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August 2016

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...

August 09, 2016

An Open Letter from Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, the Imperial Wizard of the Rebel Brigade Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and Jerry Falwell Jr on Why They Support Trump (Okay, Just kidding it’s really a “revised” version of Senator Susan Collins denouncing Trump)

Pictured Below: 6 (actual) Leading Republican Party Leaders (photos of 6 Republican Party leaders shown...

August 08, 2016

Here’s the Best Article I’ve Read on Just Why and How Evangelicals Can Deny Everything They Say they believe and Support the Ultimate Anti-Jesus Candidate: Trump

  "According to the Pew Research Center, 78 percent of white evangelical voters say they...

August 04, 2016

Who Will Go Door-to- Door For Trump… And Would Anyone in Their Right Mind Open Their Door?!

Can you imagine a Trump get out the vote door-to-door effort? Neither can I. Picture...

August 04, 2016

TRUMP MUST BE STOPPED–WATCH this shocking raw, unfiltered 3 min video of Trump supporters’ anti-American un-American “beliefs”

(photo YouTube) After a year of covering the hate rallies of  Trump, The New York Times just...

August 02, 2016

Here’s my 6 Min Video Rant (now on YouTube) that 1 MIllion Views on my FB page: Let me Explain Why I Believe in Hillary Clinton for President

My STOP-Trump/elect Hillary (rant) now has One Million views (and over 3000 comments) on my FB...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Please take 10 min and watch my Friend Reverend William Barber Tell the Truth at the Democratic National Convention

photo CNN On the final night of the Democratic National Convention, the Reverend Dr. William...

July 26, 2016

Take it From this Ex-Fundamentalist: Listen-up Bernie Worshipers (Seemingly Working to Elect Trump) There are No Political Messiahs

  Please WATCH my 4 min "answer" (such as it is) to the Bernie Sanders...

July 24, 2016

In case you missed this, trust me it’ll be a classic. Enjoy! Watch “Late Night” host Seth Meyers dissecting Mike Pence’s “relationship” with Trump

(Photo YouTube) The segment is less a look at just Pence, than a disemboweling of Trump's...

July 23, 2016

Did Jerry Falwell Jr Watch the Multiple and Disgusting Howard Stern/Trump Interviews (or Know that Trump is accused of Child rape) BEFORE Endorsing Him?

(YouTube photo) In the 1980s when I was myself in the religious right I preached...

July 22, 2016

Donald Trump Begins Presidential Nomination Speech by Weirdly Patting His Daughter’s Hips (and almost her butt)

Donald Trump has long a history of odd father/daughter behavior to say the least... Here’s...

July 21, 2016

Watch the GOP Circus (Day 4) HERE LIVE!

Bring on the clowns, the nuts and yes, the fascists! ENJOY. Brock Mealer, Motivational Speaker...

July 21, 2016

Watching Pence I’m wondering again: what is it about people who “accept Jesus” that makes them so weirdly slickly-phony? Ideas? Comments? Here is what some (very perceptive) FB friends had to say

  The question is do Jesus-following white American evangelicals of the left or right, turn...

July 20, 2016

Mike Pence Denies that Smoking is Harmful to your Health (seriously) as well as Evolution and Climate Change… Other than that…

During a 2000 congressional race debate, Mike Pence defended an op-ed he wrote arguing that “smoking doesn’t...

July 16, 2016

The key bulwark of faith-based Trumpism is the prosperity gospel: To the evangelicals (both right and left) lying and money are the real “gospel” so “He’s one of us!”

(AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File) (photo www.rollingstone.com) Evangelical Christianity in America became a get-rich-quick scheme long ago....

July 14, 2016

All About FAR RELIGIOUS RIGHT Evangelical Mike Pence (a follower of my dad’s work) : Trump’s VP Pick

    According to breaking news Mike Pence (a man who loves my dad's books)...

July 14, 2016

Why Hillary Clinton? WATCH this 1 Min Clip from My Talk at the Wild Goose Festival​ – #GetOverIt

Why Hillary Clinton? WATCH this 1 min Clip from my talk at the Wild Goose...

July 01, 2016

An Interview With Minister (turned moviemaker, the one and only) Richard Rossi

“The fakes make you dependent.  'Give us $3000 to learn the gifts of the Spirit.  Sow...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

WATCH THIS VIDEO: On A Mission To Change The Way Women See Their Bodies (and a Backhanded Answer to Trump-Style Misogyny)

Photo TARYN BRUMFITT (Facebook)     WATCH this video before some Donald Trump-Clone-Pig tells you...

June 28, 2016

Post “Brexit” Watch Samantha Bee Point to the Southern Baptists as One More Reason TRUMP Will Lose (Best Bee Ever!)

  Once again Samantha Bee proves in this (new) clip, she's the best observer of...

June 26, 2016

According to James Dobson Trump has just come “to accept a relationship with Christ” and is now “a baby Christian” (No Kidding)

According to the New York Times, or rather according to what the Times reported James...

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