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January 2016

January 29, 2016

Trump Killed By Colbert (Really) WATCH!

Colbert hosted the first ever Trump against Trump debate... Trump lost. WATCH! LAUGH! CRY!...

January 24, 2016

If there is a creator He/She/It must hate fundamentalist religion

The deluded religious belief that any people or nation or church is a “chosen” people...

January 08, 2016

Just How Dumb Are the GOP’s White Rube Gun Nuts? Here’s How…

"Ammon Bundy says God drove him to break into the offices of an agency...

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 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

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...

November 2015

November 28, 2015

The Colorado Planned Parenthood Shooting– Blame the GOP Our Version of Saudi Wahhabi Islam

The Republican Party going into 2016 is in hock to extremists. It is fittingly symmetrical...

October 2015

October 23, 2015

Frank Schaeffer, “Treasonous Apostate,” Interviews Gay-Son-Marrying “Sinner” Pastor– the (Other) Frank Schaefer– WATCH

I just got back from the "Open" meeting in Minneapolis at Solomon's Porch with Brian...

September 2015

September 25, 2015

Do You Think the Pope’s Visit Actually Means Anything?

Will Pope Francis' visit mean anything more than a chance for the media to sell...

August 2015

August 13, 2015

Watch out Democrats running for office in 2016. Don’t leave the denunciation of rape for God up to Fox News and the Tea Party haters

A tipping point is being inexorably reached. Sometimes reality trumps ideals. Take the nice liberal...

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...

July 20, 2015

Why Is the Mainstream Media Running Away From Max Blumenthal’s New Book About Israel?

"Is it possible for right-wingers and AIPAC adherents to speak about his work without either...

July 17, 2015

What Is BAD (and Good) Sex & Art?

Bad art and bad sex matter for the same reason that bad religion matters. A...

July 06, 2015

The Truth About Christian ‘Sexual Purity’ — A Former Evangelical Speaks Out

The sexual purity "movement" is one of several to have deformed American politics as a...

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”...

July 01, 2015

a 7-year-old first grader stands up to the religious right WATCH THIS CLIP

In this video clip Zea--a 7-year-old first grader--stands up to bully religious right. The argument...

May 2015

May 10, 2015

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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”

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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

Here’s the Background on Huckabee I’ll be talking about Tonight on MSNBC

I'll be on MSNBC tonight at 6:30 EST talking about Mike Huckabee and the evangelical...

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......

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?...

April 2015

April 27, 2015

Is Bill Maher a Bigot? The Answer is in His Movie “Religulous”

In the last few months there have been a chorus of anti-Bill Maher articles...

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 19, 2015

So who will Rubio and Cruz take America back from?

Rubio stands out for his religion-broken brain. He converted from Roman Catholicism to Mormonism...

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...

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 24, 2015

California: “shoot the gays” proposal

According to the Guardian a California lawyer says he wants to legalize the execution of gay people,...

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 20, 2015

Religious Right Still Dominates the GOP

The GOP is still kowtowing to the Christian Right. When will that change? That the...

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