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I didn't realize the first two items here were connected until I read the third one.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2024/05/13/life-in-the-negative-world/

Left Behind's characters -- and authors, and fans -- don't want to see other people "get saved." They want to watch as those sinners get punished and sent to Hell.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2024/05/10/lbcf-go-to-hell/

If you want to know what Trump's "Project 2025" will mean for America, read the latest story about the abrupt firing of a Christian college professor.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2024/05/09/grace-college-leopards-faces-and-life-under-trump/

How did all the marsupials walk from Turkey to Australia? They didn't. Even though you're not allowed to say that at some evangelical colleges.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2024/05/08/the-long-march-of-the-koalas-revisited/

Today is my mother’s birthday, which seems like a good excuse to re-post this on one of the things she un-taught me about God. Mom gets the last word My mother’s tombstone, near the top of De...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2024/05/06/all-the-time/

In which the "heroes" of Left Behind establish their heroism by threading their way past injured crash victims, heroically avoiding helping any of them.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2024/05/03/lbcf-scream-morality/

What all worship songs start to sound like after a while. Plus: the closest we came to dancing at my church, and tacos so good you'll hope the good Lord tarries long enough for you to eat them tw...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2024/05/02/our-god-is-red-hot-your-god-aint-doodley-squat/

A police officer in riot gear looks as reasonable and cool as a guy walking down the sidewalk in a wet-suit and football helmet. Plus: Two botched predictions from this blog in 2016.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2024/04/30/tactical-vested-interests/

A Texas pastor would've been better off retelling "The Aristocrats!" from the pulpit instead of the gross joke he actually told.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2024/04/29/dirty-jokes/

Take time to listen to Raffi, Rabbi Danya Rutenberg, Dahlie Lithwick & Mark Joseph Stern, Andrea Dworkin, and Raffi. Yes, Raffi.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2024/04/26/smart-people-saying-smart-things-4-25-24/