In the grand tradition of glurge, his post not only fails spectacularly to persuade those who don’t already buy into the ideas contained therein, but it also says some really awful things about those ideas that the writer doesn’t realize are being communicated.
One Christian minister rationalized the whole fiasco by claiming that Satan himself had gone a-hunting for this hapless TRUE CHRISTIAN™ politician. I wanted to focus more on that statement today, because I think it’s a sign of the major error in Christian thinking.
Robert Bentley’s case reminds us anew that once someone in a broken system gets a little taste of power, all the rules stop mattering.
Easter may be one of the most beloved holidays of the Christian calendar, but a lot of the celebrations that weekend take totally for granted that the occasion marks the honest-to-goodness death of a real live god who really was tortured, died, buried, and then rose again after a brief time in Hell. In fact, a lot of their religion depends upon there being a real live god at the center of it. But if there isn’t actually a god involved at all in the religion, then nothing works the way it should.
Easter is here! ‘Tis the Season–for Christian torture porn, that is! Are you ready?
Sometimes we’re surrounded by something before we realize just how much of it there is. That happened to me today: I suddenly noticed just how many Christians there are who have firm ideas about why people–especially younger people–are leaving their churches. Those ideas tend to run along one of two lines, and both of those lines are totally wrong.
Things happen in your head the day you successfully make the switch from craving external validation to finding internal validation. But Christian organizations benefit from people needing external validation–and do their best to demonize the idea of internal validation. There’s a reason for it, of course, and we’ll talk about that reason today.
I’ve written before about how bad it is in Christian churches for single people seeking marriage. But I guess I hadn’t quite counted on the reality show It Takes a Church to show me just how bad the situation has gotten.
It can get a little dizzying to keep up with what Christians mean by much of anything, especially because of how they talk about who’s in the group and who’s out of it.
Another Christian has a bunch of ideas that he thinks will totally fix Christianity. Unfortunately, he’s going at it all wrong.