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April 2016

April 01, 2016

Because It’s Funny and Sad: the TEN QUESTIONS.

I want to talk about who comes up with these questions and why, because I...

March 2016

March 07, 2016

Captain Cassidy’s Quest for Happiness: Where It Wasn’t

One of the big threats Christian leaders make to their flocks about deconversion is that...

February 2016

February 21, 2016

How Lying for Jesus Became So Common.

Last time we talked, I mentioned three examples of blatantly obvious lies told by Christians...

February 19, 2016

The Religious Right Clearly Thinks We’re Idiots.

I'm noticing a trend lately with the Religious Right that might well baffle observers but...

February 02, 2016

Christian Myth #5,921,347: “The Gospel Does Not Need Trickery”

Christian mythology is filled with absolutely stunning examples of bizarre reasoning, and today we're talking...

January 2016

January 11, 2016

SHARONDA RASHANDA. (Speaking in Tongues: A Primer)

One of the weirdest practices you'll ever encounter among right-wing Christians has to be to...

January 07, 2016

The Tornado Whisperer: Screw All Y’all, I’ma Get Mine

I saw a story recently about a Christian lady who thinks she prayed a tornado...

January 06, 2016

We Are Witnessing the Birth of a New Trickster God

Many Christians would rather think their god is a dishonest trickster than be wrong about...

December 2015

December 08, 2015

Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin: How a Bad Idea Becomes Canon

Last time we talked about the phrase "love the sinner, hate the sin," which many...

December 01, 2015

The PP Shootings: How the System Is Designed

I didn't know if I could add anything to the conversation that other folks aren't...

November 2015

November 19, 2015

Update Time! Where Are They Now?

While writing about Ben Carson, I realized that it's been a while since I checked...

November 12, 2015

We Welcome Ben Carson to the Cult of “Before” Stories

A long time ago, I wrote a post called "A Cult of "Before" Stories" in...

November 05, 2015

Airline High School: Evangelicals’ Captive Audience

Airline High School of Louisiana has a problem. Airline is a public school that has...

October 2015

October 29, 2015

Stupid is as Stupid Does.

I saw this really neat Washington Post article about stupidity earlier and I wanted to...

October 19, 2015

Expertise, Apologetics, and David Marshall.

Recently I ran into this debate between David Marshall and Richard Carrier regarding whether or...

October 06, 2015

Mike Huckabee’s Failed Attempt to Stratify the Tribe.

Tribalism is a term used to describe social groups that are very uniform in how...

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...

September 05, 2015

Fireproof: Making and Breaking the Promises

That brand of Christianity makes some distinct promises to its adherents. If you do this,...

August 2015

August 08, 2015

This Affair Represents A New Twist on the Old Story of Christian Bigots Turning Out to Be Hypocrites

We've got a full post planned for tomorrow, but for now, I saw this and...

July 2015

July 23, 2015

Church Marketing Sucks: No, It’s a Religion, Yes, Christians Follow the Bible, and Yes, That Is Totally A Church.

I was reading this funny site that gathers "horror stories" from Christians about really awful...

July 18, 2015

Lying for Jesus, Audaciously.

I'm just going to warn you now: stuff like we're about to discuss today is...

May 2015

May 30, 2015

The Handbook: The Zebra Rule, Occam’s Razor, and Robby Dawkins

Robby Dawkins is telling some porkie pies about helping to resurrect someone who died! Is...

April 2015

April 18, 2015

Let’s Be As Honest As We Wish Christians Were

The few people who respond to Christians' lies and are fooled thereby into conversion--or reconversion,...

March 2015

March 11, 2015

The Handbook: Science- and History-Based Apologetics.

One popular form of apologetics is the attempt to demonstrate the veracity of the Bible....

February 2015

February 25, 2015

A Monopoly on Manliness

One of the genuinely weirdest turns that fundagelical Christianity has taken in recent decades has been...

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...

February 08, 2015

I’m Still Not a Francis Fangirl

I'm still not a Pope Francis fangirl. Here's why.

February 06, 2015

Attack of the Mini-Jesuses

I was thinking today about the various ways in which Christians keep trying to do...

January 2015

January 28, 2015

The Handbook: Understanding the Straw Man.

Christians are very, very fond of telling everybody who'll listen that they just love non-believers....

January 21, 2015

Alex Malarkey and a Shocking Twist in the Old Story of Lying for Jesus (Heavenly Tourism)

You've probably heard of that genre of books called heavenly tourism. In these books, a Christian...