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March 2019

March 30, 2019

If Only He Knew: First, Assume Women Aren’t People

Lately, we've been discussing the terrible Christian marriage-advice book If Only He Knew. Written by Gary...

March 23, 2019

If Only He Knew: Villains Helping Villains

Hi! Lately, we've been talking about a terrible Christian marriage-advice book, If Only He Knew. In...

March 19, 2019

If Only He Knew: The Target Audience Within Complementarianism

Though he kept these facts on the down-low, Gary Smalley himself was a big-name complementarian...

March 16, 2019

If Only He Knew: The Huckster Fleecing These Sheep

Over the next week, I'll show you just why Christian marriage advice is so pathetically...

March 07, 2019

Keeping Up Appearances in the Cult of Family

Lately, we've been talking about authoritarian Christians' new marketing push: the Cult of Family. Only these...

March 05, 2019

The Cult of Family Despises Family Values

Not only do authoritarian Christians not know how to create and grow happy families, but they...

February 2019

February 26, 2019

Achieving a Happy Family, Sort Of, in Christianity’s Cult of Family

Like all marketing hype, though, this promise is largely imaginary, and fails far more often...

February 23, 2019

The Sales Pitch of Family Happiness

Today, we begin with how Christian salespeople utilize the Cult of Family as a sales...

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...

February 14, 2019

Roll to Disbelieve: The LOVE Super Special (#6)

If you celebrate it or like it, then may it be a fun one for...

December 2018

December 06, 2018

The Ambot Who Loved Me: Contexts and Beliefs

We've been talking lately about multi-level marketing schemes (MLMs) and their similarity to the worst...

September 2018

September 17, 2018

A Remedial Course at Fundagelical U (LSP #60)

It never fails to astonish me, how often TRUE CHRISTIANS™ need remedial educations in how...

September 13, 2018

The Red Flags I Didn’t Notice

Red flags are those in-your-face warnings that a situation could be going pear-shaped in short...

August 2018

August 31, 2018

Relax, Everyone: This Christian Knows All About Compatibility (UYC)

As you'll be overjoyed to learn, this Christian has totally figured out how people can...

August 06, 2018

The UYC: Spectacularly-Terrible Advice from The Gospel Coalition (LSP #54)

Lord Snow Presides over a very telling--and disastrous--list of suggestions from a TRUE CHRISTIAN™ culture...

July 2018

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 07, 2018

The Unequally Yoked Club: Terrible Christian Marriage Advice, Graded

Last time we met up, we talked about why Christians have such a bizarrely-regressive view...

July 02, 2018

Penguins, Grief, and Meaningful Community (LSP #49)

Today, Lord Snow Presides over another potent contradiction to Christian claims. Why yes, people can find meaningful...

December 2017

December 03, 2017

The Love/Life Seminar and the Politics of Fixing People

Last time we covered what the seminar's creators thought were the five levels of friendship...

November 2017

November 24, 2017

Joe Barton and Cargo Cult Excuses in the Broken System

I'll show you what Joe Barton's excuse is and how it illustrates his cargo-cult understanding...

November 22, 2017

The Love/Life Principles Seminar of 1986

I wanted to show you the roots of that cultural shift today, as we move...

November 14, 2017

Lord Snow Presides… Over Mark Driscoll’s Bad Advice About Marriage. (#18)

Mark Driscoll's blog has been a treasure trove lately, as he struggles to resolve one...

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...

July 2017

July 23, 2017

The Different Types of Christian Ghosting

Today I'll show you the two kinds of Christian ghosting, how prevalent ghosting has become...

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:...

June 2017

June 28, 2017

Further Signs of Christianity’s Demographic Death Spiral

When you hear one of them chirp about men being "biologically wired to be drawn...

March 2017

March 12, 2017

Christian Dating Hits a New Low: “It Takes a Church.”

I've written before about how bad it is in Christian churches for single people seeking...

March 10, 2017

A Eulogy For My Father: All We Have Is Love

An hour or so ago, right as I sat down to write a post today,...

December 2016

December 08, 2016

T’is the Season: Virgin Births

Christians' weird way of engaging with virginity is a big problem in their culture, as...