News came out on Tuesday that the Church of England (CofE, what Americans would call the Episcopal Church) have decided to go ahead and ordain women bishops. To a secular person, that doesn’t seem like a big deal – gender discrimination is, after all, illegal in Great Britain – but to many in the Church, [...]
by VorJack
There have been a number of books recently in which a person with little or no religious sentiment goes to a fundamentalist church or school, just to see what it’s like from the inside. The people involved rarely have the sort of training that allows them to come out with any deep insight.
This [...]
by VorJack
Some Christians and former Christians are fond of pointing at the doctrine of biblical innerrancy and calling it idolatry – the act of taking something less than God and making it out to be God. Robert Price is fond of doing this in his BibleGeek webcast.
The idea is that Christian fundamentalists are [...]
I received this bundle of crazy in my inbox today:
My friend “i” was gathering microbiologists and came across your blog! The mystery of Gods Word is finished Rev:10:7! It the Word has all along been a medical code/key sent us for the now end of sickness and premature death! Rev:21:4! Go too His [...]
Steve Gaines doesn’t like gay people. He banned a woman from coaching in his church’s softball league because she admitted to being gay:
Bellevue Baptist Church pastor Steve Gaines told his congregation Sunday that any church leader found in serious sin would have been prohibited from coaching in the church’s athletic leagues, just as a woman [...]
by Lorette C. Luzajic
Part 27 of Pillars of Faith
Guilty as Spongebob
Jim’s writings were revered like Apostle Paul’s in my childhood home. His Focus on the Family propaganda is so wholeheartedly American that it became brand. After three decades of homo-terror warnings, not even his ridiculous boycott of Spongebob made him lose credibility among disciples. Spongebob [...]
by Edman
As a resident of the Southern US, I tend to make the mistake of thinking that the power struggle between fundamentalists and secularists is confined to my region, and that the rest of the world is somehow a little more enlightened. A UF reader has kindly sent in a letter informing us of a [...]
They want to scare the hell out of you… literally.
I participated in shit like that when I was a Christian — it was very manipulative and pathetic.
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