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December 2019

December 17, 2019

Christian Lies: ‘We’d Still Be Christian Even If We Didn’t Believe Anymore!’

Today's particular bit of dishonesty pinged my radar a very long time ago. And even...

December 12, 2019

Of Awakenings, Revivals, and Other Christian Lies

One popular Christian lie centers on what they call revivals and the importance of these things...

December 10, 2019

Magic Christians Seek the Perfect Sales Pitch in ‘Only God Can’

Today, let me show you what the Perfect Sales Pitch looks like--and why Magic Christians...

December 07, 2019

What Conversion Actually Did For the Women of ‘Only God Can’

Even in a movie made by Christians to completely pander to other Christians, Only God Can peddles...

November 2019

November 21, 2019

The Poor Widdle Heathens in ‘Only God Can’

Hi and welcome back! We saw a movie recently, Only God Can, that covered quite...

October 2019

October 22, 2019

Natasha Crain’s Horrible Christian Parenting Advice

Natasha Crain occupies one specific niche within that industry, too: apologetics aimed at Christian parents...

October 19, 2019

TOWTTHO: That One Weird Thing That Happened Once, Cat Edition

Often, these experiences feel significant to us and even alter our lives. My little family...

October 17, 2019

I Bet You Had No Idea It Was This Easy to Become an Apologist Like Natasha Crain

Today, I'll introduce you to Natasha Crain and show you how she went from a...

October 15, 2019

The Price of the Shining Wire: Evangelicals’ False Promise of Safety

When we believed, we pretended to live in perfect safety, like we curled up in...

October 10, 2019

Christian Evangelists Keep Asking the Wrong Question

Apologists take as a given that once they demonstrate that gods in general might exist,...

October 03, 2019

The Question Christians Vastly Prefer (to Ask)

Recently, we discussed a question Christians really don't like. Today, I'll show you one they...

September 2019

September 05, 2019

How Christians Use Peace of Mind as a Control Tactic

only a small part of Christian evangelists' goal involves persuasion and recruitment. The major part...

September 03, 2019

How Christians Use Promises of Peace To Dehumanize

But peace is way more than a nice feeling that most Christians don't really understand....

August 2019

August 31, 2019

Christian Peace vs. ‘The World’s Peace’

To start this section, today we'll be looking at how Christians try to make 'Christian...

August 27, 2019

How ‘Christian Peace’ Becomes a Marketing Tactic

Today, let me show you the dark side of the false promise of Christian peace:...

July 2019

July 22, 2019

The Time We Have Is Now (LSP #100!)

I find my thoughts turning to another subject: one of love, grief, and ultimately hope. Today,...

May 2019

May 16, 2019

Above Reproach: What Jesus Isn’t Telling the SBC

A bunch of TRUE CHRISTIANS™ accidentally revealed that reindeer game recently with a study called...

May 14, 2019

The Biggest Broken Promise Christians Make

Call it a sterling example of the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon if you like, and to be...

May 09, 2019

Harsh Truths For Christian Leaders About Personal Evangelism

Christians really dislike evangelizing. In past posts, we discussed statistics and some reasons for that reluctance. Today,...

May 07, 2019

Why the Flocks Don’t WANNA Evangelize

Today, we'll look at why evangelicals don't want to evangelize. Their reasons--and they have many--play a hand...

May 02, 2019

Newsflash: Christians Still Don’t Like Evangelizing

This week, the big news in evangelicalism concerns evangelicals, who still don't really like evangelizing....

April 2019

April 30, 2019

What Rekindles Belief (In Christianity)

For a few days now, I've been talking about the three major methods of persuasion...

March 2019

March 12, 2019

Christianity Works For Them, and Evangelists Hate Being Reminded Of It

When Christians try to sell us their religion, they bristle when we treat their assertions...

February 2019

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 02, 2019

Historicity: Testing the Claims of Christianity

We'll lay out a basic definition of claims and defenses of claims. And we'll start...

January 2019

January 29, 2019

How Ed Stetzer Created a False Belief in Christianity

Ed Stetzer accidentally created a false belief! And ever since he popularized this idea, it's...

January 15, 2019

The Attack of the Evangelism Apps!

I downloaded a whole bunch of evangelism apps last week and ran through them. I'll...

January 14, 2019

52 Reasons to Dread Invitations to Church (LSP #77)

This awful list shows us some important things about the people who made the list,...

January 13, 2019

Authoritarians, THE ANGLE, and Evangelism Apps

Hi and welcome to our new series on authoritarians! Last time we met up, we...

December 2018

December 20, 2018

Meet the Christians Who Are Curious About the God We Don’t Believe In

But one evangelism technique comes to us from both progressive and evangelical Christians. Today, let...