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March 2015

March 29, 2015

Why I’m Going to Spend a Week Ripping “God’s Not Dead” to Pieces

Here's why we're going to be talking about "God's Not Dead" for a while.

March 25, 2015

God’s Definitely Dead, and Mortally Embarrassed (God’s Not Dead) (SPOILERS)

"God's Not Dead" is an incredibly inept and horrible movie, and this is my full...

March 22, 2015

The Cult of Before Stories: Heather Barwick, Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth

I wish it could shock me anymore, seeing a family ripped apart by religion. It...

March 20, 2015

Science Denial Has Become Christianity’s Cheap Marker Belief

Science denial is a cheap belief to hold for Christians, which is why it's a...

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 15, 2015

Weekend Edition: Stuff I Wish I’d Seen

There's a lot of weird stuff lurking in the unread pages of the Bible. Here...

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 04, 2015

Scott Lively and the Bonus Plan.

Sounds like a children's serial novel, doesn't it? Scott Lively and the Bonus Plan. Scott...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

A Monopoly on Manliness

One of the genuinely weirdest turns that fundagelical Christianity has taken in recent decades has been...

February 17, 2015

The Handbook: Learning to Move Past Religious Narcissism

We recently added another line to that cosmic address--did you notice? After "Virgo supercluster," we...

February 14, 2015

The Handbook: Unlearning a Rather Distorted Narcissism

It's a seductive storyline. I can't deny that. It's powerfully alluring. Just imagine: You're the...

February 04, 2015

The Handbook: Building a Worldview Around Consent

One of the biggest shifts I had to process in my thinking was my understanding...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

What We Can Learn About Atheists from Atheist-Whisperer Bo Wagner

Last time we talked, we covered a "satirical" straw man essay written by a Baptist...

January 28, 2015

The Handbook: Understanding the Straw Man.

Christians are very, very fond of telling everybody who'll listen that they just love non-believers....

January 25, 2015

A Particularly Ugly Episode in the Christian Culture Wars

It's been a rather mind-blowing week over in Christian Bizarro-land. The anniversary of the landmark...

January 23, 2015

The Handbook: Soaking in a Bubble Bath

We've talked here about the "Christian bubble." The Christian bubble is an insular world with...

January 21, 2015

Alex Malarkey and a Shocking Twist in the Old Story of Lying for Jesus (Heavenly Tourism)

You've probably heard of that genre of books called heavenly tourism. In these books, a Christian...

January 16, 2015

The Handbook: Recognizing When the Gas Lights Have Dimmed (Gaslighting)

Do you know what gaslighting is? Here is how to identify this common religious-abuse tactic...

January 11, 2015

The Handbook: Circular Arguments

I've compared the efforts of Christian apologists to watching a Roomba repeatedly hit a wall,...

January 09, 2015

What I Learned from the Lady in White.

A long time ago when I was administering a roleplaying MUD* online, I began to...

January 04, 2015

A Response to the Response to Ryan Bell

We're coming back to the Handbook for the Recently Deconverted shortly, but I saw this...

December 2014

December 24, 2014

It’s Everybody’s Holiday (Plus: Link Love!)

I've always loved Christmas. This time of year in general is an important one for...

December 19, 2014

Defining Moments: Lying for Jesus, Library Edition.

Biff was so proud of himself, but I was so horrified.

December 13, 2014

When Christianity Became About the Opposite of Social Justice

When someone is convinced that the end of the world is coming, that person isn't...

December 11, 2014

Socratic Theatrics

Not long ago, one of our lovely commenters, ratamacue0, asked me a very good question...

December 07, 2014

There’s No Low Too Low: They’re Trying to Terrorize Parents Now.

Sometimes I find myself simply astonished by the lows to which some Christians will stoop....

December 06, 2014

The Curious Case of the Undesirable Virgin

Christian culture thinks about virginity in a very particular way, and that's what we're going...

December 02, 2014

The Dirty Secret of Religious Homeschooling.

There really do seem like two approaches to homeschooling now. In one, parents who are...

November 2014

November 30, 2014

And I Still Belong To Me.

A new friend of mine wrote a blog post at Ex-Communications about Christianity's massive blind...

November 20, 2014

When Is It Wrong? (Never.)

Hi, y'all! Are you getting ready for my favorite holiday of the entire year? We...