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It’s Baptism Sunday soon, so queue the evangelism theatrics
The beatings shall continue until evangelism improves!
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Could it be… SATAN? Why so many Christians blame Satan for their problems
Look, Satan just attacks, okay? It’s what he does! He attacks!
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What Orlando Bloom felt was so important to tell President Zelensky
Actor Orlando Bloom recently visited Ukraine as UNICEF’s Goodwill Ambassador. During a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky, he decided to read Zelensky something written by Ikeda Daisaku, leader of a Japanese religious movement called Soka Gakkai International (SGI). That’s certainly one way to spend a very limited amount of time Read more
Analyzing Christianity
The false certainty of discernment in ‘Before You Lose Your Mind’
Evangelicals’ certainty in discernment is bad. Use these progressives’ certainty in discernment instead. Yep yep!
Analyzing Christianity
The Problem of Suffering and Christianity’s useless god
Christianity suffers from a lot of capital-P Problems, and one of them is the Problem of Suffering. It gets the capital letter because Christians have never successfully squared the circle of an omnimax, loving god who still allows so much suffering in the world. And it turns out that progressive Read more
History and Science
Strange course changes in Replika AI have users upset and confused
The AI chatbot Replika has always been an inconsistent app, but its latest changes have upset and confused its many fans. I can see why. Constant course changes inevitably upset any product’s userbase, but these are particularly poorly considered. Over time, people have subtly but irrevocably shifted how they engage Read more
Analyzing Christianity
How friendship evangelism preys upon the bonds of friendship
Lately, we’ve been checking out the friendship evangelism techniques pushed by a minor evangelical leader named Larry Dixon. For a few years now, he’s been on a tear about the benefits of being an evangelical like himself. We’ll talk more about the specific entries in this 52-part series later, but Read more
Analyzing Christianity
How evangelicals rationalize unanswered prayer
Long, long ago I fully believed in the power of prayer. I believed that a real live god stood by to receive my prayers, then granted them out of love for me—except, of course, when he didn’t grant them at all. In this way, I was like most Christians today. Read more
Analyzing Christianity
Antiprocess in the wild: How evangelicals avoid unpleasant challenges
It must be an absolute hoot to have any kind of disagreement with Larry Dixon. And by ‘hoot,’ I mean it must be incredibly frustrating for the person with facts on their side.
Analyzing Christianity
Antiprocess shields: How they work and why people use them
Antiprocess allows people to maintain their beliefs even in the face of overwhelming evidence that they don’t have the facts on their side.