Why Right-Wing Christians Are Shocked About Losing.
When we look at the balance of news coming out about Christianity, one fact seems absolutely inescapable: the religion in general is starting to lose its privileged position in American culture. But...
View Article3 New Marketing Slogans for the Religious Right.
I mentioned being very very helpful the other day, and today I want to demonstrate that helpfulness by giving the duly-appointed (and self-appointed) representatives of the Religious Right some new...
View ArticleHB2: Onward, Christian Bigots!
Lately we've been talking about North Carolina's House Bill 2, which demands that people use the public bathrooms corresponding to the sex marked on their birth certificates. We've spent a lot of time...
View ArticleHB2: An Angry Christian Shows Us What the Real Problem Is Here.
Christians these days sure do sound angry. The more right-wing the Christian, the angrier they sound--and the more vengeful, controlling, belligerent, and aggressive. Some of their worst blustering to...
View ArticleRescuing a Sinking Ship: People to Be “Loved.”
If it wasn't resulting in endless abuse and cruelty against innocent people worldwide, there'd be something comical about where Christians find themselves nowadays thanks to their ceaseless...
View ArticleStarting from Wrong Assumptions: People to Be “Loved.”
As we discussed last time, Christians' condemnation of gay people is not only quickly becoming one of their core marker beliefs, but it's also becoming one of the beliefs they're fighting the hardest...
View ArticlePeople to Be “Loved” and the Failure of Literalism.
Preston Sprinkle brings a full set of assumptions to the party and refuses to let go of them, and ultimately those assumptions bury any good intentions he might have had. Today we'll talk about those...
View ArticleListening But Not Really to People to Be “Loved.”
The book is meant to be a tightrope walk between the evangelical tribe's current antipathy toward gay people and full affirmation, all laced with Bible verses and lots of careful hermeneutics. In its...
View ArticleThe False Third Way of People to Be “Loved.”
Preston Sprinkle is clearly trying to find a way to square himself with his tribe's culture war in his book, People to Be Loved. I wanted to touch on what the "third way" is, how it came about, where...
View ArticleA Coffee Date with People to Be “Loved.”
Preston Sprinkle is trying to find the same have-it-both-ways middle ground between bigotry and acceptance that his "third way" peers are struggling to find. Today I'll show you one suggestion he's...
View ArticleThe Three Deceptions Found in “People to Be Loved.”
Preston Sprinkle's book People to Be Loved outlines the right-wing Christian case for opposing same-sex relationships and tries to offer a new approach for such Christians to deal with LGBTQ people...
View ArticleThe Really Scandalous Part of “People to Be Loved.”
That's quite a lot of deception both in and out of one person, but it's really more out of his tribe rather than himself; he's not advocating much that is really very different than what they as a...
View ArticleA Cold First Option for People to Be “Loved.”
We've been talking for a while now about right-wing Christians' culture war against LGBTQ people, using Preston Sprinkle's new advice book People to be Loved as a starting-off point. I've alluded a few...
View ArticleTrading Passion for Glory: Good News in the Trenches of the Christian Culture...
I'm not sure it's ever a great week to be a fundagelical bigot-for-Jesus lately, but this has been a particularly bad week for that crowd.
View ArticleHaving No Ears to Hear the People to Be “Loved.”
There's a huge, huge difference between listening to someone and really hearing them. Today I'll show you what I mean, how to tell when someone has no ears to hear what you have to say, and how...
View ArticleThe Reframing Game in “People to Be Loved.”
Using very positive language to describe a very negative situation or feeling is a tactic at least as old as Christianity itself. People who have power use this sort of language to make the powerless...
View ArticlePraying Away the Gay for People to Be “Loved.”
In his book People to Be Loved, Preston Sprinkle presents two-and-a-half options for gay people. Today we'll be talking about one of those options. Well, half of one, anyway. And we'll be debunking it...
View ArticleA Match Made in Hell for People to Be “Loved.”
Preston Sprinkle, in his book People to Be Loved, expresses some truly atrocious ideas. Arguably the most offensive of the lot is his suggestion that gay people should marry straight people. Today I'll...
View ArticleElevating the Meaningless Blather–I Mean, the Dialogue.
Christians' bigotry has cost them countless adherents as well--adherents who take with them when they leave an inestimable amount of money, time, and support. Today I want to set our phasers to...
View ArticleThe Gravitational Center of Evangelicalism is Not Jesus.
With a national Presidential election looming ever closer for Americans, this question of why one of our political parties is so shot through with racism is starting to gain more prominence--as well it...
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