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The Misadventures of Person C, or, Why Couldn't God Just Forgive Us?

There’s a lot on my mind lately, but, though it’s not really a great pressing concern to me, I keep coming back to one particular issue.  Perhaps that means it will be illuminating to somebody, so here it is.

From several places, I’ve heard what appears to be a common objection to the [...]

“I Have a Sign”: Answering Spiritual Abusers According to Their Folly

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“Are you looking for a sign from God? This is it.” — seen on too many church signs

In the popular imagination, Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist “Church” probably deserve their status as the archetypal hateful ultra-fundamentalist spiritual abusers. (They’re the ones who popularized the infamous slogan, “God hates [anti-homosexual slur redacted]s.”) [...]

God’s Little Instruction Book?

A lot of people seem to read the Bible this way:

[Note: that's apparently an actual book, oddly enough, but the following is not any kind of review or comment on it; I haven't read it and don't plan to.]

God’s Little Instruction Book. Sounds pretty good, no? You [...]