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November 2021

November 10, 2021

How Christian Music Soothed Chris Pratt

Recently, Chris Pratt suffered a super-bad, awful, no-good, terrible week which he entirely deserved, in my...

October 2021

October 22, 2021

Mike Stone and the Red Flag of Hypocrisy

Hi and welcome back! A few days ago while recuperating, I tippy-tapped out some thoughts...

March 2021

March 28, 2021

Blame ≠ Evidence (More Cherished Christian Myths)

Today, let me show you how toxic Christians resort to blame games when they realize...

March 18, 2021

Evangelicalism: Where Aaron Long Learned to Destroy His Temptations

Hi and welcome back! In the wake of yet another mass shooting, unsettling and unsurprising...

February 2021

February 08, 2021

Bobbie Houston and the Casual Cruelty of Evangelicals (LSP #178)

Bobbie Houston, the co-founder of the Hillsong megachurch, released an audiobook in 2003 that used...

September 2020

September 11, 2020

Christianese 101: ‘Biblical’

Hi and welcome back! Recently, we started talking about a new Christian book that promises...

August 2020

August 31, 2020

The Truth About Christianity

Hi and welcome back! As many people do now, I feel disquiet and dread when...

July 2020

July 11, 2020

Owen Benjamin and His Personal Army (Collided With Reality)

Recently, Patreon deplatformed an alt-right guy named Owen Benjamin. He decided to hit back at...

June 2020

June 23, 2020

Paul Petersen: A New Hypocrite Illustrating Old Flaws

Hi and welcome back! Long ago, we established that Christian hypocrites in elected positions behaving...

June 10, 2020

The VelociPastor: 1.21 Gigawatt Review!

HI and welcome back! Last post, I put up the pre-movie chatter post. Today, let's...

June 09, 2020

Lee Strobel’s Actual Product: Seeker-Sensitive Churches (#9-12)

Hi and welcome back! I woke up super-late with a migraine and had to take medication...

April 2020

April 15, 2020

Why MLM Recruiters Lie About Success

Today, I'll show you an MLM that had to deliver a slap to some of...

January 2020

January 07, 2020

Todd Bentley Gets By With A Little Help From His Friends

Last time we met up, I showed you a recent development in the evangelical world:...

October 2019

October 12, 2019

How Elizabeth Warren Made Christian Culture Warriors Lose Their Minds (This Time)

Culture warriors are losing their poor little minds lately over something Senator Elizabeth Warren said yesterday in...

April 2019

April 09, 2019

Christians (Still) Suck at Making Parables

I wanted to take a quick detour to show you one of the two incidents...

February 2019

February 18, 2019

Where Mark Driscoll’s Been Lately (LSP #80)

From the beginning, I figured Mark Driscoll began blogging to help bury his disgrace. When...

February 09, 2019

Abuse of Faith: The SBC Braces For a Long-Overdue Reckoning

Tonight, two Texas news outlets prepare to unleash a major report regarding an epidemic of...

December 2018

December 15, 2018

When Evangelists Play Deceptive Games

Last time we met up, we covered a book about evangelism called Soul-Winning Made Easy, by...

November 2018

November 24, 2018

John Allen Chau and the Priorities of a Soulwinner

Already, Christians herald John Allen Chau as a martyr to their holy cause. And he...

November 15, 2018

What That “Angry at God” Accusation Really Means

Out of every accusation belligerent Christians fling at those who reject their sales pitches, the...

November 01, 2018

Why Christians Need Satan to Be An Idiot

When I was a Christian, every single Christian I knew had two completely contradictory opinions...

October 2018

October 27, 2018

Can Christians Restart the Satanic Panic?

Last time, we looked at the dishonest testimony of a totally-for-realsies ex-Satanist turned evangelist, John...

October 09, 2018

Pope Francis and Satan, Sittin’ in a Tree (K-I-S-S-I-N-G)

Francis is not only not a revolutionary new kind of pope, but a retread of the...

October 06, 2018

The SBC Returns To Business As Usual

This past week, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) apparently decided that enough time had elapsed...

September 2018

September 24, 2018

Mark Driscoll’s Miracle, His ZOMG MEERKUL YAWL (LSP #61)

Mark Driscoll's been a busy boy lately. Not on his blog. That's gone almost two...

August 2018

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...

August 21, 2018

The Broken System: How Predators Keep the Prey in the Fold

Predators gravitate toward these systems because they are a reliable source of the prey they...

July 2018

July 30, 2018

The SBC Might Finally Be Addressing Their Sex Scandals, Except Not (LSP #53)

Today, I'll show you what they might be finally getting right on this topic, and...

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 28, 2018

Trendy Testimonies: Why Christians Keep Saying They’re Ex-Atheists

Christians might want to help ease or (in their wildest dreams) reverse their decade-long decline,...