Reading Time: 4 minutes Christianity promises hope. But when prayers aren’t answered and salvation is uncertain, the Christian wonders what they’re doing wrong. Christian assurance of an eternity with God may turn into anxiety.
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The Overthinkable Eleanor
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The Destruction of Ted Harmel in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #143, Ch. 24)
Reading Time: 8 minutes In this installment, Marshall Hogan rushes off to rescue Ted Harmel, the previous owner of his newspaper, from whatever’s terrifying him so much. Today, Lord Snow Presides over evangelicals’ conceptualization of demonic attacks in This Present Darkness.
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How Christians Use Peace of Mind as a Control Tactic
Reading Time: 9 minutes only a small part of Christian evangelists’ goal involves persuasion and recruitment. The major part of the magic of this campaign happens inside the heads of the salespeople themselves. Today, let me show you how this Christian advertisement works best: on the salespeople using it.
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Finding Peace After Deconversion
Reading Time: 8 minutes As I showed you last time, Christianity brought me anything but peace. Today, I’ll show you where I actually found peace–with no thanks to false beliefs like Christianity.
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I Overthink Therefore I Overam
Reading Time: < 1 minute Blinky the bat quietly overthinks himself into a state of consistent internal criticism and second guessing of even the most mundane of activities.
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Downsides to the Hope Offered by Christianity: Anxiety
Reading Time: 4 minutes The evidence for Christianity may be lacking, but it sometimes does deliver on one promise, that for hope. But look closer, and you’ll see that Christian hope has some downsides. This time: frustration and anxiety caused by juggling God belief and a reality in which he might as well not exist.
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Eleanor’s Paralysis Analysis Playhouse
Reading Time: < 1 minute Eleanor the depressed narwhal stews in the shallows of her coastal habitat, quietly rationalizing her own indecisiveness through her unparalleled fatalism.