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June 2018

June 25, 2018

A Strange Evolution: When Fundagelicals Loved the ACLU (LSP #48)

Long, long ago, when I was a wee bright-eyed Pentecostal lass, I had a run-in...

June 21, 2018

A Tale of Two Non-Solutions: The NEW New Plans to Fix Evangelical Churn

While we wait for the big Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) 2018 Annual Report, I thought...

June 19, 2018

The Fruits of Complementarianism

Today, I'll show you how meaningless Greear's gestures are in the face of the SBC's...

June 18, 2018

Lord Snow Presides Over Christian Weight-Loss Plans (LSP #47)

One of the more recent Lord Snow Presides (LSP) posts was about vegetarianism. It provoked...

June 12, 2018

Evangelical Churn: The Falling Away of the Young

As the next generation in Christianity, young people have quite a burden to shoulder! And...

June 05, 2018

Al Mohler: No, It’s Our Critics Who Are Wrong.

Today, I'll show you the techniques he used to manipulate his flocks. These are common...

June 02, 2018

Rotted Fruit: Al Mohler and the Conservative Resurgence

We'll see how he secured a movement that is so important to him that he...

May 2018

May 26, 2018

The Hilarious Glory of a Failed Showdown

Toxic Christians like to set up big showdowns between two diametrically-opposed sides to force other Christians...

May 17, 2018

Stan Gudmundson: A Christian Culture Warrior Embodies Its Underbelly

Hemant Mehta recently found what he's calling "the worst attempt at converting atheists [he's] ever...

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...

May 05, 2018

Paige Patterson: When Halfway There Isn’t Good Enough

Poor Paige Patterson. The fallout continues for this domestic-violence-advocating Southern Baptist leader. Why, the SBC...

May 01, 2018

An Introduction to “Jesus Aura” Evangelism (And How it Fails)

We've been talking this past week about evangelism in Christianity and how it fails. Christian...

April 2018

April 24, 2018

Well, the Big Come-to-Jesus Meeting At Wheaton Was a Bust.

A few days ago I showed you this big meeting that a bunch of evangelical...

April 23, 2018

Christian Lies About Deconversion–and EXTIMONY TIME AHOY! (LSP #39)

Christians sure have a lot of theories about deconversion, namely about why people are rejecting...

April 19, 2018

Evangelical Churn: Evangelicals Struggle With a Tainted Brand

Today we have a quick detour because of an important meeting that evangelical leaders are...

April 04, 2018

Andy Savage and the Problem of Evil

The first important thing that Frank Page's resignation shows us: that the Southern Baptist Convention...

March 2018

March 19, 2018

The Limits of Twitter Glurge-Evangelism: Believe in Yourself Edition. (LSP #34)

It was one of the funniest blowups I've seen on that site lately: a professional...

March 18, 2018

The Israel Obsession: An Introduction to Endtimes Fantasies

To put it simply, Israel and Jews themselves are absolutely required components of these Christians'...

March 16, 2018

The Israel Obsession: An Introduction to Christian Supersessionism

When it comes to fundagelical Christianity, few things make as little sense to outsiders to...

March 12, 2018

Gimme That Old-Time Religion: A Revival, Annotated (LSP #33)

Here's what a good old-fashioned rowdy Pentecostal revival is like--and why. Today Lord Snow casts...

March 06, 2018

False Persecution and Dogwhistles: Mike Huckabee Gives Away the Game

Mike Huckabee's latest attempt was a few days ago, when he was appointed to--and then...

February 2018

February 25, 2018

Billy Graham and the Culture-War Model of Evangelicalism

Billy Graham's work both created a juggernaut of coercive power for his religion--and in turn...

February 13, 2018

Captain Cassidy’s (Big Ol’ Huge) Deconversion.

In this blog's first year, I spent a few months outlining all the different elements...

January 2018

January 11, 2018

The CPC Manual Dives Into Anti-Abortion Clobber Verses

Today we'll look at the CPC's very own Bible study and see just what those...

January 10, 2018

Evangelicalism Is Now Officially Recognized as a Tainted Brand

Christianity is a brand of sorts, and slowly--oh, very slowly!--the religion's leaders are starting to...

January 09, 2018

Lord Snow Presides… Over More MLM Deception in Christianity. (#25)

We look at a very, very curious list of traits that should sound very, very...

January 05, 2018

Live in the Wild: An Introduction to Fake Abortion Clinics

The CPC is one of the most slickly-packaged of all of the fake women's clinics,...

December 2017

December 26, 2017

Christmas Services Sure Seem Weird This Year

I think I've heard like a dozen people so far talking about just how militant...

December 06, 2017

Introduction to the Post-Christian Marketplace (at Fundagelical U)

Today I'll show you how Christians could adapt to the changing reality of a post-Christian...

November 2017

November 29, 2017

The Love/Life Principles Seminar and the Horrendous Friendship Kablooie.

If anything, we discover that the more extremist the flavor of Christianity is, the less...