Reading Time: 11 minutes Back when I was Pentecostal, I found myself debating a pair of Southern Baptist guys. At the time, I believed in speaking in tongues, and I rejected the Trinity. They were deeply concerned that I’d go to hell over this huge deception, so they sought to persuade me I was wrong. I’m sure you’ll be […]
Biography
Posted inMeaning & Purpose
Why Christians push a false narrative of hopelessness
Reading Time: 12 minutes Christians’ false narrative of hopelessness represents a big part of their current marketing to their target customers. But in truth, it only worsens the actual hopelessness that their salespeople claim to be alleviating.
Posted inGeneral
Change: A Very Special Lord Snow Presides (LSP #221)
Reading Time: 5 minutes Of late, some of you have heard some rumblings about Roll to Disbelieve making a platform move in the near future. These rumblings are true.
Posted inCulture
Before Evangelicals and Fundamentalists Fused Together (LSP #218)
Reading Time: 7 minutes The evangelicals I knew back then thought fundamentalists were dangerous zealots and wingnuts who’d missed the entire point of Christianity in their mad dash to theological super-correctness. Meanwhile, fundamentalists thought evangelicals were lukewarm weaklings who couldn’t handle the real deal of TRUE CHRISTIANITY™ — and thus would fold and accept the Mark of the Beast the moment the Endtimes began in earnest.
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We Found a Possible Exoplanet in Another Galaxy! (LSP #215)
Reading Time: 6 minutes If life existed on Earth, my ten-year-old self figured, then it had to exist elsewhere. If our Sun had oodles of planets and moons whizzing around it, then other stars had to have them as well. And on those planets, who knew what might exist? It seemed far more likely to me that at least some other planets hosted life — and more than that, intelligent life — than that none possibly ever could.
Posted inReligion
Beach Reach Training: How to Craft a Testimony (And Why)
Reading Time: 9 minutes Hi and welcome back! Lately, we’ve been talking about Beach Reach. That’s a short-term mission trip (STM) organized by the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). For two weeks, college-age SBC-lings descend on a beach during American universities’ Spring Break. During their trip, these volunteers offer charity services to a truly deserving group that is desperately in […]
Posted inGeneral, Religion
The Night My Fear of Hell Died
Reading Time: 11 minutes Today, I’ll tell you what happened the night I finally lost my fear of Hell.
Posted inReligion
Gaslighting: How Dare We Expect Evangelicals to Fulfill Their Promises!
Reading Time: 9 minutes Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, I alluded to the mistreatment evangelicals heap upon people who express disappointment with their experiences in the religion. To be sure, it does happen. It happened to me, in fact! Yes, people join these evangelical groups on the basis of a whole bunch of marketing promises, and then they discover […]
Posted inReligion, Science
Astrology Is Just So Hilariously Fake (LSP #191)
Reading Time: 7 minutes Hi and welcome back! Recently, I saw an astrology column that made me laugh. Somewhere along the way, it looks like astrologists began to realize that boring predictions don’t make for happy customers. My ultra-boring star sign somehow became just a little bit more exciting! Today, Lord Snow Presides over astrology: an industry that is […]
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A Star Wars Retrospective: May the Fourth Be With You
Reading Time: 7 minutes Hi and welcome back! It’s Star Wars Day! Man, that whole series has some serious staying power, doesn’t it? Today, let me show you how the first movie impacted me, back in the day — and what its legacy still means today. (Posts touching on Star Wars: Yes, Virginia, There Is An Obi-Wan; The Awesome Power […]