioned it ending with an appendix of journal entries that showed my changing thoughts about Christianity over the years. I started to transcribe my old journals into a word processor soon after and continued to work on that project simultaneously to writing the rest of the book. It quickly became clear that there was far too much material to publish together with the main text of the book, so once the transcriptions were finished, I let them sit while I finished and published the other material, and then for several more months after that.  In the end, I decided to publish them on their own and only as an ebook, which you can now find here . While I had originally imagined that the journals would be a primary point of attraction to Our Fatal Sincerity , when I proofread the transcriptions, I was so bored I had to give up that illusion. There are just a few interesting points throughout, but I didn't ...