Recent Comments
Captain Cassidy on He’s Not a Zombie. Or a… Pamela on He’s Not a Zombie. Or a… Captain Cassidy on God’s Not Dead: Moving… Robert on God’s Not Dead: Moving… Captain Cassidy on Prayer Warriors for Jesus…
Monthly Archives: July 2014
Out of the Fullness of the Heart.
Well, those computer problems are totally worse than I’d initially thought (“so that’s what a crashed hard drive smells like!”), so I’m at that borrowed computer again to write–but glad to do it, because I noticed something yesterday that really … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Hypocrisy, Religion, The Games We Play
Tagged American Christianity, American Republican Party, atheism, bigotry, Chris Kluwe, Christians Behaving Badly, compartmentalizing, Computers, feminism, Gospel, Henry Rollins, LGBT rights, Mark Driscoll, New Testament, politics, Profanity, Racism, Sexism
10 Comments
The Unequally Yoked Club: Dale’s New Book
Good news for folks in the UYC! Dale McGowan’s newest book, In Faith and In Doubt: How Religious Believers and Nonbelievers Can Create Strong Marriages and Loving Families is coming out soon. I wanted to start talking about it, since … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Guides
Tagged Apostasy in Christianity, Christianity, Dale McGowan, Divorce, Love, Marriage, New Testament, Relationships, religion, Unequally Yoked Club, UYC
6 Comments
Predators Go Where the Prey Grazes.
(CN: Elder abuse, religious abuse, and emotional manipulation.) If you needed a good mad for the day, here’s all you’ll require to get it: a story about how young evangelists have been recently spotted happily preying upon vulnerable elderly people … Continue reading
It’s So Romantic.
(CN: Religious abuse, domestic violence, stalking.) Today we’re going to talk about one of the most sickening aspects of modern Christianity: this idea that the Christian god “woos” people by abusing and hurting them. “To woo someone” means to seek … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Feminism, Hypocrisy, Religion, The Games We Play
Tagged Atrocities, Christian views on marriage, Christianity, Domestic violence, Evangelical Christianity, Fundamentalism, hypocrisy, Love, Marriage, Personal Revelation, Relationships, Revelations, Romance, War on Women, Women, Women's rights
6 Comments
The Night My House Was Exorcised, Sort Of.
Have you ever had a really embarrassing deed haunt you for years? This is one of mine. Set the Wayback Machine for the late 1980s: I was 17 years old and had been dating Biff a few months. I’d been … Continue reading
A Way Through the Briar Patch.
(CN: Rape threats and religious abuse.) Y’all probably know I’ve been friendly with the Christian who runs the website/blog “Quiet Christianity”, who I call “TQC.” With his permission I wanted to talk a little bit about that emerging friendship. I … Continue reading
Spiritual Warfare: What’s It Good For? (Absolutely Nothing!)
Remember furries? Those are the kids who think that they’re “really” animals in human form. Back in the 90s they were the emerging weirdos of the internet and became our collective punching bags, a low status they bore with varying … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Gaming, Hypocrisy, Religion, The Games We Play
Tagged Christian Media, Culture War, Evangelical Christianity, Frank Peretti, Fundamentalism, Jesus Movement, LiveJournal, Media, prayer, Prayer Warriors for Jesus, Religion and Spirituality, Spiritual Warfare, This Present Darkness, United States, War
9 Comments
Christian Charlatans.
The other day I discovered that one of this site’s favorite charlatans and bullshit artists, Joyce Meyer, has a book out about how to break bad habits, and it tied in with some stuff I’ve been thinking about lately about … Continue reading
A Legend In Their Own Minds.
When someone desperately wants to have status, there are really only a couple of ways that person can go about getting it on his or her own. Either that person can go out and do something that garners status, or … Continue reading
Roll to Disbelieve 