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December 2017

December 31, 2017

Why Apologetics Fails At Its Stated Goals

In the case of Christian apologetics, we see one of the clearest examples of that...

December 29, 2017

Evangelical Churn: The Real Goal vs. the Stated Goal

In Christianity, we're seeing this situation come into clearer and clearer focus regarding their stated...

December 24, 2017

Christians Aren’t Ready Yet to Fix Their Slump

Christians are losing people fast, and along with members they're losing shocking amounts of credibility...

December 20, 2017

Herd Immunity for the Christian Bubble

The denizens of broken systems tend to take very poorly to critics outside the group--and...

December 13, 2017

PostChristian: For Christians, the Solution Is Always to Jesus Harder

Once again, I discover that to a Christian, the solution to every problem is going...

December 08, 2017

The Rights of Consumers in the Post-Christian Marketplace

We're going to look more closely at one important aspect of the spiritual marketplace: would-be...

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 17, 2017

Roy Moore and How His Excuses Fail.

Roy Moore was simply acting out the fantasies of every red-blooded Southern fundagelical man--and now...

November 05, 2017

Leadership 101 at Fundagelical University

Who here is a first-semester freshman? Raise your hands.... Okay, so almost all of you....

November 03, 2017

Jerry Falwell Jr. Thinks Evangelicals are Forgotten People

Sometimes I see something a fundagelical wrote and just laugh, because it's either that or...

October 2017

October 29, 2017

The Dirtiest Word in the Whole Wide Christian World

Christian leaders push this redefinition onto their flocks for a reason--and to reach a goal...

October 18, 2017

Evangelical Churn: Why Christian Leaders’ Orders Never Change

It took Christian leaders some time to recognize that yes indeed, they were facing not...

October 14, 2017

What Ketchup Meringue Should Tell Christians About Ken Ham (But Won’t)

His suggestion is hilariously bad, by which I mean that it's so inept and obviously...

October 12, 2017

Testimonies: What They Are, Why They Don’t Work, and Why Christians Can’t Quit Them

Today I'll show you why testimonies always follow one specific form, why they don't work...

October 04, 2017

The Mormon Church Has Reminded Us Again That We’re the Future… and They’re Not

The Mormon Church recently let us know recently how they will be handling their future...

October 01, 2017

The Non-Christian’s Guide to Soulwinning

I'll show you what this all-important task is, how effective it is, and why it's...

September 2017

September 23, 2017

Soda’s Back on the (BYU) Menu, Folks

The administrators of BYU recently made a proclamation that really drives home exactly how out-of-touch...

September 17, 2017

More Bad News for Christianity: The PRRI Survey

The 2017 PRRI study, America's Changing Religious Identity, has brought the religion's leaders yet more...

September 10, 2017

A Celestial Extortionist and His Sycophants

Even I couldn't have predicted the extent of that opportunism, however--though I could easily have...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

How to Keep Kids Christian For Life, According to Christians

I'll show you the weirdest and worst of those teachings here--and more importantly I'll show...

August 27, 2017

Why #EmptyThePews Is Important

Recently someone started a Twitter hashtag called #EmptyThePews to encourage Christians to let the horrifying...

July 2017

July 20, 2017

No, No, Wait, Everyone: A Progressive Christian Shares the Real Reason Why Christianity is Failing

Today we've got a progressive Christian who's here to give us the real skinny about...

July 15, 2017

Eugene Peterson: the Christian Right’s Newest Messy Object Lesson

The bizarre spectacle of their vicious, over-the-top response to his statement demonstrates two things. First,...

July 13, 2017

Another Christian Band Bites the Dust

I saw this one video the other day and thought it was really good--but something...

July 11, 2017

The People are Revolting. (You Said It! They Stink on Ice!)

Typically the response of Christian leaders to the fact that their congregations are abandoning them...

July 08, 2017

Coercion and the Global Marketplace of Ideas

The religion's leaders 100% believe that there's some magical way to return Christianity to its...

July 06, 2017

No No, Gang, THIS Christian Is Totally Going to Fix Catholicism!

I'll pick apart his speech today, and then show you--for good measure, since I'm helpful...

June 2017

June 30, 2017

Hang On, Everyone! This Christian Knows What the Problem Is!

We've been having fun this week snarking a post in The Federalist to eensy-weensy little...

June 28, 2017

Further Signs of Christianity’s Demographic Death Spiral

When you hear one of them chirp about men being "biologically wired to be drawn...

June 27, 2017

Lord Snow Presides Over Australia’s New Census: the Real Good News! (#12)

The results of that census from last year, posted just today, show that the number...