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BY HEMANT MEHTA JULY 29, 2020 Donald Trump‘s legal adviser, notorious anti-LGBTQ bigot Jenna Ellis (below), made news last month when she reacted to a tweet about how “white European” Jesus monuments needed to come down with a whiny statement equating that with people trying to “cancel Christianity.” Ellis hasn’t stopped saying idiotic things since then, and that’s very disturbing […]
JULY 29, 2020 BY CAPTAIN CASSIDY Hi and welcome back! This topic is one that’s been on my mind for a while: why Christians have so much trouble obeying the basic demands of their religion. In fact, they frequently talk about how much trouble they have with the practice of their religion. Today, let’s explore why the practice of Christianity is […]
BY BETH STONEBURNER JULY 29, 2020 Steve McConkey, the president of the Christian sports ministry 4 WINDS who once advocated for Olympic athletes to sign a faith statement against homosexuality and whined about a supposed “Atheist Gestapo,” is back with an even more outrageous request. He wants to ban Black Lives Matter from sports. Because affirming that marginalized lives matter […]
BY HEMANT MEHTA JULY 29, 2020 About a week after declaring California’s sensible COVID restrictions “tyrannical,” worship leader and MAGA cultist Sean Feucht held an outdoor Christian concert for (what he claims is) 5,000 people. You can see from the video that very few people are wearing masks. There sure as hell is no social distancing; people are […]
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MARCH 6, 2019 BY ANDY GILL Is White Supremacy Hiding Behind the Guise of “Diversity”? I mean probably but also, here’s why it shouldn’t really matter… How many people in 2019 drive past a church sign that says “All are welcome!” and think, “That’s definitely true!” Not too many. Feels like, at this point, the sign […]
JULY 17, 2020 BY AVELLINA BALESTRI The theory of the evolution of species has rocked the world of traditional religious thought ever since it first gained prominence. To this day, even among those who accept theistic evolution, there is a tendency to strain over the concepts presented in Genesis, and try to make them graft with […]
JULY 30, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE The Hoax Killed Him: Herman Cain, former 2012 presidential candidate and co-chair of Black Voices for Trump, who posted COVID denying, anti-mask propaganda to his social media accounts, is dead from the virus. BBC reports: Herman Cain, the Republican pizza chain CEO who ran for president in 2012, has died […]
JULY 23, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Thoughts and Prayers: Bishop Henrique Soares da Costa of Palmares, a conservative Catholic bishop from Brazil who claimed COVID-19 was a “sign from God,” is dead from the virus. Catholic News Agency reports: Bishop Henrique Soares da Costa of Palmares, Brazil, became the latest bishop to die of COVID-19 on July […]
JULY 29, 2020 BY BARRY DUKE IN 2017 retired UK priest John Kevin Murphy, above, was sentenced to three years for sexually abusing four young boys. Now it’s reported that he’s was jailed yesterday for a further five years after he pleaded guilty to 32 offences involving indecent assault and indecency. All but one of the ex-priest’s six […]
BY HEMANT MEHTA JULY 28, 2020 The video below, from my YouTube channel (please subscribe!), discusses a question that we really shouldn’t have to ask: Was Jesus white? Somehow, this is a matter of debate among right-wing Christians. If you like what you’re seeing, please consider supporting my work on Patreon. (Original image via Shutterstock)
BY HEMANT MEHTA JULY 28, 2020 I almost hate to give this person publicity when I know he’s just looking for it… but when a new book about the devil includes the “first-ever recording of the voice of Satan,” I can’t resist. Author Roderick Millington is a “journalist” who claims to be “open-minded” and “investigative.” He was […]
July 29/2020 Ronald Durham Anderson Cooper calls Trump a ‘snake oil salesman’ for touting doctor who believes in ‘demon sperm’ CNN’s Anderson Cooper discusses President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus and a video he retweeted featuring a group of doctors making false claims about the coronavirus.
Daniel KohnJuly 29, 2020, 12:41 AM Click here to read the full article on SPIN. Uh oh! Madonna, who has been strangely outspoken since the COVID-19 pandemic began (to put it mildly) found herself in some hot water on Tuesday night after sharing a post in praise of Houston’s Dr. Stella Immanuel. Rewinding for a […]
JULY 27, 2020 BY BOB SEIDENSTICKER How do we distinguish things that are here solely due to the action of natural laws from those designed by an intelligence? Christian apologist Jim Wallace has created a checklist for this purpose (the list is summarized in part 1 of this series and critiqued in part 2). We left off considering the […]
BY HEMANT MEHTA JULY 27, 2020 Christian author, Falkirk Center “fellow,” and failed racist comedian Eric Metaxas says Jesus is white. It’s a fact. Jesus was somehow the only Caucasian guy in the Middle East. Don’t believe it? Just look at the pictures. Somehow, that’s not even the dumbest thing Metaxas said in a single tweet. Metaxas was using […]
BY HEMANT MEHTA JULY 27, 2020 During an “Evangelicals for Trump” rally on Thursday in Alpharetta, Georgia, right-wing activist and former head of the Christian Coalition Ralph Reed said that Donald Trump needed to be re-elected in order to preserve Christian supremacy. … we got a big job to do in the next 100 days. Let’s go out and do it […]
JULY 28, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE The Stupid, It Burns: President Trump is promoting a wild conspiracy theory video featuring a doctor who claims demon sperm causes disease, and that “you don’t need a mask” because she can “cure” coronavirus with the discredited drug hydroxychloroquine. Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump went on a late night Twitter binge […]
JULY 25, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Twilight Zone: Texas lawmaker Jonathan Stickland claims if extraterrestrials exist, they must accept Jesus if they want to enter heaven. HuffPost reports: A Texas state representative alienated many Twitter users Friday with his comments on extraterrestrials. After The New York Times posted a story about the Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force, Republican Rep. Jonathan Stickland suggested that […]
JULY 18, 2020 BY BARRY DUKE IN A move that proves the Republicans haven’t quite cornered the market in religious lunacy, Louisiana’s Democratic Catholic Governor John Bel Edwards, above, has asked people living in the Pelican state to embark on a three-day prayer initiative in the fight against COVID-19. At a press conference on Thursday, Edwards asked all […]
BY BETH STONEBURNER JULY 17, 2020 During a Sunday service on July 5, Rock Urban Church in Grandville, Michigan showed the congregation a video promoting a number of QAnon conspiracy theories that include the idea that COVID-19 is part of some Democratic plot to ruin Donald Trump‘s presidency and that George Floyd‘s murder was staged. The church removed […]