Reading Time: 9 minutes Hi and welcome back! Recently, we covered a post by Brett McCracken on The Gospel Coalition (TGC) (archive link). In it, he slammed deconversion and ex-Christians in the most hateful and contemptuous ways imaginable. But at least he demonstrated nicely that evangelicals have finally begun to notice the process of deconstruction and the vast number […]
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MLMs’ Future: LuLaRoe and Its Pyramid Scheme Settlement
Reading Time: 7 minutes LuLaRoe, one of the biggest MLMs around, recently had to settle Washington State’s lawsuit against them. It seems like the pendulum has well and truly swung against MLMs, and I’m absolutely here for it! Today, let me show you some of the backlash going on nowadays against these predatory financial cults.
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The Traitors Having Trouble Finding a New Social Media Home (LSP #174)
Reading Time: 6 minutes Hello and welcome back! Since their thankfully-failed attack on the Capitol Building last week, America’s conservative-wingnut traitors have been getting tossed out of one social media platform after another. Slowly, all of their options are slamming shut in their faces! Today, Lord Snow Presides over the trouble traitors are having lately in finding a new […]
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The Christian Infighting Over the Capitol Attack Has Begun
Reading Time: 8 minutes Hi and welcome back! In recent days, we’ve been discussing the shocking insurrection attempt that occurred on Wednesday. That’s when a bunch of Donald Trump worshipers stormed the Capitol Building of the United States to try to stage a coup to keep their idol in power. Since most of his worshipers also happen to be […]
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The Capitol Attack and Evangelical Leaders’ Reactions to It
Reading Time: 10 minutes Today, let me show you some reactions evangelicals had regarding the Capitol attack today — and explore what they mean.
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A Crisis of Conscience for a TRUE CHRISTIAN™ Clerk
Reading Time: 8 minutes Hi and welcome back! Gosh, being a TRUE CHRISTIAN™ is so hard nowadays. Not only do TRUE CHRISTIANS™ have to Jesus harder all the time, but they have to make sure everybody around them knows they’re the most Jesus-ified Jesus-ers who ever Jesus-ed. And there’s no better way to demonstrate their Jesus-ification than inserting themselves […]
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Hilaria Baldwin: Yet Another White Person Faking Her Ethnicity (LSP #172)
Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s barely even news anymore, what happened with Hilaria Baldwin this past week. But it illustrates a point I wanted to address: it might be getting harder to fake one’s ethnicity these days. Today, Lord Snow Presides over the mediocre white people faking their ethnicity — and getting caught.
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UYC: Single Christian Man Tells ‘Christian Girls’ Never to Settle (LSP #159)
Reading Time: 7 minutes He’s one of many, many thousands of men and women in his end of Christianity desperately seeking spouses these days. And his reaction to frustration is, sadly, all too common for authoritarian male Christians.
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Sacha Baron Cohen on Social Media and Democracy
Reading Time: < 1 minute This has been around for some time now, but it’s worth a watch. For a shorter highlight reel, if you’re in a rush: Stay in touch! Like A Tippling Philosopher on Facebook: A Tippling Philosopher You can also buy me a cuppa. Or buy some of my awesome ATP merchandise! Please… It justifies […]
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Owen Benjamin and His Personal Army (Collided With Reality)
Reading Time: 6 minutes Recently, Patreon deplatformed an alt-right guy named Owen Benjamin. He decided to hit back at them in a novel way that has backfired in not only his own face but those of the fanboys who decided to act as his personal army. Today, let me show you what happens when someone’s personal army turns out to be the Persians, not the Spartans.