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April 2017

April 25, 2017

Free: Read a sample chapter from my new forthcoming book “Letters to Lucy”

"Letters to Lucy" is a multimedia project I've worked on for 3 years. Now...

April 15, 2017

My “Easter Sermon” and Video Rant: Trump is a symptom. We’re losing our souls…

Trump is a symptom. We’re losing our souls. Silicon Valley billionaires think they will live...

February 2017

February 25, 2017

Here Is the Best Piece I’ve Read on Why Susceptibility to fake news has its particular historical origin in Christian fundamentalism’s rejection of expert elites

(photo YouTube) Susceptibility to fake news has its particular historical origin in Christian fundamentalism’s rejection...

February 22, 2017

It is Official: Post C-PAC 2017 Trump Has Corrupted and Co-opted the Evangelical Brand– RIP Jesus

(Photo YouTube) Mark the date: C-PAC 2017 is the day Trump Co-opts the Evangelical Brand--...

February 04, 2017

The blasphemy of this picture — if you are a believing Christian — is clear. Here’s Trump as the 2nd “Apostle Paul” of white supremacist fascist theocracy

Imam Trump? Is this what we've come to? American Evangelical Sharia Law? Total theocracy? ...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

Trump is listening to Bannon/Rasputin: And whether due to incompetence or malfeasance, Bannon is making America less safe

(Photo, Wikipedia) The lies and misdirection has left America in psychological chaos. We are hemorrhaging...

January 30, 2017

IF TRUMP IS RIGHT ABOUT THE NEED TO BAN MUSLIMS (HE’S NOT) AND IF YOU TAKE HIM AT HIS WORD IT’S CLEAR HE PUTS HIS BUSINESS INTERESTS AHEAD OF THE SAFETY OF AMERICANS. TRUMP IS THUS A CORRUPT TRAITOR TO AMERICAN INTERESTS BY HIS OWN STANDARDS…

(Photo YouTube) IF TRUMP IS RIGHT ABOUT THE NEED TO BAN MUSLIMS (HE'S NOT) AND...

January 17, 2017

Green Day (my favorite rock band) is the luminous conscience of America taking aim at Trump in this brilliant new lyric video. DO NOT MISS THIS: Please WATCH IT HERE

(Photo Green Day) Green Day (my favorite rock band) is the luminous conscience of America...

January 12, 2017

Trump is Franklin Graham’s Middle Finger to the Entire World

(Photo, YouTube) No president in living memory has come to the brink of his inauguration...

November 2016

November 05, 2016

“BIBLE TRUMPERS”: Do Not Miss Bill Maher praising Donald Trump for “the one good thing he did” — exposing evangelicals, as “the shameless hypocrites they’ve always been” WATCH

(Photo YouTube) WATCH Bill Maher praise Donald Trump for “the one good thing he did”...

November 02, 2016

Here are 2 pictures that say everything you need to know about the re-branding of the word “evangelical”

Here are 2 pictures that say everything you need to know about the re-branding of...

October 2016

October 20, 2016

POST 3RD DEBATE HERE IS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TRUMP AND HIS FOLLOWERS: TRUMP WON’T ACCEPT THE ELECTION RESULT AND SO TRUMP’S PASSED FROM MERELY BEING HORRIBLE TO TREASONOUS

(photo YouTube) Putin is waging a global campaign to discredit the very idea of...

October 04, 2016

HERE’S HOW THE FRAUDULENT PROSPERITY GOSPEL MOVEMENT — ORAL ROBERTS, KENNETH HAGIN, KENNETH COPELAND, FREDERICK K.C. PRICE & JOEL OSTEEN — HELPED LAY THE GROUNDWORK FOR TRUMP: THE WORLD’S WORST BUSINESSMAN

(Photos C-Span/YouTube) The fraudulent founders of the prosperity gospel movement -- including Oral Roberts, Kenneth...

August 2016

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...

July 2016

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...

June 2016

June 13, 2016

Mateen Is The NRA/Republican/Trumpian Poster Boy of Gun “Rights” (Proving the GOP/NRA “Won” Because if Mateen Could Get Assault Weapons… Anyone Can)

Take a good look at the face of the Orlando killer. He beat his wife,...

June 04, 2016

HERE IS WHY I’LL VOTE FOR HILLARY, AND WHY YOU SHOULD TOO– Please! Watch! Please Pass On! Let’s Save America From the Casino FOOL!

Please watch this and save America and the world from the casino/fake college/bad steak/beauty pageant...

May 2016

May 21, 2016

Dear Evangelical Establishment (and Christianity Today Editors) Here’s Why You ALL Seem SO F—–g! Dumb to Folks in the Real World Who Don’t Understand “Evangelical Speak”

(C. Hitchens- Photo NPR.org) Open any issue of Christianity Today magazine and scan the article...

May 02, 2016

Are You a Certainty Addict?

Are you a certainty addict? If so you are not alone. May I cure you......

April 2016

April 12, 2016

Evangelical Authoritarianism and Fear in America: Cruz/Trump Two Christian Failures, One Authoritarian Ethos

(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Donald Trump’s bizarre rise seems to prove that that evangelical...

April 04, 2016

My Heartfelt Tribute to President Obama for Great Service to Our Country, “Thank you sir!” Please SHARE this video to thank one of our country’s greatest presidents and use ‪#‎ThankYouObama‬ in your post!

(photo, mashable.com Jerry-seinfeld) My Heartfelt Tribute to President Obama for Great Service to Our Country, "Thank you...

April 02, 2016

TRUMP DROPS OUT OF RACE “It was all a joke!” (WATCH the VIDEO) Makes More Sense than Reality!

Watch this, it is one time when a Trump-joke seems more real than reality. What's...

March 2016

March 29, 2016

Why God Hates Donald Trump or at Least Ann Coulter Does .. so Why Do Jerry Falwell Jr. and Franklin Graham Love the Jerk’s-Jerk?

(Credit: Reuters/Jim Young) Will Jerry Falwell Jr. withdraw his endorsement, or are wives fair game...

March 01, 2016

Here are Donald Trump’s favorite Bible Quotes, he often uses them… Right?

Here are just a few of Donald Trump's favorite Bible Quotes, he often uses them. I'm...

February 2016

February 19, 2016

Here’s the Best Article Ever on the Fact that Ted Cruz is Literally the First Openly Reconstructionist/Theocracy Candidate to Run for President

Rushdoony never died. He's back and now called "Ted Cruz." Here's the best article I've...

January 2016

January 24, 2016

If there is a creator He/She/It must hate fundamentalist religion

The deluded religious belief that any people or nation or church is a “chosen” people...

November 2015

November 11, 2015

Watch (20 min) political commentator Noam Chomsky discusses everything you will never hear on the media

Here's an interview on Latin American media outlet teleSUR, where linguist and political commentator Noam Chomsky...

April 2015

April 19, 2015

So who will Rubio and Cruz take America back from?

Rubio stands out for his religion-broken brain. He converted from Roman Catholicism to Mormonism...

January 2015

January 17, 2015

What Honor Looks Like: MLK’s Most Iconic Photograph

“Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of...

December 2014

December 10, 2014

Many religious fundamentalists feel under siege by the secular world and harbor a deeply paranoid sense of victimhood

Maryland and six other states have articles in their constitutions saying people who don’t believe in...

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