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Why Evangelicals Can’t Follow Their Own Rules About Sex
Today, let’s wonder together why evangelicals’ sex rules give believers so much trouble.
Analyzing Christianity
Porn and Christians: Starting Trouble For a Reason
Hi and welcome back! I guess today also represents a bit of a palate cleanser. I ran across a recent article on a Christian site that caught my eye. It describes a study about the effects of porn on fervent Christians. Most of us probably saw most of their findings from a Read more
The Games We Play
The fate of Pat Krueger in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #153, Ch. 35)
Hi and welcome back! The showdown at Ashton continues today in Frank Peretti’s novel This Present Darkness. In this installment, we learn the final fate of Bernice’s sister, Pat. Today, Lord Snow Presides over the ghastly fate of Pat Krueger—and it’s an end that sounds all too evangelical. (Please click here Read more
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False accusations in Jesus-Land in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #150, Ch. 30)
Hi and welcome back! It being Monday, we turn our attention to Frank Peretti’s cringefest 1986 novel, This Present Darkness. In this installment, we discover the literal only reason that anybody ever accuses TRUE CHRISTIANS™ of serious crimes. Today, Lord Snow Presides over the theology of false accusations in toxic Christianity—and Read more
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How Evangelicals Use ‘the Endtimes’ to Disobey Jesus
As with everything they do, evangelicals embrace the Endtimes for a reason. And that reason is awful. Its awfulness represents not so much a separate problem in their religion as a symptom of the deepest, worst problem they have. Today, I’ll show you why so many evangelicals embrace and love beliefs like the Endtimes.
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Evangelicals: Nope, still in denial over their decline
Recently, some irresponsible folks over at Newsweek let him and a pal blather at length about how they perceive the SBC’s decline. Come see these two ear-ticklers get set straight!
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J.D. Greear knows how to solve the SBC’s misogyny problem, too!
Poor J.D. Greear. Dude literally just got elected the Grand High Lord Poobah of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) and he’s already stomping on my last nerve. Last time we touched on his solutions to the SBC’s years-long decline. Today, we’ll look at his non-solution to the problem of misogyny in his blighted, embattled denomination–and why it won’t work at all. And then we’ll look at why that’s the point.
The Games We Play
Zingers: A Painful Truth That (Many) Christians Don’t Want to Face
Last time we met up, we looked at Lydia McGrew’s take on it. She wrote a sort of Argument from Jesus’ Resurrection Totally Happened So Christianity Itself Is Totally True. Among its many flaws, her essay revealed a huge shortcoming in Christians’ thinking. I’ll show you what that shortcoming is–and why it’s such a dealbreaker.
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A Match Made in Hell for People to Be “Loved.”
Preston Sprinkle, in his book People to Be Loved, expresses some truly atrocious ideas. Arguably the most offensive of the lot is his suggestion that gay people should marry straight people. Today I’ll show you why he thinks that’d be a great idea, and why he’s wrong.
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Josh Duggar is Facing a Civil Lawsuit, and That’s a Big Problem (For Him).
Josh Duggar clearly didn’t differentiate between his sisters and any other vulnerable young girls in his power. This fifth girl–unrelated, but young and vulnerable enough to qualify as a victim for him–is the one who is bringing the lawsuit now. And that lawsuit is going to rip the Duggars’ carefully-crafted bubble wide open. Here’s why.