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November 22, 2021
Have YOU Seen This Missing 100-Ton Recycling Plant? (LSP #219)
Today's story involves a big cash reward, so listen up! Maybe you will solve the mystery....
May 2021
May 10, 2021
Astrology Is Just So Hilariously Fake (LSP #191)
Hi and welcome back! Recently, I saw an astrology column that made me laugh. Somewhere...
January 2021
January 19, 2021
Beliefs vs. Behavior: Evangelicals’ Redefinition of Occam’s Razor
Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, I mentioned briefly that White evangelicals' own stated beliefs regarding...
October 2020
October 24, 2020
Chris Watts: Virtue Signaling His Heart Out
Today, let me show you how Chris Watts is leveraging his understanding of evangelicals to...
October 23, 2020
Casting the Gospel Spell (And Botching the Roll)
Today, let me show you how evangelicals think 'the gospel' can return them to power...
September 2020
September 17, 2020
Heresy! This Priest’s Magic Baptism Spell Was Worded ALL WRONG!
Today, we see what happens when these rituals don't get done exactly right. See, a...
November 2019
November 04, 2019
The Big Church Meeting in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #115, Ch. 10)
Finally, we enter the big scene Peretti set up as the big conflict from the...
April 2019
April 15, 2019
Facing the Giants Mega-Review, Part 2/2! (LSP #86)
We have a treat for you: Lisu has graciously written up part 2 of their...
March 2019
March 14, 2019
Everything You Ever Wondered About Spiritual Warfare
The notion of spiritual warfare isn't new at all in fundagelicalism. In fact, it's a go-to...
February 2019
February 21, 2019
The Cult of Family and Its Failure to Launch
Do the most extremist, authoritarian flavors of Christianity really have a monopoly on the best marriages...
February 11, 2019
Thom Rainer’s Defense of LifeWay’s Failure (LSP #79)
Come join me for a weird ride through Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) politics, infighting, and...
January 2019
January 18, 2019
Authoritarians, Designated Adults, and Control of Language
Authoritarian Christians try hard to police how people share information and how they share it. Today,...
December 2018
December 01, 2018
The Trainwreck Continues: Christian Responses to That 6,000-10,000 Closings Figure
We've been talking lately about the rash of church closures in America. A figure of...
November 2018
November 29, 2018
Wait, HOW Many Churches Close Per Year?
Recently, I mentioned a startling figure making the rounds in Christian-Land: this notion that 6000-10000...
September 2018
September 11, 2018
My Reasons for Belief (Weren’t)
A while ago, I wrote about why I deconverted. I've also written about some of...
August 2018
August 25, 2018
Come Meet the SBC’s EVANGELISM TASK FORCE!
In this report, the SBC introduces us to the people they hope will totally save...
February 2018
February 13, 2018
No One’s Happier Than I: The Enchantment of Jack and the Beanstalk (LSP #29)
Ex-Christians have a lot of shorthand ways of talking about how it feels to be...
February 09, 2018
A Landscape Littered With Failed Shortcuts
For some stuff, there's no substitute for doing something the long way for a result...
February 07, 2018
Angelo Stagnaro: Another Creationist Who’s Gotten It Backwards.
We're going to look at Angelo Stagnaro, who wrote a post for a big Catholic...
January 2018
January 21, 2018
Bible Verses I Wish I’d Known About While I Was Christian.
The CPC also left out an awful lot of Bible verses that reveal that the...
August 2017
August 31, 2017
How to Keep Kids Christian For Life, According to Christians
I'll show you the weirdest and worst of those teachings here--and more importantly I'll show...
July 2017
July 08, 2017
Coercion and the Global Marketplace of Ideas
The religion's leaders 100% believe that there's some magical way to return Christianity to its...
May 2017
May 27, 2017
The Power of Prayer in Christian Marketing
Last time we met up, we were talking about Christian marketing and why it sucks....
May 13, 2017
You Lost Me: No No, Y’all, David Kinnaman is All Wrong.
To say the least, we haven't been, um, impressed by it a whole lot. And...
January 2017
January 06, 2017
Oh Noes! The Baptism Drought Continues for the SBC!
The biggest Protestant denomination in the United States continues to suffer serious churn in its...
May 2016
May 22, 2016
The National Day of Prayer: Crank-Calling the Red Bat-Phone to “God”
One of the biggest ways that overzealous Christians reveal that their religious grandstanding is, well,...
February 2016
February 23, 2016
The Handbook: Here’s Not Why I Deconverted
Today we'll be discussing a uniquely Christian form of cold reading: their attempts to guess...
January 2016
January 26, 2016
The Handbook: The Magic Christian (Doesn’t Exist)
Christians often pull out the stops when they discover that one of us has left...
October 2015
October 04, 2015
Naturalism: Not Gross. Not Crass. And Not Negotiable
Wow, do Christians tend to hate the idea of naturalism. One apologetics site even calls...
January 2014
January 14, 2014
Magical Thinking and Prayer
It's funny to me that Christianity tends to jump with both feet on magic in...
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