Reading Time: 13 minutes If there is one thing that Christianity’s decline has taught observers, it is that it is happening so much faster and more completely than anything we ever dared to dream might happen.
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‘There is a payback coming’ as evangelicals dream of revenge and dominance
Reading Time: 9 minutes Let’s check out a recent gathering of authoritarian evangelicals. I’ll show you their plans–and the not-so-hidden desires of their hearts.
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The Truth About Sermons That Evangelicals Can’t Face
Reading Time: 8 minutes Sermon fatigue is very real for evangelical pastors, and it happens for such an important reason that evangelicals can’t possibly address it or engage with it on any meaningful level. And today, I want to show you that reason.
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Hell in the 4th Century: Things Get Unreal (Journey Into Hell #9)
Reading Time: 8 minutes Hi and welcome back! Last time we visited Hell, we checked out what the second wave of Christians (2nd – very early 4th century) thought of the idea. And we saw these Christians slowly embellishing and extending the initial ‘lake of fire’ idea. Today, let’s see what the third wave of Christians in the 4th […]
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What Churchless Believers Tell Us About Christians’ Powers of Coercion
Reading Time: 10 minutes What we see now in Christianity’s declining numbers is what a purely-optional, coercion-free Christianity looks like. And it looks like a little minority religion that is largely irrelevant and meaningless even to its own believers.
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That Gallup Church-Membership Survey: More Devastating Than It Seems
Reading Time: 5 minutes Hi and welcome back! Recently, Gallup released a new survey they did. In it, they asked Americans about their religious affiliations. And oh dear, Gallup got back some bad news for Christians! For the first time ever, fewer than 50% of Americans claimed membership in any churches! Today, let me show you this survey — […]
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The Day A.J. Kiesling Noticed Christian Men’s Fear of Divorce
Reading Time: 8 minutes ‘Perfect love casts out fear,’ wrote someone long ago. Going by that standard, today’s evangelical men clearly do not feel perfect love for the women of their tribe. I say that because hooboy, they are scared spitless of divorce.
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Rod Dreher: Fretting About Evangelical Men’s Boners — er, Civilization’s Future
Reading Time: 9 minutes Today, the ever-hilarious Rod Dreher clutches his pearls over young women’s lack of interest in sex with him right-wing Christian men — and then offers the tribe a non-solution to this non-problem that just so happens to enrich him personally.
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How Gaming Griefers Reveal Broken Systems
Reading Time: 8 minutes Hi and welcome back! Over the years, I’ve played and administered a whole bunch of games — both in real life and online. In that time, as you might expect, I’ve encountered my fair share of absolutely awful gamers. But there’s one kind of gamer who just takes the cake for sheer malevolence: griefers. You […]
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Why Evangelicals Love TRUE CHRISTIAN™ Research
Reading Time: 8 minutes Hi and welcome back! Recently, we looked at a pair of TRUE CHRISTIANS™ who were complaining about all the Christians who just refuse to Jesus correctly. In their post, these guys mentioned a few recent bits of Christian research that they felt bolstered their claims. However, every one of their sources suffers from a big […]