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November 2020

November 11, 2020

Rod Dreher: Fretting About Evangelical Men’s Boners — er, Civilization’s Future

Today, the ever-hilarious Rod Dreher clutches his pearls over young women's lack of interest in...

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...

June 09, 2018

Complementarianism: Examining the First Claim

Christians who buy in to complementarianism make a lot of claims about this doctrine. Today,...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

July 2016

July 24, 2016

A Match Made in Hell for People to Be “Loved.”

Preston Sprinkle, in his book People to Be Loved, expresses some truly atrocious ideas. Arguably...

July 13, 2016

The Reframing Game in “People to Be Loved”

Using very positive language to describe a very negative situation or feeling is a tactic...

May 2016

May 15, 2016

Why Right-Wing Christians Are Shocked About Losing

When we look at the balance of news coming out about Christianity, one fact seems...

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...

January 2016

January 15, 2016

The Broken System: When the Greater Good and Harm Don’t Exist

Last time, we began talking about broken social systems--starting with the most dangerous question someone...

November 2015

November 08, 2015

To Flounce or Not to Flounce: Christians Are Starting to Admit They’ve Lost Their Culture War.

I couldn't help but notice a major shift in the tenor of how Christians are...

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...

October 10, 2015

Al Mohler Has Crept One Inch Forward, And It’s Nowhere Near Enough

A few days ago, Al Mohler said something very important regarding the SBC's stance on...

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 27, 2015

Leopards Don’t Change Their Spots: Kim Davis Edition

Kim Davis is from a family of super-duper-fervent Christians in a super-duper-religious town, but she...

September 19, 2015

I Bet Kim Davis Thought This Was Super-Sneaky And Oh So Clever

In the ongoing saga of sanctimonious bigot Kim Davis, apparently she is not content to...

September 18, 2015

Here’s Why The Christian Right is Totally Wrong About This Clobber Verse

In this post, David J. Murphy specifically addresses one of the several "clobber verses" Christians...

September 12, 2015

Condoning Sin: The New Way to Judge Without Sounding Judgey

The drumbeat of hypocritical defenses of bigots-for-Jesus for their fellow bigots-for-Jesus continues as Christians continue...

September 04, 2015

Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely: Kim Davis Edition.

Kim Davis, the bigot-for-Jesus County Clerk who refused to issue licenses because she thought equal...

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 28, 2015

5 Reasons Why Christian Apology Campaigns Fail

We've talked off and on in the past about various Christian "apology" movements, wherein earnest...