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Lately, we’ve been talking about where positive thinking goes bad. Multi-level marketing schemes (MLMs) sparked that entire train of thought for me. They share so many similarities with toxic Christians that I can’t help but be fascinated by them. One aspect both groups share is toxic positivity. Today, I’ll show you what that is–and why it’s so bad for us.

Today, let me show you what positive thinking looks like when it goes overboard and gets unhealthy — and why so many really awful people love it when positive thinking acts naughty like that.

Recently, J.D. Greear, the president of this venerable fundagelical denomination, admitted to that decline being very much an ongoing problem. Here’s how he dropped his hint, along with his official suggestions for getting out of it. And because we’re very very helpful, here are also the reasons why nothing will change as a result of his suggestions.

I just had to laugh about this thing I noticed in a game I play–and now that I see what’s going on there, I can’t un-see it. Today, join me for the cosmic irony of Christians who have to Jesus-ify absolutely everything they encounter, even if it’s absolutely antithetical to their actual religion’s commands.

Last time we met up, I showed you some really bad public-relations news for multi-level marketing schemes (MLMs). Today, let me show you how the people in charge of these thinly-disguised financial cults are responding to all this bad news. I’ve no doubt you’ll find quite a few similarities to another group we often talk about that’s in decline.

Every now and then, we touch base with the world of multi-level marketing schemes (MLMs). These schemes have infested and pervaded many people’s lives. As the participants get ever-more desperate and frantic to succeed, these businesses seem to collapse further and further in on themselves. Today, let me show you some of the recent bad news for MLMs–and an interesting new red flag that’s developed as they decline in popularity.

In this installment, we discover how Frank Peretti’s tribe thinks angels create coincidences–and how they accidentally destroy their entire religion’s credibility with that conceptualization.