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The Jesus Aura: Why this false belief persists

Many Christians have this idea that their faith imbues them with a sort of glowing-but-invisible aura that both attracts and repels non-Christians. It’s their Jesus Aura.

By Captain Cassidy, 4 years04/25/2022 ago

SBC Watching

Tom Buck: In the land of hypocrisy, secrets are currency

I wonder how long Tom Buck struggled with the secrets he knew about Jeff Ford before using them to attack his faction’s newest enemy #1. One minute? Two? Less?

By Captain Cassidy, 4 years04/22/2022 ago

evangelicals are in revolt over complementarianism

Analyzing Christianity

Complementarianism: Why evangelicals can’t have good relationships

The reason evangelicals invented complementarianism was to win a denominational slapfight. That’s it. The architects of it just wanted to demolish feminism. So they simply did not care how complementarianism would play out in the everyday lives of their increasingly-authoritarian flocks.

By Captain Cassidy, 4 years03/28/2022 ago

Analyzing Christianity

Why Christian testimonies are so untrustworthy

Testimonies, in Christianity, are short anecdotes about how Christians came to believe the various claims made by their flavor of the religion. They’ve been on my mind lately because not long ago, a Christian told me that he thought Christian testimonies constituted valid and very real evidence for Christians’ claims. Read more

By Captain Cassidy, 4 years03/26/2022 ago

From Patreon

Pair bonding: Examining a claim we won’t like

Studies have repeatedly shown that when we have an emotional feeling about a claim, we tend to react to it way differently than if it’s neutral for us. In particular, if the claim challenges our worldview or makes us feel criticized or less-than, we tend to reject it out of hand no matter how much evidence it has to support itself. It’s really hard for us to engage with an idea that makes us feel that way, and even harder for us to change our mind about it.

By Captain Cassidy, 4 years03/21/2022 ago

Meta Housekeeping

OnlySky: The Last Lord Snow Presides (LSP #222)

Today, in our very last Lord Snow Presides, we watch the wheel turn from the old to the new once again.

By Captain Cassidy, 5 years12/13/2021 ago

History and Science

Semantic paraphasia: The things we can’t help

I often mis-say specific words. I know the word I want and I’m thinking of the right thing at the time, but the wrong word consistently pops out. It turns out there’s a term for this situation: semantic paraphasia. Today, Lord Snow Presides over our brains — and the stuff we literally can’t help sometimes.

By Captain Cassidy, 5 years11/30/2021 ago

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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.

By Captain Cassidy, 5 years09/29/2021 ago

From Patreon

Pastoral plagiarism: Why pastors do it, and why evangelicals THINK they do

Today, let me show you evangelicals’ guesses about why pastoral plagiarism happens, the reasons for it that evangelicals can’t discuss, and most importantly why they can’t discuss this truth.

By Captain Cassidy, 5 years07/07/2021 ago

Meta Housekeeping

Roll to Disbelieve Freedom Super Special! (#17)

Hi and welcome back! Today being the 4th of July, I thought I’d offer some past posts about freedom — and then some links our community has been talking about today. Happy 4th! FREEDOM! Observations about freedom from the R2D commentariat Our commentariat brought their A game today and found Read more

By Captain Cassidy, 5 years07/05/2021 ago

Cas has tidied this post up

Slowly, I’m working through the posts in our archive library like the Lone Ranger: Riding into town one day, fixing all its problems, and riding back out to the sunset afterward. I’ve got about 2200 posts to fix, and I’ll get to them all in time!