Conditional Acceptance and Bigotry-for-Jesus.
Christians use something called conditional acceptance to try to maintain control over a culture that is slipping out of their grasp more quickly with every passing day. I wanted to talk more about...
View ArticleEvangelical Churn: Why Christian Leaders’ Orders Never Change
It took Christian leaders some time to recognize that yes indeed, they were facing not just a temporary situation, but rather a serious and devastating long-term decline in membership and cultural...
View ArticleThe Nashville Statement: A Blueprint for Failure.
This re-issuing of already-well-known platforms won't surprise anybody who's been around evangelicals for longer than three minutes. But in its release, its timing, and its true purpose, we see...
View ArticleThe CBMW and the Hills They Die On
Today I want to look more closely at why the CBMW chose to rally around this particular set of declarations, because that question tells us everything we need to know about that whole end of...
View ArticleCBMW: Why Complementarianism Fails So Dramatically.
Today we'll examine the CBMW's central conceit, complementarianism, since it informs both of their culture wars, and we'll see exactly why it fails so hard. The objections people have to its soundness...
View ArticleReconstructionism: Why Fundagelicals Can’t Have Nice Things.
Complementarianism is an offshoot of a wackadoodle Christian ideology called Reconstructionism, which has gone from a fringe idea to a doctrine that has, over a frighteningly short amount of time,...
View ArticleThe Dirtiest Word in the Whole Wide Christian World.
Christian leaders push this redefinition onto their flocks for a reason--and to reach a goal that they clearly feel is more pressing than all that boring stuff Jesus is supposed to have told them to...
View ArticleAnother Day, Another TRUE CHRISTIAN™ Hypocrite.
In the lifetime of this blog, we've talked often about how hypocritical the most fervent Christians always turn out to be. We've established many times that hypocrisy isn't a fluke or aberration of the...
View ArticleRoy Moore and the Real Virtues of a Broken System
Roy Moore is someone who benefits from reaching the top of the ladder of a dysfunctional system that is possibly one of the worst out there. He does it by embodying his tribe's virtues to the letter....
View ArticleIntroduction to the Post-Christian Marketplace (at Fundagelical U)
Today I'll show you how Christians could adapt to the changing reality of a post-Christian world--and what they're doing instead of adapting.
View ArticleLord Snow Presides Over Liars for Jesus. (#22)
Today Lord Snow takes an off-topic day to laugh at the antics of yet another pair of Liars for Jesus who make their religion look even worse by just existing and being their terrible selves.
View ArticleThings Christians Love: The Meaningless Apology.
We've talked before about the not-pology, that kind of apology that isn't actually a real apology. I've been reading PostChristian by Christian Piatt, who makes use of that common Christian distraction...
View ArticleLord Snow Presides… Over Christian Love, Marker Beliefs, and the Cost of...
Here we see exactly what happens when a tribe claiming ultimate moral authority and a stranglehold on the very concept of love is presented with a voice of dissent. The reality of Christian love ain't...
View ArticleHerd Immunity for the Christian Bubble
The denizens of broken systems tend to take very poorly to critics outside the group--and even more poorly to dissenters within it. Often they reserve their most vicious retaliation for those...
View ArticleThe Dark Origins of the Anti-Abortion Culture War
Last time we covered the mismatch between those two types of goals in apologetics. But that's not the biggest mismatch there is. That honor belongs to the Christian culture war against abortion. I'll...
View ArticleFalse Persecution and Dogwhistles: Mike Huckabee Gives Away the Game
Mike Huckabee's latest attempt was a few days ago, when he was appointed to--and then resigned from--the Country Music Award Foundation's board of directors. The whole affair is such a beautiful...
View Article“Come Sunday”– A Review (LSP #41)
Today, Lord Snow presides over a movie that might be about Christians and tackle a thoroughly Christian topic about one of the most universal Christian beliefs in the world, and yet still--despite all...
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