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July 2015

July 04, 2015

SCOTUS: Tony Perkins Has No Idea What End is Up, As Usual.

I had no idea Tony Perkins was as blitheringly ignorant, incredibly dense and intellectually dishonest...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

Heads in the Sand: Equal Marriage Edition (“We Lost This One”)

There's one part of the country that is not happy about the recent SCOTUS decision,...

June 18, 2015

3 Reasons Why We Aren’t Shutting Up About the Duggar Abuse Scandal.

Supporters of Josh Duggar and his parents continue to abound, so I thought it might...

May 2015

May 30, 2015

The Handbook: The Zebra Rule, Occam’s Razor, and Robby Dawkins

Robby Dawkins is telling some porkie pies about helping to resurrect someone who died! Is...

May 28, 2015

What Josh Duggar Shows Us About How Not to Apologize.

Here is what a real apology looks like, and notice, please, that the response of...

May 26, 2015

3 More Christian Defenses of Josh Duggar, and Why They Fail.

Here's a quick between-meals snack of three new defenses that are emerging around the Josh...

May 26, 2015

The Loyalty Test and Ireland’s Referendum

They ache for the legitimacy of having a good reason to believe--all while having no...

May 22, 2015

Christian News Sites’ Reactions to Josh Duggar’s Molestation Confession.

Only one site featured the story of Josh Duggar's pedophilia. I was surprised at which...

May 21, 2015

Josh Duggar and the Anatomy of a Not-Pology

By now you've likely heard about the scandal rocking the right-wing conservative Christ-o-sphere: Josh Duggar,...

May 14, 2015

Youth Pastors: Harbingers of the End

Tony Waller's story illustrates an overarching trend and a deeper problem in the religion: Christianity...

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...

May 07, 2015

A Tale of Two Christianities

There really are two types of Christian in this world, and one of them hates...

April 2015

April 18, 2015

Let’s Be As Honest As We Wish Christians Were

The few people who respond to Christians' lies and are fooled thereby into conversion--or reconversion,...

March 2015

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 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 06, 2015

Attack of the Mini-Jesuses

I was thinking today about the various ways in which Christians keep trying to do...

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...

February 01, 2015

When It’s Not Funny

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

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 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...

December 2014

December 27, 2014

The Real Reason For the “War on Christmas.”

Merry Christmas and welcome back! Hope you had a wonderful holiday. Today I want to...

December 09, 2014

Lord, Save Us From Your Followers’ Abuse–er, Love.

You'll never, ever see Christian love like you will when his most fervent adherents discover...

December 04, 2014

Shaming a President’s Daughters.

There is no low too low when it comes to the Christian Right. In this...

November 2014

November 17, 2014

Faking It.

The young man had a shaved-bald head and oxygen lines around his nose, and apparently...

November 15, 2014

A Tale of Two Megachurches

One of the reasons I tend to be so optimistic about America's future is that...

November 13, 2014

Captive Audiences

Hi and welcome back! Today we're going to talk about something else I noticed about...

November 11, 2014

Chick Tracts Are Awesome (for Non-Believers).

I ran into his tracts many years ago, when they were a lot more popular...

November 03, 2014

More Good News: You’re Free.

I used to talk about freedom in Jesus a lot when I was Christian, but...

October 2014

October 10, 2014

What to Expect When You’re Deconverting (Life After Deconversion)

What you might be able to expect as you leave Christianity.