Analyzing Christianity
Sir Archibald explores Hell in ‘The Great Divorce’ (LSP #212)
Hell, in The Great Divorce, encourages humans to be humans—while Heaven only wants robots devoid of everything that makes humanity sparkle.
Analyzing Christianity
The Jesus obsession in ‘The Great Divorce’
By the time I joined evangelicalism (in the mid-1980s), I learned to feel downright guilty for not injecting enough Jesus-ification into my life. I couldn’t just read a fantasy novel for the sake of it, go to a movie, or enjoy music that didn’t mention Jesus even once.
Codex Disbelievium
The Motherlode of Truth from Justin Martyr (1st-Century Fridays #15)
Hi and welcome back! Now, we come to the last 1st-Century Friday post for a while. After this, we may revisit my master list as time goes on, but I think we’ve finally hit the wall on writers who were Read more
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Abuse of Faith: The SBC Looks as Guilty as Sin Lately
I mean, we always suspected the real truth would be worse than we could possibly imagine. It’s taken the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) over two years — almost three now — to begin addressing their sex abuse scandal, called ‘Abuse of Faith.’
Codex Disbelievium
The strawman ghosts of ‘The Great Divorce’
When Christians write parables or allegories, they never worry about their characters not acting like people at all. That’s not the point of the story. The story is meant only as a framework to use to defeat strawmen.
Codex Disbelievium
How C.S. Lewis finished the hell puzzle in “The Great Divorce”
make informed decisions about their own fates. Not even his extra-imaginary imaginary god can make that happen for him.
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‘The Great Divorce’ Horrified Me (Review)
Today, let’s review The Great Divorce — and get an idea of how its ideas have unfortunately infested Christians’ thinking today.
Codex Disbelievium
The Mystery of Justus of Tiberias (1st-Century Fridays #14)
When we checked out Josephus recently, a contemporary of his emerged from the shadows: Justus of Tiberias. We don’t know much about him, which is strange considering what he could have had to say about the earliest Christians. So today, let’s check out Justus of Tiberias — and marvel at the mystery surrounding his absence from the record.
History and Science
Assessing the false claims of a COVID-19 denialist
Christian claims always have a pedigree, if our two current series, Journey Into Hell and 1st-Century Fridays, are anything to go by. I want to know the source of this particular mythology. So today, let’s check out this wingnut’s specific claims — and see, if we can, where she’s getting them and why she cherishes them so much.
History and Science
Why Wingnuts Don’t Care About Real-World Evidence
Today, let’s see how wingnuts like Patrice Lewis assess truth claims in the first place. They do it a lot differently from reality-based people.