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Beastly Christianity

Posted by Fred Clark

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/09/24/beastly-christianity/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=71378

Here's a much, much better example of Black South African pastors preaching from the book of Revelation. It had nothing to do with "Rapture" folklore.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/09/24/beastly-christianity/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=71378

TikTok Rapture

Posted by Fred Clark

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/09/22/tiktok-rapture/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=71360

"The Rapture" will not be happening tomorrow because "the Rapture" is not actually a thing and thus will not ever be happening.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/09/22/tiktok-rapture/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=71360

LBCF: Mostly dead

Posted by Fred Clark

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/09/19/lbcf-mostly-dead/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=71354

Yet another part of the book in which the authors completely ignore and forget about the divine slaughter of every child on the planet.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/09/19/lbcf-mostly-dead/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=71354

‘On the side of the underdog, always and everywhere’

Posted by Fred Clark

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/09/18/on-the-side-of-the-underdog-always-and-everywhere-2/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=71342

"'If men would behave decently the world would be decent' is not such a platitude as it sounds."

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/09/18/on-the-side-of-the-underdog-always-and-everywhere-2/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=71342

‘My Dear Wormw–‘ … No. Just stop.

Posted by Fred Clark

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/09/17/my-dear-wormw-no-just-stop/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=71321

Laura Robinson on why Screwtape is so good and its imitators are so bad. Plus some grave visits and that discussion of Pentecostal historiography you've all been waiting for.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/09/17/my-dear-wormw-no-just-stop/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=71321

‘A brief encounter’

Posted by Fred Clark

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/09/16/a-brief-encounter/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=71312

In which I regret never getting to ask our old family friend Missionary Bob about his potential connections to the Romanian Revolution.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/09/16/a-brief-encounter/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=71312

No, Donny, these men are nihilists

Posted by Fred Clark

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/09/15/no-donny-these-men-are-nihilists/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=71300

Walter Sobchak was right to find nihilists deplorable, but he was wrong to think they're not dangerous.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/09/15/no-donny-these-men-are-nihilists/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=71300

What I learned from the murder of Jo Cox

Posted by Fred Clark

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/09/11/what-i-learned-from-the-murder-of-jo-cox/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=71288

In 2016, I briefly imagined that I understood how explicit fascism and political violence would affect public opinion. Then I quickly came to understand that I did not understand that at all.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/09/11/what-i-learned-from-the-murder-of-jo-cox/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=71288