Analyzing Christianity
The Unequally Yoked Club: How marriage became a cult in toxic Christianity
Christian leaders push hard to get their flocks to adopt rigid, unworkable rules about marriage. There’s a reason for it, of course.
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Andy Savage and the Problem of Evil
The assault had a horrific effect on her emotionally, of course. She sought help afterward from the church’s associate pastor. It isn’t her fault she believed what trusted adults told her about themselves.
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Evangelicals’ Israel Obsession: An introduction to Christian Supersessionism
When it comes to fundagelical Christianity, few things make as little sense to outsiders to that culture as its collective near-obsession with all things Judaism. I’m going to start the party off by showing you the bizarre doctrinal belief of supersessionism, which explains why Christians have such a love-hate relationship with Judaism generally.
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Billy Graham and the culture-war model of evangelicalism
Billy Graham’s work both created a juggernaut of coercive power for his religion—and in turn helped damn it to decline. Here’s how he doomed the faith he claimed to love.
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The CPC manual dives into anti-abortion clobber verses
Today we’ll look at the CPC’s very own Bible study and see just what those clobber verses are. And then, we’ll clobber ’em right back.
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Joe Barton and Cargo Cult Excuses in the Broken System
I’ll show you what Joe Barton’s excuse is and how it illustrates his cargo-cult understanding of consent. To help us bring that point home, I’ve got some scans from that dating seminar too! It’s a Thanksgiving miracle!
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Burnout: Pastors’ Wives Confess All
Today I’ll show you what this problem looks like, what the women dealing with the problem make of it, and what it means for the religion as a whole.
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Stages of grief at the end of apologetics
I’ve been coming into contact with a lot of different ideas about apologetics itself as a field. One of the more intriguing of those ideas comes from Myron Penner, a Christian who wrote a book called The End of Apologetics. He did an interview with a blogger when the book came out, and the reactions to that interview were so fascinating that I wanted to show them to you.
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Lord Snow Presides #3: The Backlash Against the Internet Begins in Earnest
I’ve seen pastors try off and on to stop their congregants from accessing the internet, but this new book that just came out, What Falls from the Sky, really takes the cake on that score.
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Christian coercion: From tolerated to dominant
We’ve been talking lately about the early history of Christianity and how different it is from the history offered up by most Christian apologists and leaders. This definitely is not a history I learned growing up Catholic or as a fundamentalist lass! If anything, it’s even more fascinating to me than Read more