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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 25, 2021

‘The Great Divorce’ Horrified Me (Review)

Today, let's review The Great Divorce -- and get an idea of how its ideas have...

September 01, 2021

The Ease of Fake Sincerity in Christianity

Christians can't discern real sincerity from the many people choosing to fake it, and that's...

May 2021

May 30, 2021

We’re Made Out of Meat (Journey Into Hell #3)

Hi and welcome back! Lately, we've been talking about Hell -- as a concept, yes,...

May 25, 2021

Yes, But WHICH Hell Shall We Fear? (Journey Into Hell #1)

Hi and welcome back! After I ran that post about how my fear of Hell...

May 16, 2021

The Night My Fear of Hell Died

Today, I'll tell you what happened the night I finally lost my fear of Hell.

December 2020

December 24, 2020

The Birth of Jesus: Anything But Heartwarming

Hi and welcome back! It's very nearly Christmas, that special, magical time of year when...

August 2020

August 30, 2020

‘Atheist Overreach’ Thinks Secularization Will Fail

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

April 2020

April 11, 2020

How Religion Hijacks the Weirdness of Liminal Spaces (Pre-Easter Post)

I want to dive into the way that liminal spaces affect us--and how they've impacted humanity's view...

May 2019

May 30, 2019

Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Pets: MLMs On the Prowl

As public understanding of and backlash against MLMs grows, the people caught up in these...

April 2019

April 30, 2019

What Rekindles Belief (In Christianity)

For a few days now, I've been talking about the three major methods of persuasion...

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...

March 2019

March 18, 2019

Lights, Camera, Crucifixion! (Godsmacked, Part 4/4)

Welcome to the final installment of Godsmacked, in which Jesus tells a spanking-new parable, popularizes a...

November 2018

November 12, 2018

Foot Washing: A Primer (LSP #68)

Christians do a lot of things that don't make any sense at all to non-Christians....

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...

October 2018

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...

September 2018

September 29, 2018

The Just World Belief, Rejected

One mistake in thinking cost me many years. It followed me from Christianity and out...

September 27, 2018

Original Christianity: A Vision of the Past That Clouds the Future

Way back when, when Yr. Loyal&Etc. was just a wee teenybopper Christian lass, I believed heart...

September 25, 2018

Andy Stanley Has Found Five Reasons Why Nobody Leaves the Church

Andy Stanley illustrates some potent takeaways in his essay. Today, let's walk together through "Five...

September 13, 2018

The Red Flags I Didn’t Notice

Red flags are those in-your-face warnings that a situation could be going pear-shaped in short...

September 06, 2018

Christian Accountabilibuddies Are Seriously A Thing

Today, we look at Christian Accountabilibuddies, which are totally a real thing that many Christians...

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...

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...

July 2018

July 03, 2018

The Unequally Yoked Club: The 2018 Gritty Reboot

Some years ago, I ran a series called the Unequally Yoked Club (UYC). It was one...

June 2018

June 30, 2018

The No True Scotsman and Christians’ Version of Atheism

I'll show you what this fallacy is, why and how Christians use it, and why...

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...

June 16, 2018

Yay, Another Innovative Christian Non-Solution

Another day, another non-solution for life's universal daily struggles. This particular non-solution comes to us...

April 2018

April 03, 2018

Frank Page Shows Us What a Mighty Fine Clean Cup the SBC Has (LSP #36)

Well! Welcome back from Easter and our Prodigal Planet special! I wanted to segue briefly to...

March 2018

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...