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Category Archives: Guides
The Unwashed Heathens and Foreigners of “God’s Not Dead.”
(ZOMFG, SO MANY SPOILERS. Also: Racism, domestic violence, religious idiocy.) We’ve been talking lately about the shitball movie God’s Not Dead. We started with a review of the movie itself, then a summary of why I hate this movie so much, an … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Guides, Hypocrisy, Religion, The Games We Play
Tagged Abuse, Apostasy, Christian Media, Christianity, deconversion, Domestic violence, Evangelicalism, family, God's Not Dead, Islam, Islamophobia, Movies, Racism
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The Women of “God’s Not Dead.”
Changed my mind; we’ll do the Christian episode later. Today I want to talk more about how the movie God’s Not Dead deals with its female characters, because last time we talked I touched briefly on one aspect of the movie–its … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Guides, Hypocrisy, Religion, The Games We Play
Tagged Alison Bechdel, atheist, Bechdel test, Christian apologetics, Christian views on marriage, Dean Cain, Duck Dynasty, Evangelical Christianity, evangelical Christians, God's Not Dead, Marriage, Relationships, United States, Women
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The Unequally Yoked Club: Relationships in God’s Not Dead.
(Please consider all of my posts about this movie to be spoilerrific.) Last week I got hammered and watched God’s Not Dead so you don’t have to. One thing I learned watching it was the rather surprising fact that the various reviews … Continue reading
Why I’m Going to Spend a Week Ripping “God’s Not Dead” to Pieces.
We’re about to take a quick break from our other projects to talk about this movie I blogged about watching last week, God’s Not Dead, which is a horrible movie in every single respect. There is a long list of … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Guides, Hypocrisy, Religion, The Games We Play
Tagged Bible, Christian Media, Christian mythology, Christianity, God, God's Not Dead, Jesus, Media, Movies, New Testament, Psychological manipulation
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The Handbook: Recognizing an “Argument From X” Attempt.
We’re going to be heading back to God’s Not Dead next week, but before we do that, I wanted to finish up something we were talking about last time we covered the Handbook for the Recently Deconverted: one of Christians’ very … Continue reading
Posted in Guides, Religion, The Games We Play, Theology
Tagged Agnosticism, Apologetics, Argument, Christian apologetics, Cosmological Argument, Duck Dynasty, Existence of God, Handbook for the Recently Deconverted, Kalām cosmological argument, Logical Fallacies, Ontological argument, Silicon Valley, Stephen Fry, Teleological Argument, The Unicorn Test
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The Handbook: Wishful Thinking in Apologetics.
Today we’re talking about wishful apologetics: those arguments that ache and yearn for an idealized form of Christianity. Special Guest: C.S. Lewis. Continue reading
The Vast Comfort of Literalism.
Ever wonder how someone converts into fundamentalist or evangelical Christianity? Here’s how I ended up there. Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Feminism, Guides, Religion, The Games We Play
Tagged Adam and Eve, Ancient history, Bible, Biblical authority, Biblical Criticism, Biblical literalism, Christian fundamentalism, Evangelical Christianity, Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, fundamentalist Christian, God, History, Indoctrination, Jesus, New Testament, Old Testament, Pseudo-History, Pseudoscience, Science, Sunday School, the Bible
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The Handbook: Apologetics: Pascal, Ontological, Cosmological.
Today we’re going to be taking a twenty-five-cent tour of some of the apologetics arguments people are likely to see once they’ve deconverted, along with an overview of the arguments’ flaws. Continue reading
Posted in Guides, Religion, The Games We Play, Theology
Tagged Abiogenesis, Apologetics, apologists, Blaise Pascal, Christian apologetics, Existence of God, Handbook for the Recently Deconverted, Kalam, Kalām cosmological argument, KCA, Logical Fallacies, Ontological argument, Pascal's Wager, William Lane Craig
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Roll to Disbelieve 