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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Posted inReligion
The SCOTUS Decision and the ‘Religious Liberty’ Scam
Reading Time: 10 minutes One blogger on a conservative site has realized what a silly idea it was to campaign against LGBT rights on the basis of religious liberty. She thinks they’d have succeeded if they’d gone with secular arguments. Today, let me show you why that wouldn’t have worked either.
Posted inGeneral, LGBTQ News
Twitter Mocks Christian Snowflakes Melting Down Over Chick-fil-A “Betrayal”
Reading Time: 3 minutes These conservatives can’t deal with Chick-fil-A helping the marginalized.
Posted inLGBTQ, Religion
Complementarianism: Examining the First Claim
Reading Time: 10 minutes Christians who buy in to complementarianism make a lot of claims about this doctrine. Today, I’ll show you what that first claim is, and why it’s wrong. I’ll also show you how this doctrine fits into Christians’ various culture wars.
Posted inLGBTQ, Religion
Herd Immunity for the Christian Bubble
Reading Time: 10 minutes The denizens of broken systems tend to take very poorly to critics outside the group–and even more poorly to dissenters within it. Often they reserve their most vicious retaliation for those dissenters. But of late, it’s gotten safer for Christians to dissent. In a very real sense, their tribe’s herd immunity may be fading away. I’ll show you why today–and why there’s never been an easier time to walk away from that most broken of systems.
Posted inLGBTQ News, Religion
Lord Snow Presides Over Liars for Jesus (#22)
Reading Time: 7 minutes Today Lord Snow takes an off-topic day to laugh at the antics of yet another pair of Liars for Jesus who make their religion look even worse by just existing and being their terrible selves.
Posted inLGBTQ, Religion
Lord Snow Presides Over Liars for Jesus. (#22)
Reading Time: 7 minutes Today Lord Snow takes an off-topic day to laugh at the antics of yet another pair of Liars for Jesus who make their religion look even worse by just existing and being their terrible selves.
Posted inLGBTQ, Religion
The Dirtiest Word in the Whole Wide Christian World
Reading Time: 12 minutes Christian leaders push this redefinition onto their flocks for a reason–and to reach a goal that they clearly feel is more pressing than all that boring stuff Jesus is supposed to have told them to do. I’m talking about compromise, of course, and here’s the skinny on it–and why it’s going to sink any effort Christians even try to make to save their religion from irrelevance.
Posted inLGBTQ
Conditional Acceptance and Bigotry-for-Jesus.
Reading Time: 12 minutes Christians use something called conditional acceptance to try to maintain control over a culture that is slipping out of their grasp more quickly with every passing day. I wanted to talk more about that paper today, because I’ve been noticing for a while that Christians sure do this a lot–and it’s very far from their stated goal of loving humanity.
Posted inLGBTQ, Religion
The Mormon Church Has Reminded Us Again That We’re the Future… and They’re Not.
Reading Time: 12 minutes The Mormon Church recently let us know recently how they will be handling their future as a religion. When I saw what they had to say, I thought about Max Planck’s words–and I’ll show you why today.