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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 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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Attack of the Mini-Jesuses.
I was thinking today about the various ways in which Christians keep trying to do stuff they think Jesus did in the Bible–and failing miserably. I really wish they’d stop, because it is simply cringe-inducing to behold. Today I’m going to … Continue reading
Posted in Guides, Hypocrisy, Religion, The Games We Play, Theology
Tagged Christ, Christians Behaving Badly, Courtship Culture, Evangelism, Gospel, Higher Education, hypocrisy, Jesus, New Testament
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The Most Misunderstood Word (Isn’t Kingdom, Sorry).
I saw this interview on Religion News Service with Scot McKnight, who argues that Christians talk a big game about this idea of “kingdom,” but don’t really understand what it means in the Bible or how it should play out … Continue reading
Posted in Guides, Hypocrisy
Tagged Christian, deconversion, Gospel, hypocrisy, Jesus, Kingdom, Love, New Testament, Redefinitions, Religion News Service, Scot McKnight, WTF does kingdom even mean
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Shane Hayes, Part 5: A Short Definition of Apologetics and, Apparently, Theism.
Hi again! We’ve been discussing a new apologetics book by Shane Hayes and today we’ll be starting to get into the meat of his argument–the one he thinks is “a new approach to the question of God.” Here is the … Continue reading
How Historicized Mythology Works.
Sorry about yesterday; I was laid up with one of those fun migraine-and-nausea episodes I get sometimes. All better now! On to today’s topic: the historical Jesus. We’ve talked about him before here, but some new stuff’s happened in the … Continue reading
Posted in Religion, The Games We Play
Tagged AlterNet, Archaeology, Christianity, Historical Jesus, History, Jesus, New Testament, Pseudo-History, Scientology, Valerie Tarico
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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
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