Religion is not spell-casting

Last updated on: September 25, 2020 at 2:02 pm By Fred Clark

"I'm terribly sorry," God says. "I have to send you to Hell for eternity because 30 years ago a deacon used a first-person PLURAL pronoun instead of a first-person singular pronoun." Read more

John MacArthur and the Anime Death Tentacle Rape Whorehouse

Last updated on: September 23, 2020 at 12:54 pm By Fred Clark

When you think about fundamentalist pastor John MacArthur, you probably don't think of tentacle porn. Or vice versa, for that matter. But the two things have a lot in common these days. Read more

There is nothing new under the sun

Last updated on: September 22, 2020 at 4:34 pm By Fred Clark

Two Morses and two generations of conspiracy theories as notes toward a Grand Unified Theory of Satanic Baby-Killers. Read more

If the Q fits …

Last updated on: September 15, 2020 at 6:15 pm By Fred Clark

"Why are so many Christians falling for QAnon?" Relevant magazine asks -- meaning, really, why are so many of OUR PARENTS falling for it? They're not the only ones asking. Read more

Another for the one you believe

Last updated on: September 14, 2020 at 3:34 pm By Fred Clark

Pope Francis is trying to bring back bomfoggery. And how "the problems of writing biography" hit close to home. Read more

Postcards from the class & culture wars (9.10.20)

Last updated on: September 9, 2020 at 9:43 pm By Fred Clark

"Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law." Read more

Some say he was an outlaw

Last updated on: September 9, 2020 at 7:21 pm By Fred Clark

It's not so easy to draw a line between culture-warriors and class-war grifters. Plus: a Very Silly punch, pandemic history, and the song doesn't remain the same. Read more

Most 21st-century white evangelicals oppose child-trafficking and rape. That’s new.

Last updated on: September 6, 2020 at 7:53 pm By Fred Clark

It is, unreservedly, a Good Thing that a religious tradition formed and shaped by its centuries-long advocacy of child trafficking and rape has, over the past 150 years or so, transformed into a religious tradition whose members, today, are almost unanimously opposed to those same things. Read more

The Anti-Kitten-Burning Coalition takes to the streets

Last updated on: September 4, 2020 at 7:15 pm By Fred Clark

What drives them -- the source of their passion, their purpose, and their identity -- is opposition to the Pro-Kitten-Burning Coalition, which they are sure includes nearly all of their neighbors, every stranger, and, well, the vast majority of people who are not them. Read more

No one ‘really believes’ in QAnon

Last updated on: September 3, 2020 at 8:06 pm By Fred Clark

One third of Republicans told pollsters that they believed Satanic baby-killer nonsense was "mostly true." But it is not possible to really believe they "really believe" it. Read more