JANUARY 31, 2021 BY MICHAEL STONE Well Said: A glorious rant denouncing the Christian cause to deny women the right to reproductive freedom delivered by Ana Kasparian of the Young Turks goes viral on TikTok and other social media outlets. A clip from a Nov 5, 2018 episode of the Young Turks has gone viral. The clip features […]
JANUARY 9, 2021 BY MICHAEL STONE Good Riddance: Derrick Evans, the West Virginia lawmaker and domestic terrorist who recorded himself storming the U.S. Capitol with his fellow Trump-loving terrorists, has resigned. Yesterday, Evans was arrested and charged for his crimes. CNN reports: A West Virginia Republican state lawmaker who recorded himself storming the US Capitol during 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 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 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 5, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Angels From Africa? During a wild prayer service Trump’s spiritual adviser Pastor Paula White claims angels “dispatched from Africa” will bring victory to Trump in the 2020 election. White held a marathon prayer service in Orlando, Florida, on Wednesday at the New Christian Destiny Center, calling on God for divine […]
OCTOBER 19, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Theocracy Alert: Religious extremist and GOP Senator James Lankford argues God wants Christian men to serve in government. Lankford, speaking on a conservative Christian podcast, made his argument for why he believes God wants “Godly men” to serve in the government. The U.S. senator representing Oklahoma argued that “the key to […]
JULY 4, 2019 BY PK LANGLEY I Would Quit Again I’m not going to church anymore, I quit. God told me I don’t have to go and I listened. If you think God told you to go, then I suggest you go. I’m pretty happy about the fact that God released me. My life has been […]
OCTOBER 1, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Theocracy Alert: Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, advises new lawyers to use their law career to build the “Kingdom of God.” Barrett made her position clear that lawyers should use their career to build a “Kingdom of God” while delivering an address to the […]
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE “They’re All Hustlers”: Trump mocks Christians for being superstitious and ignorant, but admires the Christian leaders who con the gullible rubes. According to a new report from The Atlantic, Trump often demonstrates contempt for Christians behind closed doors, mocking their rituals and silly superstition, while admiring the Christian leaders who […]
SEPTEMBER 26, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE American Taliban: Fox News contributor Pastor Robert Jeffress uses the Bible to justify the claim that police “are ministers of God sent to punish evildoers.” Jeffress, appearing on Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs Tonight, used the Bible to defend the police, at one point declaring: Law enforcement officers are ministers of […]
MARCH 26, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Religious Ignorance Kills: Landon Spradlin, a Virginia pastor who claimed the “mass hysteria” around the coronavirus pandemic was part of a media plot against Trump, has died from the virus. ABC News reports: Landon Spradlin’s family never got to say goodbye. The 66-year-old father and husband from Virginia died due to […]
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020 BY PAUL LOUIS METZGER In “Conspiracy Theories: In Pursuit of Truth,” I claimed that New Testament Christianity may have been a conspiracy theory movement. I made that claim based on a certain definition of “conspiracy theory.” To repeat that definition, political scientist Joseph E. Uscinski, an expert on the subject matter, defines conspiracy theories in a […]
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Schadenfreude: An Idaho pastor who mocked the idea of wearing a mask and kept his large church open for services without requiring masks despite a mask mandate has been hospitalized with the COVID-19 virus. Paul Van Noy, senior pastor at Candlelight Christian Fellowship in Coeur d’Alene, has been hospitalized in […]
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Incitement To Violence: Trump’s Christian “prophet” Mark Taylor warns that if Trump doesn’t start arresting Democrats “patriots will take matters into their own hands” and start a civil war. Right Wing Watch reports: During his weekly appearance on Chris McDonald’s “The MC Files” YouTube program Monday night, QAnon conspiracy theorist and so-called “firefighter prophet” Mark […]
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Incitement To Violence: Trump’s Christian “prophet” Mark Taylor warns that if Trump doesn’t start arresting Democrats “patriots will take matters into their own hands” and start a civil war. Right Wing Watch reports: During his weekly appearance on Chris McDonald’s “The MC Files” YouTube program Monday night, QAnon conspiracy theorist and so-called “firefighter prophet” Mark […]
BY BETH STONEBURNER SEPTEMBER 13, 2020 In 1995, Michael Passons became a founding member of the Christian band Avalon until he left in 2003. In that time, the band released two Gold-certified records (selling at least 500,000 units) and was nominated for multiple Grammy awards. Passons exited the group in 2003 to pursue a solo career. At […]
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Satanic Panic: Former Missouri GOP Governor candidate and “warrior for Christ” Saundra McDowel claims that wearing a mask to protect against COVID-19 is really “part of a demonic ritual to get rid of our individual God-given rights.” McDowel, writing on her Facebook page this weekend, boasted about how she went […]
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Pat Robertson Lives: Televangelist Pat Robertson denounces the Black Lives Matter movement as being a lesbian-led “anti-family, anti-capitalist, Marxist revolution” that wants to destroy Christianity for “being racist.” Newsweek reports: Televangelist Pat Robertson said on Thursday’s episode of his television program The 700 Club that the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement […]