From Patreon
Using games to defuse frustration in the Dark Ages of Twitter
Sure, it’s gallows humor. But maybe sometimes we need a good laugh when things are on fire all around us.
Analyzing Christianity
Pastor Christian Watts tried to negate abuse accusations with Christianese
To save his job, Christian Watts clung hard to a time-tested, long-honored evangelical get-out-of-scandal-free card: calling upon Christianese to escape the writing on his wall.
Analyzing Christianity
Reframing evangelicals’ bigotry-for-Jesus in ‘Before You Lose Your Faith’
Something in Rachel Gilson’s childhood led her straight to the worst, cruelest, most evil and inhuman flavor of Christianity in the entire shit-tastic Christian rainbow. Through sheer necessity, she’s figured out a way to reframe her tribe’s infamous bigotry-for-Jesus. But it doesn’t have to fool anybody else, and I don’t think it even fools her at times.
Analyzing Christianity
Evangelicals still yearn for the Rapture with the ‘Prophecy Pros’
Let’s check out yet another pair of Rapture hucksters today, the howlingly self-described ‘Prophecy Pros,’ and see how they build upon evangelicals’ existing folk-beliefs about the end of the world.
Analyzing Christianity
‘He Gets Us’ can’t possibly clean up Christians’ tainted brand
Recent stories indicate that the evangelical-backed He Gets Us campaign is still going strong. But the evangelicals responding to it have missed an important point that destroys whatever goodwill they might be fostering through their endless billboards and carefully-placed ads: Read more
Analyzing Christianity
‘Before You Lose Your Faith’ offers the dumbest reasons (and non-solutions) imaginable for deconversion
The writers offer the hands-down dumbest reasons imaginable to leave evangelicalism. And then, having done that, they offer the dumbest reason imaginable to resolve this supposedly-drastic problem.
From Patreon
The one unforgivable sin in tabletop roleplaying games
Cheating may be reviled throughout most of the gaming world, but all too many players seem perfectly comfortable with doing it. Entire websites exist whose entire function revolves around providing cheat codes and methods to interested gamers. In turn, multiplayer Read more
Analyzing Christianity
‘Before You Lose Your Faith’ actually seriously asks if we’ve ever tried TRUE CHRISTIANITY™
This book has been unparalleled entertainment for me ever since I started it. But this chapter in particular felt like revisiting a great 80s comedy film.
Gaming
Gaming through the fear of failure
It’s not your imagination: games really have gotten easier over the years. The reason has everything to do with my generation’s fear of failure, and our need to get payoffs we can’t get in real life.
