Reading Time: 8 minutes The dynamics of sharing and sales couldn’t be more different. And y’all, it has always tickled me pink that evangelism-minded Christians fight as hard as they do against any insinuation that what they’re doing is selling, not sharing.
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Giddy Pat Robertson on Ukraine is everything wrong with Endtimes belief
Reading Time: 8 minutes If someone had told me that anybody could possibly describe the unthinkable suffering going on in Ukraine with an expression of utter childlike delight, I’m not sure I’d have believed them. But here we are.
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Evangelicals’ Israel obsession is falling apart lately
Reading Time: 7 minutes or many decades now, evangelicals have supported Israel to the hilt. But lately and increasingly, younger evangelicals don’t care about Israel. Some even actively oppose the idea of supporting Israel. Today, let me show you why evangelicals support Israel — and how they’re reacting to their younger members’ rejection of this super-important culture war ideal.
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Forced optimism: MLMs overlap with Christianity again
Reading Time: 5 minutes MLMs are harmful to almost all of their participants — but they’re harmful in a very familiar way.
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A Brief Prehistory of Hell (Journey Into Hell #6)
Reading Time: 9 minutes Today, let’s talk about the prehistory of the Christian notion of Hell.
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Political privilege might backfire hard on evangelicals, says new study
Reading Time: 6 minutes For a long time now, I’ve noted the increasing political activity and polarization of America’s Christian Right. As their religion’s decline continues, they’re increasingly frantic to get their waning religious privilege enshrined in law. However, a new study has emerged that confirms something I’ve suspected for a long time: If evangelicals do gain what the study’s authors called political privilege, it might backfire hard on them by accelerating their decline. Today, let me show you what this study reveals — and what evangelicals are likely to do in response to it.
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The Shaky Foundation of the Pre-Trib Research Center
Reading Time: 9 minutes Recently, I ran across a group I’ve somehow never heard of: the Pre-Trib Research Center. They’ve been around for many years, just truckin’ along in their little nook in Liberty University. And y’all, they are pure, unfiltered wingnut goodness. Today, let me show you their shaky foundation beliefs.
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The Seekers: What Sold-Out Christianity Really Means (LSP #169)
Reading Time: 9 minutes Today, Lord Snow Presides over the most sold-out Christians of them all, and how they revealed that nobody really should be taking the Christian pretendy game too far.
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‘A Word from the Lord’ Still Doesn’t Make Sense (LSP #160)
Reading Time: 7 minutes Today, Lord Snow Presides over these bizarre little performances and how they’re used in authoritarian groups!
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Jerry Falwell, Jr. and the Morality That Created Him
Reading Time: 8 minutes Jerry Falwell, Jr. is a product of his culture, completely and through-and-through. Today, let me show you the morality that created this mess of a human being.