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October 2013

October 31, 2013

You’ve Heard the Fox news, Republican Tea Party/Evangelical Lies So Please Take 30 Minutes and Listen to the Truth

There is a steady stream of lies pouring from evangelical and other far right media...

October 28, 2013

Who Will Preach the Gospel to the Jesus-Hating Evangelical White Tribe?

How can the Jesus-deniers like Franklin Graham and the other evangelical leaders be reached...

October 26, 2013

Just How Stupid and Dangerous are Billy Graham, the Tea Party/Evangelicals and the Political Leaders Like Benjamin Netanyahu Playing the “End Times” Game?

Once in a while I read something that is so blindingly dumb I assume...

October 22, 2013

“Tea Party Kills Billy Graham” — A True Headline You Won’t be Reading

Given his age -- and most regrettably because he’s a nice man -- you’ll soon...

October 20, 2013

Does Being Raised Evangelical Destroy Your Brain? Why The Tea Party-Evangelical Right Learned Nothing Post-Shutdown

Neuroscience has proved that the brain is malleable. Evangelicals raised on magical fact-free myths are...

October 17, 2013

Dear President Obama,

Dear President Obama, Congratulations Mr. President. Once again you win over white bigots...

October 14, 2013

Frank Schaeffer MSNBC Interview: Religious Delusion, the Shutdown and Evangelical America-Haters

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Frank Schaeffer...

October 13, 2013

Do You Know Who Launched the Shutdown? Hint: He’s Southern, a Birther, White and an Ardent Evangelical Who Serves as an Elder in His Fundamentalist Church

Do you know who launched the shutdown? Hint: He's Southern, white and an ardent evangelical...

October 12, 2013

Post-Shutdown the Evangelical Movement Is Going to Die Faster Than Ever — GOOD!– Now Actual Christianity Might Have a Chance to Flourish

The 2 weeks of shutdown madness has accelerated evangelical movement’s devolution by 10 years or...

October 08, 2013

Expose the Shutdown Clowns’ Jesus/Ayn Rand Religion

With the shutdown I'm tempted to say "I told you so." What did you...

October 06, 2013

Secret Video Clip of Michele Bachmann and Other Evangelicals In Church Prayerfully Celebrating Shutdown

Here's a secretly filmed video clip of what goes on when Michele Bachmann, and other...

October 03, 2013

No Place Left to Hide for the None-Too-Bright Delusional White Male Rubes Hijacking the GOP

The 40 Fools in Congress (the extremist driving this shutdown show) might as well be...

October 02, 2013

Send the Bill For the Shutdown to the Evangelicals

Don't like the shutdown? Send the bill to the evangelicals. People schooled to live in...

August 2013

August 07, 2013

Liberals and Fundamentalists Have it Wrong: Faith is Not About “Correct” Facts

The reason so many liberal churches are empty or mostly populated with aging rationalists who...

June 2013

June 26, 2013

Anti-Gay Bigots Unite!

When frightened evangelical and Catholic anti-gay bigots like Franklin Graham and the so called Catholic...

June 19, 2013

Gays Are Dangerous to Christians– Really! (Watch)

Gay men and women are persecuting Christians. The Pope says there is a secret gay...

June 05, 2013

Facebook and Google Must Do Far More to Stop the Slave Trade

I was speaking at a conference on how to end human trafficking. Every single speaker...

May 2013

May 21, 2013

The Lie of Religious ‘Victimhood’ at the Root of Culture War

What nurtures the victimhood on the one hand and the hubris about “taking America...

April 2013

April 27, 2013

Frank Schaeffer and Eric Elnes on Convergence Christianity

Eric is an old enemy of mine. Now we agree that we can fix what...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

Within 10 Years You’ll See Articles Supporting Gay Marriage in Christianity Today Magazine

I’ll make a prediction: within 10 years or less mainstream evangelicals like the editors...

February 2013

February 11, 2013

Phelps’s Granddaughters Leave Westboro Church

The act of leaving Westboro is as weird as the church itself. Sometimes it’s...

February 08, 2013

Progressive Christianity Is As Broken As Evangelicalism: Here’s How to Fix It

I don't think there will be some new age of religion dawning in America anytime...

February 02, 2013

Crazy White Southern “Christians” Keeping America Safe for Hate

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January 2013

January 23, 2013

American “Mainstream” Evangelicals Target Africa With Their “Gospel” of Hate

This video blog first aperred in the New York Times Please watch this...

January 14, 2013

The Loveliest Tribute to My Dad — Francis Schaeffer — I’ve Ever Read

I wrote about the real Francis Schaeffer in my memoir Crazy for God:...

December 2012

December 03, 2012

How to Keep Your Mate Even If You Are A Semi-Evolved Recovering Evangelical Controlling Bastard

Following her mother's example my first child Jessica returned love for my clumsy-to-bad-to-mean "fathering..."...

November 2012

November 20, 2012

Is There Any Crime Israel Could Commit Against the Palestinian Refugees That American Evangelical Christians Would Object To?

"We are witnessing a dramatic transformation in the relationship between [American Evangelical] Christians and...

November 13, 2012

Why Evangelical Bible Idolatry Sucks and Why I Go to a Greek Orthodox Church Even Though It’s A Mess Too

Having elevated the Bible -- or at least the nicer bits that they like...

November 07, 2012

Do Christians Have Something Better To Do Than Spending the Next 4 Years Hating and Lying About President Obama The Way They Did For The Last 4 Years?

On the morning after the reelection of President Obama American Christians of a conservative-to-far-right bent...

November 02, 2012

How the Evangelicals Doomed the Republican Party, God and (Maybe) America

By Frank Schaeffer Not all Evangelicals are Right-leaning Republicans. But according to polls...

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