Analyzing Christianity
Planting seeds: The Jesus roofies of the Christian world
‘Planting seeds’ nothing less than one of the creepiest concepts in the Christian world.
Analyzing Christianity
Why the flocks don’t WANNA evangelize
Evangelicals don’t want to evangelize. Their reasons—and they have many—play a hand in the ultimate fate of their religion.
Codex Disbelievium
Evangelicals Know Exactly How to Persuade Atheists: A Nice NDE!
Today, let me show you one of the most pernicious myths evangelicals believe about atheists: that all they need is a huge catastrophe in their lives to strong-arm them into believing in nonsense for no good reason.
Analyzing Christianity
Let There Be Light: Tell Us How You Really Feel, Culture Warriors
Hello and welcome to a Roll to Disbelieve movie review! Today’s botched cinema roll is Let There Be Light, a 2017 production featuring Kevin Sorbo as an atheist strawman.
Analyzing Christianity
Meet the Christians who are curious about the god we don’t believe in
But one evangelism technique comes to us from both progressive and evangelical Christians. Today, let me show you show you the Christians who profess great curiosity about the god we’ve rejected. And then we’ll see how this tactic actually works for them.
Analyzing Christianity
Dare 2 Share and the Sabotage of the Young
WELL. The best-laid plans and all that! I found something to lead us up to J.D. Greear’s skidmark of a post from last week. Y’all need to see this first–if only to prepare yourselves. It seems that evangelical leaders have come up with yet another way to sabotage their young Read more
Analyzing Christianity
Beach Reach: One of the Most Hilarious Evangelism Strategies Ever
Today, I’ll show you what Beach Reach is, some of its history, and why it’s a perfect example of the SBC’s goals and shortcomings.
SBC Watching
Come Meet the SBC’s EVANGELISM TASK FORCE!
In this report, the SBC introduces us to the people they hope will totally save their bacon as a denomination. Let’s meet the EVANGELISM TASK FORCE, and learn what they’ve been doing all year!
Analyzing Christianity
Evangelism, catcalling, and abusing retail workers: The common thread is power
Their behavior might seem just bizarre, but it all makes perfect sense when we understand what they really hope to achieve. Today, I’ll show you three different ways that such people act out–and why they do it. You’ll see that they’re getting exactly what they want, in that moment.
Analyzing Christianity
How Confrontational Evangelism is Failing Christians, and Why It Doesn’t Matter.
Christian evangelists act, in a very real sense, as salespeople of their ideology. And they are not making a lot of sales these days. They can’t even keep the few customers they still have! So evangelical churn has become a serious problem–not just for evangelicals, either. Not long ago, we talked about a Christian who thought he’d figured out a brand-new sales tactic. In that post, I touched on the two tactics Christian salespeople typically use. Today, I’ll expand a little more on the first of them, confrontational evangelism–and why it fails, and why Christians can’t stop using it regardless.