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May 2018

May 29, 2018

The Unequally Yoked Club: The Meltdown of a Marriage

I've been wanting to return to the UYC lately, since I've seen new developments on...

May 28, 2018

Lord Snow Presides Over That Amazing Ireland Referendum. (LSP #44)

Ireland had some extremely good news recently: they repealed the amendment of their constitution that...

May 26, 2018

The Hilarious Glory of a Failed Showdown

Toxic Christians like to set up big showdowns between two diametrically-opposed sides to force other Christians...

May 24, 2018

Plot Twist: Even Faith-For-No-Good-Reason Has Very Big Reasons

See, faith-for-no-good-reason doesn't really exist. People who believe things that aren't true actually have reasons for...

May 01, 2018

An Introduction to “Jesus Aura” Evangelism (And How it Fails)

We've been talking this past week about evangelism in Christianity and how it fails. Christian...

May 01, 2018

Paige Patterson Is Helping the SBC Out of Its Slump (LSP #40)

Paige Patterson, a bigwig with the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), gave a speech in 2000...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

How Confrontational Evangelism is Failing Christians, and Why It Doesn’t Matter.

Christian evangelists act, in a very real sense, as salespeople of their ideology. And they...

March 2018

March 22, 2018

Rapture, Tribulation, and the Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)

The type of Christians who go in for the Rapture also tend to suffer from...

March 18, 2018

The Israel Obsession: An Introduction to Endtimes Fantasies

To put it simply, Israel and Jews themselves are absolutely required components of these Christians'...

March 12, 2018

Gimme That Old-Time Religion: A Revival, Annotated (LSP #33)

Here's what a good old-fashioned rowdy Pentecostal revival is like--and why. Today Lord Snow casts...

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...

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 13, 2018

Captain Cassidy’s (Big Ol’ Huge) Deconversion.

In this blog's first year, I spent a few months outlining all the different elements...

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 31, 2018

The Weird Alternate Reality That Is Christian Pseudoscience

Pseudoscience has been a serious part of Christianity ever since Christianity was, well, Christianity. And...

January 26, 2018

Compartmentalization: A Life in Boxes

Another explanation for how Christians maintain belief in the face of overwhelming contradictory evidence is...

January 07, 2018

How to Become a Volunteer for a Fake Abortion Clinic

One of the biggest lies told by fake abortion clinics is that they are actually...

January 05, 2018

Live in the Wild: An Introduction to Fake Abortion Clinics

The CPC is one of the most slickly-packaged of all of the fake women's clinics,...

December 2017

December 10, 2017

But But But You Guys! Biff DID THE RESEARCH! We’re Boned!

It's quite a popular phrase encapsulating quite a popular trope in Christian testimonies, and it's...

November 2017

November 26, 2017

That Time My Boyfriend Pulled a Sword on My Best Friend During the Christmas Pageant

I wanted to give you the best Christmas present I could--and it's one I've kept...

November 22, 2017

The Love/Life Principles Seminar of 1986

I wanted to show you the roots of that cultural shift today, as we move...

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...

September 2017

September 22, 2017

The September 23rd Endtimes Scare and the Problem with Wingnuts

This Endtimes scare has gotten quite a lot of pushback from actual astronomers--and from some...

September 10, 2017

A Celestial Extortionist and His Sycophants

Even I couldn't have predicted the extent of that opportunism, however--though I could easily have...

September 07, 2017

Big Damn Heroes: Ain’t They Just

I'm sure this news cycle suits some Christians to their fingertips because it all plays...

August 2017

August 20, 2017

The Day My Prayers Changed

One day I realized that my prayers had changed without my even noticing. But they...

August 03, 2017

Burnout: Pastors’ Wives Confess All

Today I'll show you what this problem looks like, what the women dealing with the...

June 2017

June 21, 2017

The Perilous Position of the Sales-Minded Christian

There are a whole bunch of Christians who don't like to evangelize. This reticence drives...

October 2016

October 28, 2016

Chick Tracts: A Cultural Artifact, Cheap at Twice the Price.

We idealize the stuff we liked, gloss over and forget the stuff we didn't, and...

October 27, 2016

A Jack Chick Retrospective

In a way, it's more important to understand Jack Chick's role in shaping right-wing Christian...