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November 2021

November 19, 2021

The Endtimes Just Ain’t What It Used To Be

Today's story concerns a Christian refrain many of us encounter with increasing frequency (and intensity):...

June 2021

June 01, 2021

Fear: Why Hell Succeeds as a Christian Threat (Journey Into Hell #4)

Hi and welcome back! Lately, we've been talking about Hell -- as a concept, yes,...

May 2021

May 16, 2021

The Night My Fear of Hell Died

Today, I'll tell you what happened the night I finally lost my fear of Hell.

January 2021

January 08, 2021

The Evangelical Reckoning That Will Never Happen

After Donald Trump supporters attacked the nation's Capitol Building on Wednesday, I noticed some evangelical...

December 2020

December 10, 2020

Fear and Rage: Evangelicals’ Two Responses to Their Diminishing Power

Hi and welcome back! Recently, I showed you an evangelical's request that his tribe quit...

December 02, 2020

The Bait and Switch of ‘Fire Insurance’ Evangelism

Evangelists sure like to threaten their marks with eternal torture! They do it to score...

November 2020

November 16, 2020

Why Gullible Christians Believe the Ouija Board’s Hype (LSP #166)

Today, Lord Snow Presides over yet another huckster creating -- and then coincidentally filling --...

August 2020

August 06, 2020

‘American Gospel’ Accused of Being Calvinist Propaganda

Hi and welcome back! Last weekend, we watched American Gospel: Christ Alone. It's a documentary about...

August 05, 2020

‘American Gospel’ As Evangelism: Nope, Probably Not

Today, I'll show you why American Gospel actually presents us unwashed heathens with two great reasons to reject Christianity.

August 01, 2020

How Ray Comfort’s Parachute Analogy Fails

Hi and welcome back! I recently ran across a news article on a Christian site...

June 2020

June 03, 2020

How Evangelicals Use ‘the Endtimes’ to Disobey Jesus

As with everything they do, evangelicals embrace the Endtimes for a reason. And that reason...

May 2020

May 23, 2020

How Hell-Belief Inevitably Leads to Hypocrisy (The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience)

As long as evangelical leaders like Ronald J. Sider push Hell-belief, there's no way believers...

April 2020

April 09, 2020

Evangelistic Success in China Amid the Pandemic

Lately, I've noticed a distinct narrative developing in fundagelicalism. It involves claims of wild evangelism...

August 2019

August 22, 2019

The False Peace I Found in Christianity (Hurt Me)

The promise of peace is nothing but yet another false promise that leads to yet another bait...

August 20, 2019

Know Jesus, Know Peace/No Jesus, No Peace: That Wasn’t True Either

Christians love to claim that their religion brings believers a state of peace--and not only...

June 2019

June 04, 2019

Questions About Hell I Never Thought to Ask When I Was Christian

Deconversion opened up a whole new capacity to make observations and ask questions that I'd...

January 2019

January 31, 2019

Seeking the Winning Team’s Banner

To be an authoritarian Christian is to live in constant, unending, ever-ratcheting-upward fear. They fear...

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,...

January 10, 2019

Authoritarians, Fear, and the Culture Wars

They couldn't be more obvious in their fear if they sang their messages while playing...

August 2018

August 13, 2018

Why It Had to Be Snakes (LSP #55)

We're going to be talking about quite a few elements of that report in the...

August 12, 2018

2018 SBC Annual Report: The Sign of Things to Come

Here are the overarching trends in the SBC right now, how they're responding to criticism...

July 2018

July 19, 2018

You Must Be Born Again (And Again, And Again, And Again…)

Most people have likely heard of the Bible verse advising that people must be born again...

March 2018

March 31, 2018

The “Prodigal Planet” Grand Finale Review-a-Thon!

Tonight we had a grand time watching Prodigal Planet (PP), the fourth and last movie in...

March 30, 2018

A Thief in the Night: Traumatizing Children for Fun and Prophet

Sometimes I catch myself thinking that fundagelicals are, at heart, perfectly normal people who have...

August 2017

August 01, 2017

The Darker Side of Artificial Meaning and Purpose

Christians have an entire mythology built around their supposed monopoly on finding meaning and purpose...

May 2017

May 30, 2017

Pick a Gear: Selling Contradictions

The marketers in broken systems have this unfortunate tendency to sell two different and diametrically...

September 2016

September 04, 2016

The Oncoming Bus Gambit, and Why It Fails.

This response is something I'm starting to call the Oncoming Bus Gambit. Chances are you've...

March 2016

March 22, 2016

Why Evangelicalism Fails: Hell as Outdated Marketing

Recently I was reading a blog post by a Christian* who was very, very concerned...

November 2015

November 15, 2015

Regarding Christians Who Gloat About People Burning in Hell

There is something truly grotesque about the way so many Christians seem to get off...

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...