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November 28, 2014

For the price of a cup of coffee you can buy the funniest, darkest novel I ever wrote about God, Movies, Religious Delusion and SEX, on Kindle today

And God Said, "Billy!" is a darkly comic coming-of-age story written by the master story...

November 28, 2014

I was ready to punch you out for raising questions I couldn’t answer so how nutty all these years later the only reason I even hope there’s a God and am reconciled to my son– is because of you

I vividly remember being lectured, harangued, insulted, corrected, and yelled at by a man who...

November 28, 2014

This “Black Friday” Please plant an Empathy Time Bomb in the brain of your favorite Certainty Addicts & Help Me Financially Too

This “Black Friday” Please plant an Empathy Time Bomb in the brain of your favorite...

November 25, 2014

“I am waiting to die. I am not hopeless, just completely ignorant about what to do spiritually” 4 Ex-Fundamentalists Tell Me Their Stories

"I am waiting to die. I am not hopeless, just completely ignorant about what to...

November 24, 2014

Give me 56 MIN and I’ll (Maybe) Give You Your Faith in Jesus Back (WATCH My new Talk)

Here's my new talk I just gave at the wonderful Colorado Springs Library. Will you...

November 24, 2014

This Thanksgiving Share Your Story with Me on my Facebook Page about Your Deliverance from Fundamentalist Certainty & I’ll Publish It

Go to my Facebook Page at   and tell me about what happened to you in...

November 23, 2014

Let’s Stop Calling New Atheism, “Atheism,” and Start Calling it What it is: Anti-Theism

"Like religious fundamentalism, New Atheism is primarily a reactionary phenomenon, one that responds to religion...

November 22, 2014

“The Empathy Time Bomb” My New NPR Interview

My latest National NPR interview "The Empathy Time Bomb" please listen and share... CLICK HERE...

November 22, 2014

The Best Talk I Gave

Here's the best talk I've ever given. Please share!!!   TO WATCH CLICK on THIS...

November 22, 2014

Our Jeffersonian Rape Culture

  Establishment darling, southern gentleman, scholar and author Jon Meacham had no trouble getting on talk shows...

November 21, 2014

Thanksgiving Message From “Christian” GOP to Hispanics “Go Home Border Ni—rs!”

  When Republican lawmakers slammed President Barack Obama for announcing Thursday that he would act...

November 20, 2014

“Here’s the Most Horrible Phrase in the English Language: ‘How have you grown in the Lord lately?'” Gay, Proud and Liberated A Reader of Mine Speaks Out

"Any sexual hangups I may have postponed were now thrown to the wind. I was...

November 20, 2014

Rape

"Lisak's findings upended general presumptions about campus sexual assault: It implied that most incidents are...

November 19, 2014

Why Does The Media Avoid Reporting on the Huge Movement Away From Fundamentalism to Progressive Religion?

  Why Does The Media Avoid Reporting on the Huge Movement Away From Fundamentalism to...

November 17, 2014

Why Evangelicals Need Christian Dildos

"At My Beloved's Garden, we provide a safe non-pornographic place to shop for all your...

November 15, 2014

How My Dad and I Helped Create the Tea Party GOP and Terrorist Extremism

The 1970s Evangelical antiabortion movement that Dad (Evangelical leader Francis Schaeffer), C Everett Koop (who...

November 14, 2014

Many Evangelical Leaders Are Such SOB’s– What Are They Hiding?

Are Franklin Graham--and/or the 13 Evangelical leaders who wrote to Obama asking to be allowed to...

November 13, 2014

Please Do Me a HUGE Favor

Please Do Me a HUGE FavorGo to your local Barnes&Noble and buy my new book...

November 13, 2014

My “Morning Edition” NPR Interview ( Please take the short 9 minutes this interview takes and join me as I explain my book)

Here's my new NPR interview about my new book. Please take the short 9 minutes...

November 12, 2014

Just How Stupid Has FOX News Made White (mostly male evangelical) American Voters?

Are white working class evangelical males born stupid, or did Fox News make them that...

November 10, 2014

New Atheist Author Daniel Dennett Responds via Twitter to my latest Article:

Daniel Dennett Responds via Twitter to my latest Article/excerpt from my new book WHY I AM...

November 09, 2014

The Days of the Bigots at Christianity Today Magazine, Who’s Editor Wrote to President Obama demanding the “religious liberty right” to Discriminate Against Gay Men and Women, are Numbered: WATCH This Clip

Please pay attention to my friend Brandon Robertson--and pray that this young evangelical leader is...

November 05, 2014

Republican Victory Proves That Lies Work With White Evangelicals

  The Republican Party base is white evangelicals. So no wonder the GOP lies about...

November 04, 2014

Will 7 years of GOP racist attacks on Obama pay off? That’s all this election is about. GOP “win” = a win for bigots.

Will 7 years of GOP racist attacks on Obama pay off? That's all this election...

November 03, 2014

Is Christianity a Mental Illness?

"I just finished reading your article "Religious Trauma Syndrome" and it brought back memories of my jettisoning...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

Religious Trauma Syndrome and/or How Dr. Dobson, Billy Graham, Bob Jones, Christianity Today, Wheaton College et al, Do More Harm than Good

  In my book WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD: How to give...

October 31, 2014

 The Hysteria Surrounding the Ebola “Issue” is the Perfect Lens to Look at BOTH Secular and Religious Dumb and Dumber America Through

Jeff Daniels Says Jim Carrey 'Dumb & Dumber' And now to our Ebola/election year present... Evangelical control...

October 30, 2014

The Perfect Picture of Just About Everything Wrong With Just About Everything! (Add Your Own “I’m lovin’ it!” Sucky Caption!)

  Jesus USA as beefy, cheesy glory: A Classic American Portrait. A brilliant photograph by...

October 29, 2014

Pope Francis To “Creationists” GET LOST!

Pope Francis I stated that God should not seen as a “magician with a magic wand.” Pope...

October 27, 2014

Frank Schaeffer v. Texas (The Interview) “From Francis Schaeffer to Christopher Hitchens”

Luke Norsworthy Search SKIP TO CONTENT ABOUT LUKE NEWSWORTHY WITH NORSWORTHY PODCAST FRANK SCHAEFFER: WHY...

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