Hello and welcome to a Roll to Disbelieve Super Special! Goodness, we’re already smack dab in the middle of autumn. I can tell, because every danged foodstuff on the planet has suddenly appeared in Pumpkin Spice flavor. Just looking at it all makes me pumpkin-spiced-out. Read more
Natasha Crain occupies one specific niche within that industry, too: apologetics aimed at Christian parents seeking to keep their kids indoctrinated for life. But like all apologists do, she offers suggestions that can’t possibly work, and she does so with the rock-steady assurance that comes from knowing that her target market will never figure that fact out.
I find this book fascinating still, even after all these weeks of reading and reviewing it! It simply contains so many of the seeds of what we find most tedious and grotesque about evangelicals today. As we dive into Chapter 10, we meet a femme fatale who wants her a piece of Hank. Today, Lord Snow Presides over the worst counselor in the world.
Often, these experiences feel significant to us and even alter our lives. My little family had one of those experiences very recently, so the topic’s been on my mind. Today, let me show you why these occurrences can be so powerful–and yet so deceptive.
Today, I’ll introduce you to Natasha Crain and show you how she went from a rank-and-file pew-warmer to what sure looks like one of the foremost Christian experts in her field. It doesn’t sound like it was even all that hard to do!
When we believed, we pretended to live in perfect safety, like we curled up in the palms of our god’s hands–just like the rabbits of one warren in Watership Down. In reality, however, we lived in the enemy’s warren. And we paid the price of the shining wire.
For a while now, we’ve been talking about Frank Peretti’s cringeworthy 1986 book, This Present Darkness. Its main plot centers around a moral panic called the Satanic Panic. Evangelicals started it as part of a culture war, though mostly it’s Catholics Read more
Culture warriors are losing their poor little minds lately over something Senator Elizabeth Warren said yesterday in a town hall. Today, I’ll show you how Senator Warren stomped all over these self-appointed guardians of America’s purity and honor, and how they’re responding to that mockery.
Apologists take as a given that once they demonstrate that gods in general might exist, they’ve already conclusively demonstrated those other points–and clinched their sale. The problem is that they’re not selling god-belief.
Apologists take as a given that once they demonstrate that gods in general might exist, they’ve already conclusively demonstrated those other points–and clinched their sale. The problem is that they’re not selling god-belief.