Reading Time: 8 minutes Today, let’s review The Great Divorce — and get an idea of how its ideas have unfortunately infested Christians’ thinking today.
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Karen Witemeyer and the Fuss Over Her Romance Novel
Reading Time: 9 minutes Recently, a Christian romance novelist, Karen Witemeyer, wrote a book called At Love’s Command. On July 31st, the Romance Writers of America (RWA) awarded this book the win for ‘best romance with religious/spiritual elements.’ It’s a deeply disturbing book due to its racism toward Native Americans — and its casual revisionist treatment of real-world events like the slaughter of Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee. Karen Witemeyer and her professional organization don’t understand all the fuss here at all! Today, I’ll show you that fuss — and then why these Christians are just soooooo mystified.
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Racism, the SBC, and Critical Race Theory: A New War Brewing
Reading Time: 10 minutes Hi and welcome back! I’m just endlessly fascinated with the sheer dysfunction of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). No space aliens looking down at them from orbit would ever mistake them for a religious movement of any kind, that’s for sure. And that fact is even truer this season, as their biggest names grapple with […]
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Atrocity Apologetics Must Follow Biblical Literalism (As the Night the Day)
Reading Time: 8 minutes Today, I’ll show you how atrocity apologetics follows right along behind this bizarre and grotesque doctrine, and why evangelicals just can’t get away from shocking abuses committed by people who try to use it as a guiding principle for life.
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How Al Mohler Accidentally Highlighted Evangelicals’ Idolization of Literalism
Reading Time: 10 minutes In an interview, you see, Al Mohler defended slavery as a practice. He did it for a very simple reason, and one he can’t escape any more than his tribemates can. Today, let me show you what the story’s about and how it highlights one of the most important golden calf idols of evangelicals: Biblical literalism.
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Atrocity Apologetics Meets the Pandemic
Reading Time: 10 minutes Hi and welcome back! A long time ago, I talked about atrocity apologetics. Christians pull atrocity apologetics out of their magic hats to square the circle of the Problem of Evil. It’s never worked particularly well, and lately it’s working even more poorly than usual. Let me show you what this magic trick involves — and […]
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What Rekindles Belief (In Christianity)
Reading Time: 8 minutes For a few days now, I’ve been talking about the three major methods of persuasion I see Christians using. Today, though, let’s pull back. Those three methods differ dramatically from what might actually work–at least, on someone like me. I’ll show you what might work, and then–more importantly–show you why Christians don’t even bother trying that.
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More (Terrible) Reasons to Believe in Christianity’s God
Reading Time: 8 minutes Truly, there is nothing new under the sun! Recently, I showed you Billy Graham’s big reason to believe. And today, I’ll show you some of the other reasons I found–and why they each fail.
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Why I Rejected Christianity (Then and Now).
Reading Time: 11 minutes Over the years I’ve evolved in my understanding of religion generally and Christianity specifically. My reasons for continuing to reject Christianity have changed as well. Here are the reasons why I rejected it back then–and why I continue to reject it today.
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Bible verses I wish I’d known about while I was Christian
Reading Time: 10 minutes The CPC also left out an awful lot of Bible verses that reveal that the Bible’s god is a total fan of abortion–sorta. I’ll show you some of those verses today. But more than that, I’ll show you a bunch of stuff I didn’t see or understand until well after my deconversion.