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May 2019

May 20, 2019

The Hated Stereotypes in “This Present Darkness” (LSP #91)

Last time, we touched on how this book both derived from and defined those wild and woolly...

May 07, 2019

Why the Flocks Don’t WANNA Evangelize

Today, we'll look at why evangelicals don't want to evangelize. Their reasons--and they have many--play a hand...

April 2019

April 06, 2019

If Only Gary Smalley’s Fans Knew (What a Hypocrite He Was)

As I read this book, I began noticing a lot of problems with it. The...

February 2019

February 21, 2019

The Cult of Family and Its Failure to Launch

Do the most extremist, authoritarian flavors of Christianity really have a monopoly on the best marriages...

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 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...

January 27, 2019

Ed Stetzer Wants Evangelicals to Just Calm Down Here

Ed Stetzer wrote a recent post seeking to reassure his tribe, the Southern Baptist Convention...

January 20, 2019

In Search of the TRUE CHRISTIANS™

Last time we met up, we explored the authoritarian urge to control how people use...

January 07, 2019

A God’s Eternal Standards Shift–Again–Sort Of (LSP #76)

A bunch of Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) folks have changed their opinion about one of...

December 2018

December 20, 2018

Meet the Christians Who Are Curious About the God We Don’t Believe In

But one evangelism technique comes to us from both progressive and evangelical Christians. Today, let...

December 11, 2018

A Christmas Miracle: Speaking in Tongues at the Company Party

One of the most dramatic miracle claims that far-right evangelicals make is that of speaking...

December 03, 2018

Yes, MLMs Are A Cult (LSP #71)

I saw a video lately about multi-level marketing schemes (MLMs) and their similarity to classic...

October 2018

October 11, 2018

J.D. Greear Wants Southern Baptists to Become Even Creepier

Last week I mentioned offhandedly that Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) president J.D. Greear has a...

October 04, 2018

Hal Lindsey (a Prophecy Huckster) Thinks Prophecy is Very Important

I ran across a list that was downright hilarious. In it, a relic from decades...

September 2018

September 27, 2018

Original Christianity: A Vision of the Past That Clouds the Future

Way back when, when Yr. Loyal&Etc. was just a wee teenybopper Christian lass, I believed heart...

July 2018

July 26, 2018

The Google Ghost and the Endtimes Scare

While we were sleeping, thousands of people were plugging nonsense words into Google Translate to...

July 21, 2018

Gaming a Broken System With Baptisms

In an age when Christian numbers are tanking almost across the board, re-baptisms make the...

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...

July 09, 2018

The UYC: How Marital Compatibility is (Mis)Defined (LSP #50)

In toxic Christianity, couples determine compatibility in a totally different way than most other folks...

July 03, 2018

The Unequally Yoked Club: The 2018 Gritty Reboot

Some years ago, I ran a series called the Unequally Yoked Club (UYC). It was one...

June 2018

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...

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 12, 2018

The Cult of “Before” Stories Welcomes Benedict Atkins!

A line's determined by two points, so I reckon we've found a new trend. His...

April 2018

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...

February 2018

February 16, 2018

MMS: A Miracle Cure That’s Neither Miraculous Nor a Cure

Here's the story of the Miracle Mineral Solution, and how this woo fits into the...

December 2017

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 10, 2017

But But But You Guys! Biff DID THE RESEARCH! We’re Boned!

It's quite a popular phrase encapsulating quite a popular trope in Christian testimonies, and it's...

December 04, 2017

Lord Snow Presides… Over a “Love Quiz” that Mark Driscoll Fails Miserably. (#21)

I just can't stop laughing today over Mark Driscoll's current post. It's about a Love...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

“God’s Not Dead” – But He’s on Life Support, Apparently

Today we're going to talk about how toxic Christians (who can be loosely defined as...