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March 2015

March 24, 2015

California: “shoot the gays” proposal

According to the Guardian a California lawyer says he wants to legalize the execution of gay people,...

March 24, 2015

Can Ted Cruz revive the evangelicalism of the past?

"LYNCHBURG, VA – Ted Cruz came to this southern town Monday to launch his presidential...

March 20, 2015

Religious Right Still Dominates the GOP

The GOP is still kowtowing to the Christian Right. When will that change? That the...

March 12, 2015

Here’s How the Roman Catholic Condemnation of Homosexuality Can and Must Change

Gary Gutting is a professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. In this...

March 10, 2015

Don’t Ever Thank God for Anything–Here’s Why! (New Jersey man cannot collect damages for his injuries after he was burned while praying)

The appeals court agreed with the lower court’s decision, saying “the danger posed by a...

March 02, 2015

Turning Away From Organized Religion in Record Numbers– WHY?

As Lynn Stuart Parramore (AlterNet February 28, 2015) writes: "Last year, for the very first time, Protestants lost...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

The 10 Worst SEX Tips (no pun) from the Christian Right

"It’s not just wrong to date a doubter of Jesus Christ; it’s a documented and...

February 25, 2015

Pro-Lifer Ready For Killing Kids for Religious Liberty and Jesus (Seriously)

And now this from h Prolife and prodeath, no kidding, as long as you're killing...

February 23, 2015

Shame on the Homophobic Moral Cowards at Destiny Image Who Just Ripped Off Brandan Robertson

Brandan Robertson is my friend. He interviewed me several times at the Wild Goose Festival....

February 19, 2015

If I Was Still an Evangelical, I’d Want to Be Tony Kriz (Blessed be Tony!)

No, I don't write books about God like Tony does. And I'm persona non grata on...

February 14, 2015

Watch and enjoy the lovely Jimmy Kimmel Compilation of Pat Robertson’s Recent Loonytunes Into One Loopy Video

Watch and enjoy the lovely Jimmy Kimmel Compilation of Pat Robertson's Recent Loonytunes Into One Loopy...

February 12, 2015

Proof Positive that Fundamentalist Home School Families Create a Private HELL and Must be Regulated

Ever wonder what can go on inside the private totalitarian hell of unregulated fundamentalist home...

February 11, 2015

Breaking NEWS: Bill Maher, Dawkins Fan ‘New Atheist’ Charged with Shooting Three Arab Students Execution Style– Hicks Loved Guns and Richard Dawkins

So do we have our first New Atheist-motivated sectarian killing? According to Zaid Jilani of Alternet (@zaidjilani)-- Yusor...

February 11, 2015

Dear Patheos Reader: If You Are Running an “Ad Block” While Reading This You Are Stealing From Writers Like Me

Once upon a time people who read books and articles and listened to music and watched movies...

February 10, 2015

What Prayer Means to Me

"My grandchildren delight in entering into a grownup spiritual world as equals. Perhaps this...

February 09, 2015

Do You Ask Yourself, “Why is Isis so Cruel?” Here is the Only Article I’ve Read that Factually Answers this Question With No Liberal or Conservative “Spin”

If you want to understand what is actually happening with militant Islamist terror please take...

February 07, 2015

The Actual Gospel of Jesus Christ

As the reputation of Christianity has been deformed once in a while we should take...

February 06, 2015

Southern Whites Might as Well Have Invented ISIS Burning People Alive: They Conducted the “Master Class” in Violence

"What is now known as "spectacular lynching" involved the ceremonial torture, murder--and yes, burning alive--of...

February 05, 2015

The Religious-Right’s Genius For Picking “Winners” : Are the New Atheists Paying Evangelical leaders like Franklin Graham & Mike Huckabee To Make Jesus Look Stupid?

So here's my question: Are the so-called New Atheists paying evangelical leaders like Franklin Graham,...

February 05, 2015

BUSH “LEGACY” FINISHED– Should We Have Attacked the Saudis-Not Iraq? I Told You The Saudi-9/11 Story was Going to be HUGE NOW NYT TOP OF THE PAGE HEADLINE

George Bush and his oil cronies betrayed America. Period. Before the Saudi-Bush-9/11 story is over,...

February 04, 2015

Is This the Dirtiest Secret in American Government History? Did Bush Know it Was Saudi Arabia that Orchestrated and Paid For 9/11?

No, this is not some roll out of a wacky conspiracy theory. The New York Times just...

February 03, 2015

BREAKING NEWS: Ninety-eight Percent of Heaven’s Occupants are Embryos!

(Sleeping Putto, by Léon Bazille Perrault courtesy Wikipedia) "Ninety-eight percent of Heaven’s occupants are embryos," writes...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

My FB Family Responded with 200+ Amazing Answers On What the Right, Left, Atheist and Religious Can ALL Agree On (The Results Are Refreshing, Hopeful and Kind)

"Wow Frank! This is freakin' awesome! I have been blown away by everything I've read...

January 29, 2015

Q: Do you know why I (mostly) don’t ban trolls and people who seem to hate me from my FB page? Please Join my FB page thought experiment!

* Here is what I just posted on my FB page. Will you join this...

January 28, 2015

Dear American Jewish Community, By Netanyahu Playing Partisan Games with the GOP anti-Obama Hate Machine, he’s Just put Israel on the Wrong Side of History

By allowing the Republicans to play dirty anti-Obama politics with Israel's security, Netanyahu has done...

January 28, 2015

The Right’s Home School Time Bomb–WATCH the Thom Hartmann Interview with Frank Schaeffer

My "homeschool" interview on the Thom Hartmann Show: Frank Schaeffer, WHY I AM AN ATHEIST...

January 26, 2015

CALLING ON ALL MEMBERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TO WALK OUT OF CONGRESS WHEN NETANYAHU WALKS IN TO SPEAK: BOEHNER’S/NETANYAHU’S/ISRAEL’S INSULT TO AMERICA MUST BE ANSWERED

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to address a joint session of Congress in order to...

January 25, 2015

Why Are So Many More People Buying my New Book on Kindle than the Paperback?

Why Are So Many More People Buying my New Book on Kindle than the Paperback?...

January 24, 2015

HOME SCHOOL ABUSE “Dear Frank, I think there’s going to be an epidemic of homeschool abuse survivors in the next 10 – 20 years, if there isn’t one already…”

"Believe it or not, some homeschool kids have been so severely neglected that they don't...

January 23, 2015

Huckabee On the USA: “It’s a humanistic, atheistic, even antagonistic toward Christian faith… Our basic, fundamental rights are being robbed from us”

Mike Huckabee playing at Thomas Road Baptist Church in 2008 (courtesy Wikimedia Commons) According...

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