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October 2014

October 07, 2014

Breaking: Tonight we feast on the tears of bigots

Equal marriage is coming. It is going to be a thing despite every single bit...

September 2014

September 18, 2014

The Cult of Before Stories: Shane Hayes, Part 1

A while ago, Kirk Cameron popularized a fairly-new evangelism technique: claiming that he knows all...

August 2014

August 10, 2014

Ding Dong, the Witch Is Dead (Mark Driscoll’s Disgrace)

(Content note: religious abuse, mind-blowing misogyny and anti-LGBTQ bigotry.) Big, big news, R2Ders! Over the...

August 06, 2014

Seventy Times Seven

Then Peter came and said to Him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against...

July 2014

July 30, 2014

Out of the Fullness of the Heart.

Well, those computer problems are totally worse than I'd initially thought ("so that's what a...

July 25, 2014

Predators Go Where the Prey Grazes (Elder Abuse For Team Jesus!)

If you needed a good mad for the day, here's all you'll require to get...

July 19, 2014

A Way Through the Briar Patch

(CN: Rape threats and religious abuse.) Y'all probably know I've been friendly with the Christian...

July 15, 2014

Christian Charlatans

The other day I discovered that one of this site's favorite charlatans and bullshit artists,...

July 12, 2014

A Legend In Their Own Minds

When someone desperately wants to have status, there are really only a couple of ways...

July 08, 2014

The Truth That Wasn’t There.

I have a real fascination with stories of liars who get found out. Today I...

June 2014

June 24, 2014

Sometimes I Feel Like I Dodged a Hail of Bullets.

I'm reading this piece about IHOP and feeling a shiver go down my spine every...

June 22, 2014

When Facts Don’t Sway, the Rape Threats Come Out

A bunch of seemingly unrelated scandals and gaffes broke out in the Christian community around...

June 04, 2014

You May Be Right… Or You May Be a Toxic Christian

One thing you'll fast notice if you engage Christians on any kind of level is...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

The Christian’s Guide to Ex-Christians: Stop Defending Slavery

Seriously, folks, we're going to have to be really careful about how we present atrocities...

May 21, 2014

Silencing Tactics: the Great Joyce Meyer Update

You want to hear something funny? I've only rarely had to seriously moderate comments on...

May 09, 2014

Interlude: Welcome to Our Party!

Happy One-Year Anniversary! Dang, where did all the time go? I still remember how nervous...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

Differing Conversations (We Can’t Both Be Right, Part II)

Have you ever talked to somebody who tells you one thing but tells someone else...

April 20, 2014

Dividing to Conquer

Welcome back. We've talked here before about Doug Phillips, uber-patriarch and onetime leader of the...

April 18, 2014

Permission Slips.

Greetings and salutations! Once again, a warm welcome to the new folks coming in from...

April 14, 2014

How Not to Be a Compelling Witness

It's almost a pity that most of modern Christianity has this major hard-on for evangelism...

April 02, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: When Love Becomes Contempt

The opposite of love might not be hate, but contempt. I once heard a marriage...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

Congratulations, Christians of World Vision.

Congratulations. I mean that, O Christians running and supporting World Vision charities. Christians' overwhelming desire...

March 25, 2014

Recipe for a Fundamentalist

Welcome to Captain Cassidy's Kitchen! Today we are going to make one of the season's...

March 23, 2014

The Cosmic Freakout Over Cosmos

I shouldn't be surprised anymore about how poorly fundamentalists understand the word "faith." They don't...

March 20, 2014

The Christian’s Guide to Ex-Christians: You’ve Got to Quit This Tone Trolling.

Today I saw an article about Kevin Sorbo, who has clearly ridden the short bus...

March 14, 2014

It’s Okay If You’re a Christian

Today we're going to talk about how, to toxic Christians, the only moral lie is...

March 05, 2014

The Terms of Their Surrender

Ross Douthat, mouthpiece of the Religious Right, announces his surrender.

March 03, 2014

Bill Gothard: To Catch a (Christian) Predator

I wanted to introduce y'all to Christian leader Bill Gothard. He's in the news lately...

March 02, 2014

Sex Scandals: I Don’t Think This Is How Jesus Loved the Little Children

Meet 35-year-old sex offender Robert David Wright, who was a youth pastor. You're already cringing,...

February 2014

February 25, 2014

Forsaking Disbelief, or Not.

You don't often see Christians talking about their terror of Hell in their out-loud voices....