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In another instance of "we could do an entire podcast on this..." Spider and Shelle examine a TINY sampling of the ways the Bible contradicts itself and how some of these contradictions have the ability to unravel some of the most important doctrines in evangelical faith. Our Christians Behaving Badly segment showcases an incomplete prophetic pass, a pastor who can't figure out how NOT to be an ass, and more Greg Locke lunacy... 'nuff said?

"Talk about suffering here below..." and you MUST be talking about something other than Christians in America. The sense of entitlement that evangelicals in America possess is truly next level and their definition of persecution just goes to prove that they have no idea what being persecuted is. This week, we look at the evangelical persecution complex phenomenon and set the record straight about what religious persecution is and what it isn't. Also, in an odd twist, it's Christians calling out other Christians

and one teen badass with a message for evangelicals that tried to infiltrate his high school this week on Christians behaving badly.

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There are real dangers in taking everything the Bible says literally. Snake handlers really believe that theirs is a necessary element to fulfilling the word of God, based solely on a single controversial passage in the Gospel of Mark. What makes people hop on this particular bandwagon KNOWING that they could literally die on it? We look at that question and more this week along with three more stories from the files of Christians behaving badly. 

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"Don't let the stories and pretty lights fool you. Religion is darkness." If only this was the message of this movie and not just a fleeting counterpoint... While Life of Pi is an exciting tale of survival against impossible odds, it also presents messaging about religion that we think needs to be addressed. There is plenty to learn here about how to approach (and not approach) the subject of religion and spirituality within ourselves.

This week, we steer away from the history of Azusa Street and take a look at the psychology behind the movement and how this sort of thing is actually typical in many areas of life. The Bandwagon Effect has strong influences over everything from religion to pop culture and even smart, free-thinking people are affected by it all the time. Learning its causes, its effects, and get some valuable advice about how not to get taken in by "every wind of doctrine" is the focus of this episode, along with three more tales of evangelical insanity in our Christians Behaving Badly segment.

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Take a walk with Spider and Shelle through the story of the birth of the modern pentecostal movement. Not needing proof of something being real has been a running thread through all religions, but in this instance, even we have to be amazed at how WIlliam Seymour managed to convince so many people that this thing called holy spirit baptism was real even before he "received" it himself. Offer some people just a little bit of power and they'll follow you anywhere. This plus an awesomely alliterative edition of Christians Behaving Badly, fortified with problematic Patheos policies, plants in paradise, and papal bull about  pets.

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If we don't do something about global warming soon, it could very well be too late, but conservative politics and bad messaging about climate change are successfully driving errant thoughts and misconceptions, especially among evangelicals. This is our conversation for episode 95 along with three more stories from the files of Christians behaving badly.

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Class is in at American Eagles Christian High School and Spider and Shelle have a lot to say about the goings on in and around its walls. In this episode, we look at the 2004 teen comedy "Saved" and how many things it gets right about the seldom-charmed life of the Christian teenager. Our Christians behaving badly segment includes creationist hijinks, church closure, and the FFRF shoots the sherriff... a letter. 

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We know... new year's resolutions are a bit cliché. But what if you had a good framework that allowed you to develop workable, plausible, meaningful, and substantive resolutions based on  what you know (or want to learn) about yourself? We look at that question and more in this episode. Christians behaving badly brings us stories of attention-seeking clergy, Mormon-shaming billionaire style, and just one more reason to love the Satanic Temple.

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How could a story so fraught with contradictions and disagreements among its tellers, literally from its first verses,  ever be taken seriously enough to spur on a global religion that goes on for more than two thousand years? It's a true mystery that isn't about to be solved anytime soon. What do the gospel writers have to say about Jesus' birth? Why do two of them not even bother to mention it? If there were angels singing to shepherds, why didn't at least ONE credible historian ever notice? This week, we take apart the nativity story and examine these questions along with a few others and attempt to demonstrate the impossibility that any of it could actually be true. In Christians behaving badly we have love, guns and tornadoes with some encouraging news courtesy of Pew Research.

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