Analyzing Christianity
Why I’m going to spend a week ripping ‘God’s Not Dead’ to pieces
Here’s why we’re going to be talking about “God’s Not Dead” for a while.
Analyzing Christianity
The Cult of Before Stories: Shane Hayes, Part 1
A while ago, Kirk Cameron popularized a fairly-new evangelism technique: claiming that he knows all about atheism because he, himself, was once an (gasp! Shock! OMG!) atheist. He thought it gave him some kind of leg up on authority and credibility to say that he’d once been an atheist, and Read more
Analyzing Christianity
Left Behind: The Pandering.
When a horrible remake gets made of a movie that was already horrible to begin with, though, that’s when things have potential to get really bad. Left Behind is one such movie franchise.
Analyzing Christianity
“God’s Not Dead” – But He’s on Life Support, Apparently.
Today we’re going to talk about how toxic Christians (who can be loosely defined as “those Christians that sane, normal, loving Christians instantly try to distance themselves from the moment they say something stupid”) mischaracterize non-believers and what that means for their religion. A meatspace friend of mine called to Read more
The Games We Play
The love narrative of ‘The Last Unicorn’
Our journey into both love and that happy land of books you really should have read by now and if you haven’t, then you should definitely consider it continues today with The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle. In this book, the author plays with narratives about love. He gently teases them, toys with them, and ultimately honors them.
Analyzing Christianity
The Unequally Yoked Club: He’s in Love with a Church Girl.
Continuing the long tradition of evangelical urban legends and worn-out tropes in movies*, I’m in Love With a Church Girl offers up a rehashed and cliché-riddled bit of schlock that is “based on a true story,” which means it bears only the faintest hint of a trace of the real story. This movie looks at the topic of mixed-faith relationships–and it does so in quite possibly the most offensive, misogynistic, and insulting ways possible.