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April 2017

April 21, 2017

What’s The “Conservative” Response Been to the Rash of Fox News-Sexual Predators? Silence.

When I grew up in the evangelical ghetto good manners about all things sexual were...

April 15, 2017

My “Easter Sermon” and Video Rant: Trump is a symptom. We’re losing our souls…

Trump is a symptom. We’re losing our souls. Silicon Valley billionaires think they will live...

March 2017

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...

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,...

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 03, 2017

read this terrifying news release from media matters, a most trusted news source combating fake news about our slide to outright white supremacy overtaking the Trump White House by stealth and overtly too

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, February 3, 2017 CONTACT Laura Keiter [email protected] How To Get Away With White...

January 2017

January 20, 2017

TODAY JANUARY 20, 2017 THE USA TUMBLES FROM PRESIDENT OBAMA’S GRACEFUL ENLIGHTENMENT TO TRUMP’S BREATHTAKING IGNORANCE

(photos YouTube) `````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` P.S. If you want to know a little more about where...

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 15, 2017

How will White American Evangelicals Follow Trump’s Moral Leadership? HINT: Their Daughters might want to become “golden shower” Russian hookers and their sons could become neo-Nazi Jew-haters

(Photo YouTube) Here are some suggestions for Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell Jr. and the other...

January 09, 2017

Please take 4 min and WATCH my latest rant: This is Way Past Politics– America Now Has 2 Governments a Dangerous Conman and Mike Pence (BTW If Trump Had Run as a Liberal Democrat He’d Still be a Fatal Mistake)

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

January 08, 2017

For the next 58 minutes please let me rescue you from thinking about Trump and your problems and turn your mind to the real and most wonderful questions there are… WATCH and share. Thank you!

Jesus planted an empathy time-bomb. Let me tell you about it and take your mind...

January 01, 2017

How to Survive the TRUMPOCALYPSE and Build a Better America in 2017 – The Only New Year’s Resolution that Could Actually Make America Better

(Photo: YouTube) Will we let America become a suicide vest strapped to the entire globe...

November 2016

November 14, 2016

Here is my latest interview on NPR today please listen as I explain the evangelical vote for TRUMP

Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric was at times sexist and racist in nature, putting voting blocs...

November 13, 2016

Do Not Miss SNL’s Heart-wrenching Opening as Kate McKinnon returns as a Defeated Hillary Clinton With a Leonard Cohen Tribute to His “Hallelujah” on Saturday Night Live

(Photo YouTube) Kate McKinnon returned as Hillary Clinton to give an exquisite tribute rendition of...

November 11, 2016

President Trump’s “Reality”: How did we go from arguably the best president of the last 50 years to arguably the worst human being to ever run for high office in American history becoming Mr. President?

(Photo YouTube) How did we go from arguably the best president of the last 50...

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...

October 2016

October 28, 2016

It Is With Great Joy That I Present The Most Magnificently Bizarre Trump TV Add Ever (For Real!) And Thus Prove God and/or the Universe Isn’t Laughing WITH America But AT America– Do NOT Miss This!

(Photo YouTube) When your grandchildren and/or aliens from another planet ask "Just how weird did...

October 16, 2016

Trump Is No Aberration to Christianity, In Fact Trump Is the Perfect Christian Candidate: He Actually Represents the Worst of What Might Be Called “Deep Christianity”

(photo YouTube: Christian leaders praying for Trump to win) ``````` Trump is the prefect Christian...

October 13, 2016

Liberty U Students Rebuke Jerry Falwell Jr. Over His Support for the Woman-Molesting Pervert Trump (The name Falwell and the words Sexual Assault will be linked forever…)

(Photos Twitter/YouTube) Students at Liberty University have proved themselves more ethical than their school's president....

October 04, 2016

HERE’S HOW THE FRAUDULENT PROSPERITY GOSPEL MOVEMENT — ORAL ROBERTS, KENNETH HAGIN, KENNETH COPELAND, FREDERICK K.C. PRICE & JOEL OSTEEN — HELPED LAY THE GROUNDWORK FOR TRUMP: THE WORLD’S WORST BUSINESSMAN

(Photos C-Span/YouTube) The fraudulent founders of the prosperity gospel movement -- including Oral Roberts, Kenneth...

October 01, 2016

Trump and Evangelicals: Why So Happy Together?

(Photo YouTube) "Trump didn’t just fall from the sky to become the nominee, he got...

September 2016

September 13, 2016

HERE’S WHY THE AMERICAN “PATRIOTIC” EVANGELICAL RELIGIOUS RIGHT NOW SUPPORTS THE MURDERER/FASCIST AMERICA-HATING THUG PUTIN

(Photos YouTube) In the 1970s and 1980s when my dad (Francis Schaeffer) and I helped...

September 02, 2016

I’m Taking a Wrecking Ball to the Evangelical Swamp… “Let Me Be FRANK” A New Documentary About My Journey is (Almost) Here

Let Me Be Frank You may have never heard of Frank Schaeffer. He's not famous....

August 2016

August 30, 2016

It turns out that the Roman Catholic American Voters are Downright Sane Compared to Today’s Fascist-Supporting Evangelicals!

(Photo Raw Story) According to the Washington Post, Trump is losing with Catholic voters —...

August 17, 2016

NOTE: this Friday August 19 to Sunday August 21 my book “WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD– How to Give Love, Create Beauty and Find Peace” will be FREE on Amazon-Kindle. Please pass on the word. Thank you.

"All we have is our stories," writes novelist Schaeffer (Crazy for God, 2008, etc.) in...

August 15, 2016

MY FREE NEW BOOK THIS FRIDAY 19th TO SATURDAY 20th! (WATCH the Offer)

This Friday Aug 19th to this Sunday Aug 21st you may get my book for...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

Take it From this Ex-Fundamentalist: Listen-up Bernie Worshipers (Seemingly Working to Elect Trump) There are No Political Messiahs

Please WATCH my 4 min "answer" (such as it is) to the Bernie Sanders...

July 25, 2016

White Christian America sees Donald Trump as their modern Moses

"White Christian America sees Donald Trump as their modern Moses" writes Steven Rosenfeld in an...

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...

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