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April 2016

April 06, 2016

Pastor Kevin Swanson and Ted Cruz Ask: “Who Would Jesus Drown?”

 (photo Daily Express UK) As Ted Cruz supporter Pastor Kevin Swanson says, "Don't you dare...

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 12, 2016

When Will the First Trump-Related Killing Happen With Evangelical’s Support as Trump “Purifies” America for God?

There will be a Trump-event related murder. It's only a matter of time. That's because Trump is...

March 07, 2016

2016 Elections and Trump/Cruz Mark the End of the American Evangelical Movement

In our fuzzy American sentimental folklore Christianity was once associated with kindness. Not anymore. Evangelicals embraced...

January 2016

January 29, 2016

Evangelicals used to be Christians… Today they are Republicans. These pictures tell the story…

Evangelicals used to be Christians... Today they are Republicans. These pictures tell the story.  ...

December 2015

December 09, 2015

Trump is the GOP/Evangelical Mirror

The Trump phenomenon isn’t  about him. It is about the 40-year right wing takeover of...

December 06, 2015

Top Ten Reason to Go To Falwell’s Liberty U Now Students and Professors Are All Carrying Guns

TOP TEN REASON TO GO TO FALWELL'S LIBERTY U NOW STUDENTS & PROFESSORS ARE ALL...

October 2015

October 01, 2015

A Great KIRKUS Review for my New Book “Why I Am an Atheist Who Believes in God”

KIRKUS REVIEWS VOL. LXXXIII, NO. 19 | 1 OCTOBER 2015 By Rebecca Foster Frank Schaeffer,...

September 2015

September 29, 2015

Donald Trump Will Be the Next President

The next president of the US poses with the Donald Trump 12-inch talking doll-- photo credit...

September 14, 2015

Watch Bernie Sanders Say What I Wish I’d Said to Liberty U 40 Years Ago When I Spoke at Liberty

(Photo NBC News, used by permission) Watch Bernie Sanders do what I should have done...

September 12, 2015

KIM DAVIS (not to mention evangelical hypocrisy) DESTROYED: “I am the very model of a modern fundamentalist”

Sick of Kim Davis? Tired of evangelical smarmy Hypocrisy? Here's the last thing you ever need...

August 2015

August 27, 2015

Gay Teen Worried He Might Be Christian

LOUISVILLE, KY—At first glance, high school senior Lucas Faber, 18, seems like any ordinary gay...

August 25, 2015

Meet David Barton — the Evangelical Quack “Historian” Exposed as the Fake He Is

David Barton is a dangerous fabricator of "facts" now used by the far right GOP

July 2015

July 23, 2015

Why Are Progressive Christians AND Right Wing American Fundamentalists Lying to Ourselves About the Islamic Destruction of Christianity in the Middle East?

The American evangelical right wing gave George W. Bush and the Republicans a pass for founding...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

how evangelical Protestantism lost me

"This essay, which represents my first detailed public statement on how evangelical Protestantism lost me, is...

May 2015

May 16, 2015

Why Does God Hate Gay People? My Interview on the New Movie

At the End of the Day is a feature-length comedy written and directed by Kevin O’Brien....

May 09, 2015

NEW BOOK FREE TODAY “Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in God: How to give love, create beauty and find peace”

FREE BOOK for 48 Hours Starting Today MAY 9-11 Free Kindle Reading App Anybody can...

May 06, 2015

Dear Frank, I was expecting a hollow, militant atheistic rant …

From: Wright Nat (NHS LEEDS WEST CCG) To: frankaschaeffer Sent: Tue, May 5, 2015 2:46...

May 01, 2015

Hey Atheists and Christians: Stop Wasting Your Lives Worrying About God!

 If God is the problem why are so many atheists I know small minded jerks?...

March 2015

March 30, 2015

Why Do Right Wing Christian Families Think They “Own” Their Children?

"In the Iron Age mindset of the Bible writers, children are not individual persons who...

March 27, 2015

Will California face a backlash for its homophobic legislation like Uganda Did?

"So will the State of California face the threat of similar federal sanctions for its own proposed...

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 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...

February 2015

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 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 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 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 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 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...

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