Louie Gohmert just told a lie. It’s an important lie because it reveals a lot about his mindset and how he and his tribe think, and so it’s one I want to examine today. People’s lies tell us a lot about them–including stuff that they shouldn’t, under any circumstances, want us to know. Louie Gohmert’s lie is no different.
The law is called “the bathroom bill” and its repercussions may well strike North Carolina bigots in their “bathroom bits” as well. Here’s what happened and why this pushback is so hilarious–and fitting.
This idea is becoming one of Christians’ favorite excuses for why people leave their religion (or refuse to join it in the first place). What they don’t realize is that it also now forms one of the best illustrations anyone could devise for why evangelicalism, as a worldview and faith system, is faltering as hard as it is lately.
Back when I was Christian, there was one Bible verse considered to be the ultimate Christian parenting guide–one that, by itself, was all anybody needed to know when it came to raising children. I bet you already know which one I’m talking about! But it’s also one of the Bible’s many false promises. Today we’ll touch on the way this verse has changed meaning over the years, as well as why it gives Christians unnecessary frustration–and unwarranted confidence–in their future. And along the way, we’ll marvel together that it is one of Christianity’s biggest names who is giving us this insight today!
Quite a few Christians cherish and use these failed, long-debunked arguments–and they are not interested in abandoning them or even questioning them, much less in learning why they’re not effective. Today I want to talk about these shopworn, moth-eaten arguments: what they are, where they come from, and why Christians cling to them so much.
Recently I was reminded anew of something about the Christian worldview that I shed long ago: its strange dissonance about both the world and my place in it.
I want to talk about who comes up with these questions and why, because I think that’s far more germane to our community.
Today I’ll show you why the Christian narrative of rebirth is a false promise, one that isn’t fulfilled by the actual lived reality of the religion–and also why I don’t think it’s all that great of a promise anyway.
Thanks to growing up Catholic, I got really excited about Easter. The sheer number of rituals and special events going on around that weekend used to make my little head spin, for a reason. Today, I’ll show you one of the Bible stories that I never noticed in all that activity.
Recently I was reading a blog post by a Christian* who was very, very concerned about exactly what his religion asserts about Hell. His post and the comments to it illustrate a concept we’ve been talking about lately about the selling of Christianity–evangelicalism in particular. Today we’ll be talking about one of the reasons why their marketing is starting to fail so hard.