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2025-11-03T14:47:42-05:00

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Chloroform in Paper and How We Sedated Faith

Last updated on: November 3, 2025 at 2:47 pm By Stuart Delony

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Mark Twain once dropped the hammer on the Book of Mormon, calling it “chloroform in print.” It’s one of those lines that’s so sharp you almost forget how savage it is. Now, before you accuse me of misquoting Twain for my own purposes, let me confess: guilty as charged. But hey—if Christians can make a whole religion out of pulling scripture out of context, I’m just playing by the house rules. The thing is, Twain was aiming at Mormonism, but... Read more

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2025-11-03T15:35:00-05:00

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No Monks, More Misogyny

Last updated on: November 3, 2025 at 3:35 pm By Stuart Delony

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How Evangelicalism’s Hollow Spirituality Bred Patriarchy Other Christian traditions gave the world monasteries—places of prayer, silence, and contemplation. Evangelicals gave us megachurches, worship albums, and celebrity pastors. That difference isn’t just stylistic. It’s foundational. By rejecting the monastic impulse, evangelicalism hollowed out its spirituality, stripped it of depth, and replaced mystery with marketing. And when you hollow something out, something else always rushes in to fill the vacuum. For evangelicals, that vacuum was filled by patriarchy. Without monks, we got... Read more

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2025-12-15T17:41:21-05:00

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The Sound That Slipped Through the Walls

Last updated on: December 15, 2025 at 5:41 pm By Stuart Delony

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I grew up in a house where fear was faith and silence was safety. No MTV. No secular music. No chance the devil could sneak in through the stereo. My mother mainlined whatever panic Jim Bakker or Focus on the Family was selling that week. And in the 1980s, that meant demons. During the Satanic Panic, she threw away all my Christmas presents in February because Castle Grayskull from He-Man might be a “portal to the demonic realm.” That’s not... Read more

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Matthew 24 Was Never About the Rapture — It Was a Warning

Last updated on: March 11, 2026 at 11:35 am By Stuart Delony

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Evangelicals love Matthew 24 the way doomsday preppers love canned beans — not because it’s good, but because they’re convinced it’ll save them when everything goes sideways. For decades, this chapter has been treated like God’s official evacuation plan: the spiritual equivalent of that laminated safety card no one reads on airplanes. Except Jesus wasn’t outlining how the faithful would get airlifted out before the fireworks. He was calling out a religious system so entangled with political power and self-preservation... Read more

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2025-11-17T15:34:41-05:00

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Christmas Is Socialist and Unchristian (And You Know It)

Last updated on: November 17, 2025 at 3:34 pm By Stuart Delony

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Every December, America re-enacts the same ritual: we crank up the electric bill, panic-buy scented candles, passive-aggressively negotiate family visits, and call it celebrating the birth of Jesus. Which is adorable, if you’ve never actually read the story. The original Christmas wasn’t cozy. It was political, humiliating, and bleak. The kind of bleak where you can smell the manure and feel the cold. A teenage mother, forced migration, state surveillance, and improvised shelter. The nativity is not a holiday postcard.... Read more

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2025-12-02T19:59:24-05:00

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The Real Reason We Don’t Have a 666 Area Code

Last updated on: December 2, 2025 at 7:59 pm By Stuart Delony

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Before we even get into the satire, let’s start with an actual historical fact that feels like it came straight out of a rejected Left Behind prequel. In 2007, the town of Reeves, Louisiana finally escaped its cursed phone prefix — 666 — after nearly half a century of begging to be freed from the Mark of the Beast via customer service loopholes and senatorial intervention. This is not a joke. The mayor literally said the number had been “a... Read more

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2025-11-24T17:13:13-05:00

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Why I’d Rather Sit with a Skeptic than a Saint

Last updated on: November 24, 2025 at 5:13 pm By Stuart Delony

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Transcendentalism and I would probably make decent drinking buddies. Not best friends. Not partners in crime. But the kind of folks who could sit across from each other with a bottle between us, trading half-formed ideas and wounded idealism, and occasionally nod in agreement when the silence gets deep. I’ve never lived in a cabin in the woods, and I’m not quoting Emerson before breakfast. But the older I get—and the further I drift from the gravitational pull of institutional... Read more

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2025-11-11T19:16:22-05:00

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The Church Isn’t the Bride — She’s the Whore

Last updated on: November 11, 2025 at 7:16 pm By Stuart Delony

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If Christianity were a marriage, it’d be the kind that ends in a true-crime podcast. Hosea’s love story was already wild enough—God tells a prophet to marry a prostitute as a living metaphor for divine heartbreak. Hosea’s wife keeps leaving; he keeps forgiving. It’s messy, tragic, human. It’s the kind of story where the neighbors whisper and the pastor pretends he doesn’t see what’s happening. Then Paul shows up centuries later and rebrands the whole thing. Suddenly, the church is... Read more

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2025-11-17T15:06:43-05:00

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Moravec’s Paradox, but Make It Biblical

Last updated on: November 17, 2025 at 3:06 pm By Stuart Delony

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Moravec’s Paradox says the stuff we think should be hard—math, logic, abstraction—is actually pretty easy for machines. Meanwhile, the stuff we assume should be simple—intuition, empathy, basic perception—is stupidly difficult. AI can solve a differential equation faster than we can finish pouring a cup of coffee. But ask it to understand why someone is crying in a grocery store? Full system meltdown. The Paradox We Don’t Want to See It’s a paradox of priorities. And, honestly, Christianity has been living... Read more

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2025-11-10T12:29:38-05:00

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When Empires Burn Themselves Down

Last updated on: November 10, 2025 at 12:29 pm By Stuart Delony

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Empires rarely die in battle. They die in shame. Not with a roar, but with a whimper — the sound of small men convincing themselves they’re gods. Rome had Nero. We’ve got Trump. The tools have changed, but the pathology’s the same: delusion wrapped in divine self-promotion, backed by enablers too hungry for power to tell the truth. The end of empire never comes suddenly. It comes slowly, with applause — the crowds cheering the very men who lit the... Read more

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