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April 2013

April 03, 2013

Manhattan Declaration Direct-Mail Fundraising Inc.

The half-a-million signatories of the Manhattan Declaration provide quite a mailing list. More importantly, it's...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

Imaginary Satanic baby-killers, real people still in prison

"A roster of leading psychologists and related experts from around the world last week signed...

March 25, 2013

Matthew 16:6

She flipped through the bulletin to find the church calendar for the week. The Prayer...

March 25, 2013

Michele Bachmann, Rick Warren telling lies for Jesus that hurt poor women

The congregation of Saddleback Church includes hundreds of women who rely on Planned Parenthood for...

March 20, 2013

A delusional fantasy … on fire!

I've sometimes characterized much of the "Teavangelical" right-wing of America as people caught up in...

March 18, 2013

Satanic baby-killers: What the Devil happened in Arkansas?

Beginning in the 1980s, a feverish hysteria swept across America. It was centered in one...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

Pseudo-Satanism and Satanic baby-killers

Tabloid newspapers are reporting on supposed "Satanism" that sounds precisely like what Jeffrey Victor describes...

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 22, 2013

Evangelical men need to stop lying about women’s health

This is a deliberate lie. This is a deliberate lie that white evangelicals are eager...

January 10, 2013

Here’s the tell: Hyde and Stupak

Hobby Lobby is not arguing that this supposedly onerous mandate should be illegal under the...

January 10, 2013

Memory vs. Hobby Lobby: Evangelicals and contraception and why Denny Burk is not a conservative

This is a radical act, the act of remembering when the powers that be are...

January 07, 2013

Come down off the cross, Her.meneutics, we could use the wood

To invoke Stephen in the defense of some alleged Christian "right" to deny workers the...

January 02, 2013

Mazes & Monsters and the BADD old days: I’m collecting stories of the backlash against Dungeons & Dragons

I want to hear from any of you who played Dungeons & Dragons or any...

December 2012

December 18, 2012

Why James Dobson is unable to speak of the actual murder of actual children

The incoherence of James Dobson's statement comes from Dobson's undeniable recognition that the Newtown massacre...

December 12, 2012

Imaginary monsters: Why Bigfoot hunters are better people than Republican senators

I'm fascinated by UFOs, ghost-hunting, cryptozoology and all manner of paranormal phenomenon. Well, actually, that's...

December 08, 2012

Lying for Jesus is wrong, even if you use a fancy word like ‘abortifacient’

My dear evangelical brothers and sisters, can we please stop lying for Jesus by saying...

December 06, 2012

Evangelicals vs. Persons With Disabilities: The real dangers of fighting against imaginary monsters

Evangelicals led the fight to block the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons With...

November 2012

November 27, 2012

‘LOL stands for Lucifer Our Lord’ and other lies told by the deluded self-righteous

It's exciting to pretend you're standing up against Satan. It's pleasant to imagine that you...

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...

November 08, 2012

A very slightly less ‘fake’ argument from Mark Galli in Christianity Today

At Christianity Today, Mark Galli's voice isn't always this high-pitched. That's just the Doppler effect...

November 05, 2012

‘Baby-killers.’ It’s always ‘baby-killers.’

The inclination to accuse one's opponents of being "baby-killers" does not arise from America's abortion...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Mark Galli of Christianity Today: ‘Another Fake …’

A fetus has great value, but a fetus is not the same as "a child"...

October 31, 2012

‘If conservatives really believe in the evil of abortion, they are morally obligated to embrace a policy that stands to limit it so impressively’

Miller presents the compelling argument for contraception as the most effective approach to radically reducing...

October 24, 2012

No 5k for the biggest killer — so does anyone really believe it’s a killer?

Name a disease and there's a charitable research foundation committed to finding a cure, and...

October 23, 2012

Montana is California’s route to the sea

Want to feel better about yourself? Pretend everyone else is a "Communist Nazi" baby-killer. There,...

October 08, 2012

When you tell them you still got to sell them

Christianity Today's headline style is to capitalize all words. The headline style of the Baptist...

September 2012

September 06, 2012

Evangelical tribalism: 3 more data points

Life inside the evangelical tribal bubble is a wondrous place. Come with me inside, through...

August 2012

August 19, 2012

Rep. Todd Akin exposes the horrific immorality of moralism

This post is about a tea-party Republican politician's understanding of sex, morality and rape. So...

August 14, 2012

An invitation to participate in a community of deception

Recently in comments, we were invited to participate in a community of deception. The entry-point...

August 07, 2012

Battling imaginary Satanic baby-killers in Utah and Ohio

This is a disingenuous diatribe against Satanic baby-killers that exist only as an urban legend....

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