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June 2018

June 26, 2018

About That “Dear Facebook Friend” Image Going Around Lately

I'm not a fan of the open-letter format of social media posting or blog post....

June 11, 2018

A TRUE CHRISTIAN™ Coach Reminds Us That Shaming Doesn’t Work (LSP #46)

If you haven't heard of Dave Daubenmire, he is every single thing you need to...

May 2018

May 19, 2018

Stan Gudmundson and His PROOF YES PROOF

By far the biggest dishonesty Stan Gudmundson commits in his LTTE centers on what he...

May 14, 2018

Christianity’s Evangelicalism Problem (LSP #42)

Leia knew that controllers only speak one language, that of control. That, literally, is what they...

April 2018

April 22, 2018

Why the Christian Right’s Sex Scandals Are Only Increasing With Time

Another day, another bunch of scandals erupting out of fundagelical Christianity, and yet more predators...

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...

February 20, 2018

Dan Foreman of Idaho Shows Us the Real Face of “Christian Love”

Here's what Christian love really looks like--and why stone-cold hypocrite Dan Foreman is reacting like he...

November 2017

November 03, 2017

Jerry Falwell Jr. Thinks Evangelicals are Forgotten People

Sometimes I see something a fundagelical wrote and just laugh, because it's either that or...

October 2017

October 22, 2017

The CBMW and the Hills They Die On

Today I want to look more closely at why the CBMW chose to rally around...

May 2017

May 17, 2017

Lord Snow Presides #8: Meet Texe Marrs.

I'm looking at end-of-the-world conspiracy theorists right now and ran across a name I hadn't...

May 16, 2017

You Lost Me: How to Create Change Without Changing a Thing

There's another magic spell he wants to teach Christians to cast here, and that spell...

March 2017

March 04, 2017

The Gaze of Dead Children Follows Me Today

These stories are related. They both reflect an endemic issue within Christianity: its broken systems'...

February 2017

February 25, 2017

Ken Ham’s Bubble Maintenance

Creationist charlatan and serial liar-for-Jesus Ken Ham did a little bubble maintenance this week, and...

February 10, 2017

Control-Lust, Fear, and False Prophets: The New Morality Is Already Stinking the Place Up

In Christians' prophecies, we can see the shape of the future Christians want--and hopefully, hopefully,...

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....

December 2016

December 30, 2016

Christians’ Dominance Is Ending, But Not Without a Fight

We've been talking lately about the various ways that Christianity rose to power as the...

December 02, 2016

Church Discipline: Evaluating the Claims

When power-hungry people want to abuse others, and they are given the means by which...

November 2016

November 27, 2016

Why Shepherds Really Tend Sheep.

I'd be hard-pressed to name a ministry idea that fails as hard as this one.

November 05, 2016

Evangelicals are Rearranging Their Ship’s Deck Chairs Again (‘Lighting Wars’)

Some readers tipped me off to the latest tempest-in-a-teapot going on in the fundagelical world...

October 2016

October 27, 2016

A Jack Chick Retrospective

In a way, it's more important to understand Jack Chick's role in shaping right-wing Christian...

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 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...

September 15, 2016

How the Persecution Will Go

You're probably noticing a common thread running through the messages and media aimed at fundagelicals...

September 04, 2016

The Oncoming Bus Gambit, and Why It Fails.

This response is something I'm starting to call the Oncoming Bus Gambit. Chances are you've...

August 2016

August 14, 2016

The Good Old Days: Refuted by a Single Book

It's not uncommon to see Christians point to 1945-1960 (loosely, "the 1950s") as some kind...

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...

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 03, 2016

A Cold First Option for People to Be “Loved”

We've been talking for a while now about right-wing Christians' culture war against LGBTQ people,...

June 2016

June 11, 2016

Rescuing a Sinking Ship: People to Be “Loved”

If it wasn't resulting in endless abuse and cruelty against innocent people worldwide, there'd be...

February 2015

February 04, 2015

The Handbook: Building a Worldview Around Consent

One of the biggest shifts I had to process in my thinking was my understanding...