Analyzing Christianity
The Gaze of Dead Children Follows Me Today
These stories are related. They both reflect an endemic issue within Christianity: its broken systems’ inability to recognize basic human rights.
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Ingroups, Outgroups, And Where We See Ourselves.
It can get a little dizzying to keep up with what Christians mean by much of anything, especially because of how they talk about who’s in the group and who’s out of it.
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And Oh! They Cry Out, “Fix Me, Fix Me!”
Another Christian has a bunch of ideas that he thinks will totally fix Christianity. Unfortunately, he’s going at it all wrong.
Analyzing Christianity
Ken Ham’s bubble maintenance
Creationist charlatan and serial liar-for-Jesus Ken Ham did a little bubble maintenance this week, and I want to show you how and why he did it.
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Agent Milo and the Case of the Useful Idiot
I’ve noticed a great many people remarking upon the downfall of alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos and I wanted to mention something about why he rose and why he fell, because in it we find a cautionary tale for people who might be in a similar life situation without realizing it.
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NOM: When Bad Guys Don’t Want to Be Bad Guys.
There’s this charming little moment in the 1983 animated masterpiece-of-nuttery Rock & Rule that really brings home just how far a villain will go to see him- or herself as anything but the bad guy. I found myself thinking of that moment this week when I heard about a recent news story that gave the world yet another reason to distrust and distance ourselves from Christians.
Analyzing Christianity
Sorry, Bible. Christians just aren’t that into you
I recently ran across this gobsmackingly self-deluded blog post from fundagelical group The Gospel Coalition (TGC) about why they think Christians don’t read their Bibles enough. It gave me such a fit of the giggles! After I recovered, I thought maybe I’d help them out a little by showing them why they really shouldn’t trust Christian surveys–and what the problem likely actually involves.
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Changing Course in a Broken System.
Sometimes I see something happening in the real world and compare it to how things work in religion. That happened this week as I watched a drama unfold around a gaming company’s big new update to their flagship game.
Codex Disbelievium
The Handbook: What It’s Like to Roll to Disbelieve
I thought that today–the most chocolate-y day of the year, so to speak–was a good day to bring everyone up to speed. I haven’t written about it in a long time and I’ve learned a lot since then. So today I want to show you what rolling to disbelieve is, and what it feels like to make your roll at last.
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An Idaho Judge Shows Us Exactly Why and How Christian Morality Fails.
When Cody Herrera–who is accused of the rape of a 14-year-old girl–came before Judge Randy Stoker, he certainly got lucky. He was getting a paragon of Christian morality who knew exactly–EXACTLY–how to handle this situation.