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May 2016

May 29, 2016

HB2: An Angry Christian Shows Us What the Real Problem Is Here

Christians these days sure do sound angry. The more right-wing the Christian, the angrier they...

May 19, 2016

3 New Marketing Slogans for the Religious Right

I mentioned being very very helpful the other day, and today I want to demonstrate...

May 13, 2016

What The 4-14 Window Tells Us About Christianity’s Future

Even the most optimistic, chirpy Christians have started noticing that something is definitely wrong.

May 07, 2016

How the National Day of Prayer Grew Out of the Red Scare.

As I dug into the history of the National Day of Prayer, I remembered that...

April 2016

April 24, 2016

Tony Waller and the Cruel Dilemma

Do you folks remember Anthony Waller? He's a youth pastor I discussed about a year...

April 17, 2016

HB2: The Real Bathroom Panic That Right-Wing Christians Are Totally Ignoring

Because I'm enormously helpful, I thought I'd help all those Christian bigots-for-Jesus understand why their...

April 14, 2016

HB 2: Louie Gohmert’s Lie, and What It Reveals.

Louie Gohmert just told a lie. It's an important lie because it reveals a lot...

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 22, 2016

Why Evangelicalism Fails: Hell as Outdated Marketing

Recently I was reading a blog post by a Christian* who was very, very concerned...

March 11, 2016

Seven Totally True And Absolutely Compelling Arguments Against Atheism.

So let's understand here that though the title of his piece is "Why I Don't...

March 04, 2016

If Phil Robertson is a Christian’s Idea of Joyous, Then I’m Happy to Be Miserable

You know, it seems like very often one of the accusations that get hurled at...

February 2016

February 25, 2016

Come Home, Cardinal Pell: Another Day, Another Christian Predator Moved Under Another Shell

We've been talking lately about how abusers operate within a broken system and how that...

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 19, 2016

The Religious Right Clearly Thinks We’re Idiots.

I'm noticing a trend lately with the Religious Right that might well baffle observers but...

January 2016

January 21, 2016

Donald Trump, Bloom County, and the Short, Self-Serving Memory of the Religious Right

I was recently reminded of just how self-serving and short right-wing Christians' memories are, and...

January 12, 2016

The Broken System: Asking the Right Questions

I heard about this story a while ago, but I wanted to hold off on...

January 07, 2016

The Tornado Whisperer: Screw All Y’all, I’ma Get Mine

I saw a story recently about a Christian lady who thinks she prayed a tornado...

November 2015

November 10, 2015

Priorities, Priorities: Freedom 2015

Sometimes when people can't possibly achieve a goal, they start setting some downright odd priorities...

November 05, 2015

Airline High School: Evangelicals’ Captive Audience

Airline High School of Louisiana has a problem. Airline is a public school that has...

October 2015

October 03, 2015

Kim Davis’ False Narrative and Shattered Ideological Purity

Kim Davis is all but the Republican Jesus right now, but one of her recent...

September 2015

September 10, 2015

What Kim Davis Thinks She Won (And What She Really Lost)

Watching her, reading her words, I get the sense that she at least thinks she...

September 01, 2015

Josh Duggar: What It Took

But sometimes, despite the huge safety net evangelicals have built up over decades to prevent...

August 2015

August 23, 2015

Another Professional Christian Ends Up on Ashley Madison (And That’s Not Even the Worst Part)

This professional Christian video blogger (or "vlogger") showed up on Ashley Madison in their customer...

August 21, 2015

… And Now We Learn About Josh Duggar’s Secret Facebook Account

I need to be really careful about what I say. Last time we talked, I...

August 19, 2015

Josh Duggar, OKCupid, and Ashley Madison Walked Into a Bar…

I thought there wasn't much of a way that a sanctimonious bigot-for-Jesus who molested and...

August 08, 2015

This Affair Represents A New Twist on the Old Story of Christian Bigots Turning Out to Be Hypocrites

We've got a full post planned for tomorrow, but for now, I saw this and...

July 2015

July 23, 2015

Church Marketing Sucks: No, It’s a Religion, Yes, Christians Follow the Bible, and Yes, That Is Totally A Church.

I was reading this funny site that gathers "horror stories" from Christians about really awful...

July 21, 2015

Three Questions That Destroy Bigoted County Clerks’ Charade

But I saw an image not long ago that really put things into perspective for...

July 14, 2015

Why Christians Are Cruel to Non-Believers

People have always left Christianity and to some degree have spoken out against it, but...

July 10, 2015

Judging Hypocrites

I've been talking about Christian hypocrites for years, so I already knew that Christians like...