Last time we met up, we talked about a post written by Ron Tewson (archive) about dealing with doubt. In its first paragraph, he talks about being a Christian because his god gives him shiny things all the time. But Read more
While cruising around the Christ-o-sphere today, I happened upon a post about ‘navigating doubt‘ (archive). Written by Ron Tewson, it’s an absolute mess of bad logic, unsupported claims, and mischaracterizations. That all said, though, it’s also a perfect example of Read more
Reiki is not real medicine. It’s just pseudoscience. But modern hospitals and medical systems are offering it anyway—and money is the necessary and sufficient explanation.
With their increasing appreciation for the Catholic concepts like the imago Dei, today’s modern evangelicals take another step closer to fusing with hardliner Catholics. Two of those evangelicals recently offered (archive) some false and unsupportable claims about the effects of adopting Read more
Last week, I introduced you to a real live ‘Gen Z expert,’ Tanita Maddox. As I noted at the time, Maddox has been very busy writing articles and recording videos about her subject matter for other evangelicals, who apparently know Read more
Some religions don’t make a lot of demands on their adherents. Others demand everything. And then somehow, they take even more when someone leaves.
In recent years, we’ve talked a lot about evangelicals’ utter inability to appeal to Gen Z. But the latest approach I saw at Christian Post (archive) might take the cake for potential hilarity. Opinion post writer Tanita Tualla Maddox has made Read more
Last week, we mentioned evangelicals who don’t believe that atheists can possibly really not believe in Jesus. In one of our sources, we saw an evangelical claim that evangelicals can quiet their ‘inner atheist’ if they only ‘build our belief Read more
Pope Francis finally made a direct attack on one of his major critics in the extremist, hardliner faction of Catholicism—US Cardinal Raymond Burke. The timing is no coincidence. It’s one more indication that the ailing organization is teetering on the brink of schism.
Given how the denomination used the information gathered, it seems very likely that the numbers look so humiliatingly bad that their leaders don’t even want to know what they are anymore.