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October 2018

October 30, 2018

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex Demons (And Weren’t Afraid to Ask)

One of the weirdest offshoots of the Satanic Panic has got to be sex demons. Here's...

October 18, 2018

When Christians’ Hearts Hurt Over Non-Belief

Christians often sound downright sorrowful about non-Christians. By remarkable coincidence, I'd just had some Christians say something...

August 2018

August 27, 2018

Book Review: Women v. Religion (LSP #57)

Today, Lord Snow Presides over a book that gives voices to the growing and increasingly-vocal...

June 2018

June 18, 2018

Lord Snow Presides Over Christian Weight-Loss Plans (LSP #47)

One of the more recent Lord Snow Presides (LSP) posts was about vegetarianism. It provoked...

March 2018

March 04, 2018

The Cult of Before Stories: Glenn Hobbs, Totally An Ex-Satanist

I want to show you today how Glenn Hobbs' claims line up with our checklist...

October 2017

October 12, 2017

Testimonies: What They Are, Why They Don’t Work, and Why Christians Can’t Quit Them

Today I'll show you why testimonies always follow one specific form, why they don't work...

August 2017

August 10, 2017

How Hucksters Make Sales Through Urgency.

Of all their sales techniques, their most successful is surely their creation of a sense...

August 27, 2016

In the Echo Grove of Their Hearts

The movie God's Club hammers constantly at the idea that the fictional town of Echo...

February 2015

February 14, 2015

The Handbook: Unlearning a Rather Distorted Narcissism

It's a seductive storyline. I can't deny that. It's powerfully alluring. Just imagine: You're the...

January 2015

January 28, 2015

The Handbook: Understanding the Straw Man.

Christians are very, very fond of telling everybody who'll listen that they just love non-believers....

January 25, 2015

A Particularly Ugly Episode in the Christian Culture Wars

It's been a rather mind-blowing week over in Christian Bizarro-land. The anniversary of the landmark...

January 21, 2015

Alex Malarkey and a Shocking Twist in the Old Story of Lying for Jesus (Heavenly Tourism)

You've probably heard of that genre of books called heavenly tourism. In these books, a Christian...

January 11, 2015

The Handbook: Circular Arguments

I've compared the efforts of Christian apologists to watching a Roomba repeatedly hit a wall,...

December 2014

December 23, 2014

Joyce Meyer and The Double Standards of Christian Derpitude.

We've talked about Joyce Meyer before in this space. She's an easy target, low-hanging fruit,...

December 13, 2014

When Christianity Became About the Opposite of Social Justice

When someone is convinced that the end of the world is coming, that person isn't...

December 11, 2014

Socratic Theatrics

Not long ago, one of our lovely commenters, ratamacue0, asked me a very good question...

December 02, 2014

The Dirty Secret of Religious Homeschooling.

There really do seem like two approaches to homeschooling now. In one, parents who are...

November 2014

November 22, 2014

If I Can Do It, So Can You. Right?

Here's the latest post I've done for Recovering from Religion: So Much For Never Getting...

October 2014

October 06, 2014

Persecution Complexity

Hi! I hope your weekend's going well so far. Today I want to talk about...

September 2014

September 28, 2014

Shane Hayes, Part 6: His Actual Argument.

Hi folks! Hope your weekend is going swimmingly so far. We've been looking at a...

July 2014

July 30, 2014

Out of the Fullness of the Heart.

Well, those computer problems are totally worse than I'd initially thought ("so that's what a...

July 25, 2014

Predators Go Where the Prey Grazes (Elder Abuse For Team Jesus!)

If you needed a good mad for the day, here's all you'll require to get...

July 19, 2014

A Way Through the Briar Patch

(CN: Rape threats and religious abuse.) Y'all probably know I've been friendly with the Christian...

July 12, 2014

A Legend In Their Own Minds

When someone desperately wants to have status, there are really only a couple of ways...

June 2014

June 22, 2014

When Facts Don’t Sway, the Rape Threats Come Out

A bunch of seemingly unrelated scandals and gaffes broke out in the Christian community around...

June 14, 2014

The Christian’s Guide to Ex-Christians: Engaging Me.

Welcome back! Last time we talked about how Christians share many qualities in common with...

June 08, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: An Open Letter to the Open-Letter Writer

Have you seen this blog post, An Open Letter to My Future Wife? We're going...

June 04, 2014

You May Be Right… Or You May Be a Toxic Christian

One thing you'll fast notice if you engage Christians on any kind of level is...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

Differing Conversations (We Can’t Both Be Right, Part II)

Have you ever talked to somebody who tells you one thing but tells someone else...

April 09, 2014

The Time I Encountered a Professor Like Dr. Radisson.

I'm noticing that the blog pieces I've written so far about God's Not Dead have...