Reading Time: 10 minutes Hi and welcome back! This past week, we’ve been talking about toxic Christians‘ efforts to regain dominance in America. Among other topics, we covered George Barna and his grand plans to forcibly indoctrinate babies and toddlers. Today, we’ll look at an interview he did with some other equally toxic Christians regarding how they plan to win […]
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The Southern Baptist Convention Still Struggles With Its Tainted Brand
Reading Time: 9 minutes J.D. Greear’s swung into action to suggest that the SBC informally adopt a nickname that sounds better. Today, let’s see what the SBC’s name change involves — and ask if it’ll work.
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A Biblical Worldview: Toxic Christians’ Self-Serving Definition
Reading Time: 8 minutes Hi and welcome back! Earlier, we talked about Joe Battaglia’s book Make America Good Again. As we discovered, it’s chock-full of culture-war talking points disguised in a thick slathering of Christianese. So we spent a few days talking about Christianese. For today’s entry, I’d already planned to discuss this phrase. But then, a Christian leader […]
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Joe Battaglia: Let’s All Jesus Harder to Fix America!
Reading Time: 9 minutes Yes, we’ve found ourselves yet another Christian who thinks he’s figured out the way to fix everything wrong in America. And that way? Everybody just needs to Jesus harder. Today, let me show you this popular non-solution — and more importantly, let me show you why his crowd likes it so much.
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Utility vs. Truthfulness in ‘Atheist Overreach’
Reading Time: 9 minutes Hi and welcome back! Lately, we’ve been talking about Christian Smith’s 2019 book, Atheist Overreach. In it, he seeks to make a case for Christian dominance as a force for good in the world. But he does it in such a strange way. He doesn’t argue that we should follow Christianity’s rules because a real live god […]
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American Gospel: Christ Alone (Red-Hot Mega-Review!)
Reading Time: 18 minutes Yesterday, we watched American Gospel: Christ Alone. In this 2018 documentary, Christians bicker and argue about exactly what ‘the gospel’ even means. The documentary makers decide ultimately that it means not prosperity gospel. Today, let me show you this documentary — and we’ll see how well they make their case.
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Why Christianity Is So Hard to Practice
Reading Time: 12 minutes Today, let’s explore why the practice of Christianity is so gosh-darned hard for Christians.
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No, ‘The Church’ Can’t Save Marriage, Mark Regnerus
Reading Time: 12 minutes Hi and welcome back! Recently, I ran across an article in Christianity Today that dovetails nicely with a recent topic we discussed about single women leaving Christianity. This new article concerned the dwindling number of married people in evangelicalism. Written by woo pseudo-social-scientist Mark Regnerus, the article sounds a warning bell to the tribe and calls upon […]
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The ‘Sticking Points’ Lee Strobel Can’t Believe (Unchurched)
Reading Time: 8 minutes Today, let me show you what ‘sticking points’ are in Strobel-Land, his laughably ineffective and offensive tips for ferreting them out, and finally how they actually function in his paradigm as an excuse for evangelism failure.
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Juneteenth: Why Jesus-ing Harder Won’t Fix Racism
Reading Time: 11 minutes Today, I want to show you how white evangelicals maintain racism as a core belief, why their solutions to racism absolutely will not and will not ever work, and most of all why that last fact doesn’t deter them at all from pursuing these non-solutions.