Among evangelical these days, their fondest hope is for revival. They want Jesus to send them a massive new influx of fervent converts and re-stoke their own zeal with divine strength. Right now, their current belief is that there’s a quiet revival happening across the western world, particularly among Gen Read more
On September 2nd, Pew Research released yet another blockbuster post about secularization. It reveals that the process of secularization tends to begin with lowered participation in religious rituals, followed by fading of religious identity and eventually even de-prioritizing even affiliation in name only. This study has got to be worrying Read more
In Alpha Course #6, Christians try very very hard to make the Bible sound utterly relevant and important to everyone’s lives. They fail, of course, just like every other video so far has failed to accomplish its own stated goals. But as usual, it’s how specifically they fail that should Read more
Evangelicals can’t defeat actual atheism, so they vastly prefer strawman atheism—their own unique and deliberate mangling of atheism. The real thing is impenetrable to them, and they very clearly realize it. But this strawman form of atheism is much easier to tackle. Today, let me show you how what was Read more
Way back in 2015, Pew Research came out with their devastating Religious Landscape Study. It finally convinced Christians that their religion was well and truly in decline. If you want to trace right-wing Christians’ current behavior to its roots, this study’s fallout should be part of your essential reading. This Read more
We now arrive at Alpha Course #5, which concerns prayer in Christianity. Here, we see Christian dishonesty at its fullest flowering. The Christians responsible for this mess desperately want to promise potential recruits that prayer results in miracles. Oh, yes, they do desperately want to promise that. But they know Read more
On August 11, an evangelical crusade took place in Portland, Oregon—and it reveals some breathtaking arrogance on the part of its creators. It attracted decent numbers who came to hear preachers lament how much “darkness” the city contained and how sad its creators were that the city’s residents had “pushed Read more
For most of us, leprosy—better known as Hansen’s Disease—is a horrific illness that belongs in the Middle Ages. But it’s much older than that. It’s also one of the reasons why nobody should take Jesus or Christianity seriously. Today, let me show you some of the newest research about this Read more
ChatGPT really is the all-flavor end run for evangelicals these days. One of their more recent trends was trying to get this Large Language Model (LLM) AI to “interpret” them speaking in tongues. Now, Robin Schumacher of Christian Post is ecstatic over ChatGPT telling an atheist that an apologetics argument Read more
We’re now 25 years out from the Conservative Resurgence movement of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Hardliners’ ultraconservative, extremely political hijacking of the denomination has had lasting effects on not only the SBC’s members themselves, but also on evangelicalism as a whole. Those effects are not positive, however. And I Read more