Killing the Buddha has an excerpt from Frank Schaeffer’s Patience with God about the disastrous politics of the rapture. Schaeffer gives a good introduction to the Left Behind phenomenon which has worried me for some time, even before I was an atheist. Here’a an excerpt:
[F]eeding the paranoid delusions of people on the fringe of the fringe contributes to [...]
Josh Sullivan received a “33-page handwritten letter lamenting my unbelief, urging me to reconsider, and ultimately appealing to a fear of hell for the decisions I make about what I choose to not believe in.” So he did what most intelligent young men would do — he wrote her back and explained why he thought [...]
The Master Plan will be coming out November 10, 2009. It’s “a feature film about Christian youth culture in suburban America, and a teen girl’s struggle with evangelical Christianity.” Here’s a new clip from it, about a girl trying to witness to a friend about Jesus.
Sick? Thirsty? Got money to burn? Then maybe you should buy some Fruit of the Spirit! That’s right, even atheists can partake with the Holy Spirit’s fruit simply by ordering some kitschy stuff from a Christian website!
What is Fruit of the Spirit? Glad you asked:
Fruit of the Spirit is a whole fruit puree rich in [...]
Fundies occasionally have bonfires where they pressure youth to burn their old “evil” books and music — solidifying their new identity in Christianity.
In that spirit, a Baptist church in North Carolina is hosting a good ol’ fashioned book burning — but this time, it’s the Bible. That is, any Bible that isn’t the OneTrueTranslation™, the [...]
If God wanted fundamentalists to be accepting of gays, wouldn’t he have given them some warmth and compassion to do so? But he didn’t, so it’s obvious he wants them to hate gays and strip them of their rights. Or at least that’s what an article in The Onion argues. As usual, a great point [...]
I’ve listened to Derek Webb for about a decade. He’s a Christian musician, and I’ve enjoyed his honesty and skillful songwriting. We share some similar history in theology and disillusionment, but he ended up moving towards a more liberal/social Christianity whereas I got out altogether.
Though I’m not overly fond of his recent music style, I [...]
by Lorette C. Luzajic
Part 17 of the Pillars of Faith series
Marching to Zion
Fire and brimstone is alive and well. The San Antonio church, Cornerstone, boasts 19,000 members, and the ministry telecast spans 160 TV stations and some 50 radio stations.
Though his disparaging comments against women, gays, blacks and pagans raise few eyebrows among fundamentalists, Hagee’s [...]
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Nelly: ditto The Book Burning That Wasn’t
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gmcfly: Someone needs to read Romans 13. Pray for Obama
