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May 2020

May 28, 2020

This Isn’t a Culture War, It’s a Pandemic

This feels like pandering. That's what it feels like. Talking ad nauseam about getting churches...

May 24, 2020

Some Christians Are Using the Pandemic as an Anti-Gay Trojan Horse

Can the pandemic be an answered prayer? This is the question Rosaria Butterfield posits in...

May 20, 2020

It’s Rank, Unadulterated Propaganda Time

They think they can lie to a virus. They really, really do. You would think...

May 19, 2020

Trump: Pompeo was No. 1 at West Point, so the rules don’t apply to him

Does Trump know that other countries also have anti-corruption laws? Oh wait, my bad, by...

December 2019

December 05, 2019

Do Republicans Even Believe in Voting Anymore?

When I saw the headline Bevin Says He Lost Because Democrats ‘Harvested Votes In Urban Communities’...

December 04, 2019

Trump’s Rejection of American Hypocrisy

Which, then, is better? Hypocrisy, or blatant and unashamed wrongdoing? The hypocrisy involves a failure to...

December 02, 2019

Jim Bakker Can’t Do Stats (or Logic), Says Trump Stopped Earthquakes

As I ponder this clip, I'm left wondering what it is that makes people susceptible...

November 2019

November 26, 2019

Christian Publisher Compares Opposition to Trump with the Rwandan Genocide

Strang's allusions to spiritual warfare are pretty damn convenient, when you think about it. They...

November 24, 2019

Metaxas’ “Donald Builds the Wall” Recalls Nazi Children’s Books

I try not to throw the word fascism around lightly, I really do. I wasn't...

November 11, 2019

Land Does Not Vote. People Vote.

Ward's public comments have laid bare Republican plans for dealing with possible defeat at the...

November 04, 2019

The Will of the People

I expect to disagree with Republicans on substance. My political positions align with the Democrats,...

October 2019

October 17, 2019

Grappling with the Dystopia We Now Call Home

Trump won't be impeached and removed from office, no matter what he does or has...

October 16, 2019

Are the State Department and Department of Justice Preparing for President Pence?

An ousted President Trump wouldn't necessarily mean a President Pence, though, because Pence is implicated...

September 2019

September 11, 2019

Donald Trump’s Corpulent Creeping Corruption

In general, I try to be careful to check my facts, and I don't like...

September 04, 2019

Are Pastors About to Be Jailed for Hate Crimes? No.

Gohmert was corruptly lambasted for what he said. He either was terrible at communication what...

August 2019

August 22, 2019

Donald Trump Gleefully Declares He’s Taken the Place of God in Israelis’ Hearts

Evangelicals will go right on supporting Trump, blasphemy or no blasphemy, and utter glee over...

February 2019

February 19, 2019

The Right’s New Lie: The Left Gave Us Toxic Masculinity

I have questions. Namely, questions about Doug Phillips and Bill Gothard and all of the...

January 2019

January 07, 2019

Republicans: From “Tear Down This Wall” to “Build That Wall”

In the United States, conservative politics learned heavily on anti-Communism. The political Right, in other...

December 2018

December 20, 2018

Blogger Elizabeth Esther Regrets Her Participation in Josh Harris Documentary

Elizabeth Esther's thoughts on Harris' documentary are important, because she's the one who started this...

December 18, 2018

Conservative: “Hate Has No Home Here” Signs Are Cause of Division

According to Buckley, It's the No Hate Here signs that are dividing neighborhoods, not the...

December 10, 2018

What’s Behind the Supreme Court’s Decision on Planned Parenthood Funding

The existence of a split circuit makes the Supreme Court's decision not to take the...

October 2018

October 24, 2018

Trump Has Given Evangelicals Everything They Want

I would like to think that signing on with a white nationalist will eventually come...

October 10, 2018

Men Are Wired That Way, and Other Things Conservative Women Believe about Harassment

A recent Harper's Bazaar article bore the headline "Why Conservative Women Are Ok with Harassment."...

October 04, 2018

Trump’s George Washington Comments Were Worse Than You Think

What makes this perhaps more odd is Trump's insistence that surely---surely---there must have been accusations...

October 02, 2018

White Evangelical Forgiveness Narratives, Brett Kavanaugh, and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford

In the world of conservative evangelicalism, it is confessing your sin to God---privately, silently---that is...

September 2018

September 28, 2018

Kavanaugh and Gorsuch Went to the Same Prep School, But Their Yearbooks Couldn’t Look More Different

I only bring this up---I was only curious about Gorsuch's yearbook to begin with---because of...