Codex Disbelievium
The doctrinal yardstick illustrates a serious problem with Christianity (LSP #81)
It’s one of the biggest dealbreakers in Christianity.
Analyzing Christianity
Before the Cult of Before Stories: Tricking Authoritarians
I came face-to-face with two completely untrue beliefs I held: that my god transformed people upon conversion, and that Christians would never lie while representing that god. Hooboy, don’t ya just have to laugh sometimes? I was so innocent. So this story is about how my then-husband Biff arrived at that dais to lie for Jesus. To get there, he had to fool a whole lot of people–and that is exactly what he did. Today, let me tell you what happened right before that devastating night.
Analyzing Christianity
Everything you ever wanted to know about sex demons
One of the weirdest offshoots of the Satanic Panic has got to be sex demons.
The Games We Play
The Husband Hunt: An Evangelical Horror Story
Conservative Christian leaders have sold their female followers a bill of goods about marriage. Today, I’ll show you what that bill of goods contains, and how it’s hurt the women who believe it. It’s a horror story that beats werewolves, vampires, ghosts, and goblins–because it’s real, and it’s happening right now to millions of women.
The Games We Play
Miracles for Sale (LSP #62)
Every time I think I’ve seen the lowest that opportunists can go, they reach a new nadir. It’s like they’re all in a competition or something. Today, Lord Snow Presides over the most distasteful grifting attempt I’ve seen lately: the selling of false miracles to desperate people trying to conceive.
Analyzing Christianity
The Google Ghost and the Endtimes Scare
While we were sleeping, thousands of people were plugging nonsense words into Google Translate to see what would happen.
The Games We Play
Ambassadors, Lords, and Salespeople
Evangelicals’ answer to this trilemma is painfully easy to discern. I’ll show you what these options are, what they tend to go with, and what it means for us.
Analyzing Christianity
The Unequally Yoked Club: How marriage became a cult in toxic Christianity
Christian leaders push hard to get their flocks to adopt rigid, unworkable rules about marriage. There’s a reason for it, of course.
Analyzing Christianity
The Unequally Yoked Club: The 2018 Gritty Reboot
Some years ago, I ran a series called the Unequally Yoked Club (UYC). It was one of my most popular series–and also one of my longest-running! It was about how Christian couples navigate when one partner deconverts from the religion. Today, let’s return to that topic. Together, we’ll see what’s changed Read more
Analyzing Christianity
Lord Snow Presides Over Christian Weight-Loss Plans (LSP #47)
One of the more recent Lord Snow Presides (LSP) posts was about vegetarianism. It provoked a lot of discussion about eating styles in general–and with it, weight loss (and gain). And this might not surprise you much at all, but Christian hucksters have infested diet systems too! Today, Lord Snow Presides over conjobs in Christian weight loss. We’ll look at a few of these hucksters, and examine why they’re so toxic to their adherents.