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January 2021

January 25, 2021

The Schadenfreude Files: Mar-a-Lago Mood is ‘Dispirited’ Lately, Y’all (LSP #176)

Today, Lord Snow Presides over the 'dispirited' feel at the Mar-a-Lago resort, leading to its...

September 2019

September 24, 2019

The Scariest Question Christians Never Ask Themselves

About a year ago, one of our dear and recently-departed commentariat members, Brad Feaker, asked...

May 2019

May 20, 2019

The Hated Stereotypes in “This Present Darkness” (LSP #91)

Last time, we touched on how this book both derived from and defined those wild and woolly...

March 2019

March 25, 2019

A Pastor Cries Out for an End to a Favorite Christian Listicle (LSP #83)

I'll show you what this listicle entails, and why one Christian has cried out for...

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...

January 2019

January 20, 2019

In Search of the TRUE CHRISTIANS™

Last time we met up, we explored the authoritarian urge to control how people use...

December 2018

December 19, 2018

Evangelicals: Nope, Still in Denial Over Their Decline

Recently, some irresponsible folks over at Newsweek let him and a pal blather at length about how...

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 18, 2018

Blaming All the Wrong People

For dysfunctional people and groups, that first step proves to be an insurmountable task. Once...

August 2018

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...

June 2018

June 16, 2018

Yay, Another Innovative Christian Non-Solution

Another day, another non-solution for life's universal daily struggles. This particular non-solution comes to us...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

How Confrontational Evangelism is Failing Christians, and Why It Doesn’t Matter.

Christian evangelists act, in a very real sense, as salespeople of their ideology. And they...

April 24, 2018

Well, the Big Come-to-Jesus Meeting At Wheaton Was a Bust.

A few days ago I showed you this big meeting that a bunch of evangelical...

April 23, 2018

Christian Lies About Deconversion–and EXTIMONY TIME AHOY! (LSP #39)

Christians sure have a lot of theories about deconversion, namely about why people are rejecting...

March 2018

March 19, 2018

The Limits of Twitter Glurge-Evangelism: Believe in Yourself Edition. (LSP #34)

It was one of the funniest blowups I've seen on that site lately: a professional...

January 2018

January 21, 2018

Bible Verses I Wish I’d Known About While I Was Christian.

The CPC also left out an awful lot of Bible verses that reveal that the...

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...

November 2017

November 26, 2017

That Time My Boyfriend Pulled a Sword on My Best Friend During the Christmas Pageant

I wanted to give you the best Christmas present I could--and it's one I've kept...

November 17, 2017

Roy Moore and How His Excuses Fail.

Roy Moore was simply acting out the fantasies of every red-blooded Southern fundagelical man--and now...

September 2017

September 07, 2017

Big Damn Heroes: Ain’t They Just

I'm sure this news cycle suits some Christians to their fingertips because it all plays...

July 2017

July 25, 2017

The Big Secret About the Meaning of Life (That Christians Don’t Want People to Know).

Strap in and hang on--keep your hands and feet inside the SUV at all times...

June 2017

June 06, 2017

Ken Ham’s Creationists Know Exactly How to Reverse Evangelical Churn

Ken Ham says that he totally thinks that families that do not already buy into...

June 04, 2017

Common Christian Miracles, Explained and Translated

But what do these miracles actually look like, and do the Christians claiming these miracles...

July 2016

July 31, 2016

I Want Them to Know, From the Bottom of My Heart

Today I'll show you some of the things that particular bunch of Christians do that...

January 2015

January 11, 2015

The Handbook: Circular Arguments

I've compared the efforts of Christian apologists to watching a Roomba repeatedly hit a wall,...