Easter Mess: On the Virtue of Not Pleasing Silly People

Easter Mess: On the Virtue of Not Pleasing Silly People

IS SATANISM ANTI-CHRISTIAN? SHOULD WE CARE? More and more Americans these days fret about “anti-Christian discrimination.” Just for fun, let’s take a break from curing our Easter hams with their salty tears and explore that. A 2016 Brookings study...
That Time Jesus and the Devil Went Hiking Together

That Time Jesus and the Devil Went Hiking Together

THE TEMPTATION OF CHRIST: WHEN SATAN IS THE SMARTEST GUY IN THE ROOM Time for some Satanic Bible study: Now, Post-Job, Satan doesn’t do much in the Bible until we get to the gospels and the temptation of Christ. This story is one of my favorites. I see it as...

Tuam’s Convent Horror: No Devil Needed

NUN COVER-UP IN TUAM, IRELAND IS SCARIER THAN SATAN Be warned, this one gets upsetting fast. Remember back in January, when the state of Texas proposed a law requiring mass graves for aborted fetuses? Of course you do, who could forget? Back then, I declared fetal...

No Such Thing As “Too Crazy” In Trump’s America

PIZZAGATE, SATANIC PANIC, AND THE NEW POLITICAL CAPITAL OF CRAZY I used to think the Satanic Panic was ancient history and conspiracy theories were funny. Then came 2016, Pizzagate, and Trump, and now nothing’s funny anymore. When I talk about religious zealots,...