Holy Koolaid

I'm going to be in England this June, and I'd love to meet you.

I'll be at the 2026 Festival of Humanism, June 12 to 14, on a panel about building skeptical spaces online: what actually works, what people get wrong, and why some people avoid these platforms entirely. Friday kicks off with drinks and entertainment, then a weekend of scientists, journalists, historians, and campaigners. Come say hi!

Festival of Humanism 2026 | Bournemouth ALL SALES ARE NOW CLOSED Festival of Humanism 2026 Friday 12 June, 19:00 –Sunday 14 June, 15:15 Bournemouth International CentreExeter Road,BournemouthBH2 5BH The Festival of Humanism is a true highlight of the humanist calendar. Kicking off on Friday evening with a fantastic evening of enter...

The chair you're sitting in. The oxygen in your lungs. The iron in your blood. All of it was forged in the hearts of dying stars.

Episode 4 of my Origin of Life series is here, breaking down how we went from clouds of hydrogen to a universe full of complex matter, and how scientists actually figured all of this out.

When did you first learn you were made of stardust, and did it change how you saw the universe?

The Origin of Life: All It Took Was Hydrogen Where did everything around you actually come from, and how do we know stars built it all from almost nothing?You are made of atoms forged inside dying stars...

A religious organization with hundreds of billions of dollars in reserves and an army of lawyers just filed a federal lawsuit against a single podcaster.

If that sounds like something Scientology would do, you're not wrong. But this time it's the LDS church, and the target is Dr. John Dehlin of Mormon Stories, who has spent 21 years giving members and ex-members a place to share their experiences.

What would you do if the religion you grew up in tried to sue you into silence?

The Mormon Church Is Suing a Podcaster Into Silence The Mormon Church is suing Mormon Stories host John Dehlin! The LDS...

I spent 24 years as an evangelical Christian. Memorized scripture, led worship, did the missionary thing. So a lot of these stories stopped sounding strange to me a long time ago.

But I wanted to try an experiment: react to 7 core Christian doctrines as if I were hearing them for the very first time as an adult, with no cultural conditioning softening the edges. It got weird fast.

https://youtu.be/LknwCftNL_M

What's the belief from your upbringing that hits different now?

An Atheist Reacts to Weird Christian Beliefs What does Christianity look like to an atheist? Have you ever stopped to consider how strange mainstream Christian doctrine actually sound to outsiders? If s...

Mormonism beliefs are wild! When I first heard some of these, I thought, "No WAY! This has to be anti-mormon propaganda!" And then I dug deeper... 😳

Holy Koolaid 67 likes, 15 comments. "The 11 Weirdest Mormon Beliefs"

Ever wonder why the rest of the world thinks Americans are Brainwashed? American propaganda is so good that most of us didn't even realize it was happening to us!

Why the Rest of the World Thinks Americans Are Brainwashed Learn a Language by Watching TV with Lingopie! Start your free trial today: https://learn.lingopie.com/holykoolaidWhat if the most effective propaganda isn't...

The God summons and deploys demons in the Old Testament; they marched into battle with him (on his side)! But this has been largely translated out of the text

God Summoned Demons in the Bible – Translators Covered It Up! Did you know the God of the Hebrew Bible employed Pagan gods, dispatched demons, and sent deceiving spirits to gaslight his own people? What if the angels, d...

I've never shared my full experience growing up in Youth With a Mission as a missionary kid. I'll be sharing that live with Recovering from Religion on the RFRX podcast:

RfRx - I Was Trained to Convert You—But it Was All a lie, featuring Thomas Westbrook https://linktr.ee/RecoveringFromReligionhttps://www.facebook.com/RecoveringfromReligionhttps://instagram.com/rfrorghttps://www.tiktok.com/...

I spent months digging through over 100 archaeological reports, books, and academic papers on every city Joshua allegedly conquered in the Bible and found that Nothing Fails Like Bible History!

Nothing Fails Like Bible History 14: How Archaeology Buried the Joshua Conquest Story Did the mighty Canaanite kingdoms described in the Book of Joshua actually exist? Were there really seven nations mightier than Israel, with armies like sand...

What actually happened on Easter Sunday? Let's rank the best and worst explanations for Jesus' Resurrection in a tier list!
https://youtu.be/QOzpeOw3E68 (premiering now)

Ranking the Best Explanations for Jesus' Resurrection What actually happened on Easter Sunday? Is the resurrection of Jesus really the best explanation for the origins of Christianity, or are there far more plau...