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With social media, agreement gets addictive
In the same way that religion hijacks the evolution of our minds, social media hijacks the evolution of group psychology.
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Solving conflicts the REAL Revelation way
Y’all, I got to feeling helpful. And I wondered what the Book of Revelation really says about solving conflicts. So today, we’re going to whisk through one of the weirdest books in the entire Bible to see what it REALLY tells evangelicals to do.
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Not the Onion: an evangelical suggests using the Book of Revelation as a self-help guide
Well, it’s finally happened. I’ve finally found an evangelical who thinks that the Book of Revelation is supposed to be a Christian self-help guide to conflict resolution. I thought I’d seen it all with shoehorned misinterpretations, but apparently not! And his listicle displays the worst, most misinformed, most studiously gaslighting elements of evangelicalism as a whole.
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Evangelism is sales, and evangelists sure don’t like that fact
The dynamics of sharing and sales couldn’t be more different. And y’all, it has always tickled me pink that evangelism-minded Christians fight as hard as they do against any insinuation that what they’re doing is selling, not sharing.
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Church membership as a product in search of demand
Christianity itself became superfluous a while ago for a lot of Americans, and church leaders simply can’t deal with that fact. Well, most of them. Today, we’ll meet a Christian leader who has a better perspective on his religion’s decline.
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This disastrous Bible storybook for teens tells us exactly why Christianity is in decline
Quite a few non-Christians think that the Bible a thoroughly evil book. I’m one of them. And even Christians know that quite a bit of it is not suitable for children. But they keep trying to make it so. Someone’s Read more
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Tim Keller JAQs off: a response
If Tim Keller actually had the ability to listen to people, he’d never need to ask this kind of disingenuous question.
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Giddy Pat Robertson on Ukraine is everything wrong with Endtimes belief
If someone had told me that anybody could possibly describe the unthinkable suffering going on in Ukraine with an expression of utter childlike delight, I’m not sure I’d have believed them. But here we are.
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Why evangelical youth ministers can’t ‘innovate’
Caught between the devil of a church model that many evangelical leaders openly criticize and the deep blue sea of an empty youth ministry, evangelical youth ministers have little choice.
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How authoritarian leaders handle dissenters—and why
Authoritarian Christian leaders really do not like dissenters, do they? Today, let’s check out why.