I must follow, if I can

Pursuing it with eager feet / Until it joins some larger way

  • A Deconstruction Reading List

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on March 30, 2024

    I would like this book list to correspond to a sort of roadmap, a progression from, say, a mainline Christian to a full-blown ethical progressive atheist and humanist, who has a sure foundation for morality apart from religion. I'm not all the way there yet, as I have some books... [Read More]
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  • Owning Your Accomplishments

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on March 27, 2024

    I don’t talk about it much, especially as time has passed and I’ve moved on with my life, but 25 years ago I was in a band. We recorded a demo, and then the lead singer signed a record contract. We changed our name and re-recorded the demo material along... [Read More]

  • When I was an Agnostic

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on March 23, 2024

    I am an agnostic Jesus-follower. That is, science and reason tell me that Yahweh, even if he existed, was a murderous tyrant, and so if Christians teach that Jesus was the son of Yahweh, or that Jesus believed he was doing the will of Yahweh,  or that Yahweh raised Jesus... [Read More]
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  • Theodicy, Slavery, and CSA

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on March 20, 2024

    Since I began deconstructing my faith 10-12 years ago, I have been keeping notes in Evernote with various tags (later Notion, as I had to abandon Evernote due to its constantly-increasing fees and restrictions). I even made a Mind Map of all the points I had developed. [Read More]
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  • New blog home

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on March 4, 2024

    I've migrated my blog from mustfollow.wordpress.com to mustfollow.blog, and then off of Automattic's Wordpress.com entirely to self-hosted, now at blog.lorddev.com. I've changed the theme as my previous one was quite outdated. But the Tolkien quote doesn't really fit anymore, so I need to think of a new blog title. [Read More]

  • Defending Democracy from Christian Nationalists

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on December 31, 2023

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    The Baptists had insisted that the way Jesus made disciples was by teaching and persuasion, not by coercion. They held that the government has no competence in religion, and when it seeks to enforce faith it creates wars of religion and hypocrites who claim a faith they do not actually... [Read More]
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