Reading Time: 6 minutes Interestingly, absolutely nobody has offered a supernatural explanation for this disappearance. And of course nobody has. This is a 100-ton recycling plant we’re talking about, not lost keys or a parking spot or a missed connection on the subway. Nobody’s going to blame this one on demons or pixies or malevolent Neolithic Bell-Beaker ghosts. Nobody thinks wizards cast a spell to shift a recycling plant into the astral plane.
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A Forced-Birther Fantasizes About Criminalized Abortion
Reading Time: 8 minutes So to answer Herbie Newell’s actual question, if his merry band of domestic terrorists ever did manage to criminalize abortion care, abortions would still happen. They might even become more numerous than ever before — but they would be exponentially more dangerous for the women risking them.
Posted inGeneral, Religion
Bethlehem Church: Interpreting Churches’ Success Claims
Reading Time: 8 minutes Hi and welcome back! Recently, the news site of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) had a major victory to report: a megachurch in a small town in Georgia reported 114 baptisms on one Sunday. That’s a pretty big boast, considering the SBC’s in a major decline and has been for generations now. This claim intrigued […]
Posted inReligion
Let’s Play: Spot the Apologetics Fallacy!
Reading Time: 9 minutes Today, I’ve got a little treat for us: a self-proclaimed apologist who has never met a logical fallacy he didn’t love on sight. Let’s go through his recent apologetics post and see which ones we can spot!
Posted inOff-Topic, Religion
How a Praying Hypocrite Becomes a Breath of Fresh Air (LSP #208)
Reading Time: 7 minutes Today, Lord Snow Presides over the praying Christian hypocrites who reveal all their tribe’s cards to their enemies.
Posted inPolitics, Religion
Big News: Evangelicals Drop Their War Against Abortion! [Satire]
Reading Time: 6 minutes Recently, evangelicals made some stunning concessions regarding their ongoing war against human rights. Yes, they finally understand exactly what they’re doing in fighting against legalized, accessible abortion care. I suppose they’ll soon be dropping their entire culture war against abortion now that they understand how important bodily self-ownership is, right? .. Right? Um, guys..?
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How Caleb Kaltenbach Teaches Evangelicals to Fear Wrongness
Reading Time: 7 minutes Come examine the testimony of Caleb Kaltenbach, a culture warrior crusading against human rights since his teen years. I’ll reveal exactly why this predation works.
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How to Totally Solve Spiritual Drought
Reading Time: 5 minutes Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, we checked out a Christian essay describing spiritual drought. That’s the feeling Christians get when they just don’t feel connected or filled-up by their god. At any given time, huge numbers of Christians feel this way. And obviously, that’s a problem. After all, their marketing says their god is standing by, […]
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The Ease of Fake Sincerity in Christianity
Reading Time: 9 minutes Christians can’t discern real sincerity from the many people choosing to fake it, and that’s a serious dealbreaker for me.
Posted inPolitics
Grace Chapel Megachurch: A Mutiny of Their Own
Reading Time: 10 minutes Sarah Berger, the wife of Grace Chapel’s former high priest lead pastor, Steve Berger, grabbed the mic to rant at length about how her husband had been hard-done-by in the change in leadership. In her rant, though, Sarah Berger said something that really caught my eye. Today, let me show you how an authoritarian leader pulls rank to force compliance from followers.