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December 2021

December 01, 2021

The ‘Christian Love’ Flows for Deconstruction

I recently ran across an opinion post about deconstruction. Her post was meant to be...

September 2021

September 29, 2021

The Strawman Ghosts of ‘The Great Divorce’

Hi and welcome back! Recently, we got a look at C.S. Lewis' book The Great Divorce....

September 22, 2021

Why Wingnuts Don’t Care About Real-World Evidence

Today, let's see how wingnuts like Patrice Lewis assess truth claims in the first place....

August 2021

August 05, 2021

CARM Apologetics Zingers (Are Absolutely Awful)

But I'm attached to this CARM post we'll cover today. It's just such a nonstop,...

August 01, 2021

QAnon Lies, and People Die

Hi and welcome back! News of the COVID-19 surge has been unrelentingly awful. One theme...

July 2021

July 20, 2021

Beach Reach: What It’s Really About

Today, we'll check out an overview of Beach Reach to see what it's really about...

April 2021

April 15, 2021

Deconversion: Brett McCracken Gets It Completely Wrong

Sure, it might seem like Brett McCracken is just insulting his tribal enemies. And he...

April 11, 2021

How Christians Are (Not) Coping With the Rise in Churchless Believers

Recently, I showed you this new Gallup poll bearing yet more bad news for Christians...

April 02, 2021

It’s All in How You Ask the Questions: Christian Polls

How questioners phrase their questions really matters -- and quite a few Christians very obviously...

February 2021

February 11, 2021

Cognitive Dissonance: Christian Prayer Edition

Recently, we talked about cognitive dissonance -- that unpleasant feeling of tension someone gets when they...

January 2021

January 21, 2021

‘Logical Christians’ and the Great Divorce Between Beliefs and Behavior

Hi and welcome back! For the past few days, we've been talking about a theme:...

October 2020

October 12, 2020

The Redemption of Johnny Lawrence (LSP #161)

Hi and welcome back! Last week, we had a really good time mocking evangelist Greg...

August 2020

August 23, 2020

What ‘Atheist Overreach’ Gets Wrong About Meaning and Purpose

Hi and welcome back! Lately, we've been talking about Christian Smith's 2019 book Atheist Overreach. In...

June 2020

June 27, 2020

Unchurched: Lee Strobel, the Atheist Whisperer

Allo allo! Lately, we've been talking about Lee Strobel's 1993 Christian book, Inside the Mind of...

June 12, 2020

Lee Strobel’s Martyrbation List (#13-15)

In this last installment, Lee Strobel stops selling evangelicals on seeker-sensitive churches to remind them...

December 2019

December 10, 2019

Magic Christians Seek the Perfect Sales Pitch in ‘Only God Can’

Today, let me show you what the Perfect Sales Pitch looks like--and why Magic Christians...

October 2019

October 31, 2019

The Sacrifice of the Marriage Lamb: An Evangelical Horror Story

Today, we travel the horrifying route between what evangelical leaders teach about marriage, and what...

September 2019

September 24, 2019

The Scariest Question Christians Never Ask Themselves

About a year ago, one of our dear and recently-departed commentariat members, Brad Feaker, asked...

May 2019

May 21, 2019

The Problem of Wingnuts: How One Untrue Belief Inevitably Becomes Many

Untrue beliefs only proliferate. That's really the quintessential Problem of Wingnuts: What gets weird can...

February 2019

February 16, 2019

Abuse of Faith: The SBC Continues to Circle the Wagons

Generally speaking, he and the entirety of the SBC's top leadership knew. They simply avoided...

February 07, 2019

Antiprocess: How Christians Deal With Challenges to Their Beliefs

When people receive information that challenges a cherished belief, they have at their disposal a...

February 05, 2019

Stuff Authoritarians Like: Historicity

Did you ever notice that the most intrusive and control-hungry Christians also tend to claim...

December 2018

December 09, 2018

Jesus, Santa Claus, and the Putting Away of Childish Things

Often, ex-Christians describe deconversion as being very similar to children realizing there's no Santa Claus....

December 03, 2018

Yes, MLMs Are A Cult (LSP #71)

I saw a video lately about multi-level marketing schemes (MLMs) and their similarity to classic...

August 2018

August 23, 2018

The Broken System: Change From Within (Is Impossible)

Through members' own effort, goes the logic, they can return the system to its original...

August 06, 2018

The UYC: Spectacularly-Terrible Advice from The Gospel Coalition (LSP #54)

Lord Snow Presides over a very telling--and disastrous--list of suggestions from a TRUE CHRISTIAN™ culture...

February 2018

February 18, 2018

Why I Rejected Christianity (Then and Now)

Over the years I've evolved in my understanding of religion generally and Christianity specifically. My...

February 09, 2018

A Landscape Littered With Failed Shortcuts

For some stuff, there's no substitute for doing something the long way for a result...

January 2018

January 23, 2018

Antiprocess: That Get-Out-of-Uncomfortable-Truths-Free Card

I literally didn't notice the Bible's most troublesome passages. I don't even think I was...

January 21, 2018

Bible Verses I Wish I’d Known About While I Was Christian.

The CPC also left out an awful lot of Bible verses that reveal that the...