Reading Time: 11 minutes Already, Christians herald John Allen Chau as a martyr to their holy cause. And he is, just not quite in the way they believe. His story drives home exactly why his religion is declining–and why it deserves to decline.
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The LuLaRoe Train May Finally Be Wrecking (LSP #64)
Reading Time: 8 minutes Just six short months ago, the train began to derail for a business that once seemed too big to fall. Now it seems like this gigantic multi-level marketing scheme (MLM) might actually be toppling! Today, Lord Snow Presides over a terrible lesson in the School of Hard Knocks–one that its pupils are unlikely to heed.
How Would-Be Christian Evangelists Are Set Up To Fail (And Why)
Reading Time: 10 minutes If a Christian wants to successfully recruit new people to join Christianity, they quickly discover how difficult that task can be! And there was a time when an utterly-failed system setup didn’t matter so much. But now their system’s inability to deliver on its stated goals for recruitment has begun to matter. I’ll show you why today.
Lord Snow Presides Over Yet Another Rapture Scare (LSP #37)
Reading Time: 6 minutes I don’t know what fundagelicals would even do with themselves if they weren’t panicking about the end of the world. A new date has been set–April 18th–but it’s not getting a whole lot of attention. Today Lord Snow presides over an increasingly backfired fundagelical tradition: Rapture predictions!
An Overlapping Venn Diagram: Christianity and Multi-Level Marketing Schemes
Reading Time: 10 minutes Lately I’ve been reminded anew about just how big the overlap is between MLMs and fundagelical-style Christianity. Today I’ll show you some of those similarities–and we’ll see how easy it is for someone to escape one false and harmful group only to land smack-dab in the middle of one that’s just as bad or worse, all because of indoctrination points shared by both groups.
Lord Snow Presides… Over More MLM Deception in Christianity. (#25)
Reading Time: 9 minutes We look at a very, very curious list of traits that should sound very, very familiar to you!
The Non-Christian’s Guide to Soulwinning
Reading Time: 12 minutes I’ll show you what this all-important task is, how effective it is, and why it’s that effective–and yet why the religion’s leaders can’t possibly change a thing about their emphasis on that task.
No, No, Wait, Everyone: A Progressive Christian Shares the Real Reason Why Christianity is Failing.
Reading Time: 17 minutes Today we’ve got a progressive Christian who’s here to give us the real skinny about just what’s wrong and just what has to happen to fix everything. I’ll spoiler this thing now by telling y’all that he’s wrong, just in a different direction than we normally see.
Church Planting Amid Iron Chariots.
Reading Time: 12 minutes This ancient story is way too potent of a reminder to Christians that their omnipotent god isn’t even a close second to the most powerful being in the universe even in his own mythology. Of course, we need not go so far as the Old Testament to see that simple truth. The regular failure of Christians’ wishes and plans could easily tell us that.
The Great Omission.
Reading Time: 15 minutes Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. . . This Bible quote, which comes from Matthew 28:19-20, is called the Great Commission. In it, Jesus is telling […]