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August 27, 2016
In the Echo Grove of Their Hearts
The movie God's Club hammers constantly at the idea that the fictional town of Echo...
August 25, 2016
God’s Club: Why Fundagelical Movies Create Such Polarized Opinions
I've been doing reviews of Christian movies for a while now. And unsurprisingly, I have...
August 23, 2016
FULL KITTEN UPDATE: The Battle of the Door.
In that last post, I mentioned how Bumble and Mr. Captain were locked in a...
August 21, 2016
God’s Club: The Mega-Review
I just noticed a movie pop up on my Netflix thing that sounded so ludicrous...
August 18, 2016
A Racist TGC Post and the Not-Pology For It
In its scant 140-ish characters, this carefully-crafted, polished tweet manages to check off just about...
August 16, 2016
The Gravitational Center of Evangelicalism is Not Jesus.
With a national Presidential election looming ever closer for Americans, this question of why one...
August 15, 2016
Hallelujah! Pat Robertson Has Heard from Jesus About Another Election!
For a group of people who really hate evolution, fundagelicals sure have evolved on their...
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...
August 11, 2016
Love Sonnets from the Christianese
Christians' coded communication can backfire around someone who knows what it means. I touched on...
August 09, 2016
The Weird and Wacky Rise of Fundagelical Preppers
One weird bit of right-wing fundagelical Christianity is their growing obsession with survivalist-style food hoarding....
August 06, 2016
Josh Duggar’s Having a Tough Time These Days.
Last year we covered the scandal erupting around the Duggar family when eldest son Josh...
August 04, 2016
That False Promise of Security in a Broken System
People in thrall to a broken system often believe that if they follow the system's...
August 02, 2016
Yes, Virginia, There Is An Obi-Wan.
Australia, like most countries do, holds a census every so often to figure out how...
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 27, 2016
The Rapture Didn’t Happen in Tim LaHaye’s Lifetime After All
Tim LaHaye, co-author of Left Behind and general Christian reality-denier, has just died at the...
July 24, 2016
A Match Made in Hell for People to Be “Loved.”
Preston Sprinkle, in his book People to Be Loved, expresses some truly atrocious ideas. Arguably...
July 22, 2016
The Adventures of Thom Rainer and the Strawman.
Normally you'd think that inaccuracies in Christians' perception of others is just their problem. But...
July 20, 2016
Joshua Harris Wants to Know if Anyone Was Hurt By His Book
Josh Harris is one of the scions of the homeschooling and courtship fringes of the...
July 16, 2016
Praying Away the Gay for People to Be “Loved”
In his book People to Be Loved, Preston Sprinkle presents two-and-a-half options for gay people....
July 14, 2016
Through a Bubble, Darkly: 7 Things I Wish I Could Get Through To Thom Rainer
We've been talking lately about how, when Christians write about non-Christians, they often end up...
July 13, 2016
The Reframing Game in “People to Be Loved”
Using very positive language to describe a very negative situation or feeling is a tactic...
July 10, 2016
Having No Ears to Hear the People to Be “Loved”
There's a huge, huge difference between listening to someone and really hearing them. Today I'll...
July 08, 2016
We Can Do Better Than This Racism Crap.
If you've been following the latest feud in the atheist community between "The Amazing Atheist"...
July 06, 2016
Trading Passion for Glory: Good News in the Trenches of the Christian Culture War
I'm not sure it's ever a great week to be a fundagelical bigot-for-Jesus lately, but...
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 30, 2016
Looking for Boaz In All the Wrong Places
One of the viral things going around lately is this Washington Post op-ed called "Fat....
June 29, 2016
The Really Scandalous Part of “People to Be Loved”
That's quite a lot of deception both in and out of one person, but it's...
June 26, 2016
The Three Deceptions Found in “People to Be Loved”
Preston Sprinkle's book People to Be Loved outlines the right-wing Christian case for opposing same-sex...
June 23, 2016
A Coffee Date with People to Be “Loved”
Preston Sprinkle is trying to find the same have-it-both-ways middle ground between bigotry and acceptance...
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