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Magical Thinking

November 2021

November 22, 2021
Today's story involves a big cash reward, so listen up! Maybe you will solve the mystery....

May 2021

May 10, 2021
Hi and welcome back! Recently, I saw an astrology column that made me laugh. Somewhere...

January 2021

January 19, 2021
Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, I mentioned briefly that White evangelicals' own stated beliefs regarding...

October 2020

October 24, 2020
Today, let me show you how Chris Watts is leveraging his understanding of evangelicals to...
October 23, 2020
Today, let me show you how evangelicals think 'the gospel' can return them to power...

September 2020

September 17, 2020
Today, we see what happens when these rituals don't get done exactly right. See, a...

November 2019

November 04, 2019
Finally, we enter the big scene Peretti set up as the big conflict from the...

April 2019

April 15, 2019
We have a treat for you: Lisu has graciously written up part 2 of their...

March 2019

March 14, 2019
The notion of spiritual warfare isn't new at all in fundagelicalism. In fact, it's a go-to...

February 2019

February 21, 2019
Do the most extremist, authoritarian flavors of Christianity really have a monopoly on the best marriages...
February 11, 2019
Come join me for a weird ride through Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) politics, infighting, and...

January 2019

January 18, 2019
Authoritarian Christians try hard to police how people share information and how they share it. Today,...

December 2018

December 01, 2018
We've been talking lately about the rash of church closures in America. A figure of...

November 2018

November 29, 2018
Recently, I mentioned a startling figure making the rounds in Christian-Land: this notion that 6000-10000...

September 2018

September 11, 2018
A while ago, I wrote about why I deconverted. I've also written about some of...

August 2018

August 25, 2018
In this report, the SBC introduces us to the people they hope will totally save...

February 2018

February 13, 2018
Ex-Christians have a lot of shorthand ways of talking about how it feels to be...
February 09, 2018
For some stuff, there's no substitute for doing something the long way for a result...
February 07, 2018
We're going to look at Angelo Stagnaro, who wrote a post for a big Catholic...

January 2018

January 21, 2018
The CPC also left out an awful lot of Bible verses that reveal that the...

August 2017

August 31, 2017
I'll show you the weirdest and worst of those teachings here--and more importantly I'll show...

July 2017

July 08, 2017
The religion's leaders 100% believe that there's some magical way to return Christianity to its...

May 2017

May 27, 2017
Last time we met up, we were talking about Christian marketing and why it sucks....
May 13, 2017
To say the least, we haven't been, um, impressed by it a whole lot. And...

January 2017

January 06, 2017
The biggest Protestant denomination in the United States continues to suffer serious churn in its...

May 2016

May 22, 2016
One of the biggest ways that overzealous Christians reveal that their religious grandstanding is, well,...

February 2016

February 23, 2016
Today we'll be discussing a uniquely Christian form of cold reading: their attempts to guess...

January 2016

January 26, 2016
Christians often pull out the stops when they discover that one of us has left...

October 2015

October 04, 2015
Wow, do Christians tend to hate the idea of naturalism. One apologetics site even calls...

January 2014

January 14, 2014
It's funny to me that Christianity tends to jump with both feet on magic in...
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