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March 2018

March 09, 2018

Letters from Tim: What Christians Don’t Realize They’re Telling Us

Last week letters turned up in my mail that really encapsulated exactly what Christians do...

February 2018

February 11, 2018

The Christian’s Guide to Ex-Christians: Ex-timonies and Testimonies

As usual, Christians have totally gotten the whole matter wrong about these stories--and they've revealed...

January 2018

January 17, 2018

The Cult of “Before” Stories: A Mega-Review of Zachary King’s Testimony

Zachary King gave an extensive XM radio interview a couple of years just after becoming...

January 14, 2018

The Satanic Panic Meets the Anti-Abortion Crusade.

The Satanic Panic trickled to an undignified end years ago. But not long ago we...

January 10, 2018

Evangelicalism Is Now Officially Recognized as a Tainted Brand

Christianity is a brand of sorts, and slowly--oh, very slowly!--the religion's leaders are starting to...

December 2017

December 31, 2017

Why Apologetics Fails At Its Stated Goals

In the case of Christian apologetics, we see one of the clearest examples of that...

December 13, 2017

PostChristian: For Christians, the Solution Is Always to Jesus Harder

Once again, I discover that to a Christian, the solution to every problem is going...

December 08, 2017

The Rights of Consumers in the Post-Christian Marketplace

We're going to look more closely at one important aspect of the spiritual marketplace: would-be...

December 06, 2017

Introduction to the Post-Christian Marketplace (at Fundagelical U)

Today I'll show you how Christians could adapt to the changing reality of a post-Christian...

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...

October 2017

October 12, 2017

Testimonies: What They Are, Why They Don’t Work, and Why Christians Can’t Quit Them

Today I'll show you why testimonies always follow one specific form, why they don't work...

October 10, 2017

Dissection of a Soulwinner

One of the funniest Christian screeds I've ever seen was one that I ran across...

October 01, 2017

The Non-Christian’s Guide to Soulwinning

I'll show you what this all-important task is, how effective it is, and why it's...

August 2017

August 22, 2017

Darkness at Noon: The Solar Eclipse of 2017

Eclipses are rare occurrences in our world--and even to someone raised in a science-embracing world...

August 16, 2017

Christian Marketing Sucks: Bait and Switch Edition

This marketing tactic is hugely dishonest, yes, but it's also very effective against the unwary....

August 10, 2017

How Hucksters Make Sales Through Urgency.

Of all their sales techniques, their most successful is surely their creation of a sense...

July 2017

July 29, 2017

And Yet It Moves: Dismantling the Second Myth About Meaning and Purpose

This second myth drives people to extraordinary lengths--and leads them to make life-altering bad decisions,...

July 27, 2017

Busting the First Myth About Having Meaning and Purpose in Life

It can be hard to detangle all that indoctrination when someone deconverts, because their entire...

July 20, 2017

No, No, Wait, Everyone: A Progressive Christian Shares the Real Reason Why Christianity is Failing

Today we've got a progressive Christian who's here to give us the real skinny about...

July 08, 2017

Coercion and the Global Marketplace of Ideas

The religion's leaders 100% believe that there's some magical way to return Christianity to its...

July 06, 2017

No No, Gang, THIS Christian Is Totally Going to Fix Catholicism!

I'll pick apart his speech today, and then show you--for good measure, since I'm helpful...

June 2017

June 18, 2017

The God-Shaped Wound

For many years, Christians have been trying to convince everyone that human beings have a...

May 2017

May 06, 2017

You Lost Me: And You Will Keep Losing Me

This book is a good example of how wishful thinking and self-deception makes Christians incapable...

February 2017

February 05, 2017

The Comfort of the Failed Sales Pitch

There's always a reason, in religion, for the stuff we see religious people doing. It...

February 03, 2017

Why They’re Not Ambassadors

Last time we met up, we were talking about the differences between ambassadors and salespeople--and...

February 01, 2017

Why They Are Failed Ambassadors.

I'm a child of the 80s, which means that I've pretty much memorized Top Gun....

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Elevating the Meaningless Blather–I Mean, the Dialogue

Christians' bigotry has cost them countless adherents as well--adherents who take with them when they...

July 22, 2016

The Adventures of Thom Rainer and the Strawman.

Normally you'd think that inaccuracies in Christians' perception of others is just their problem. But...

July 10, 2016

Having No Ears to Hear the People to Be “Loved”

There's a huge, huge difference between listening to someone and really hearing them. Today I'll...

June 2016

June 03, 2016

Christians and the Law of Conservation of Worship

I've been thinking lately about something I've noticed about many Christians trying to evangelize non-believers:...