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October 2019

October 14, 2019

A good compendium of every lie the Gun Cult tells

What is always striking about these critiques of the Christianist antichrist lie machine is that...

October 07, 2019

A brief follow up on the dreadful new Kevin Sorbo flick and Republican Rite violence fantasies

There are certain biblical passages that white conservative Americans have so thoroughly neutered that they...

September 2019

September 18, 2019

Virtue Signalling

There are certain catch-phrases that wind up getting overused and become meaningless insults.  "Politically correct"...

September 03, 2019

Marshalling the Forces of White Supremacy and Anti-Semitism

The Catholic tradition teaches that concupiscence "darkens the intellect" or, as I like to say,...

August 2019

August 30, 2019

The Empire Strikes Back at Dawn Eden Goldstein

When last we left Dawn, she was challenging the principalities and powers behind the publication...

July 2019

July 11, 2019

David Frum performs the autopsy on what was really wrong with Trump’s July 4 speech

It's not the stupid airport gaffe.  It's not even the massive historical illiteracy.  It's the...

July 08, 2019

Still Catholic, Still Prolife, But No Longer Part of the “Prolife Movement”

I reckon myself Catholic these days but no longer identify with what is commonly called...

July 02, 2019

Some of the many things the “prolife” Trump supporter will spend today defending instead of defending the unborn

Making three year olds act as their own attorney in our immigration kangaroo courts. Faking...

June 2019

June 14, 2019

What Real Religious Persecution Looks Like

The trial of Scott Warren ended in a hung jury.  For those not following the...

June 07, 2019

Christian Witness vs. Christianist Culture War

So the other day, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who gets a load of death threats and hate...

January 2019

January 28, 2019

Followers of the Imagisterium

Mike Lewis brings the truth about the Greatest Catholics of All Time, a sect in...

January 15, 2019

Today’s phony Christianist “prolife” Panic du Jour

G.K. Chesterton once remarked that the task of the yellow journalist is to shout "ADMIRAL...

December 2018

December 10, 2018

Kavanaugh Joins Court Majority to cast pivotal vote…

...to rule in favor of Planned Parenthood. So, to recap: Our abortion regime is 100%...

November 2018

November 07, 2018

There is a connection….

... between this: and this: via GIPHY Hint: It is not "prolife" or Christian. Just...

October 2018

October 18, 2018

The Corruption of Humor in the Kingdom of Cruelty

Uncle Screwtape talks about the uses of humor in hell: My dear Wormwood, Everything is...

October 12, 2018

I keep getting asked what I mean by “Christianism”

Signorelli: Antichrist and the Devil A Christianist is an adherent of a political cultus centered...

August 2018

August 14, 2018

There’s a reason I regard Trump as a dimestore antichrist

And it is spelled pretty well in this video: Yep. I'm aware of who Reza...

July 2018

July 04, 2018

Because I am a patriot, I post this today

If you are neutral, you are an accomplice to the gravest domestic threat our country--and...

July 02, 2018

SCOTUS stuff

I have no control over what happens with the SCOTUS business. I hope they pick...

June 2018

June 28, 2018

Pope Francis on the error of the Christianist “prolife” enemy of human life

In his terrific letter Gaudete et Exsultate, Pope Francis perceptively diagnoses the disease now raging...

June 20, 2018

Fire Raymond Arroyo

Where Peter Is discusses the vile apologetics for child-torture and hostage-taking now being offered in...

June 18, 2018

Not Romans 13. John 8:44

The Hydra of Lies from the Trump Machine on their policy of kidnapping children at...

June 14, 2018

Liar for Jesus

Not according to the- US Catholic bishops- Southern Baptist Convention- National Association of Evangelicals- United...

June 06, 2018

Secular Messianism is Alive and Well in the Age of King Donald I

Remember when Christianists were warning that Obama's base thought he was the Anointed of God?...

May 2018

May 29, 2018

This is America

This is a bus for babies snatched away from their parents at the border by...

May 29, 2018

A reader objects to my distinction between Christian and Christianist

He writes: I am a long time reader and follower of your blog.  You're book,...

May 12, 2018

The Return of Torture

In 2009, Pew did a study of support for torture among Americans and found that...

May 08, 2018

What Catholics Have Sacrificed…

by Allying with Evangelical Republicans: The affair of Fr. Patrick Conroy's tendered and withdrawn resignation...

May 01, 2018

A refutation of a disgusting Right Wing Culture War Lie

So a particularly stupid Whataboutist Gotcha from some of my readers runs thus: We should...

April 2018

April 30, 2018

Christianists Cry Wolf

As far as I can tell from the chatter (and not having seen the whole...

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