Reading Time: 3 minutes In what situation is it a good thing to NOT see reality clearly? Because that’s the promise of Christianity.
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Dress for Duress
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So Much for Wolves Being Bad (LSP #193)
Reading Time: 5 minutes A recent article from the science world reminds me of one of the strangest ways that the Bible doesn’t line up with reality: its descriptions of wolves. Today, Lord Snow Presides over the collision of Bible-wolves with reality-wolves.
Posted inReligion, Science
Pre-Trib Research Center: Taking Reality Over Fantasy
Reading Time: 7 minutes Yesterday, I showed you the Pre-Trib Research Center. Their three stated reasons for existing all amounted to testable claims, and all three turned out to be true only in the short term and only with adherents who took that game way too seriously. As I wrote about these guys, my mind kept returning to one central idea: how much better and easier my life’s been since I rejected my previous foundation of false beliefs and now fully embrace reality instead.
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Franklin Graham: Impeachment Support = Biblical Jews BETRAYING JESUS
Reading Time: 9 minutes Hi and welcome back! Man alive, it really says something about the absolute state of Christianity that I wasn’t sure yesterday that this story would end up being the chosen option for today’s post. But here we are, and it is strange territory to be sure to find ourselves in: Franklin Graham, son of the evangelical hero […]
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Meow-y Christmas! (Off-Topic Winter Wonderland!)
Reading Time: 3 minutes Today, let’s just have a nice off-topic Winter Wonderland to celebrate whatever joy we can find in this blasted-out dumpster fire of a year. Let me show you how my Christmas photoshoot idea went!
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Madison Cawthorn: How Evangelism Success Claims Work
Reading Time: 9 minutes Hi and welcome back! Recently, I showed you an interview with a young Republican fundagelical named Madison Cawthorn. In that interview, he made some claims about his evangelism success. Those claims reminded me very powerfully of similar ones I heard when I myself was a fundagelical. Indeed, fundagelicals seeking power and attention often make claims […]
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How Evangelical Leaders Gift-Wrapped Their Flocks for QAnon
Reading Time: 7 minutes Yesterday, I showed you the hilarious story of how evangelical leaders like Ed Stetzer got lapped and pushed right out of the pool by these conspiracy theorists. Today, we’ll go through the traits that evangelical leaders painstakingly instilled in their flocks — only to see those traits used against themselves in time.
Posted inGaming, Religion
Christian Games, Incomplete Participation, and Suspension of Disbelief
Reading Time: 6 minutes Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, we talked about authoritarian Christians in terms of roleplaying games. And now, I want to show you where the metaphor leads: suspension of disbelief. Authoritarians require complete participation in their Happy Pretendy Fun Time Games. Otherwise, they lose suspension of disbelief and everything goes higgledy-piggledy. Today, let me show you why authoritarian […]
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Batman vs. Germ Theory (LSP #156)
Reading Time: 7 minutes Hello and welcome back to Lord Snow Presides (LSP)! We’re all done with Frank Peretti’s grueling slog of a Christian pipe dream, This Present Darkness. To kick off our reboot, I thought I’d begin with something Mr. Captain was talking about the other day. It’s the reason he just can’t take Christian evangelists seriously. I liked his take on […]