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January 2015

January 04, 2015

A Response to the Response to Ryan Bell

We're coming back to the Handbook for the Recently Deconverted shortly, but I saw this...

December 2014

December 27, 2014

The Real Reason For the “War on Christmas.”

Merry Christmas and welcome back! Hope you had a wonderful holiday. Today I want to...

December 19, 2014

Defining Moments: Lying for Jesus, Library Edition.

Biff was so proud of himself, but I was so horrified.

December 13, 2014

When Christianity Became About the Opposite of Social Justice

When someone is convinced that the end of the world is coming, that person isn't...

November 2014

November 20, 2014

When Is It Wrong? (Never.)

Hi, y'all! Are you getting ready for my favorite holiday of the entire year? We...

November 11, 2014

Chick Tracts Are Awesome (for Non-Believers).

I ran into his tracts many years ago, when they were a lot more popular...

November 07, 2014

What Christians Are Saying When They Dictate My Experiences To Me

Today I was reading this online article about what cis people are really saying to...

October 2014

October 08, 2014

Another Liar For Jesus Has Been Denied.

Hi! Did you enjoy your feast of tears? (Fat-free and zero calories!) Today we're going...

September 2014

September 28, 2014

Shane Hayes, Part 6: His Actual Argument.

Hi folks! Hope your weekend is going swimmingly so far. We've been looking at a...

September 04, 2014

Why They Lie.

(CN: Religious overreach, movie/book spoilers about Hot Fuzz and Watership Down.) The movie Hot Fuzz...

August 2014

August 18, 2014

Jefferson Bethke: When Sounding Deep Is Good Enough.

I noticed Jefferson Bethke's video making the rounds again, so I wanted to talk about...

July 2014

July 08, 2014

The Truth That Wasn’t There.

I have a real fascination with stories of liars who get found out. Today I...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

That Crazy Little Thing Called Love

A few days ago, I was watching a Christopher Hitchens video. In it, a Christian...

April 2014

April 26, 2014

Heaven is (Not) For Real.

I remember seeing Heaven is For Real at the checkout stand somewhere a while ago...

April 14, 2014

How Not to Be a Compelling Witness

It's almost a pity that most of modern Christianity has this major hard-on for evangelism...

March 2014

March 29, 2014

When God Isn’t That Great: The Urban Legend Bugaloo

If Christianity didn't have urban legends, I'm not sure what else they'd have.

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...

March 14, 2014

It’s Okay If You’re a Christian

Today we're going to talk about how, to toxic Christians, the only moral lie is...

March 11, 2014

The Monsters’ Ball: CPAC

I watched that new Cosmos show's first episode last night. I had to reach for...

March 09, 2014

The Four Facts of the Resurrection (Aren’t)

I was shocked to see it worded like that, like it was some kind of...

January 2014

January 03, 2014

No, Virginia, Jesus Doesn’t Magically Change People

I've seen some additional--and dramatic-- stories of Christians who did not actually experience the 180...

December 2013

December 19, 2013

The Best of All Possible Worlds: The Hypocrisy of Lying About Happiness

When I was Christian, I thought that being a Christian was this awesome and wonderful...

December 01, 2013

Christian Plagiarism.

The other day, a Christian radio host accused megapastor (and smirking Lizard King of misogynists)...

November 2013

November 23, 2013

When Your Position Depends Upon Lying

As a rule of thumb, if your position depends upon lying, then it's not the...

November 20, 2013

The Cult of “Before” Stories: From Witchcraft to Christ

Way back in the 1970s, a British Christian named Doreen Irvine wrote From Witchcraft to...

November 17, 2013

When the Scam Ends.

"There's one born every minute," the consummate showman P.T. Barnum said once, and that saying...

September 2013

September 16, 2013

Changing Faces (On the Editing of Published Blog Posts)

I saw something that really bugged me yesterday. Remember that Kim Hall "FYI" thing I...

August 2013

August 31, 2013

Emergent Christianity: That Huge Threat to Republican Jesus

Have you seen this in the news lately? A bunch of conservative Christians have decided...

August 26, 2013

Tony Anthony: The Cult of “Before” Stories Got a New Member Last Month.

One of my earliest blog entries, A Cult of "Before" Stories, remains one of the...

August 24, 2013

Prayer Warriors for Jesus

Most people who got involved in the Pentecostal denomination I was in weren't the clean-cut...