How I Lost My Religion — And Temporarily My Empathy as a Judgmental Atheist July 17, 2018 by A.X. Ruiz 1 Comment The fact that my father never came to mass with the rest of us didn’t bother me as a child. It registered in the same capacity as the fact that he worked night shifts or that Spanish was spoken in my house as often as English — distinctions between my home life and that of my peers, but nothing worth an existential crisis. I was seven or eight when I stood in our garage and … [Read more...]