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March 2018

March 13, 2018

Lawrence Krauss and How a Broken System Perpetuates Itself

Lawrence Krauss has all but admitted that he swims in a seriously broken system, revels...

February 2018

February 22, 2018

The Awakening of the Young

Young people are awakening to their own power and agency, and that is very bad...

January 2018

January 23, 2018

Antiprocess: That Get-Out-of-Uncomfortable-Truths-Free Card

I literally didn't notice the Bible's most troublesome passages. I don't even think I was...

December 2017

December 29, 2017

Evangelical Churn: The Real Goal vs. the Stated Goal

In Christianity, we're seeing this situation come into clearer and clearer focus regarding their stated...

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 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 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...

August 2017

August 03, 2017

Burnout: Pastors’ Wives Confess All

Today I'll show you what this problem looks like, what the women dealing with the...

July 2017

July 11, 2017

The People are Revolting. (You Said It! They Stink on Ice!)

Typically the response of Christian leaders to the fact that their congregations are abandoning them...

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 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:...

July 01, 2017

Good Apples, Bad Apples, and Broccoli

Christianity is supposed to be the religious equivalent of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Its...

June 2017

June 23, 2017

A Safe Guess for Anona United Methodist Church

If my blog were a sort of News of the Weird of Christianity--and I suppose...

June 21, 2017

The Perilous Position of the Sales-Minded Christian

There are a whole bunch of Christians who don't like to evangelize. This reticence drives...

June 20, 2017

Lord Snow Presides Over Arizona’s Complete Lawlessness. (#11)

A new first has happened in America: an openly atheistic woman has been elected to...

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 04, 2017

No, Christians. Your Churches Are Already Dead

Nowadays, many Christians act like they only run into trouble because individuals come in and...

May 02, 2017

The Root of All Evil in the Broken System

One verse most fundagelicals know well is 1 Timothy 6:10: the line about how money...

April 2017

April 13, 2017

Robert Bentley is (What Passes For) Big Game Now

One Christian minister rationalized the whole fiasco by claiming that Satan himself had gone a-hunting...

April 11, 2017

The Luv Guv and the Broken System.

Robert Bentley's case reminds us anew that once someone in a broken system gets a...

March 2017

March 18, 2017

The Poison of Undeserved Power

As part of finding our own internal validation and becoming our own support network, one...

January 2017

January 29, 2017

Medicine vs. Exorcism: The Real Miracle

One of the biggest markers of modern Christianity--and one of the reasons it is eventually...

January 25, 2017

What Christians Get Wrong About “Objective Morality.”

I've been noticing for some time that Christians' morality appears to be shifting--very subtly, but...

December 2016

December 14, 2016

How Christianity’s Golden Age of Coercion Began

We've been talking lately about the origins of Christianity and how it retains power even...

October 2016

October 08, 2016

Thom Rainer and His Boxes of Air

Certainly, we shouldn't be surprised that Christians, having finally figured out just how bad the...

September 2016

September 29, 2016

Leaving the Ring

Christian leaders themselves can spin-doctor the latest bad news as much as they like (and...

September 20, 2016

Why People Don’t Like Christians, According to a Christian (Real or Not Real Edition)

Located on a site called Bible Reasons and called "25 Reasons Why The World Hates...

April 2016

April 24, 2016

Tony Waller and the Cruel Dilemma

Do you folks remember Anthony Waller? He's a youth pastor I discussed about a year...

February 2016

February 25, 2016

Come Home, Cardinal Pell: Another Day, Another Christian Predator Moved Under Another Shell

We've been talking lately about how abusers operate within a broken system and how that...

February 09, 2016

Republicans Are Becoming Team Rape Again This Season

Last election season, Republicans got into a lot of trouble over their constant harping about...