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When God Isn’t That Great: The Urban Legend Bugaloo.
If Christianity didn’t have urban legends, I’m not sure what else they’d have.
Analyzing Christianity
“God’s Not Dead” – But He’s on Life Support, Apparently.
Today we’re going to talk about how toxic Christians (who can be loosely defined as “those Christians that sane, normal, loving Christians instantly try to distance themselves from the moment they say something stupid”) mischaracterize non-believers and what that means for their religion. A meatspace friend of mine called to Read more
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Recipe for a Fundamentalist
Welcome to Captain Cassidy’s Kitchen! Today we are going to make one of the season’s top party dishes: fundamentalists! I know you’re all eager to learn, and trust me, it’s just a simple little recipe that you’ll be reaching for again and again. As you can guess, educated folks have Read more
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The Cosmic Freakout Over Cosmos
I shouldn’t be surprised anymore about how poorly fundamentalists understand the word “faith.” They don’t have the faintest idea what it really means, so they tend to twist the word’s various false meanings around and around as necessary to try to force their way into other people’s lives. I don’t Read more
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An Unfractured Fairy Tale About Listening.
Today’s story is about a space princess and the person who listened to her, and what happened afterward. Not too long ago, I wrote a piece calling attention to a group called Quiet Christians. The gentleman running it will be known here as TQC (the Quiet Christian) as that is Read more
Analyzing Christianity
The Christian’s Guide to Ex-Christians: You’ve Got to Quit This Tone Trolling.
Today I saw an article about Kevin Sorbo, who has clearly ridden the short bus past his stop and ended up going all the way to Crazytown, talking about Bill Maher and dismissing him entirely because he sounds “angry” and “hateful.” Now, back in the day, Kevin Sorbo was famous Read more
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Love Is As Love Does
Today I want to talk about love. I know we’ve talked before about how many Christians have redefined the meaning of the word love to allow them to mistreat others. Abuse masquerading as love is one of the most defining elements to the makeup of a toxic Christian. Today, let me show you how we can see through a false facade of love.
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Taking the Religion Out of the Ex-Christian.
You can take the person out of religion, but it’s sometimes much harder to get the religious tendencies out of the person. Some time ago, about five years after I’d left Christianity, I was reading online about some new anti-pornography censorship group that was growing quickly on LiveJournal (this was Read more
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It’s Okay If You’re a Christian.
Today we’re going to talk about how, to toxic Christians, the only moral lie is their lie. I’ve said before that Christians–especially the toxic sort we discuss often on this blog (btw, for the persecution-fantasizing Christians at the national-level Republican Party’s Twitter feed who got upset with me last time Read more
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The Monsters’ Ball: CPAC.
I watched that new Cosmos show’s first episode last night. I had to reach for a tissue at the end when Neil deGrasse Tyson, the host, talked about how he’d met Carl Sagan, the famous host of the previous Cosmos incarnation. He talked about how he’d been this black teenager Read more