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September 15, 2016

Trump and the Evangelicals are now One and the Same– Literally. To the Evangelicals America’s Gays, Blacks, Hispanics and Women are a “Strong-Willed” Child in Need of Breaking and if Need be– Killing

(Photo queerty.com/YouTube) An old friend of mine Gary Bauer -- we worked together on the...

September 14, 2016

HERE IS A NEW BOMBSHELL JUST DROPPED ON TRUMP BY NEWSWEEK THAT TRUMP CAN’T EXPLAIN AWAY. IS THIS FINALLY THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR AMERICA’S NUMBER 1 LIAR?

(PHOTO Twitter by Cher ) "Never before has an American candidate for president had so...

September 13, 2016

HERE’S WHY THE AMERICAN “PATRIOTIC” EVANGELICAL RELIGIOUS RIGHT NOW SUPPORTS THE MURDERER/FASCIST AMERICA-HATING THUG PUTIN

(Photos YouTube) In the 1970s and 1980s when my dad (Francis Schaeffer) and I helped...

September 12, 2016

A Damning News Release Asks: Why Isn’t the Media Reporting on the Fact that Donald Trump Stole From 9/11 Victims?

(Picture YouTube) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, September 12, 2016 CONTACT Laura Keiter (203) 561-7180 [email protected] The Awful...

September 11, 2016

9/11 SENT MY MARINE SON TO WAR. HE DID NOT FIGHT FOR WHITE SUPREMACISTS AND RACISTS BUT FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM OF TOLERANCE AND EQUALITY TRUMP THREATENS. TRUMP IS A WORSE THREAT TO OUR VALUES AND DEMOCRACY THAN WERE THE 9/11 TERRORISTS.

9/11 SENT MY MARINE SON TO WAR. HE DID NOT FIGHT FOR WHITE SUPREMACISTS AND...

September 10, 2016

You ask “How can Trump have gotten this far?” I Have the Answer: TRUMP is Proof Neil Postman Was Right– Entertainment Fascism is Now Upon Us

(Photo Wikipedia) With Donald Trump’s seemingly suicidal weaknesses as a presidential candidate, some people are...

September 06, 2016

Goodbye Evangelicals: “let me be FRANK” — here’s the trailer to the movie about my journey to truth from religious certainty addiction

Living the Questions, in association with Creatista Film and Photography, presents "let me be FRANK,"...

September 03, 2016

Woman-Abuser Roger Ailes Is “Advising” Donald Trump. So Are Other Famous Alleged Woman Abusers. Why Isn’t This Misogynists-For-Trump Club the Biggest 2016 Election Scandal of All?

(Il Duce and the Fuhrer on a visit to a Rome museum. Photo Wikipedia) Some...

September 02, 2016

I’m Taking a Wrecking Ball to the Evangelical Swamp… “Let Me Be FRANK” A New Documentary About My Journey is (Almost) Here

Let Me Be Frank You may have never heard of Frank Schaeffer. He's not famous....

September 01, 2016

At Last Idiot Climate Change Deniers “Logic” Explained (A Hilarious 1 Minute Video) WATCH

(Photo Reason Inc.) This "Living With a Climate Skeptic" hilarious 1 minute video shows what...

August 2016

August 30, 2016

It turns out that the Roman Catholic American Voters are Downright Sane Compared to Today’s Fascist-Supporting Evangelicals!

(Photo Raw Story) According to the Washington Post, Trump is losing with Catholic voters —...

August 30, 2016

You Literally Only Need One Reason to Vote Against Trump and For Hillary. Period. Here it is.

As Phil Plait writes in Slate "The Republican Party has made it clear how they...

August 29, 2016

Will you do me a very personal favor today?

Will You please post a video testimonial to Facebook about my book "WHY I AM...

August 28, 2016

If a Former Extremist Right Winger Like me can Change and Work for Hillary– There’s Hope! Please Let Me Explain

I was one of the worst offenders driving the formation of the religious right in...

August 27, 2016

Watch Hitler go Medieval on Trump’s ass! Do NOT Miss WATCHING this Hilarious Parody video spoofing Trump’s immigration flip-flops!

(YouTube) Watch the far far "Alt-Right" right unravel with Hitler as your comedy guide... seriously...

August 26, 2016

Do NOT Miss this Historic Speech as Hillary Clinton DESTROYS TRUMP and Calls Out Trump’s Dark Racist far right ties: A first in American politics– WATCH

Trump has a cozy relationship with people who launch anti-Semitic attacks on journalists who challenge...

August 25, 2016

Disgusting video of Trump unleashing mob rule of hate: POLLING HIS FASCIST AUDIENCE about whether he should start mass deporting immigrants

(Photo thehill.com) Here is proof that Donald Trump is an insensitive, uncaring pig-- quite literally....

August 25, 2016

Trump Sharpens his Direct Pitch to Christian Nationalists, Reconstructionist Theocrats and and Anti-Gay Activists

(Trump and Jerry Falwell Jr photo Yahoo.com) (Putin meeting with the bishop's council photo en.kremlin.ru)...

August 22, 2016

WATCH John Oliver’s Best Trump Suggestion Yet! A Hilarious “Open Letter” to Trump

(YouTube) Oliver says Trump has 2 options: a “humiliating” and “off-brand” loss to Hillary Clinton, or a “reset”...

August 20, 2016

WATCH: The Trump Con Through the Fog of My Post-Surgery Pain (and Bad Spelling!)

Trump's trolls can't spell and neither can I. Let me explain the Trump con, my...

August 19, 2016

“Evangelical” now Equals WHITE! (It Always Did) Trump Cements Deal With White Supremacists While Jerry Falwell Jr. and other “Christian” Leaders Cheer on the Revival of OVERT Racism

According to a report in the The Associated Press "Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and...

August 18, 2016

An (Actual) Secret Recording of What Trump Supporters Talk About When they Think No One is Listening (Just what you’d imagine… and worse)

(YouTube screen shot) According to Alternet a "Massachusetts convoy of Trump supporters drove from Wrentham...

August 18, 2016

ENTER THE SLIME: Here’s What To Expect From A Breitbart News Trump/Lies/Filth/Sex Campaign

(Photo YouTube) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, August 18, 2016 Here's What To Expect From A...

August 17, 2016

Here’s why the Republican Party must be Totally Crushed in November (A Personal History of the GOP’s fall from a Former Religious Right Leader Who Changed His Mind)

I was there when the religious right started that eventually destroyed the Republican Party....

August 17, 2016

NOTE: this Friday August 19 to Sunday August 21 my book “WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD– How to Give Love, Create Beauty and Find Peace” will be FREE on Amazon-Kindle. Please pass on the word. Thank you.

"All we have is our stories," writes novelist Schaeffer (Crazy for God, 2008, etc.) in...

August 15, 2016

MY FREE NEW BOOK THIS FRIDAY 19th TO SATURDAY 20th! (WATCH the Offer)

This Friday Aug 19th to this Sunday Aug 21st you may get my book for...

August 14, 2016

It’s Not Economic Hardship that Motivates Trump’s Base but Far Right Brainwashing and (Sadly!) this Denies the Best Military-Service Traditions of Working Class America

"Speaking as the father of a Marine, it seems to me that Trump's 'vision' contradicts...

August 12, 2016

Here is Why I Got out of The Evangelical Movement (and maybe you should too…)

This is my best explanation about my journey away from the faith of my...

August 12, 2016

Ken Medema and Frank Schaeffer talk about change, creativity, social justice, music, and art. Wild Goose Festival 2016 WATCH

I had a chance to interview Ken Medema at the (terrific!) Wild Goose Festival this...

August 10, 2016

The 8 Year Slow Motion Lynching of President Obama by the Republicans Ends With the President More Successful and Popular than Ever and… TRUMP as the Evil Ghost Haunting the Party of Obstruction

(photo Wikipedia) "How did we get Trump?" a Republican might ask. The answer is quite...

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