Analyzing Christianity
Gimme That Old-Time Religion: A Revival, Annotated (LSP #33)
Here’s what a good old-fashioned rowdy Pentecostal revival is like–and why. Today Lord Snow casts his baleful gaze at a dying part of the Christian experience.
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The Cult of Before Stories: Glenn Hobbs, Totally An Ex-Satanist
I want to show you today how Glenn Hobbs’ claims line up with our checklist for the Cult of Before Stories–and what happens to one of these people after their gravy train jumps the rails for good. We’re going to see a lot more of these people as Christianity continues to decline, and I want us prepared for them.
Codex Disbelievium
Captain Cassidy’s (Big Ol’ Huge) Deconversion
In this blog’s first year, I spent a few months outlining all the different elements that went into my deconversion. I haven’t formally talked much about it since. Now, here, I want to put my deconversion ex-timony into one post. Here’s how–and more importantly why–I deconverted from Christianity, and why I won’t ever go back to it or any other religion.
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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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Halloween: It’s that time again
Halloween is that magical time of year when Christians can dial up to 11 their Happy Pretendy Fun Time Games. It is their everything.
Analyzing Christianity
Reconstructionism: Why Fundagelicals Can’t Have Nice Things.
Complementarianism is an offshoot of a wackadoodle Christian ideology called Reconstructionism, which has gone from a fringe idea to a doctrine that has, over a frighteningly short amount of time, informed literally all of fundagelicals’ culture wars against those they’ve decided are their enemies. I’ll show you how–today.
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A Totally Useful and Reliable List of Christian Books About Atheism
The list shows us everything that Christians get wrong about atheism–and to a certain extent why they get it wrong.
Analyzing Christianity
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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The Trouble with Tribbers.
A long time ago I wrote about fundagelical preppers and how the doom-preparation community had been taken over by fundagelical zealots fearing Rapture and Armageddon. There are some new developments in that story–but first, here are some new Rapture scares to look at!
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Lord Snow Presides #8: Meet Texe Marrs.
I’m looking at end-of-the-world conspiracy theorists right now and ran across a name I hadn’t heard before: Texe Marrs. I’m wondering how he’s managed to evade my notice until now, considering he clearly ran in the same sort of circles I did back in the late 1980s!