Gaming
Lord Snow Presides Over the “Sandkings.” (#5)
“Sandkings” is a 1979 novelette by none other than George R.R. Martin of Game of Thrones fame. And it’s our off-topic topic for today!
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An Ideology in Search of a Godling (At Easter)
Easter may be one of the most beloved holidays of the Christian calendar, but a lot of the celebrations that weekend take totally for granted that the occasion marks the honest-to-goodness death of a real live god who really was tortured, died, buried, and then rose again after a brief time in Hell. In fact, a lot of their religion depends upon there being a real live god at the center of it. But if there isn’t actually a god involved at all in the religion, then nothing works the way it should.
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Prepare Yourself: The Easter Christian Torture Porn is Coming.
Easter is here! ‘Tis the Season–for Christian torture porn, that is! Are you ready?
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Amazing Pulpit Stories #750: Altar Calls.
With one of the biggest holidays in the entire Christian calendar coming right up our butts, this seems like a good time to describe altar calls.
Analyzing Christianity
Leaving the Shack to Find Our Independence.
It seems fitting, however, to return to this topic of power now as we look at the Christian glurge movie/book The Shack and observe its main teaching: that independence is to be distrusted and rejected.
Analyzing Christianity
Sophia’s (False) Choice.
The Shack, the latest popular Christian glurge to get made into a movie, pretends to be a serious answer for the age-old question plaguing Christians: why does their god, who is supposed to be omni-everything as well as loving and gracious, allow terrible things to happen in his created world?
Analyzing Christianity
Just a Little Bit of Racism in The Shack.
The Shack, the latest in a long line of Christian glurge movies and books, lives in that weird middle ground where Christians think they’re being progressive and yet turn out to be as locked in systemic racism as any of their peers.
Analyzing Christianity
Lord Snow Presides #4: How Can We Miss Them If They Won’t Go Away?
I’m torn between mocking them to within an inch of their lives for flouncing away, and pitying them for not understanding that our modern values of consent and liberty are exactly what will prevent their visions from ever coming true.
Analyzing Christianity
The Shack: A Land Where Dreams Come True.
The Shack is one of a very long line of Christian glurge media that recreates reality for believers, giving them the thrill of “seeing” their beliefs mesh at last with the real world. But for everyone else, stories like this one simply make the religion sound worse.
Analyzing Christianity
Christian opportunism in evangelism
In comments last time we met up, we learned about yet another set of those guesses, all presented as amazing new ideas that would totally work to convert people without backfiring and making evangelicals look like pickup-artist creeps.