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October 2021

October 13, 2021

The Ongoing Catholic Scandal: What the New CIASE Report Means

Catholic morality is nothing but a smokescreen to keep the flocks' attention away from Catholic...

September 2021

September 23, 2021

Assessing the False Claims of a COVID Denialist

Christian claims always have a pedigree, if our two series, Journey Into Hell and 1st-Century...

March 2021

March 05, 2021

Charlie Shepherd and the Idaho Republicans Seeking Their Republic of Gilead

Hi and welcome back! This past week, an Idaho House Republican, Charlie Shepherd (R-Pollock), offered Idahoans...

January 2021

January 02, 2021

The Internet Monk’s Endtimes Predictions: Why He Was Wrong

Yesterday, we talked about a guy called the Internet Monk. He made a series of...

August 2020

August 15, 2020

‘Atheist Overreach’ and the Problem of Wingnuts

Hi and welcome back! Lately, we've been looking at the 2019 book Atheist Overreach by Christian Smith....

November 2019

November 30, 2019

Evangelicals: The Narcissism That Passes All Understanding

Yes, nobody loves evangelicals quite like they themselves do. And I do mean that assertion...

September 2019

September 03, 2019

How Christians Use Promises of Peace To Dehumanize

But peace is way more than a nice feeling that most Christians don't really understand....

June 2019

June 03, 2019

The Magical Christian Jesus Powers in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #93, Ch.3)

In this installment, we discover Magical Christian Jesus Powers that only TRUE CHRISTIANS™ can possess--and...

January 2019

January 18, 2019

Authoritarians, Designated Adults, and Control of Language

Authoritarian Christians try hard to police how people share information and how they share it. Today,...

September 2018

September 18, 2018

Blaming All the Wrong People

For dysfunctional people and groups, that first step proves to be an insurmountable task. Once...

July 2018

July 24, 2018

Ambassadors, Lords, and Salespeople

Evangelicals' answer to this trilemma is painfully easy to discern. I'll show you what these...

May 2018

May 14, 2018

Christianity’s Evangelicalism Problem (LSP #42)

Leia knew that controllers only speak one language, that of control. That, literally, is what they...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

How Confrontational Evangelism is Failing Christians, and Why It Doesn’t Matter.

Christian evangelists act, in a very real sense, as salespeople of their ideology. And they...

October 2016

October 07, 2016

Thom Rainer and the Impertence of Communicationizing

Thom Rainer's blog post "Seven Areas Where Pastors Have Failed at Reading Minds" is worth...

September 2016

September 06, 2016

God’s Club: They’re Just Trying to Be Nice!

Last time we talked about the Oncoming Bus Gambit--that popular Christian thought experiment--because the movie...

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...

December 2015

December 29, 2015

Prohibition: Being Doomed to Repeat It

I recently watched a documentary that said some stuff that really touched a chord in...

December 16, 2015

Eating Candy for Dinner: Why They Treat Us Like Toddlers

Last time we met up, I was talking about how weary I am about being...

December 14, 2015

I Wish Christians Would Quit Treating Me Like I’m Their Toddler

I'm getting way, way, way over this trend of Christians treating non-believers like we're their...

December 08, 2015

Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin: How a Bad Idea Becomes Canon

Last time we talked about the phrase "love the sinner, hate the sin," which many...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Oh, Hell is Totally For Real? Really? Are You Sure?

Tonight I was reading a blog by a sweet-seeming sane Christian, John Pavlovitz. He's a great...

June 2015

June 23, 2015

Left Behind: Where Dreams Finally Come True

It's a very ugly fantasy--the demonstration of a very broken psyche on display in the...

October 2014

October 24, 2014

(Christians Are Not) The Designated Adult.

(CN: Domestic violence, abuse, gaslighting.) Hi and welcome back! We're cruising right into the weekend,...

February 2014

February 03, 2014

A Thought About Love and Feedback

I realized something yesterday: It is not the person performing a loving deed who gets...

July 2013

July 29, 2013

Redefining Words: Love

Christianity's been quietly redefining the word "love" to the point where I can't really be...