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September 2021

September 18, 2021

Why Christian Dishonesty Matters

Christians' dishonesty around their lack of evidence matters way more than that lack of evidence...

July 2021

July 02, 2021

Meet Apollonius of Tyana (1st-Century Fridays #2)

Today, let's check out this fascinating rival for 1st-century affections -- and check out what...

March 2021

March 31, 2021

Grading the Real Evidence Christians Offer (With Jessica Walter’s Help)

I can see why they worry at those three bits of pseudo-evidence like activated terriers....

March 30, 2021

Grading Evangelists’ Evidence (With Jessica Walter GIFs)

Hi and welcome back! The never-ending fever-dream of 2021 continues apace. This past week, the...

February 2021

February 18, 2021

Bad Advice: The Worst Part of Cognitive Dissonance

Today, let me show you what happens when a Christian suffering from doubts collides with...

January 2021

January 21, 2021

‘Logical Christians’ and the Great Divorce Between Beliefs and Behavior

Hi and welcome back! For the past few days, we've been talking about a theme:...

April 2020

April 16, 2020

Examining Claims of MLM Success Amid the Pandemic

Lately, we've been talking about some recent developments in the world of multi-level marketing schemes...

October 2019

October 10, 2019

Christian Evangelists Keep Asking the Wrong Question

Apologists take as a given that once they demonstrate that gods in general might exist,...

April 2019

April 25, 2019

More (Terrible) Reasons to Believe in Christianity’s God

Truly, there is nothing new under the sun! Recently, I showed you Billy Graham's big...

March 2019

March 12, 2019

Christianity Works For Them, and Evangelists Hate Being Reminded Of It

When Christians try to sell us their religion, they bristle when we treat their assertions...

January 2019

January 29, 2019

How Ed Stetzer Created a False Belief in Christianity

Ed Stetzer accidentally created a false belief! And ever since he popularized this idea, it's...

December 2018

December 30, 2018

Let There Be Light: Tell Us How You Really Feel, Culture Warriors

Hello and welcome to a Roll to Disbelieve movie review! Today's botched cinema roll is Let...

April 2018

April 17, 2018

Turtles All the Way Down: The Flood of False Experts Continues

A recent incursion of Toxic Christians on this blog reveals a very sore spot for...

April 11, 2018

Apologetics: The Argument from X, and How It Fails

Today we're starting off with a refresher course on Arguments from X, since that's the...

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 17, 2017

Various Christian Threats, Deciphered and Decoded

Threats are a constant and deeply-woven part of Christian culture. Even the really nice parts...

November 2016

November 08, 2016

A Tale of Two Arguments

Christians claim that they have one holy book and one god, one truth and one...

April 2016

April 08, 2016

Churn Rate: When They Are Grown, Apparently They DO Depart From It

Back when I was Christian, there was one Bible verse considered to be the ultimate...

January 2016

January 15, 2016

The Broken System: When the Greater Good and Harm Don’t Exist

Last time, we began talking about broken social systems--starting with the most dangerous question someone...

March 2015

March 06, 2015

The Handbook: An Overview of the Apologetics Field, and Its (Hopeful) End.

We're about to plunge into actual apologetics works and examine their authors' major ideas and...

February 2015

February 20, 2015

The Handbook: Examining the Evidence

I wasn't stupid, willfully-ignorant, or mentally will when I made the decision to become a...

January 2015

January 05, 2015

The Handbook: Why Arguments Aren’t Evidence

We've talked before on this blog about what evidence looks like, and I don't feel...

December 2014

December 11, 2014

Socratic Theatrics

Not long ago, one of our lovely commenters, ratamacue0, asked me a very good question...

August 2014

August 26, 2014

A Brief Primer About What Proof Looks Like.

It's gotten almost old dealing with Christians who are convinced they have some kind of...

July 2013

July 25, 2013

Judging Christianity’s Validity

I've been thinking lately about exactly why I reject Christianity and what I would consider...

May 2013

May 20, 2013

Evidence: What It Looks Like

I wanted to mention here that I'm going to be talking about evidence in a...

May 11, 2013

Facts and Fictions.

It seems to me like modern culture has long forgotten what "evidence" and "proof" involves....