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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What Evangelicals Do (and Don’t) Understand About CRT
Reading Time: 5 minutes For a long time now, evangelicals have embraced a lie: that racism happens when individuals are sinful. Thus, racist people must accept evangelical dominance so their sin is lessened, and that will totes solve racism forever. Evangelicals up and down the ladder of power insist that nothing else will work to end racism except the solution they offer.
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How a Wingnut Perceives the Loss of Dominance
Reading Time: 8 minutes Today, let’s meet the toxic Christians who consider their loss of dominance to be literally a fate worse than death.
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Toxic Christians’ Rationalizations for Dishonesty
Reading Time: 7 minutes Gosh, it seems like Christians universally understand that rationalizations are both destructive of their credibility and harmful to their very souls. So why do their toxic brethren still constantly rationalize their hypocrisy?
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How Toxic Christians Are Destroying Christianity From the Inside
Reading Time: 7 minutes Hi and welcome back! Recently, I ran into a few different articles on Christian sites that all discussed a common problem. Namely, Christians themselves drastically influence their groups’ recruitment and retention rates. It made me laugh, though, because I know that the Christians who need to clean up their act the most have the least […]
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Belief Has ‘Vanished’ in Ireland — and an Archbishop Reveals Why
Reading Time: 7 minutes Yes yes, Jesus is all great and fun and all, but he won’t stop a predator from joining the youth ministry. The Happy Pretendy Fun Time Game must pause briefly while the GM — er, the pastor does a quick RL background check.
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QAnon Lies, and People Die
Reading Time: 7 minutes Hi and welcome back! News of the COVID-19 surge has been unrelentingly awful. One theme dominates that news, too: almost all of the people dying in this surge are unvaccinated. Sure, some of those unvaccinated folks just never got A Round Tuit. But a lot of others have turned out to be victims of the […]
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How Hell-Believers Deal With Hell-Disbelievers (Journey Into Hell #5)
Reading Time: 8 minutes Today, let’s look at how Hell-believers deal with this very potent conflict with their Happy Pretendy Fun Time Game.
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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 […]
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Deconversion: Brett McCracken gets it completely wrong
Reading Time: 11 minutes Sure, it might seem like Brett McCracken is just insulting his tribal enemies. And he is. But he’s actually not talking to us, not really. Let me show you what Brett McCracken is telling his tribemates under his breath, and what he accidentally reveals about his entire belief system.