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May 2017

May 22, 2017

The Terrifying Truth about the USA (And All of Us) That Trump’s Rise to Power Confirms and What to Do about It

Before Trump became president there was room for debate about what and who we Americans...

May 18, 2017

Does U2’s Bono Support Donald Trump?

Bono is on tour and denouncing Trump. The problem is that Bono unwittingly helped get...

May 13, 2017

As we watch Trump abuse and debase the office of president we see a spiritual problem unfolding: the loss of the American soul.

In Calvinism, the theological cult of an angry God in which I was raised, humans...

May 09, 2017

We Will Resist the Trump Clan of Con Artist Crooks and Win: Here’s Why (Hint, History Is on Our Side Don’t Give Up)

Please WATCH my 6 minute video commentary on just why we Americans will win against...

May 02, 2017

Evangelicals Defend Trump, Fox News and Sexual Assault Because Evangelicals Would Rather “Protect the Lord’s Work” (And Their Own Legion of Predatory Abusers) Than Care For Victims

Institutions known for sexual assault (including child rape and spousal abuse) are mostly organizations closed...

April 2017

April 26, 2017

Trump Voters Were Fact-Free and Now It Looks As If They Are Also Willingly Even Proudly Stupid: A New Poll Shows They’d Elect Trump– Again!

Trump voters have changed the old saying “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

Trump’s election was just one more nail in the coffin of what was — according to humanistic idealists such as Winston Churchill — supposed to be a secular age of reason

Trump’s election was just one more nail in the coffin of what was -- according...

March 28, 2017

“Dear Frank, While I was in therapy recovering from the literal brain damage I experienced due to evangelical fundamentalism plus incest”…

Hi Frank, While I was in therapy recovering from the literal brain damage I...

February 2017

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 15, 2017

WATCH: Putin is Jesus to the international religious right and white American evangelicals are fast becoming America-hating complicit traitors to democracy

TRUMP, RUSSIA, EVANGELICAL FASCISTS = IMPEACHMENT: Putin is Jesus to the international religious right and...

February 05, 2017

Can the black church rescue Jesus’ reputation from Trump? AME to the Rescue!

Can the black church rescue Jesus' reputation from Trump? Maybe. At least the African Methodist...

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 21, 2017

Family Values 2017

`````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` P.S. If you want to know a little more about where I'm coming from...

January 16, 2017

Riffing once again on the ironic absurdity of fundamentalist religion and political fallout

These days—as is reflected in the series of paintings I’m doing (as I write...

January 14, 2017

From this to THIS… 2 Pictures Say it All About the Obama-to-Trump “Transition” (Russian Coup?) THANKS WHITE EVANGELICALS!

Celebrating the inauguration... Thanks Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell Jr! From this family to... ...THIS! (Photos...

January 03, 2017

Meet the Bottom-Dwelling “Faith Leaders” — Franklin Graham included — Selling America For Access to Power at Trump’s swearing-in

Think of Paula White’s ministry as the church version of Trump University. Think of Franklin...

December 2016

December 29, 2016

Trump and Paula White (and Franklin Graham) Together At Last! Set to Exchange SeedFaithBlessing-n’-OtherStuff (She’ll Pray at His Inaug)

(Photo YouTube) Looks like the Rockettes’ producer has had a change of heart and dancers...

December 21, 2016

Do not miss this timely moral rant: Keith Olbermann on resisting Trump and RESISTANCE

(Photo YouTube) So What Are We Supposed to Do Now? | The Patriotic Resistance to...

December 03, 2016

To Jerry Falwell Jr Hiring a Coach Who Allegedly Condoned and Covered Up Brutal Gang Rape is Fine

The Rape of the Sabine Women, Piazza della Signoria, Florence (Photo Wikipedia) When a Liberty...

November 2016

November 08, 2016

Today it is time to take out the white trash: Trump’s “legacy” is vanity, tastelessness, classlessness, men behaving badly and making racism mainstream again.

Don't recycle your white trash today, just put it in this basket... Today it is...

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...

November 02, 2016

When Trump loses the election the only unifying issue evangelicals will have left is their hatred of Hillary Clinton

(Photo YouTube) White Evangelicals support Donald Trump. Writing in the Guardian Anthea Butler notes that...

October 2016

October 27, 2016

The Disinherited: There is a reason that the white American underclass is so out of step with the rest of America: if you live in a pretend world for long enough you snap

(Photo YouTube) There is a reason that the white American underclass is so out of...

October 26, 2016

InterVarsity Follows the TRUMP-VERSION of “JESUS” and Gordon College’s in HARD Turn to the Homophobic anti-Gay (Trumpian GOP) Right

InterVarsity is joining the ranks of what might be called the Ralph Reed/Jerry Falwell...

October 18, 2016

THIS IS BIG-BREAKING NEWS…President Obama’s Most Important Statement of his Presidency: The election is not “rigged.” (President to Trump “STOP Whining!”)

(Photo YouTube) Breaking News... President Must Defend Democracy Itself Against a Would be Fascist: A...

October 12, 2016

Re-TRUMP: Are The Last (Actual) Evangelical Leaders Mormons?

(Photo YouTube/Twitter) Turns out the last evangelical leaders are Mormons. As far as evangelical leaders...

October 10, 2016

Yes, Hillary is a Strong and Tremendous Human Being. You Got a Problem With That?

(Photo C-Span) "There’s an episode of the dystopian TV series Black Mirror in which terrorists...

October 08, 2016

Ralph Reed and Tony Perkins: Trump Still Great-Post-Sexual Assault Bragging: Reed–It’s no big deal… (Reed/Perkins Just Killed the last shreds of Evangelical Self-Respect)

(Photo Twitter) Ralph-pussy-grabber-endorser-Reed, the chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition and a member of...

October 08, 2016

I have received hundreds of messages from people distressed by parents and friends supporting Trump asking “What can I say?” Here’s my favorite gutsy solution from a Facebook friend… (Read, Laugh, Cry)

Hi Frank- I just called my staunch Republican parents, and confronted them about the latest...

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