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March 2017

March 15, 2017

I’m a white male in North America’s upper middle class

I’m a white male in North America’s upper middle class. This inglorious inheritance of slaveholders,...

March 08, 2017

Is Franklin Graham gay “but in a state of denial, self-loathing and shame?” asks John Allyn Welch

(Photo YouTube) Is Franklin Graham gay "but in a state of denial, self-loathing and shame?"...

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...

December 2016

December 31, 2016

The New Evangelical Bible With The New (Improved) Trumped Jesus

Eighty one percent of white American evangelicals voted for Trump and since they follow the...

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 13, 2016

My Message is Amazon’s (No Kidding) Merry Jesus! WATCH, CRY, PRAY, HOPE! Why Not?

Kudos to Jeff Bezos WATCH! `````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` P.S. If you want to know a little more...

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...

July 2016

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...

June 2016

June 11, 2016

Ralph Reed Bends Over For Trump and Becomes the Poster Boy for Terminal Evangelical Moral Decline

And so it has come to this: Ralph Reed explaining why evangelicals like him are...

May 2016

May 05, 2016

AS JESUS SAID: THANK YOU TRUMP, YOU ARE THE HAND THAT FINALLY RIPPED THE MASK OFF TO SHOW US THE PILE OF STEAMING GOP SHIT BENEATH

In the end all the GOP congressional cowards will support Trump. Good! As Jesus...

April 2016

April 05, 2016

Jesus (or C.S. Lewis) could have Saved Donald Trump from Going Down in History as a Loser/Joke– Too Bad Trump Never Read the BIBLE or the Chronicles of Narnia!

www.gutenberg.org Trump could have avoided being branded forever as a joke and loser, in short an...

March 2016

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 16, 2016

Is Hayley Williams Jesus? Here is What Empathy and Co-Suffering Love Looks Like in Action (From a Source You’ll Never Guess!) WATCH, LOVE & CRY

youtube photo Remember that dumb line "What would Jesus do?" Well next time ask "What...

December 2015

December 29, 2015

“My” New Year’s Message is a Guest Message from My Dear Friend: Archbishop Lazar Puhalo of Canada

"Can we not hope that religions of every form might be delivered out of...

December 06, 2015

Falwell Jr Says: “End those Muslims” and Asks Liberty Students to Carry Guns on Campus

(photo Bloomberg) According to news reports in the Guardian newspaper and other sources, the president...

December 02, 2015

I never understood what communion was until I had the greatest honor of my life

I never understood what communion was until I had the greatest honor of my life:...

November 2015

November 02, 2015

Our Grandfather/Granddaughter Lucy & “Ba” Art/Icon Art Project

I've just launched a new show of icon art I collaborated with my 7 year...

July 2015

July 05, 2015

If there were no “holy books” how much easier it would be to believe in God!

(The "Last Judgement" by Michelangelo, Courtesy the Vatican archive) If there were no “holy books”...

June 2015

June 15, 2015

There is only one defense against the rising, worldwide, fear-filled fundamentalist tide engulfing all religions

My way of trying to encounter God within a church community may well be poison...

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 07, 2015

The Bible is Weirder than You Think: According to Scripture Jesus Was Bisexual since Both Men and Women Are the “Bride of Christ”

According to nice evangelical standards, the Bible is odd. Sorry but it is. Or maybe the Bible...

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 05, 2015

Jesus rejects tribalism, literalism, group identity, specific religions, and gatekeepers as well as his Jewish identity

"As an ultimate fuck you to rule-keeping scripture zealots everywhere, Jesus hung out with whores......

April 2015

April 22, 2015

Was Jesus “Christlike?” — The Christian God has been twisted into something not unlike that of radical Islam

"The Christian God has been twisted into something not unlike that of radical Islam." So...

April 02, 2015

“religious freedom” garbage, it’s time to call the religious right’s trash what it really is

"Any time right-wing conservatives declare that they are trying to restore or reclaim something, we...

February 2015

February 19, 2015

If I Was Still an Evangelical, I’d Want to Be Tony Kriz (Blessed be Tony!)

No, I don't write books about God like Tony does. And I'm persona non grata on...

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