Reading Time: 8 minutes OnlySky · I belong to me | Dani Ward Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the concepts of agency and autonomy, how necessary they are for a fulfilling life…and how impossible they are when consent is ignored. I’ve been realizing with a growing sense of anger and frustration that I had no grasp of […]
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‘Bless Every Home:’ Personal Evangelism Done Super-Creepy
Reading Time: 10 minutes On the way minus side, this initiative could result in someone getting stalked. But there is at least a plus side: The flocks still hate personal evangelism. An app that prods and pushes them to do stuff won’t make them like it more.
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Madison Cawthorn, Sex Abuser: Evangelicals’ Latest Hypocritical Mascot
Reading Time: 10 minutes Today, let me show you the red flags I noticed in Madison Cawthorn before this week, and then let’s get into his playbook — and see why his preferred tactics are both cruel and devastating to evangelical women.
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Matt Chandler Needs Everyone to Redefine Love His Way
Reading Time: 9 minutes Recently, an evangelical megachurch pastor and abuser-for-Jesus, Matt Chandler, whined to an evangelical audience that people just aren’t accepting his favorite redefinition these days! Today, let’s check out that redefinition — and marvel together over how much the real meaning of love differs from it.
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David Harsanyi Just Gave Fundagelicals Their Newest Permission Slip
Reading Time: 8 minutes Today, let me show you how a conservative political opinion site decided to give its fundagelical readers a permission slip to mistreat others — and more importantly, why.
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Why Evangelicals Can’t Follow Their Own Rules About Sex
Reading Time: 11 minutes Today, let’s wonder together why evangelicals’ sex rules give believers so much trouble.
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‘I Don’t Work With Volunteers,’ Sniffs Evangelical Choosy Beggar (LSP #165)
Reading Time: 7 minutes Today, Lord Snow Presides over a guy who clearly does not understand that his religion is in such a deep decline that stuff like rejecting volunteers is not even halfway up to him anymore.
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Why Evangelicals Hate Unapproved Sex the Most
Reading Time: 8 minutes In the evangelical world of all sins being equal, unapproved sex remains the sin that is the most equal of all. We got reminded of that truth recently in the story of Carl Lentz, a megapastor who lost his job for cheating on his wife. Today, let’s dive into why evangelicals fight against this ‘sin’ more than all others combined.
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Pew Research Surveyed Christians’ Attitudes Toward Casual Sex
Reading Time: 7 minutes Hi and welcome back! I promised you a palate cleanser yesterday, and here it is! See, Pew Research recently released the results of a survey they conducted about casual sex. In it, they asked people in various religious groups (including Nones and atheists) what they thought about sex. The results give us quite a lot of […]
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‘Atheist Overreach’ and the Appeal to Consequences
Reading Time: 7 minutes Hi and welcome back! Lately, we’ve been talking about Christian Smith’s 2019 book Atheist Overreach. In it, he poses three questions he thinks are super-important. And he asks these three particular questions for a reason. See, he thinks that if humans abandon religion forever, then we’ll bring much suffering upon ourselves. Today, let’s check out […]