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December 2013

December 12, 2013

Liars for Jesus are the dungeon masters of the fantasy role-playing game of white evangelicalism

Ergun Caner got canned by Liberty University, where he was dean of the seminary, when...

December 11, 2013

Mark Driscoll cannot escape the shame of his willingness to associate with Janet Mefferd

Let's stop treating Janet Mefferd like she's some kind of good, honest journalist for calling...

November 2013

November 01, 2013

Neo-Bircher apocalyptic politics harms the people who embrace it

Tim LaHaye's major "contribution" to dispensationalist ideology was his grafting in of old John Birch...

October 2013

October 15, 2013

50 years later, the ‘Fright-peddlers’ are still peddling fright

"I speak of another danger we confront, not as dread or as foreboding, but equally...

October 09, 2013

Red Dawn delusions and an unmet longing for real community

But not-so-deep-down, they have to know it's just a game. It's just pretend. I don't...

August 2013

August 15, 2013

Rep. Paul Wieland of Missouri is lying

Wieland claims that his conscience is grievously mortified because of X. This isn't a lie...

July 2013

July 07, 2013

When you meet someone who’s been told they don’t matter, give them a chance to matter

To be honest, in my case, it's not always accurate. I often look for any...

June 2013

June 21, 2013

Religious right will hold breath, turn blue, if DOMA overturned

"We will not stand by," the statement harrumphs. But, actually, yes, yes they will. Standing...

June 02, 2013

Postcards from the culture wars

A long due apology from an ex-ex-gay; still waiting for a non-sectarian argument against equality;...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

This sad spectacle would never have happened if Gene Rivers was still alive

If obsequiously sucking up to the dominant, privileged religious majority were a crime, then Gene...

May 01, 2013

Pat Buchanan joins Manhattan Declarers in ‘civil disobedience’ fappery

Pat Buchanan takes a break from race-baiting to pledge his support for "civil disobedience" against...

April 2013

April 02, 2013

Google and white Christians’ search for ‘persecution’

It might seem preposterous to you that Team Christian would try to pretend that Google's...

March 2013

March 05, 2013

The adults who taught and encouraged this are guilty of child abuse

I don't want to mock this child. She deserves more pity than scorn. She's parroting...

February 2013

February 20, 2013

SNL’s ‘DJesus’ is a pacifist compared to Tim LaHaye’s lethal Death Jesus

Quite a few American Christians who have no problem at all accepting, enjoying and celebrating...

February 14, 2013

James Dobson just not putting much effort into perfunctory lies

Christian radio host James Dobson is repeating stale death-panels lies from 2010. His massive radio...

January 2013

January 28, 2013

Do white evangelicals have a delusional persecution complex? Barna says yes, and provides quantifiable proof

A great many white evangelicals have a delusional persecution complex. That delusion is an expression...

January 26, 2013

Taylor Branch on how George Wallace invented our current political discourse

Taylor Branch: "Wallace pledged to protect segregation. Only 50 years ago. He failed. But in...

November 2012

November 18, 2012

White evangelicals, Republicans and wanting to ‘take our country back’

White evangelicals are big fans of ethnic diversity -- just so long as those diverse...

October 2012

October 08, 2012

Fighting the beast: How can Clifford Russell be saved?

It cannot be our only response, and it cannot be our primary response, but at...

October 06, 2012

Smart people saying smart things

Chris Heard on "Interpreting Genesis 1 'Literally;'" Amy Sullivan on why Paul Ryan and his...

October 02, 2012

Culture warrior baffled by symbol with two short parallel lines

Being a culture-warrior means pretending you've never heard of equality: "When I moved to Washington...

September 2012

September 30, 2012

The oldest image of Jesus Christ is a crude, mocking caricature

We can have laws against blasphemy or we can have religious freedom. We can never...

August 2012

August 11, 2012

Smart people saying smart things

David Brin, interview with Wired magazine The notion of self-righteous indignation being a drug high...

July 2012

July 05, 2012

If you believe the logo’s Man on the Moon

Darrell at Stuff Fundies Like writes: A fundamentalist can survive without many things such as...

July 04, 2012

Why liars for Jesus can’t be believed when they say they’re anti-abortion

If you denounce the Affordable Care Act because it's "the biggest expansion of abortion and...

June 2012

June 21, 2012

Pope Jim Garlow I joins the Münchhausen martyrdom brigade

Jim Garlow is a silly, silly man. We've written here before about the Münchhausen martyrs...

June 18, 2012

Candy canes and the manufacture of evangelical resentment

It's late June, but candy canes are in the news. The U.S. Supreme Court last...

June 06, 2012

Mutuality Week and the burden of proof

I go to check out at the library and the library clerk asks to see...

May 2012

May 21, 2012

I couldn’t read Tozer because I didn’t find him funny

Andi Cumbo lists five reasons that trying to read A.W. Tozer makes her grumpy. These...

May 04, 2012

David Barton says things that are not true

"Who is David Barton?" CNN's Dan Gilgoff asks. And then Gilgoff refuses to answer his...