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November 2021

November 04, 2021

What Evangelicals Do (and Don’t) Understand About CRT

I saw a meme today about Critical Race Theory (CRT) that got my thinker thinkin',...

September 2020

September 08, 2020

‘Christian Love’ Flows As Jen Hatmaker Divorces

Hi and welcome back! I know nobody's surprised when we talk about evangelical hypocrisy. They're...

June 2020

June 15, 2020

The SCOTUS Decision and the ‘Religious Liberty’ Scam

One blogger on a conservative site has realized what a silly idea it was to...

October 2019

October 12, 2019

How Elizabeth Warren Made Christian Culture Warriors Lose Their Minds (This Time)

Culture warriors are losing their poor little minds lately over something Senator Elizabeth Warren said yesterday in...

May 2018

May 21, 2018

Lord Snow Presides Over Idaho’s Bigotry–Again. (LSP #43)

Idaho seems dead-set on becoming America's most regressive state. This past decade, they've been fighting...

December 2017

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 17, 2017

Things Christians Love: The Meaningless Apology.

We've talked before about the not-pology, that kind of apology that isn't actually a real...

December 11, 2017

Lord Snow Presides Over Liars for Jesus (#22)

Today Lord Snow takes an off-topic day to laugh at the antics of yet another...

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...

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 05, 2017

Conditional Acceptance and Bigotry-for-Jesus

Christians use something called conditional acceptance to try to maintain control over a culture that...

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...

September 2017

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...

July 2017

July 19, 2017

Where the Blame Roosts: Gay Catholic Orgies Edition.

The response of Christians to this news isn't surprising, but it is very telling. In...

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 04, 2017

The False Promise of Safety in the Broken System

The criticism I have about religion really deals with the broken system that undergirds it:...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

Preston Sprinkle Still Doesn’t Get It

So Preston Sprinkle went into the overflowing hopper of Christians Who Think They're Saying Something...

February 2017

February 22, 2017

NOM: When Bad Guys Don’t Want to Be Bad Guys

There's this charming little moment in the 1983 animated masterpiece-of-nuttery Rock & Rule that really...

February 10, 2017

Control-Lust, Fear, and False Prophets: The New Morality Is Already Stinking the Place Up

In Christians' prophecies, we can see the shape of the future Christians want--and hopefully, hopefully,...

January 2017

January 15, 2017

A Fragile Bubble: Criticism Avoidance

Last time, I showed you that a person can have love, or they can have...

November 2016

November 05, 2016

Evangelicals are Rearranging Their Ship’s Deck Chairs Again (‘Lighting Wars’)

Some readers tipped me off to the latest tempest-in-a-teapot going on in the fundagelical world...

May 2016

May 11, 2016

The National Day of Grandstanding and How It Fails

Last time, I uncovered some interesting links between the National Day of Prayer (NDP) and...

May 01, 2016

Evangelical Churn and the Chain of Pain

As the religion becomes more and more extremist and polarized, we'll be seeing more and...

April 2016

April 20, 2016

HB2: A Strangely Incomplete Crusade

Today I want to look at one group that right-wing Christians routinely ignore when pursuing...

April 17, 2016

HB2: The Real Bathroom Panic That Right-Wing Christians Are Totally Ignoring

Because I'm enormously helpful, I thought I'd help all those Christian bigots-for-Jesus understand why their...

April 14, 2016

HB 2: Louie Gohmert’s Lie, and What It Reveals.

Louie Gohmert just told a lie. It's an important lie because it reveals a lot...

April 13, 2016

Getting Them Where It Hurts: A Huge Porn Site Just Banned NC IP Addresses

The law is called "the bathroom bill" and its repercussions may well strike North Carolina...

October 2015

October 13, 2015

The Anatomy of Doublespeak: That ACBC Conference

Last time I talked about a recent conference held at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary...

July 2015

July 04, 2015

SCOTUS: Tony Perkins Has No Idea What End is Up, As Usual.

I had no idea Tony Perkins was as blitheringly ignorant, incredibly dense and intellectually dishonest...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

Heads in the Sand: Equal Marriage Edition (“We Lost This One”)

There's one part of the country that is not happy about the recent SCOTUS decision,...