Analyzing Christianity
The Gaze of Dead Children Follows Me Today
These stories are related. They both reflect an endemic issue within Christianity: its broken systems’ inability to recognize basic human rights.
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Ken Ham’s bubble maintenance
Creationist charlatan and serial liar-for-Jesus Ken Ham did a little bubble maintenance this week, and I want to show you how and why he did it.
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Sorry, Bible. Christians just aren’t that into you
I recently ran across this gobsmackingly self-deluded blog post from fundagelical group The Gospel Coalition (TGC) about why they think Christians don’t read their Bibles enough. It gave me such a fit of the giggles! After I recovered, I thought maybe I’d help them out a little by showing them why they really shouldn’t trust Christian surveys–and what the problem likely actually involves.
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Christians’ Dominance Is Ending, But Not Without a Fight
We’ve been talking lately about the various ways that Christianity rose to power as the dominant Western religion in the 2nd to 5th centuries. But the fun couldn’t last, and now that power is declining sharply with every passing year. As Christians began losing the power to force people to comply with their demands, they also became increasingly desperate to regain that power.
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Christian coercion: From tolerated to dominant
We’ve been talking lately about the early history of Christianity and how different it is from the history offered up by most Christian apologists and leaders. This definitely is not a history I learned growing up Catholic or as a fundamentalist lass! If anything, it’s even more fascinating to me than Read more
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The Cult of Before Stories: Bill Schnoebelen, desperate for relevance
Bill Schnoebelen has had to reinvent himself a few times, but maybe he’s finding nowadays that once someone’s joined the Cult of Before Stories, it’s really hard to leave.
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Church Discipline: Evaluating the Claims
When power-hungry people want to abuse others, and they are given the means by which to do it and victims to abuse, abuse will happen–and Jesus won’t lift a finger to stop it.
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Church Discipline: Covenants and Contracts.
Church discipline is usually initially presented to members by way of an agreement called a ‘covenant.’ I want to show you these agreements today, and walk you through why they’re such bad news for church members.
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Why shepherds really tend sheep
I’d be hard-pressed to name a ministry idea that fails as hard as this one.
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The Handbook: Intervention Conventions
We’re fast approaching the holiday season, and as fun as holidays are supposed to be, for a lot of us they bring the potential for great pain. One of the scariest aspects of the holidays, for someone whose family is very religious, is the possibility of a religious intervention.