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June 2013

June 07, 2013

Google, Microsoft and Facebook Are More of a Threat to Privacy Than the US Government

It’s amazing that there are naive people who worry about government intrusion into our privacy...

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...

June 04, 2013

Jesus, Don’t Let Me Die Before I’ve Had Sex

Here's a clip from my interview in "Jesus, Don't Let Me Die Before I've...

June 02, 2013

Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs– Selfish or Just Stupid?

Are the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs selfish, stupid or just too young and uneducated about history,...

May 2013

May 28, 2013

Why Go To Hell When You Don’t Have To?

Kevin Miller’s astonishingly good film Hellbound? is now available on iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, Google Play and Youtube...

May 23, 2013

President Obama Listened to a Heckler With Humility His Critics Are (Ususally) Wrong

The president I know and love stood listening with respect to a heckler when...

May 21, 2013

Think of This Picture Next Time Someone Wants to Cut Government Funding

Moore OK police dig through the rubble of the Plaza Towers Elementary School...

May 20, 2013

Republicans’ “Christianity” Is Anti-Christ

Many Republicans claim to be believers in Jesus. On the evidence they hate Him. The...

May 19, 2013

Pro-Choice Yet Pro-Life?

Can one be pro-life and yet pro-choice? More and more people are saying that they...

April 2013

April 27, 2013

My Pro-Women MSNBC Interview

Here's what I said on "Politics Nation" with Rev Sharpton on MSNBC last night about...

March 2013

March 17, 2013

Pope Francis and the Far Right Counterattack

Here's a guest column "Is Pope Francis a Fraud?" on the new pope by Andrew...

February 2013

February 17, 2013

Catholic Ideas Are Becoming Marginal to our Politics

The sex abuse scandals that shadowed John Paul’s last years have become the defining...

February 06, 2013

The Final Defeat of the White Evangelical South: Fasten Your Seat Belts

In understanding the polarization and paralysis that afflict national politics in the United...

February 04, 2013

Jesus On Acid is Really Stupid Just Ask Chuck Hagel

Chuck Hagel, meet Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye’s Left Behind series. It represents everything that...

January 2013

January 07, 2013

The War on Women’s Sexuality

By Tracy Clark-Flory Women’s bodies have become a global battlefield. The brutal New Delhi gang...

January 03, 2013

America’s White Male Republican Evangelical Magical “Thinking” Racist Problem Is ALL of Our Problem

The American political process is being hijacked by a reckless, whining dangerous gang of psychologically...

December 2012

December 20, 2012

A Perfect Storm of Evangelical Idiots “Respond” to the Newtown Massacre

All that was needed to make the national tragedy of the killing of 20 children and 6...

December 20, 2012

The Republican Suicide Continues With Their Hysterical (Anti-Obama) Support For Child-Killing Guns

Add blind support for 30-round ammunition clips, military assault rifles and ownership of semiautomatic weapons,...

December 09, 2012

Good Riddance To The White Stupid Rube GOP!

Here's my favorite Maureen Dowd column of all time! Amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A Lost Civilization By MAUREEN DOWD Published:...

November 2012

November 09, 2012

Frank — “wayward, traitorous prince” (NYT) — Schaeffer 2013 Speaking Tour (Call Me I’ll Speak to Your School, Church or Group)

I’m putting together my 2013 speaking schedule. If you’d like me to speak to your...

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...

October 2012

October 30, 2012

For Once a Republican (Chris Christie) Tells the Truth About President Obama! (Watch)

Please watch this! Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

October 29, 2012

Thank God The Christian Right Will Be Destroyed By Its Homophobia

This article is by Valerie Tarico and was first was published by AlterNet as "Will the Christian Right...

October 28, 2012

Does Being A WHITE Evangelical Make You Politically Stupid or Is It That Only Stupid People Become WHITE Evangelicals 73 Percent of the Time?

According to polls 73 percent of WHITE evangelicals will be voting for Mitt Romney. If...

October 24, 2012

Just Your Average Local Billy Graham/Evangelical/Mormon Worship Service ???

I don't care what you believe, or don't let alone who you vote for. Vote...

October 22, 2012

Billy Graham Endorses Romney’s Secret Conversion to Islam — Says “At Least He’s Not a Homosexual!”

Meanwhile in the alternative USA somewhere on a planet far away and not so long...

October 21, 2012

Franklin and Billy Graham Sell Their Souls For a Mess of Republican Pottage

Billy Graham Website Down: "Mormonism Cult" Scandal Widens (This article is one I'd like...

October 12, 2012

Evangelical Sexy Virginity Panties For Jesus… and Romney

And so it's come to this: the American evangelical religious establishment is busting a gut...

October 01, 2012

Jesus Could Be Their Candidate and the Republicans Would Still Lose

Note: This article was first posted on the front Politics page of the Huffington Post...

September 2012

September 23, 2012

My “Hellbound?” Bush, Hell, Bin Laden CNN Post

Here's my CNN article on Hell, "Hellbound?" and the results of living in revenge/retribution addicted...

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