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How a Wingnut Perceives the Loss of Dominance
Today, let’s meet the toxic Christians who consider their loss of dominance to be literally a fate worse than death.
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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
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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!
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How a Praying Hypocrite Becomes a Breath of Fresh Air (LSP #208)
Today, Lord Snow Presides over the praying Christian hypocrites who reveal all their tribe’s cards to their enemies.
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How Caleb Kaltenbach Teaches Evangelicals to Fear Wrongness
Come examine the testimony of Caleb Kaltenbach, a culture warrior crusading against human rights since his teen years. I’ll reveal exactly why this predation works.
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How to totally solve spiritual drought
Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, we checked out a Christian essay describing spiritual drought. That’s the feeling Christians get when they just don’t feel connected or filled-up by their god. At any given time, huge numbers of Christians feel this way. And obviously, that’s a problem. After all, their marketing says Read more
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Grace Chapel Megachurch: A Mutiny of Their Own
Sarah Berger, the wife of Grace Chapel’s former high priest lead pastor, Steve Berger, grabbed the mic to rant at length about how her husband had been hard-done-by in the change in leadership. In her rant, though, Sarah Berger said something that really caught my eye. Today, let me show you how an authoritarian leader pulls rank to force compliance from followers.
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Speaking in Tongues on TikTok (LSP #207)
Hi and welcome back! I saw a story a while ago that has me kinda sighing and laughing at the same time. Pentecostals are still doing their thing, but they’ve had to branch out into social media — especially now that it’s harder for big huge rowdy get-togethers. Of note, Read more
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Megapastor Todd Elliott and the Church Mutiny
For years now, Todd Elliott and his elders have been fighting over who holds ultimate control over the megachurch. Obviously, Elliott — as the sole megapastor by them — thought he should wear the crown. But his elders disagreed.
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Calvinists, on Why People Dislike Calvinists
Recently, I discovered that Calvinists themselves have caught on to outsiders’ near-universal dislike of them. But as usual for extremists, Calvinists’ utter lack of self-awareness has led them to some really wacky conclusions about why that dislike exists.