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Monthly Archives: January 2015
What We Can Learn About Atheists from Atheist-Whisperer Bo Wagner.
Last time we talked, we covered a “satirical” straw man essay written by a Baptist pastor, Bo Wagner, about a fictional atheist. A pity he doesn’t actually know what satire is, any more than he knows what atheism is. Today … Continue reading
Posted in Hypocrisy, Religion, The Games We Play, Theology
Tagged Abiogenesis, American Atheists, Argument, atheism, Baptists, Belief, Biology, Charles Darwin, Christian fundamentalism, Christianity, Christians Behaving Badly, Comedy Gold, Evangelical Christianity, Evolution, Logical Fallacies, Tu Quoque Fallacy, WTFery
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A Particularly Ugly Episode in the Christian Culture Wars.
It’s been a rather mind-blowing week over in Christian Bizarro-land. The anniversary of the landmark decision Roe v. Wade was coming up, and it happened to coincide with the start of a legislative session in Congress, so naturally there’s been quite a lot of grandstanding and showboating going on as Christianist politicians and religious leaders alike jockey to demonstrate who loves fetuses the most. Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Feminism, Hypocrisy, Religion, The Games We Play
Tagged abortion, American Christianity, American Republican Party, Christianity, Christians, conservative Christianity, Equality, Evangelical Christianity, Gender equality, hypocrisy, LGBT rights, marriage equality, Misogyny, Reproductive rights, Republican Party United States, Roe v. Wade, Scott DesJarlais, SCOTUS, Sexism, Supreme Court of the United States, Women's rights
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The Handbook: Soaking in a Bubble Bath.
We’ve talked here about the “Christian bubble.” The Christian bubble is an insular world with its own customs, language, in-jokes, references, worldview, attitudes, and social customs–a world that only very minimally touches upon the real world that non-Christians inhabit. Today I want to devote more time to the idea. Continue reading
Creationism: Living and Learning.
Life is a never-ending process of living and learning. In the mid-1980s, I learned to avoid baby-powder-scented feminine hygiene products. In the mid-1990s, I learned that there was no way whatsoever that Christianity could be an objectively factual religion. Last … Continue reading
The Handbook: Recognizing When the Gas Lights Have Dimmed.
Do you know what gaslighting is? Here is how to identify this common religious-abuse tactic and–hopefully–escape from it. Continue reading
Posted in Guides, Hypocrisy, Religion, The Games We Play
Tagged Abuse, Christianity, deconversion, Gaslighting, Handbook for the Recently Deconverted, Love, Movies
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Taylor Swift’s Bubble.
“You Belong With Me” is a fairy tale about the Purity Myth–and about how conforming to it can win young women what they want. Unfortunately, fairy tales are rarely very in tune with reality. Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Feminism, The Games We Play
Tagged Britney Spears, Education, feminism, girlfriend, high school kids, Higher Education, homeschooling, Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, Music, Pop Music, Purity Myth, School, Taylor Swift, Videos, Women
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The Handbook: Circular Arguments.
I’ve compared the efforts of Christian apologists to watching a Roomba repeatedly hit a wall, and nowhere do we see that analogy in action better than with a circular argument. That was one of the early topics I tackled here here on this blog like a year and a half ago, but I want to discuss circular arguments because since then I’ve noticed even more that Christians like circular arguments–almost as much as this tuxedo cat likes riding its Roomba. Continue reading
Posted in Guides, Religion, The Games We Play
Tagged American Christianity, Apologetics, Apostasy, Apostasy in Christianity, Christian apologetics, Christianity, Circular argument, Circular reasoning, compartmentalizing, Debates, Evangelical Christianity, Handbook for the Recently Deconverted, I see WordPress is cooler about animated gifs now, Logical Fallacies, truth
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Roll to Disbelieve 