Analyzing Christianity
Just Jesus harder: Advice that always fails, for a reason
Jesus-ing harder doesn’t fix anything. It just keeps Christians chasing a dragon they can never actually catch, then blaming themselves for never catching it.
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Discernment: A deep dive into Christians’ substitute for critical thinking
Today, let me show you what discernment is, and why Christian leaders must teach their followers to use discernment instead of real critical thinking skills.
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Discernment: The Pope keeps giving Christians this awful advice
Across the length and breadth of Christendom, discernment means the ability to tell if something is divine, earthly, or demonic in nature. As one might expect in an ideology consisting of nothing but false claims, Christian leaders all have their various ways of teaching this system to their followers. Pope Read more
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Ronnie Floyd got dissed hard by the Southern Baptist Convention Sexual Abuse Task Force
Oh, the task force’s recommendations doesn’t mention him by name. But the stomping happened nonetheless. Today, let me show you what got stomped and more importantly, why it deserves a good stomping.
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White evangelical racism: Two bad tastes that taste worse together
How white evangelical racism became such a problem, and why it will remain so for the foreseeable future.
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Spreading pious frauds in Christianity, then and now
The world is vastly different today from when I was young. For one thing, selling pious frauds has changed dramatically. In some ways, it’s a lot harder to sell these lies-for-Jesus to the gullible. But in many others, it’s gotten even easier. Today, let me show you some popular pious Read more
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When Jesus Power doesn’t actually exist
Almost all Christians believe that they possess the power to do magical things. Of course, this isn’t ickie, off-limits magic. This is magic powered by their faith in their god. It’s more like a superpower he grants them just for being such powerfully faithful Christians. I nicknamed it Jesus Power.
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Gene Bailey: Testing an evangelical’s prophecies
the first place, they tend to fail utterly at any accuracy. And evangelicals can’t help but make endless specific predictions. Today, I want to show you a whole bunch of evangelical prophecies–and then, let’s see how they actually turned out.
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The Pearson Manual: How it deconverted me, and why (+BONUS SCANS)
Everything changed the night I got my little Pentecostal hands on what we now know today as a Pearson Manual.
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Cosmic Reversi: Inverted expectations and sudden reversals in Low Christian folklore
Christians love callings that represent a complete reversal of expectations. They enjoy stories about unexpected, inverted expectations. However, these stories must end the correct way.