Analyzing Christianity
How a Wingnut Perceives the Loss of Dominance
Today, let’s meet the toxic Christians who consider their loss of dominance to be literally a fate worse than death.
The Games We Play
A wingnut meeting gets completely out of hand in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #138, Ch. 21)
In Chapter 21, Frank Peretti skipped merrily across a whole bunch of plots, giving us a little taste of each one, George R. R. Martin style. I only touched on each of those plot vignettes last week. So now, let’s zero in on one of the most interesting of the lot of them. Today, Lord Snow Presides over just how easy it is for wingnuts’ meetings to get completely out of hand.
Analyzing Christianity
The September 23rd Endtimes Scare and the Problem with Wingnuts
This Endtimes scare has gotten quite a lot of pushback from actual astronomers–and from some big names in Christianity as well. We were mainly looking at the real-world pushback against the prediction last time, and today I want to look at one Christian leader’s pushback to it. Indeed, this scare illustrates a very serious problem in Christianity: the difficulty Christians have in reining in their own wingnuts.