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July 2016

July 13, 2016

The Reframing Game in “People to Be Loved”

Using very positive language to describe a very negative situation or feeling is a tactic...

July 10, 2016

Having No Ears to Hear the People to Be “Loved”

There's a huge, huge difference between listening to someone and really hearing them. Today I'll...

June 2016

June 26, 2016

The Three Deceptions Found in “People to Be Loved”

Preston Sprinkle's book People to Be Loved outlines the right-wing Christian case for opposing same-sex...

June 23, 2016

A Coffee Date with People to Be “Loved”

Preston Sprinkle is trying to find the same have-it-both-ways middle ground between bigotry and acceptance...

June 22, 2016

The False Third Way of People to Be “Loved”

Preston Sprinkle is clearly trying to find a way to square himself with his tribe's...

June 19, 2016

Listening But Not Really to People to Be “Loved”

The book is meant to be a tightrope walk between the evangelical tribe's current antipathy...

June 17, 2016

People to Be “Loved” and the Failure of Literalism

Preston Sprinkle brings a full set of assumptions to the party and refuses to let...

June 14, 2016

Starting from Wrong Assumptions: People to Be “Loved”

As we discussed last time, Christians' condemnation of gay people is not only quickly becoming...

June 11, 2016

Rescuing a Sinking Ship: People to Be “Loved”

If it wasn't resulting in endless abuse and cruelty against innocent people worldwide, there'd be...

April 2016

April 06, 2016

PRATTling in Christianese.

Quite a few Christians cherish and use these failed, long-debunked arguments--and they are not interested in...

April 01, 2016

Because It’s Funny and Sad: the TEN QUESTIONS.

I want to talk about who comes up with these questions and why, because I...

March 2016

March 09, 2016

When Christian “Experts” Aren’t Really Expert: Atheism Edition.

Recently, I made an offhand comment about a blog post by a Christian minister named...

February 2016

February 21, 2016

How Lying for Jesus Became So Common.

Last time we talked, I mentioned three examples of blatantly obvious lies told by Christians...

February 02, 2016

Christian Myth #5,921,347: “The Gospel Does Not Need Trickery”

Christian mythology is filled with absolutely stunning examples of bizarre reasoning, and today we're talking...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

The Handbook: The Magic Christian (Doesn’t Exist)

Christians often pull out the stops when they discover that one of us has left...

December 2015

December 11, 2015

Short-Circuiting the System Disconnect: Know Thyself

We've been talking lately about system design in Christianity. Today I'll show you Step 1 of...

November 2015

November 25, 2015

Salt and Light: Christians (Don’t) Light Up My Life

Hi all! Last time we talked about the first part of a new Christianese metaphor...

October 2015

October 19, 2015

Expertise, Apologetics, and David Marshall.

Recently I ran into this debate between David Marshall and Richard Carrier regarding whether or...

October 04, 2015

Naturalism: Not Gross. Not Crass. And Not Negotiable

Wow, do Christians tend to hate the idea of naturalism. One apologetics site even calls...

July 2015

July 18, 2015

Lying for Jesus, Audaciously.

I'm just going to warn you now: stuff like we're about to discuss today is...

May 2015

May 12, 2015

6 Ways Christians Totally Miss the Boat with Non-Believers (And Why)

Yet another wide-eyed, disingenuous Christian takes a shot at why people become atheists. The results...

April 2015

April 12, 2015

God’s Not Dead: Moving Targets.

We're about to launch into a discussion of the Christians in God's Not Dead, but...

April 04, 2015

The Women of “God’s Not Dead”

Changed my mind; we'll do the Christian episode later. Today I want to talk more...

March 2015

March 27, 2015

The Handbook: Recognizing an “Argument From X” Attempt

We're going to be heading back to God's Not Dead next week, but before we do...

March 18, 2015

The Handbook: Wishful Thinking in Apologetics.

Today we're talking about wishful apologetics: those arguments that ache and yearn for an idealized...

March 11, 2015

The Handbook: Science- and History-Based Apologetics.

One popular form of apologetics is the attempt to demonstrate the veracity of the Bible....

March 08, 2015

The Handbook: Apologetics: Pascal, Ontological, Cosmological

Some of these arguments rise to the level of apologetics classics. Others are painfully cringeworthy modern...

March 06, 2015

The Handbook: An Overview of the Apologetics Field, and Its (Hopeful) End.

We're about to plunge into actual apologetics works and examine their authors' major ideas and...

February 2015

February 27, 2015

The Handbook: The Second Big Mistake Apologists Make

Last time we talked about apologists, we talked about their first big mistake: that they...

February 22, 2015

The Handbook: The First Fundamental Mistake Apologists Make.

The first fundamental mistake apologists make is that they don't actually refer to any facts...