Religious Satire

Forget what you think you know about the Good Book. The BC Bible is not a sermon—it’s a riotous, irreverent, and razor-sharp deep dive into the most bizarre, brutal, and brilliantly baffling stories in the Bible. Written with wit, bite, and a historian’s curiosity, Robert Ragnar takes you on a chronological journey through scripture with a scalpel in one hand and a shot of whiskey in the other. From talking snakes to cosmic floods, divine tantrums to circumcision revenge plots, Ragnar unpacks the ancient texts with equal parts skepticism, satire, and sincere wonder. Raised in the pews...

Because you know it's nonsense, but were never sure why.

The Complete Mercury Series By Robert Kroese When a wisecracking angel with a checkered past gets put on divine probation, Earth becomes his proving ground—and humanity his unwitting straight man. This complete collection brings together all five books in Robert Kroese’s riotously irreverent Mercury series, a satirical blend of theology, action, and cosmic bureaucracy. Follow Mercury, a fallen (but technically not that fallen) angel with a penchant for bending the rules, as he stumbles through apocalyptic prophecies, celestial politics, and really bad ideas involving flamethrowers. ...

Sanity is a relative concept in a universe gone mad. Jaymes Shore’s latest anthology of science fiction, speculative fiction, horror, and satire features thirty-three tales set in our uncertain and rather unpleasant future. They are not for the squeamish or easily offended. Hostile business takeovers become a literal concept in our post-apocalyptic future as employees are drafted into military service for the price war. It’s time to die for your company or face termination. Revitalized seeded clone colonies spread humanity across the stars. A programming error transforms one of these ...

After derailing more apocalypses than he can count (or remember), Mercury is finally ready for some downtime. But peace and quiet are hard to come by when you're an immortal rogue cherub with a reputation for divine disruption. Just as Mercury settles into a new identity, a disturbing pattern begins to emerge—one involving alternate dimensions, supernatural entities, and a centuries-old plan to rewrite reality itself. Enter a mysterious tech mogul with a god complex, a reclusive inventor with too many ideas, and an end-times preacher whose timing might finally be right. When Mercury ...

A thirty-foot Nephite Trojan Horse. A multi-galaxy craft conspiracy. And the most dangerous camp prank in church history. Fourteen-year-old Monson Eldridge isn't trying to cause an international incident. He’s just trying to survive the annual church summer camp, secure a high-tier European mission call, and somehow convince Mercy—the beautiful, dream-pop-loving girl from the rival Christian camp across the border—that he’s cool. But in the insular, hyper-corporate culture of Camp Moroni, "cool" requires desperate measures. Backed by a quorum of hyper-sheltered deacons equipped with...

Nine raw transmissions from the cosmic truth-teller, finally breaking silence. Noxlumina—the original questioner—has watched long enough as Christian nationalism tightens its grip, tyranny masquerades as freedom, and willful ignorance is celebrated as virtue. These messages arrive not as gentle whispers but as a cold, clarifying slap to humanity's collective consciousness. Part scathing critique, part liberation manual, these transmissions systematically dismantle the inversions we've been sold as truth while providing practical tools for those ready to break free from mass delusion. ...

Ronin Drake used to sell survival for a living. Antidepressants. Grief software. Body armor. Anything with a wound and a marketing budget. Then a luxury apocalypse retreat called The Ark Initiative hires him to craft language for its newest product: a private rapture experience for billionaires, founders, political families, and anyone rich enough to want judgment customized. The money is obscene. The premise is worse. Then Ronin discovers the campaign’s central line was stolen from his own suicide note. At The Ark, guests wear biometric wristbands, confess into premium pods, rehearse ...

*This Special Edition contains two previously unpublished stories* A little faith may help some people through the long dark night, and into the light. Sometimes, faith leads people into the darkest places imaginable (depending on how dark your imagination is). Any sinister action can be justified in the name of God. It doesn’t matter if your God is real, imaginary, or something in-between. Prepare to be offended by sixteen tales of belief gone amiss. These are failings in both God and Country. In all cases, blind faith has led to tragic results or at least the unpleasant ones. Many of ...

What if God was just a man with enough money? Earth, 2785. The planet is a curated paradise ruled by five corporate houses, while billions scrape out short, brutal lives on Mars. Abraham Goldstein — 250 years old, the richest man alive, and dying — has exhausted everything medicine can sell him. Then his secret quantum project breaches the Divine Dimension, and what he finds there changes everything: God is dead. And he left blueprints. Armed with mind-control technology reverse-engineered from a dead deity, Abraham builds Eden: an artificial world of abducted Martian refugees who ...

God welcomes you to the new American theocracy. Enjoy your stay. It may not be the paradise you anticipated. Murder, rape, slavery, oppression, genocide, destruction or any other evil can be justified. You just have to know where to look in the Bible. If God wants it, how can it be wrong? Prepare for fourteen stories of religion run amok. These tales will offend strongly religious people. You have been warned. A little faith may comfort many in times of darkness, but not these people. Putting God back into America seems a pretty good idea to the faithful, but what happens when it’s not ...

Known to historians as "the First American," Benjamin Franklin is without a doubt the most accessible of America's founding fathers. His writings have inspired millions of Americans, and even now, more than 200 years after his death, his wit and humor still brighten lives all across the world. But what was this great man's view on faith? Was he really a Deist as so many historians have proposed? Was he a humanist like so many of his French friends? Is there any possibility that he could have been a Christian? In this unique volume, Bill Fortenberry has collected everything that Franklin ...

Welcome to Heaven, Inc., the grossly mismanaged corporation in the sky. For as long as anyone can remember, the founder and CEO (known in some circles as "God") has been phoning it in. Lately, he's been spending most of his time on the golf course. And when he does show up at work, it's not to...

Everything is all Doug’s fault. The Horn of Destiny is missing from the Seraphim Symphonic practice room and the Apocalypse is set to begin prematurely. He always was a clumsy GA-1 (Guardian Angel First Degree). No wonder he never got promoted. Now the fate of the world rests in the hands of his human client, a mentally unstable trumpet player named Steve who takes all his advice from his pet cat Smokey. Oh, and someone on earth had the bright idea to run the dreaded Horn of Destiny through a 3-D printer and sell copies on eBay. God help us all!

Upon the end of days, Lucifer, the Fallen One, that Infernal of Infernals and Murderer of Hope, wonders if his Father will bother to raise another race after Armageddon. After all, he'll only have to tempt them - again - to certain death. Their choice, not his. On God's behalf, Archangel Michael responds. So begins a series of letters between two brothers, at once cordial and combative, about their purpose, their fears, their familial estrangement, and their Father's great folly: the human race. 

What happens when two decades of rigorous, good-faith arguments fail to change a single mind? For more than twenty years, researcher Brien Norris embarked on an ambitious project in the trenches of real-world interaction—in church basements, at coffee shop debates, and across family dinner tables. He deployed the best tools of logic, science, and historical criticism in conversations with hundreds of committed Evangelicals and Fundamentalists. His goal was simple: to find a definitive method for opening a mind sealed by faith. This book is the result of that exhaustive study. Inside, you ...

A disgraced ghostwriter hides in a roadside motel and finds a Bible that writes back the truth. Ethan Turner made his living turning famous sinners into bestselling redemption stories. Actors, pastors, chefs, recovery icons, men with lawyers and publicists and beautiful explanations for the damage they left behind. Ethan knew what to cut: names, dates, receipts, witnesses, women who made the narrative inconvenient. Then his career collapses, and he runs to the Mercy Motor Lodge off I-40. Room 14 has stained carpet, bad lighting, a dead pool outside, and a blank motel Bible in the nightstand...

Care to sell your soul? Imagine all that money! Fear not 'tis but a metaphor. Simply look inside this book and see for yourself! it's a sort of "how to manual" with many insiders definitions... And the salesman is handsome, vaguely foreign, & possessed of obvious...Intelligence. He has an air of sophistication for he is "a man of wealth and taste". A witty look at the strange world of inter-dimensional diplomatic missions , . . The Devil's Diplomatic Dictionary brings a light-hearted laugh to the world of diplomacy, providing funny definitions of the most common terms and phrases of ...

Working in retail cosmetics is bad enough without an infectious pandemic supposedly turning everyone into bloodthirsty zombies. When counting down the days before Black Friday feels like the end of the world, four friends fear they might be right. A backstage pass to the inner circle of luxury beauty and a devilish look at consumer nature, The Dead Don't Buy Makeup brings the humor and the body count. Fashion, beauty, and an indoor amusement park; Maxxitall Mall has it all. With all-new stores and a super sized food court, you won't ever want to leave--and if the endless hordes of ...

Jesus Inc. – A Divine Comedy/Tragedy of Faith, Power, and the Business of Belief Behind the dazzling lights, powerful sermons, and awe-inspiring worship of Old Rugged Cross Church lies something far more complex—a system. One that lifts people up, but also lets them down. That inspires, but sometimes exploits. That seeks to serve, but struggles with its own soul. Jack thought he was answering the call to ministry. Instead, he stepped into the inner workings of a multimillion-dollar megachurch—where faith meets franchise, leadership is performance art, and success is measured in ...