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They told us purity rings would protect us. They told us pledge cards would keep us safe. They told us teen sexuality could be shut down with a contract and a youth pastor’s pep talk. Spoiler: they were wrong.

In this episode of The Mighty Philbert, we dive deep into the world of 90s purity culture—the rings, the pledge cards, the awkward ceremonies, and the crushing shame it left behind. We’ll hear real survivor stories, look at the fallout from abstinence-only “education,” and rip apart the absurdity with plenty of...

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Two pastors claim “empathy” is a modern sin that erodes truth, wrecks marriages, and might usher in civil war. Cute theory. In this breakdown, we separate word games from reality: what empathy actually is (attune + understand + help—with boundaries), how real counseling works, and why “never apologize unless Heaven says so” is just stonewalling in a suit.
If you’ve ever been told empathy makes you lose the shore—bring a rope. We’re keeping our balance and our brains.
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Tonight, Captive Desk will be joining us to talk about his week from Hell. Thanks, Dave for coming on to chat with us tonight and we know you're going to continue to kick the Reaper's ass for many years to come!

Check Out Captive Desk's Channel Which Includes his special Saturday Night at the Atheists Segment:
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Also Check Out The Grassman Chronicles:
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You can also contact Dave at: allhailbigfoot@gmail.com

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The church loves Jesus — as long as they control the script. But when Broadway and Hollywood put their own spin on the story? Outrage. From Jesus Christ Superstar to Godspell to Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ, Christians have boycotted, protested, and even firebombed theaters in the name of “protecting” Jesus. Join The Mighty Philbert as we dive into the church’s wild reaction to musicals, movies, and the fear of losing their monopoly on the Messiah.

#JesusChristSuperstar #Godspell #LastTemptationOfChrist #TheMightyPhilbert #ReligiousHypocrisy #GenX

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So here’s the thing — if you hold up Jesus to modern cult psychology, he doesn’t look like your loving neighborhood carpenter. He looks like a guy running the first-century version of NXIVM with better robes.

In this episode of The Mighty Philbert, I’m breaking down 10 Ways the Bible Proves Jesus Was a Cult Leader — using Steven Hassan’s B.I.T.E. model (Behavior, Information, Thought, Emotional control) as the measuring stick. Spoiler: Jesus checks all the boxes.

We’ll cover:

Why Jesus dema...

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I’m an atheist. I don’t believe in the Bible, and I don’t buy into heaven, hell, or “God’s standards.” But I do believe in compassion over cruelty—and on that front, I’ll give credit where it’s due. The United Methodist Church (UMC) has taken steps toward inclusion of women and LGBTQ people, and that’s worth celebrating.

In this video, I dismantle a rant from the channel In Layman Terminology, which claims the UMC has “fallen,” blames women pastors and “effeminate men,” and calls LGBTQ Christians agents of Satan...

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In 1981, MTV changed everything. Suddenly music wasn’t just something you heard — it was something you saw. To parents, preachers, and pearl-clutchers everywhere, that meant only one thing: Satan had found a new cable channel.

In this episode of The Mighty Philbert, we rewind to the golden age of music videos and the not-so-golden age of moral panic. We’ll cover:

🎸 MTV’s launch and why it terrified the church😱 Tipper Gore, the PMRC, and the “Explicit Lyrics” sticker that sold more albums than it prevented⚖️ Heavy Metal on trial — from Judas...

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🎉 Labor Day Special! 🎉

Welcome to a very special holiday edition of The Mighty Philbert! Today, we’re taking a playful trip into childhood nostalgia with “Mr. Philbert and the Big Nasty Bully.”

Think Mr. Rogers meets Blue’s Clues — with cartoons, sing-alongs, and a little parody twist. Only this time, the “bully” we’re talking about looks a whole lot like the God of the Old Testament — jealous, angry, vengeful, and always demanding to be the only friend on the playground.

👶 What’s Inside This Episode...

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The Church loves to preach about sin, modesty, and “godly families” — but when women are abused, the victim is the one who gets blamed. From purity culture to pulpit cover-ups, it’s a system built to protect predators and shame survivors.

In this episode of The Mighty Philbert, we’re pulling no punches. From the infamous Paige Patterson “pray harder” advice, to the global “What Were You Wearing?” campaign, to shocking statistics about violence against women, we’re exposing the hypocrisy and the harm inside Christian communities.

If you or someone you know...

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Step into the neon-soaked, Aquanet-fueled world of 1980s televangelism — where God’s “anointed” weren’t just preachers, they were TV stars, salespeople, and scandal magnets.

In this episode of The Mighty Philbert, we dive into the golden age of Christian TV — the PTL Club, TBN, CBN — and the televangelists who turned religion into a billion-dollar business. From Jim Bakker’s fraud and sex scandal, to Jimmy Swaggart’s infamous “I have sinned” meltdown, Robert Tilton’s prayer-trash-and-cash scheme, and Tony Alamo’s cult empire of abuse, we’re unpacking the circus that shaped Gen X’s view of...

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This week, we’re diving into The Great Hell Scare — when churches turned Hell into a horror franchise long before Netflix picked up the idea. From sweaty revival preachers describing worms eating your flesh, to Hell Houses scarier than any haunted house, to Jack Chick comics that made Dungeons & Dragons look like a Satanic initiation ceremony… we saw it all.

And the baggage? Yeah, we’re still unpacking that. Anxiety, nightmares, religious trauma, and the kind of childhood fear that makes you wonder if Capri Suns were just communion cups wit...

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J. Warner Wallace, Lee Strobel, and Josh McDowell all claim they’ve got the “case” for the Bible locked down. Wallace waves around Acts like a detective’s notebook, Strobel plays cheerleader with leading questions, and McDowell buries us under a so-called “tsunami of evidence.”But when you dig deeper, what you actually find is silence treated like proof, manuscript quantity hype sold as truth, circular eyewitness claims, and emotional pivots whenever the facts run dry.

In this episode of The Mighty Philbert, I take you on a sarcastic field trip through the apologet...

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Today, we explore how the Satanic Panic of the 1980s and ’90s echoed the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. From spectral evidence to satanic daycares, it’s a tale of mass hysteria, moral crusades, and the lives ruined in the name of righteousness. Buckle up, GenXers — this one’s gonna hurt.

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#SatanicPanic #SalemWitchTrials #GenX #Deconstruction #McMartinPreschool #TheMightyPhilbert #Exvangelical #CounterApologetics #MoralPanic #ReligiousTrauma #CultSurvivor #DaycareTrials

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In this week’s episode of The Mighty Philbert, we dig up the greatest comeback story never told — the resurrection of Jesus — as told by Christian apologist and professional anecdote machine, Josh McDowell. Armed with Mel Gibson movies, mystery engineers, and a suspicious lack of sources, Josh makes his case for the resurrection… and I take it apart, one contradiction at a time.
 
 We’ll cover:
 - The recycled story of “500 witnesses”
 - The Georgia Tech Stone Calculation™
 - Why women preparing Jesus’ body makes zero cultural or textual sense
 - An...

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Labubu dolls are not possessed. But the people making viral videos about them? Might be possessed by the spirit of the 1980s Satanic Panic.

In this episode of The Mighty Philbert, we refute a wildly popular video claiming Labubu dolls are demonic, cause paranormal activity, and are gateways to witchcraft. We take a sarcastic, hard-hitting look at this ridiculous claim and trace it back to decades of evangelical fear-mongering — from Smurfs to Slayer to Scooby-Doo.

We’ll also explore the real dangers of demon-obsession by sharing the heartbreaking story of A...

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Did Christianity really make the world a better place? Or is that just a holy-sounding remix of colonial history with a halo filter?
 In this episode of The Mighty Philbert, I respond to Inspiring Philosophy’s viral video, “How Christianity Changed the World,” and break down the myths, cherry-picked stats, and historical revisionism.
From missionary myths to Protestant propaganda, we unpack the good, the bad, and the sanctified ugly.
👊 Strap in — this is gonna get biblical.

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Is science actually a secret sermon? Or is someone just selling you theological snake oil in a lab coat?

In this final episode of The Four Winds of Christian Apologetics series, The Mighty Philbert tackles John Lennox’s book Cosmic Chemistry — a bold attempt to argue that science not only supports Christianity, but outright proves it.

We’ll dissect Lennox’s biggest arguments — the God of the Gaps, his cosmic leap to Jesus, and the morality myth — and expose why his claims don’t hold up under the microscope. This episode b...

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Is the Kalam Cosmological Argument the ultimate proof for God... or just theological sleight-of-hand dressed in a lab coat? In this episode of The Mighty Philbert, we take a scalpel (and a sledgehammer) to William Lane Craig’s favorite apologetic argument — and expose just how far it leaps from “a cause” to “definitely the Christian God.”

We’ll dig into the science, unpack the philosophy, and mock the metaphysics — all while quoting physicists like Lawrence Krauss, Sean Carroll, Stephen Hawking, and more. Spoiler alert: the universe doesn’t come with a “Made by Yahweh” tag.

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This week on the Mighty Philbert, we take a look at Frank Turek's claims that morality can't exist with the Christian God. 

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In this episode of The Mighty Philbert, we take a wrecking ball to Lee Strobel’s so-called “4 Proofs of the Resurrection” from The Case for Christ. From vague creeds to questionable tombs and recycled Bible verses dressed up as eyewitnesses — we pull back the curtain and expose the apologetic sleight of hand. 

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Today’s episode is for anyone who’s ever deconstructed and then made the mistake of mentioning it out loud. Because the moment you say “I don’t believe anymore,” suddenly your sweet Aunt Carol turns into a cross between C.S. Lewis and a telemarketer trying to win you back to Team Jesus. You’re not having a conversation — you’re being recruited like a lost puppy with hell in your eyes. So let’s talk about the 10 things you should absolutely avoid when having one of these glorious exchanges with believers. We'll roast it, ra...

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In this chilling episode of Deadhead Miles, we dive headfirst into the shadowy world of highway serial killers. First, we unravel the disturbing mystery of the Redhead Murders—a string of unsolved deaths spanning over a decade, with victims dumped along America's interstates. Then, we shift gears into the case of John Robert Williams, the so-called Big Rig Killer, who used his long-haul routes as a cover for murder. Finally, we bring it all to the present with Clark Perry Baldwin, a trucker whose brutal crimes went unsolved for decades—until DNA caught up w...

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In this episode of The Mighty Philbert, we dig into the explosive allegations against former Newsboys frontman Michael Tait — and we’re not holding back. From grooming and assault to drugs and double lives, this isn’t just another "Christian celebrity gone astray" story. This is about power, protection, and the sickening double standard in the Christian music industry.

While abusers like Tait and Michael English are welcomed back with open arms after "repenting," artists like Ray Boltz and Jennifer Knapp were erased for simply being honest about who they are.

T...