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February 2016

February 14, 2016

Will President Obama HIMSELF Become Scalia’s (and thus Robert George’s) Replacement? He Just Might Because of the Stupidity of the Always Crazy Republican Ideologues!

photo credit princeton.edu Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (left) and Robert George, Princeton's McCormick Professor...

September 2015

September 16, 2015

You’ll Feel Better about America, Joe Biden and Politics When you Watch Him With Colbert

(Photo credit CBS used by permission) I very much hope Joe Biden runs. Here's...

April 2015

April 25, 2015

If God Created Women to Make Babies Why Does the Female Orgasm Have Nothing to do With Procreation?

If you believe that God created women then you have to believe that sex is...

March 2015

March 12, 2015

Here’s How the Roman Catholic Condemnation of Homosexuality Can and Must Change

Gary Gutting is a professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. In this...

January 2015

January 21, 2015

Pope Francis to Conservative anti-Contraception Catholics: Have SEX, BUT No More “breeding like rabbits!”

According to the Religion News Service, Pope Francis he's starting to chip away at the...

December 2014

December 04, 2014

If Christianity Isn’t the Celebration of a Murder/Suicide Pact Between God the Father and God the Son, Then What is It?

It's Christmas. Time to ask, what the hell Christianity is about, if anything? If...

November 2014

November 20, 2014

“Here’s the Most Horrible Phrase in the English Language: ‘How have you grown in the Lord lately?'” Gay, Proud and Liberated A Reader of Mine Speaks Out

"Any sexual hangups I may have postponed were now thrown to the wind. I was...

August 2014

August 14, 2014

Church and State: The Role of Spirituality in Politics, Watch Frank Schaeffer’s UCLA/Hammer Museum Talk

How did the religious right ensnare my family? I explored this at UCLA...

July 2014

July 11, 2014

Dear Evangelical Establishment, I know you don’t trust or like me and I don’t blame you! But instead of just writing me off as wicked, for once you’d better listen up…

(A 1984 satirical magazine cover depicting "Franky" Schaeffer as a "kid" throwing mud at Christianity Today Magazine and...

January 2014

January 14, 2014

One Look at American Christians and I Figure Jesus Must Have Hated Women– Right?

My friend’s attitude pissed me off. I shouted, “Are you kidding me? Taking care of...

January 06, 2014

The Ten Things the GOP Won’t Thank President Obama For in 2014

Here's Ten Things the GOP Won’t Thank President Obama For in 2014... 1. Thank President...

October 2013

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...

September 2013

September 20, 2013

NEWSFLASH! The POPE is SANE!

Pope Francis said in an interview published Thursday that the Roman Catholic Church must...

June 2013

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...

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...

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