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Toxic Christians Try Hard to Set Terms for Everyone Else
role in their encounters with people outside their tribe. The more toxic the Christians, the harder they try.
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How Toxic Christians Are Destroying Christianity From the Inside
Hi and welcome back! Recently, I ran into a few different articles on Christian sites that all discussed a common problem. Namely, Christians themselves drastically influence their groups’ recruitment and retention rates. It made me laugh, though, because I know that the Christians who need to clean up their act Read more
SBC Watching
Baptism Sunday: Evaluating Christian Claims
Today, let’s check out the SBC’s success claims regarding this most recent Baptism Sunday — and see what might be going on there in reality.
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Hard Rock Cat: Crowdsourcing a Rescue (LSP #209)
Hi and welcome back! Oh my gosh, today’s story blew my mind. I loved it. A cat at a sports game found himself in grave peril — and people rallied to rescue him. It reminded me of all the times I’ve seen people (including myself) go out of our way Read more
SBC Watching
The SBC’s Big Plan: Sowing Division to Poach New Members
Yesterday, we talked about how strange Ronnie Floyd’s VISION 2025 initiative seems. He wants the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) to put into place all this expanded room for more members, but doesn’t include any specific plans to get more members. I theorized at the time that maybe he planned to poach regressive evangelicals from other, more sensible denominations during this pandemic. Well, today we’ll see that this does indeed appear to be exactly what the SBC’s top leaders are counting on. They’re deliberately sowing division to bring vaccine denialists and QAnon- and Trump-addled Christians to their very regressive banner.
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Ronnie Floyd is Still Pushing ‘Vision 2025’ For Some Reason
Today, let’s check out Vision 2025 — and see why Ronnie Floyd just can’t let go of what he really hopes will prove to be his legacy to the entire SBC denomination.
Codex Disbelievium
Tacitus: Grabbing at Straws (1st-Century Fridays #12)
Needless to say, Tacitus is not even vaguely contemporary with Jesus. He wasn’t even born until 20+ years after Jesus supposedly died. By his adulthood, pretty much everyone contemporaneous with Jesus would have died already. Under that thinking, I, a Gen-Xer, could be considered contemporaneous with F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940).
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A Forced-Birther Fantasizes About Criminalized Abortion
So to answer Herbie Newell’s actual question, if his merry band of domestic terrorists ever did manage to criminalize abortion care, abortions would still happen. They might even become more numerous than ever before — but they would be exponentially more dangerous for the women risking them.
Analyzing Christianity
Bethlehem Church: Interpreting Churches’ Success Claims
Hi and welcome back! Recently, the news site of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) had a major victory to report: a megachurch in a small town in Georgia reported 114 baptisms on one Sunday. That’s a pretty big boast, considering the SBC’s in a major decline and has been for Read more
Analyzing Christianity
Let’s Play: Spot the Apologetics Fallacy!
Today, I’ve got a little treat for us: a self-proclaimed apologist who has never met a logical fallacy he didn’t love on sight. Let’s go through his recent apologetics post and see which ones we can spot!