UPDATE: Hi! I get a lot of drive-by commenters on this particular piece so I wanted to say something to them before we get started. No, I’m not Christian, but respectful Christians are quite welcome here. Here’s my About Page and here’s why I blog. Here is my “biography” tag Read more
I hope this story lifts your spirits as much as it did mine.
“There’s one born every minute,” the consummate showman P.T. Barnum said once, and that saying goes double for religious scams. The implication is that for every one of those every-ones born every minute, there is a person who is happy and willing to help them out with that little problem Read more
It’s been another of those weeks where this blog seems to have an embarrassment of riches in the “Christians Behaving Badly” department. This is another of those stories I think about when people try to head into “aww, what’s the harm?” territory. David Barton is not a neuroscientist or a Read more
Sorry for bothering y’all so soon after the last post, but I couldn’t hold onto this till Saturday. This needed attention and it needed it right now. You remember our homeboy Matt Pitt? He’s the youth pastor who decided it’d be awesome to pretend he was a cop–twice! He got Read more
This needed attention and it needed it right now. It’s about Matt Pitt, who continues to gross everyone one with his bizarre antics.
When I listened to the kinds of Christian music that I’d loved once after deconversion, I noticed quickly that it was actually terrible! And maybe I’ve figured out why.
I know this is probably not a really big surprise, but the Republican Party of the United States has a real image problem with racism. And given its close association with Christianity (not for nothing do I and others sometimes refer to it as the Jesus Party), that is a Read more
We haven’t finished talking about the Unequally Yoked Club yet, but I did want to talk briefly about Halloween. I hope you all had a wonderful one, however you spent it! I’ve talked before about “low Christianity” and “high Christianity.” Those are terms I use for the two extremes of Read more
A Catholic politician and blogger is just oh so very baffled about why non-Catholics might be enthusiastically supporting and pushing for Catholic reform. Hilarity ensues when she uses her out-loud voice to make some wild, misinformed, completely self-serving speculations as to why. The usual Christian right-wing bingo can be found Read more