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2025-03-25T17:26:39-04:00

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The Gospel of the Orphan Crushing Machine

Last updated on: March 25, 2025 at 5:26 pm By Stuart Delony

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The Orphan Crushing Machine isn’t real—but it should be. Or rather, it should be talked about as if it were, because in many ways, it is. The phrase comes from a 2020 tweet by @pookleblinky that cut straight through America’s cruelty theater with one sharp line: “Every heartwarming human interest story in America is like ‘he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine’ and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why... Read more

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2025-03-18T16:44:24-04:00

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You Can’t Stop the Machine, But You Can Outlast It

Last updated on: March 18, 2025 at 4:44 pm By Stuart Delony

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There’s a certain point where you stop asking, “How did we get here?” and start realizing this is just how things are now. And we’re only in the early days of the hellscape that is Trump’s second reign. System shock after system shock—every move seems less like governance and more like demolition. From the whiplash of idiotic tariff games to bans on diversity and humanitarian programs, the administration’s actions aren’t just reckless; they’re calculated. The chaos is the point. Take... Read more

2025-03-11T10:44:37-04:00

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How to Deal with Seriously Unserious People in Power

Last updated on: March 11, 2025 at 10:44 am By Stuart Delony

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It used to be that if you wanted a career in politics, you at least had to pretend to know things—how laws work, what governance entails, maybe even a vague understanding of ethics. Not anymore. Today, the loudest voices in government are people who couldn’t pass a basic civics test but can absolutely crush a Twitter beef with Big Bird. These are the Seriously Unserious People (SUPs), the politicians who treat legislation like a TikTok trend and wield outrage like... Read more

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2025-03-04T16:48:38-05:00

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You Don’t Have Faith, You Have Comfort

Last updated on: March 4, 2025 at 4:48 pm By Stuart Delony

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There’s a reason Kierkegaard thought of himself as a missionary to Christians. He saw them, much like we do today, sitting comfortably in pews, nodding along to feel-good sermons, and mistaking their rote recitations of doctrine for actual faith. If faith was supposed to be a struggle, an existential crisis, a leap into the absurd—then what most Christians practice today is anything but. Faith, real faith, is supposed to make you sweat. It should haunt your nights and challenge your... Read more

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2025-02-24T16:14:18-05:00

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How American Christianity Grooms People to Embrace Fascism

Last updated on: February 24, 2025 at 4:14 pm By Stuart Delony

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There’s an old saying: If you want to know what people really believe, watch what they do, not what they say. And if you’ve been paying attention to American conservative Christianity, what they do is follow leaders with cult-like devotion, silence dissent, and demand an unquestioning loyalty that looks a lot like authoritarianism in Sunday best. In fact, it doesn’t just look like it—it is authoritarianism, wrapped in scripture and sold as discipleship. The reality is, the American church has... Read more

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2025-02-20T10:04:14-05:00

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Christianity Needs a Quiet Riot Now

Last updated on: February 20, 2025 at 10:04 am By Stuart Delony

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You ever notice how the loudest people in Christianity are the ones with the least interesting things to say? They’re out there screaming about Jesus, waving their theological pom-poms, and selling their latest sermon series as if faith is just another multi-level marketing scam. But here’s the kicker—they’re all about certainty. No room for doubt. No space for mystery. Just polished, prepackaged answers for everything. Which is why the church needs a little Quiet Riot. Yes, the 80s rock anthem... Read more

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2025-02-13T16:40:40-05:00

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❤️ Valentine’s Day: From Sacred to Secular

Last updated on: February 13, 2025 at 4:40 pm By Stuart Delony

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Valentine’s Day: A time for love, romance, and an overpriced racket of chocolates and wilted grocery-store roses. What was once a religious feast day to honor St. Valentine has been entirely secularized—hollowed out, repackaged, and resold to us by capitalism. It’s much like modern Evangelicalism, which has turned faith into a brand, a political identity, and a business model. But before you roll your eyes at this Hallmarkification of yet another sacred day, let’s talk about a different kind of... Read more

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2025-02-04T17:05:31-05:00

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How MAGA Exposed American Christianity’s Stockholm Syndrome

Last updated on: February 4, 2025 at 5:05 pm By Stuart Delony

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Sometimes, I wonder if Jesus would even recognize large swaths of American Christianity today. That itinerant rabbi who preached about loving your enemies, feeding the poor, and who ended up on the cross because he confronted religious and political powers – remember him? If he time-traveled to 2025’s heartland, he’d be baffled by churches that have become partisan pep rallies. It’s an entire phenomenon that looks eerily like Stockholm syndrome, where the faithful have grown dependent on a political movement... Read more

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2025-01-14T19:25:29-05:00

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Kessler Syndrome and Christianity’s Theological Junkyard

Last updated on: January 14, 2025 at 7:25 pm By Stuart Delony

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Somewhere in the vast emptiness of space, an ever-growing cloud of debris hurtles around our planet. Broken satellites, leftover rocket parts, and other discarded remnants of human ambition orbit Earth, a floating junkyard that threatens the future of space exploration. It’s called the Kessler Syndrome, a cascading collision of space junk creating even more space junk. And in case you’re wondering—yes, this is a metaphor for the mess that is American Christianity. The theological orbit around Jesus’ teachings has become... Read more

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2025-01-15T12:02:34-05:00

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MLK’s Wisdom in the Age of Trump: A Call to Resist

Last updated on: January 15, 2025 at 12:02 pm By Stuart Delony

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Did you ever notice how Martin Luther King Jr.’s story gets boiled down to the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech? Like that’s the only thing he ever said. The feel-good parts make it easy to ignore the uncomfortable truth: King wasn’t here for our comfort. He was here to confront power and oppression. Yet here we are again. It’s another MLK Day with our country facing many of the same issues King fought against, especially in the wake of another... Read more

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