Captain Cassidy
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I write Roll to Disbelieve. Gen X. Ex-Christian. The angel's name is Eddie. Live only by truth.
I have an incredibly smart torbie cat called Squeaky. She doesn't care about vacuums, but the laser printer is her mortal enemy. So I'm teaching her the word "printer" so I can get her mentally prepared to hear the machine running. And she's learning fast! Hopefully it'll ease her stress.
December 22, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I have an incredibly smart torbie cat called Squeaky. She doesn't care about vacuums, but the laser printer is her mortal enemy. So I'm teaching her the word "printer" so I can get her mentally prepared to hear the machine running. And she's learning fast! Hopefully it'll ease her stress.
Alpha Course 10 (11 in some variants) is about how to "receive the Holy Spirit." But almost all of the video is more salesmanship - for a reason. This video is meant to be shown during a weekend retreat - and it is very hard- sell.
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Alpha Course #10 talks in circles around speaking in tongues | Captain Cassidy
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December 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Alpha Course 10 (11 in some variants) is about how to "receive the Holy Spirit." But almost all of the video is more salesmanship - for a reason. This video is meant to be shown during a weekend retreat - and it is very hard- sell.
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Until now, Alpha Course could pretend to be ecumenical. But now, the mask is off. Here are the influences that went into that Charismatic pivot - and Nicky Gumbel's own history with that faultline through Christianity.
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The weird Charismatic pivot in Alpha Course #9 | Captain Cassidy
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December 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Until now, Alpha Course could pretend to be ecumenical. But now, the mask is off. Here are the influences that went into that Charismatic pivot - and Nicky Gumbel's own history with that faultline through Christianity.
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I found out a while ago that in BlueSky's earliest days, people couldn't upload pics or gifs, so they talked like in Star Trek TNG: "Homer Simpson, retreating into the bush" and all that. I want that again. Let's normalize that.
Black guy in Old Spice ad, nodding in his shower.
Black guy in Old Spice ad, nodding in his shower.
December 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I found out a while ago that in BlueSky's earliest days, people couldn't upload pics or gifs, so they talked like in Star Trek TNG: "Homer Simpson, retreating into the bush" and all that. I want that again. Let's normalize that.
Black guy in Old Spice ad, nodding in his shower.
Black guy in Old Spice ad, nodding in his shower.
What evangelicals did to Christian music made an AI singer like Solomon Ray not only possible but inevitable. This story has been brewing for at least 40 years. (Also, I got to share my funny CCM parody links at last!)
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Solomon Ray has no soul. But then, neither does his industry | Captain Cassidy
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December 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
What evangelicals did to Christian music made an AI singer like Solomon Ray not only possible but inevitable. This story has been brewing for at least 40 years. (Also, I got to share my funny CCM parody links at last!)
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The AI chatbot Satan in 'Text With Jesus' isn't real. But they're still acting like it's the real thing. Maybe that's cuz there isn't a real thing to fear in the first place.
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Text With Jesus: Why an AI Satan scares some Christians | Captain Cassidy
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December 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The AI chatbot Satan in 'Text With Jesus' isn't real. But they're still acting like it's the real thing. Maybe that's cuz there isn't a real thing to fear in the first place.
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Happy weekend, folks! Today, we had fun asking "Text With Jesus" the questions we always had about a wide range of topics. Enjoy!
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LET'S PLAY: 'Text With Jesus' | Captain Cassidy
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November 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Happy weekend, folks! Today, we had fun asking "Text With Jesus" the questions we always had about a wide range of topics. Enjoy!
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Usually, the President's Address at the SBC Annual Meeting is a strategy statement or an evangelism exhortation. This time, though, it was a desperate plea for Southern Baptists not to leave the denomination.
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Southern Baptists heard a very different message at their Annual Meeting this year | Captain Cassidy
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November 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Usually, the President's Address at the SBC Annual Meeting is a strategy statement or an evangelism exhortation. This time, though, it was a desperate plea for Southern Baptists not to leave the denomination.
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Some very interesting stories hidden in the metrics in the 2025 SBC Annual Report! Decline, obfuscation, and maybe a little outright deception - for Jesus, of course, which makes it all okay.
(I've learned a bit of Excel. Fear my full-frontal nerdity.)
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(I've learned a bit of Excel. Fear my full-frontal nerdity.)
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The stories hiding in Southern Baptists' 2025 Annual Report | Captain Cassidy
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November 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Some very interesting stories hidden in the metrics in the 2025 SBC Annual Report! Decline, obfuscation, and maybe a little outright deception - for Jesus, of course, which makes it all okay.
(I've learned a bit of Excel. Fear my full-frontal nerdity.)
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(I've learned a bit of Excel. Fear my full-frontal nerdity.)
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Evangelicals remind me of gambling addicts with their constant cope about their win coming Any Day Now™.
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The amazing evangelical cope about their ongoing decline | Captain Cassidy
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November 8, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Evangelicals remind me of gambling addicts with their constant cope about their win coming Any Day Now™.
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Evangelicals have discovered seniors are leaving evangelicalism (while still ignoring Gen X, natch, of course, like we Gen Xers care!), but it's still way too late:
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Evangelicals have finally noticed seniors (but it's too late) | Captain Cassidy
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November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Evangelicals have discovered seniors are leaving evangelicalism (while still ignoring Gen X, natch, of course, like we Gen Xers care!), but it's still way too late:
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Meet Ashley, whose Great Evangelical Husband Hunt turned up empty. She did everything right, but somehow Jesus never dropped a husband into her lap.
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When the Great Evangelical Husband Hunt doesn't lead to marriage | Captain Cassidy
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November 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Meet Ashley, whose Great Evangelical Husband Hunt turned up empty. She did everything right, but somehow Jesus never dropped a husband into her lap.
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She did everything right. Every evangelical marriage guide would have said her fiance would be a perfect husband. But everything still went very, very wrong. An all too real fiction story:
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Women are the lambs on the evangelical marriage altar | Captain Cassidy
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October 29, 2025 at 12:45 AM
She did everything right. Every evangelical marriage guide would have said her fiance would be a perfect husband. But everything still went very, very wrong. An all too real fiction story:
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Absolutely loved these evangelical attempts to evangelize "postmodernists." As we found out last time, they can't even define postmodernism. So their strategies are *spectacularly* surreal - which does, let's face it, sound kinda postmodern itself.
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Evangelicals (think they) know exactly how to combat postmodernism | Captain Cassidy
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October 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Absolutely loved these evangelical attempts to evangelize "postmodernists." As we found out last time, they can't even define postmodernism. So their strategies are *spectacularly* surreal - which does, let's face it, sound kinda postmodern itself.
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Why #evangelicals think they hate #postmodernism so much despite being THE most postmodern people ever and not even understanding what it is in the first place:
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(And a surprise Creationist acknowledging the art and architecture sides of it!)
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(And a surprise Creationist acknowledging the art and architecture sides of it!)
Why evangelicals hate postmodernism so much | Captain Cassidy
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October 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Why #evangelicals think they hate #postmodernism so much despite being THE most postmodern people ever and not even understanding what it is in the first place:
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(And a surprise Creationist acknowledging the art and architecture sides of it!)
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(And a surprise Creationist acknowledging the art and architecture sides of it!)
Alpha Course #8 accidentally gives us one of the biggest dealbreakers in Christianity:
When something's imaginary, believers in it can describe it in any way they wish. After all, who's going to prove them wrong?
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When something's imaginary, believers in it can describe it in any way they wish. After all, who's going to prove them wrong?
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Alpha Course #8: The one that actually has no idea what the 'Holy Spirit' is | Captain Cassidy
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October 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Alpha Course #8 accidentally gives us one of the biggest dealbreakers in Christianity:
When something's imaginary, believers in it can describe it in any way they wish. After all, who's going to prove them wrong?
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When something's imaginary, believers in it can describe it in any way they wish. After all, who's going to prove them wrong?
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The video games industry and American religion aren't that different.
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Hard times may breed easy video games, but they also empty churches | Captain Cassidy
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October 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The video games industry and American religion aren't that different.
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A god who sets up elaborate coincidences to guide some followers, but refuses to rescue children molested by ministers. That's the dark side of divine guidance: A god who's either fantastically stupid or tremendously evil -- or, dare I say, nonexistent.
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The dark side of divine guidance (Alpha Course #7) | Captain Cassidy
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October 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
A god who sets up elaborate coincidences to guide some followers, but refuses to rescue children molested by ministers. That's the dark side of divine guidance: A god who's either fantastically stupid or tremendously evil -- or, dare I say, nonexistent.
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No matter how many times evangelicals and Catholics insist there's some massive Gen Z revival, the numbers so far don't support their claims.
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The ongoing myth of Gen Z revival | Captain Cassidy
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October 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
No matter how many times evangelicals and Catholics insist there's some massive Gen Z revival, the numbers so far don't support their claims.
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Alpha Course #7: Divine guidance. Christians can't even decide what it looks like, much less how it works. No surprise, though, right? It's really hard to pin down something imaginary.
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Alpha Course #7: The one with wild guesses about divine guidance | Captain Cassidy
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September 30, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Alpha Course #7: Divine guidance. Christians can't even decide what it looks like, much less how it works. No surprise, though, right? It's really hard to pin down something imaginary.
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So you weren't Raptured after all: A coping guide for the 'left behind'
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So you weren't Raptured after all: A coping guide for the 'left behind' | Captain Cassidy
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September 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
So you weren't Raptured after all: A coping guide for the 'left behind'
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Once again, the Rapture. Like all the other times. But this time for sure! Really!
We explore some of the underpinnings that run through all of these failed predictions. Plus: DIAGRAMS!
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We explore some of the underpinnings that run through all of these failed predictions. Plus: DIAGRAMS!
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September 23rd Rapture: This time for sure! | Captain Cassidy
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September 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Once again, the Rapture. Like all the other times. But this time for sure! Really!
We explore some of the underpinnings that run through all of these failed predictions. Plus: DIAGRAMS!
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We explore some of the underpinnings that run through all of these failed predictions. Plus: DIAGRAMS!
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We explore how the Jewish taboo against eating pork led to the ultimate rejection of all things Roman: Christianity.
This one became one of my favorite posts of the year so far. I hope you like it:
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This one became one of my favorite posts of the year so far. I hope you like it:
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Of pigs and pork: How the Roman Empire accidentally created Christianity | Captain Cassidy
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September 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
We explore how the Jewish taboo against eating pork led to the ultimate rejection of all things Roman: Christianity.
This one became one of my favorite posts of the year so far. I hope you like it:
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This one became one of my favorite posts of the year so far. I hope you like it:
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There's no "quiet revival" - or any other kind, for that matter. Here's why evangelicals can't face that truth:
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The revival that never came: Hopes for growth, shattered | Captain Cassidy
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September 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
There's no "quiet revival" - or any other kind, for that matter. Here's why evangelicals can't face that truth:
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This might be the worst Alpha Course video yet. This one's about why the Bible is totally relevant to everyone's lives. But Christians can say that as often as they please. That doesn't make it actually so. Even they know that!
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Alpha Course #6: Trying to make the Bible sound relevant | Captain Cassidy
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September 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
This might be the worst Alpha Course video yet. This one's about why the Bible is totally relevant to everyone's lives. But Christians can say that as often as they please. That doesn't make it actually so. Even they know that!
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