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NOVEMBER 24, 2020 BY JOHN RICHARDS Let’s get a couple of things straight. Firstly, nobody calls themselves an ‘evolutionist’. ‘Evolutionist’ is a label aimed at rationalists by Creationists. They want to make evolution seem like an odd belief that a few renegade scientists have signed up to for no good reason. This is either a complete […]
NOVEMBER 22, 2020 BY THE CONVERSATION Moral combat: Do you wear a face mask to show you care about others? Or do you refuse because you believe they defy human nature?Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images By Eugene Y. Chan of Purdue University Governments around the world have recommended or mandated various behaviors to slow the spread of COVID-19. These include staying […]
NOVEMBER 24, 2020 BY VANCEMORGAN In the eight-plus years that I’ve been writing this blog, I’ve occasionally been asked what a “Freelance Christian” is. I call myself a freelance Christian because I don’t believe that any particular doctrinal formulation of the Christian faith is satisfactory. This is not because I’m still looking for the doctrinal package […]
NOVEMBER 20, 2020 BY JIM MEISNER JR. Mainstream media in America clearly don’t understand that there are different types of Christians; just as there are different types of media, ranging from the most conservative to the most liberal. On the far right: the Southern Baptist Convention, the Catholic Church, Franklin Graham, James Dobson, Vice President Mike […]
BY HEMANT MEHTA NOVEMBER 19, 2020 Lincoln County, Tennessee is a rural area just north of Huntsville, Alabama, and like so many parts of the country right now, its COVID numbers are increasing far more quickly than anyone wants to see. The county of roughly 34,000 citizens has seen 1,322 positive cases so far with 30-40 new […]
NOVEMBER 19, 2020 BY JONATHAN MS PEARCE Recently, and I hope he won’t mind me saying this, but Jim Jones sent me a link of a news piece about children showing beautiful Halloween empathy and kindness with a comment that these children were showing more empathy than a person in charge of the United States, who at that […]
BY HEMANT MEHTA NOVEMBER 19, 2020 Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne has spent the majority of this year trying to spread COVID. He held in-person church services as the pandemic was breaking, continued gathering in-person over the summer without social distancing or any kind of mask requirement, and said back in August that anyone who took a potential vaccine would “be dead within a […]
NOVEMBER 18, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Violence For Jesus: Conservative Christian TV Host Rick Wiles warns “left wing activists” to flee Florida because “were coming after you.” Right Wing Watch reports: On Monday’s episode of his “TruNews” program, Florida-based End Times broadcaster Rick Wiles praised the state’s Republican governor for proposing a law that would allow citizens to shoot anyone suspected […]
NOVEMBER 19, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE COVIDIOT: Megachurch pastor Rodney Howard-Browne claims the new COVID-19 vaccine is a “satanic plot” to change human DNA and “remove the God factor out of people so they won’t feel God.” Right Wing Watch reports: Right-wing pastor and ardent conspiracy theorist Rodney Howard-Browne says the COVID vaccine is a satanic plot […]
NOVEMBER 19, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Lock Him Up: N.J. Congressman Bill Pascrell is calling for the “prosecution of Donald Trump and his enablers for their many crimes against the United States.” NJ.com reports: New Jersey Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., one of Donald Trump’s fiercest critics on Capitol Hill, is demanding the president and his aides be investigated […]
NOVEMBER 9, 2019 BY CLINT SCHNEKLOTH This week I sat on a panel on LGBTQ+ spirituality organized by the multicultural office and the social work department at the University of Arkansas. First question out of the gate: Do you consider yourself more spiritual or religious? As I sat and listened to responses, I realized this discussion, about […]
NOVEMBER 12, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Delicious Tears Of Unfathomable Sadness: Televangelist Jack Hibbs, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills in Chino, California, breaks down in tears because Joe Biden will be the next president. Newsweek reports: A clip of a televangelist weeping at the thought of a Joe Biden presidency is gong viral on social media. Jack […]
NOVEMBER 12, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Safe Space For Domestic Terrorism: Parler is a fast growing right-wing social media site that provides a fact-free safe space for conservative extremists like white supremacists, Nazis, QAnon Trump supporters, and other deplorables. Newsweek reports: Launched in 2018, Parler presents itself as “an unbiased” social media platform, and is generally understood […]
NOVEMBER 17, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE COVIDIOT: After claiming God had given him immunity to COVID-19, conservative pastor E.W. Jackson reveals that he and his wife have contracted the virus. Newsweek reports: Months after he told his congregation that he wouldn’t get coronavirus, conservative pastor E.W. Jackson announced in a Facebook Live sermon that he and his […]
NOVEMBER 10, 2020 BY SCOTT R. STAHLECKER I’ve lived in two divided countries in my life. Once in Frankfurt, Germany while serving in the army from 1986-1989, and also in South Korea for two years while teaching English in the late 90s. Being isolated from family members and friends behind a wall of political differences is […]
NOVEMBER 11, 2020 BY ADAM LEE For years to come, millions of Americans will remember where they were when the presidential election was called for Joe Biden. I was at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx with my family, enjoying a glorious autumn afternoon. It was sunny and warm, unseasonably so, and the city […]
NOVEMBER 7, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Lock Him Up: President Donald Trump refuses to concede after Joe Biden is declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election. Associated Press reports on the victory: Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, positioning himself to lead a nation […]
NOVEMBER 11, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Domestic Terrorists Plan Rally: A march on Washington D.C. billed as the Million MAGA March is being planned by an assortment of Trump-loving deplorables, including militias, Proud Boys, white nationalists and Nazis. Politico reports: The disparate tribes of MAGA Nation — Oath Keepers, Three Percenters, Infowars fanatics, Groypers, Proud Boys, white […]
NOVEMBER 9, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Despicable: Arkansas Police Chief Lang Holland, a QAnon Trump supporter, has resigned after calling for violence against Democrats on the right-wing social media site Parler. USA Today reports: The police chief of a small Arkansas city has resigned after posting online threats of violence that targeted Democrats. Marshall Mayor Kevin Elliott […]
NOVEMBER 7, 2020 BY CAPTAIN CASSIDY Hi and welcome back! Before we swing back into our schedule, I wanted to show you this silly thing I saw online. Its smugly-grinning author calls it his ‘10-second argument for God.’ I, however, call it over-baked trash that doesn’t at all demonstrate what its author thinks it does. Today, let […]