Posts Tagged ‘Christianity’

Test yourself!
Three of the seven following sites are parodies, while the others are serious attempts at religious expression. Good luck choosing which are which!
Landover Baptist Church
4 Step Proof for God of the Bible
OBJECTIVE: Ministries
Rapture Ready
Time Cube
Chick Tract – The Last Generation
True Christian Church of Christ

Valerie Tarico, Ph.D. is a psychologist in Seattle, Washington.  She is the author of The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth, the founder of www.WisdomCommons.org, and the host of Christianity in the Public Square, Moral Politics Television, Seattle.
“… I prayed harder and just then I felt like everything I was saying was [...]

Oh, Mars Hill… if you’re around, and feel like dealing with a missionary, go to Grey Gallery and Lounge on 11th between Pike and Pine on Capitol Hill Mondays at 5:30pm. Maybe they’ll try to “fix you.”

Guess who’s coming to visit us on Capitol Hill, folks? Mars Hill Church.
This week, Mars Hill’s Joel Fariss—a deacon [...]

Here we go again… the U.S. military again fails to address the psychological needs of its soldiers:
A recent edition of the U.S. Army’s suicide prevention manual advises military chaplains to promote “religiosity,” specifically Christianity, as a way to deter distraught soldiers from committing suicide, which in recent months, according to one veterans advocacy group, has [...]

Thanks to hambydammit for this great post.
… Similarly, the threat of hell has no particular weight upon those who do not believe that it exists. Since it is supposedly designed specifically as punishment for the crime of not believing that it exists, we must admit we’re faced with a circular argument. The threat of hell [...]