by Jim Stitzel | May 12, 2026 | General
Trigger warning: discussion of suicidal ideation and mental health inpatient treatment I never wanted to be an atheist. It was never something that I chose. It was something that happened to me, over the course of more than a decade. The irony of this is that it was...
by Jim Stitzel | Apr 23, 2026 | General
It’s been a HOT minute since I’ve written anything overly political here, and a lot has changed in that regard since the last time, both in the world and in me. I won’t comment here on current world politics — I just don’t have enough spoons in the drawer for that...
by Jim Stitzel | Apr 9, 2026 | General
I’ve been an atheist for some time now. I can’t provide an exact span of time because there was no singular date, no specific point, at which I suddenly said, “Oh, I’m an atheist!” That’s not really how it works when you’re deconverting from religion. It’s more...
by Jim Stitzel | Apr 5, 2026 | General
I blame it on my evangelical roots, but as I contemplate my own spirituality and its glacial slide toward paganism, there’s a significant portion of my mind that wants to create a distinction between a god versus a deity. I mean, I get it: deity is just another word...
by Jim Stitzel | Mar 22, 2026 | General
I haven’t done any kind of gaming or streaming to Twitch over the last 10 days. It’s the longest hiatus I’ve taken since I started gaming again at the beginning of January. Up until recently, I played something — usually either Destiny 2 or ARC...
