Analyzing Christianity
The Israel Obsession: An Introduction to Endtimes Fantasies
To put it simply, Israel and Jews themselves are absolutely required components of these Christians’ feverish fantasies about the end of the whole wide world.
Analyzing Christianity
Evangelicals’ Israel Obsession: An introduction to Christian Supersessionism
When it comes to fundagelical Christianity, few things make as little sense to outsiders to that culture as its collective near-obsession with all things Judaism. I’m going to start the party off by showing you the bizarre doctrinal belief of supersessionism, which explains why Christians have such a love-hate relationship with Judaism generally.
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Gimme That Old-Time Religion: A Revival, Annotated (LSP #33)
Here’s what a good old-fashioned rowdy Pentecostal revival is like–and why. Today Lord Snow casts his baleful gaze at a dying part of the Christian experience.
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The Cult of Before Stories: Glenn Hobbs, Totally An Ex-Satanist
I want to show you today how Glenn Hobbs’ claims line up with our checklist for the Cult of Before Stories–and what happens to one of these people after their gravy train jumps the rails for good. We’re going to see a lot more of these people as Christianity continues to decline, and I want us prepared for them.
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Five-Year Blowout: A “Where Are They Now?” Update. (LSP #30)
I thought it’d be fun to walk down Memory Lane to revisit some of its older ideas, to catch newer folks up on things. Today I want to show you an update on the rest of the story – what happened to various people this blog’s looked in on over the years.
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The Christian’s Guide to Ex-Christians: Ex-timonies and Deconversion Stories.
As usual, Christians have totally gotten the whole matter wrong about these stories–and they’ve revealed a few very unpleasant aspects of their own tribe in the doing. So here, at last, is the real skinny: here’s what an ex-timony actually is, who tells them and why, and how they differ from Christians’ testimonies.
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Angelo Stagnaro: Another Creationist Who’s Gotten It Backwards.
We’re going to look at Angelo Stagnaro, who wrote a post for a big Catholic site about how his god totally created the universe. It’s called A Universe Made Just For Us, and I thought y’all would enjoy it today because oh, I know how much we love us some quantum-woo apologetics!
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The Weird Alternate Reality That Is Christian Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience has been a serious part of Christianity ever since Christianity was, well, Christianity. And it wasn’t until recently that Christians’ rock pile of alternative facts got so unwieldy that it simply collapsed in on top of them. Today we’ll have an overview of pseudoscience–what it is and why it’s so important–because we’re about to head into that CPC manual again and it’s going to be relevant!
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The Cult of Before Stories: A Mega-Review of Zachary King’s Testimony
Zachary King gave an extensive XM radio interview a couple of years just after becoming semi-popular. Today I want to show you that interview–and show you how it fits into the narratives we find within the Cult of Before Stories.
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The CPC manual dives into anti-abortion clobber verses
Today we’ll look at the CPC’s very own Bible study and see just what those clobber verses are. And then, we’ll clobber ’em right back.