Reading Time: 12 minutes Yes, nobody loves evangelicals quite like they themselves do. And I do mean that assertion quite literally. Today, let me show you the hilarious results of a worldview stripped years ago of the need for feedback.
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Bachelorette: Why Luke Parker Thought Hannah Brown Owed Him Anything
Reading Time: 12 minutes On the reality show The Bachelorette, a Christian man lost his ever-loving mind when a woman he thought he owned repeatedly refused to comply with his bizarre demands–and then rejected him outright. Today, I want to show you the clip from the show that rocketed all around the social-media world–and annotate it!
The Red Flags I Didn’t Notice
Reading Time: 7 minutes Red flags are those in-your-face warnings that a situation could be going pear-shaped in short order. And a lot of folks ignore those warnings, or aren’t experienced enough to perceive them in the first place. Here were some of the main red flags I missed in relationships and religion alike when I was Christian.
The Worst Advice Biff Got from Christians About Marriage
Reading Time: 10 minutes If there’s one thing ex-Christians in the Unequally Yoked Club know, it’s that our Christian spouses get the worst ever advice about how to handle our deconversions. Of course, the advice they get before then is bad too. Today, I’ll show you the three worst pieces of advice my Christian then-husband received–and how it backfired dramatically on him.
The Unequally Yoked Club: The Meltdown of a Marriage
Reading Time: 10 minutes I’ve been wanting to return to the UYC lately, since I’ve seen new developments on that front in recent months. So today, I want to show you what happened after I deconverted from Christianity, and the ups and downs of how I handled sharing the news of that deconversion with my then-husband Biff. I didn’t do everything perfectly, but then, I reckon almost nobody ever does.
Todd Goes to Therapy
Reading Time: < 1 minute Omnipotent deities have needs and wants too and Todd Almighty is no exception. Fortunately you can pay someone to listen to your problems.
The Israel Obsession: An Introduction to Christian Supersessionism
Reading Time: 8 minutes When it comes to fundagelical Christianity, few things make as little sense to outsiders to that culture as its collective near-obsession with all things Judaism. I’m going to start the party off by showing you the bizarre doctrinal belief of supersessionism, which explains why Christians have such a love-hate relationship with Judaism generally.
No, Christians. Your Churches Are Already Dead.
Reading Time: 11 minutes Nowadays, many Christians act like they only run into trouble because individuals come in and wreck their parade. But they’re wrong. Despite what Christians believe, it’s not really all that one guy’s fault. It’s the fault of the system itself allowing those disruptions into the mix.
Ed Stetzer’s Written an Easter Post and It’s Amazingly Bad.
Reading Time: 12 minutes In the grand tradition of glurge, his post not only fails spectacularly to persuade those who don’t already buy into the ideas contained therein, but it also says some really awful things about those ideas that the writer doesn’t realize are being communicated.
Robert Bentley is (What Passes For) Big Game Now.
Reading Time: 10 minutes One Christian minister rationalized the whole fiasco by claiming that Satan himself had gone a-hunting for this hapless TRUE CHRISTIAN™ politician. I wanted to focus more on that statement today, because I think it’s a sign of the major error in Christian thinking.