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January 2020

January 25, 2020

Power and Control: A Fitting Epilogue to the Toronto Blessing

For a while now, we've been talking about the Toronto Blessing (TTB). That's a huge...

December 2019

December 25, 2019

I Faced Persecution For Refusing to Deny My Beliefs (About Santa)

Christians love to boast about how they would totally never deny Jesus. No way! They'd stand strong...

December 22, 2019

Christian Lies: ‘Christianity Is Totally Unique Among Religions!’

It was painful to recognize the truth--and embarrassing to accept it. No, Christianity isn't unique at...

November 2019

November 26, 2019

I Was a Purple Christian People Pleaser

Maybe it's so easy to switch flavors of Christianity because at heart, most of them...

November 12, 2019

Church Volunteering: Just Like Group Work From School

Over the past week, I've noticed a lot of discussion regarding church volunteer work. Not...

October 2019

October 24, 2019

The Anti-Pumpkin Spice Super Special! (#13)

Hello and welcome to a Roll to Disbelieve Super Special! Goodness, we're already smack dab in the...

October 19, 2019

TOWTTHO: That One Weird Thing That Happened Once, Cat Edition

Often, these experiences feel significant to us and even alter our lives. My little family...

August 2019

August 24, 2019

Finding Peace After Deconversion

As I showed you last time, Christianity brought me anything but peace. Today, I'll show you where...

August 22, 2019

The False Peace I Found in Christianity (Hurt Me)

The promise of peace is nothing but yet another false promise that leads to yet another bait...

August 01, 2019

Jesus Told This Complementarian Dude To Marry Me

Hi and welcome back! Lately, we've been focusing on a doctrine in authoritarian Christianity called complementarianism....

July 2019

July 30, 2019

That Oogly-Boogly Feeling (Became My Awakening)

Yesterday, I showed you a scene from This Present Darkness that gave a narrative shape to...

July 29, 2019

Spiritual Warfare in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #101, Ch.6)

Chapter Six contains a pair of vignettes about demonic attacks on people--and how those attacks...

July 23, 2019

Complementarians Are Angry About Wives Who Don’t Change Their Names

Today, I want to show you a doozy: a Christian guy who lost his top...

July 02, 2019

The Hypocrisy of TRUE CHRISTIAN™ Employers Matters

A funny-weird, rather than a funny-haha experience provoked today's post. It sent me on a...

June 2019

June 08, 2019

Questions About Heaven I Never Thought to Ask When I Was Christian

Today, let me show you some of the questions I had about Heaven. In their...

June 06, 2019

Dungeons & Dragons: An Old Cartoon Is New Again

Dungeons & Dragons somehow, against all odds, became an animated TV show in 1983. My sister...

May 2019

May 07, 2019

Why the Flocks Don’t WANNA Evangelize

Today, we'll look at why evangelicals don't want to evangelize. Their reasons--and they have many--play a hand...

April 2019

April 23, 2019

The Prayer Journal at the Hospital Chapel

I was thinking today about Christians who accuse ex-Christians of treating their god like an...

April 18, 2019

If Christianity’s Worldview Actually Matched Reality

Many Christian soulwinners ask their targets to perform rituals like prayer in the hopes that...

April 08, 2019

D&D Gains Popularity–Again (LSP #85)

As it turns out, folks might be gravitating to this old-school pursuit for some remarkably...

April 02, 2019

If Only He Knew: This’ll Be On the Quiz

Author Gary Smalley coaches complementarian men in repairing their failing marriages. And as we all...

March 2019

March 07, 2019

Keeping Up Appearances in the Cult of Family

Lately, we've been talking about authoritarian Christians' new marketing push: the Cult of Family. Only these...

March 04, 2019

The Doctrinal Yardstick Illustrates A Serious Problem With Christianity (LSP #81)

The doctrinal yardstick illustrates one of the most profound and serious problems Christianity suffers. I know...

February 2019

February 19, 2019

Before the Cult of “Before” Stories: Tricking Authoritarians

I came face-to-face with two completely untrue beliefs I held: that my god transformed people...

December 2018

December 27, 2018

Stumbling Forward From a Fear of Change

I used to be so afraid of making big changes. I hated change and avoided...

December 17, 2018

When Teen Cas Innocently Suggested Testing a Miracle (LSP #73)

I took my religion's claims seriously. In other words, I expected our claims to stand...

December 11, 2018

A Christmas Miracle: Speaking in Tongues at the Company Party

One of the most dramatic miracle claims that far-right evangelicals make is that of speaking...

December 06, 2018

The Ambot Who Loved Me: Contexts and Beliefs

We've been talking lately about multi-level marketing schemes (MLMs) and their similarity to the worst...

November 2018

November 17, 2018

That Time I Wandered as a Child Into an Evangelism Tent At the County Fair

I love county fairs. Always have. I love everything about them: the food, the games,...

November 10, 2018

Magic Christians: Gosh, If I’d Only Known!

We've been talking lately about the lamentably-common trope of Christians expressing great sadness over our...