Tennessee Republican Tries (Again) to Make the Bible the “Official State Book”
BY HEMANT MEHTA FEBRUARY 9, 2020 In 2015, Tennessee State Rep. Jerry Sexton filed a bill to make the Holy Bible the official state book. It didn’t work. While the…
9 Reasons I Probably Couldn’t Be Friends With Jesus
FEBRUARY 10, 2020 BY COURTNEY HEARD Yesterday morning I got this note in my inbox: Hello Godless, I saw you speak of your non-profit work on Instagram. I just thought…
Atheist Gives U. of Texas $1 Million Endowment to Study Non-Religious Americans
BY HEMANT MEHTA FEBRUARY 9, 2020 An 80-year-old retired professor has given the University of Texas a $1 million endowment to study Secular Americans. Brian Bolton gave the money to…
Megachurch Mess
FEBRUARY 10, 2020 BY JAMES A. HAUGHT By James A. Haught Billionaire media mogul Oprah Winfrey helped create a four-season television series – “Greenleaf” – about a black megachurch where…
The Percentage of Religious “Nones” May Have Finally Hit Its Peak
BY HEMANT MEHTA FEBRUARY 10, 2020 For more than a decade now, we’ve been seeing stories about how younger people were becoming increasingly non-religious. Each new generation seemed to include…
Doctors revive ‘dead’ pastor; ‘divine providence’ & prayer credited
JANUARY 24, 2020 BY BARRY DUKE IT’S an all-too-familiar tale; an individual owes his or her life to the skills of first-aiders and medics, but Team Jesus takes most of…
Franklin Graham Banned In Liverpool For Anti-Gay Christian Hate
JANUARY 27, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Banned in Liverpool: Christian hate preacher Franklin Graham has been banned from appearing at a venue in Liverpool because he promotes anti-gay Christian hate.…
Satanic Temple Trolls Trump’s Spiritual Adviser After She Prays To End ‘Satanic Pregnancies’
JANUARY 27, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Doing the Lords’s work: The Satanic Temple responds after President Trump’s spiritual adviser, Pastor Paula White, calls for an end to “satanic pregnancies.” In…
Jesus Never Claimed To Be The Only Way to Heaven
JANUARY 3, 2019 BY KEITH GILES We hear this all the time: “Jesus is the only way to heaven” or “No one will be saved without knowing Jesus.” But is…
Sean Hannity: Trump Political Operative
JANUARY 23, 2020 BY ED BRAYTON Media Matters points out the rather obvious, that Fox News host Sean Hannity is also am important political operative for Donald Trump. He acts…
Utah Finally Bans “Conversion Therapy” for LGBTQ Children
BY DAVID GEE JANUARY 23, 2020 At long last, Utah has banned the use of bigoted and discredited “conversion therapy” on LGBTQ children, making it the 19th state to do…
6 Signs You May Be Attending a Modern Old Testament Church
JANUARY 10, 2019 BY JOSH DAFFERN Every Sunday tens of millions of people go to church on Sunday, but it is by no means a uniform experience. Churches come in…
Peter’s Pence: US bishops are being sued for ‘lying and stealing’
JANUARY 23, 2020 BY BARRY DUKE IN the wake of a Wall Street Journal exposé last December that claimed that Peter’s Pence, the Pope’s principal charity, gave only ten percent…
Report: New Orleans Saints Conspired With Catholic Church To Protect Pedophile Priests
JANUARY 24, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Religion poisons everything: Evidence shows that executives from the NFL’s New Orleans Saints football team conspired with the Catholic church to protect pedophile priests.…
Trump Spiritual Adviser Paula White Orders End To ‘Satanic Pregnancies’
JANUARY 26, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE What happened to “Pro-Life”? President Trump’s spiritual adviser, Pastor Paula White, wants to put an end to “satanic pregnancies.” In a bizarre rant captured…
The Prison of Belief
JANUARY 20, 2020 BY JAMES A. HAUGHT By James A. Haught When people accept supernatural claims of a religion, their lives are altered. They commit themselves to belief in miracles,…
White House Streams Church Service Claiming ‘Demonic Spirit’ Causes Homosexuality
JANUARY 21, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Theocracy Alert: The White House YouTube account is streaming a vile anti-gay church sermon attended by Vice President Mike Pence. Newsweek reports: Vice President…
Virginia man charged in alleged swatting ring targeting African Americans and Jewish people
By Rebekah Riess, CNN Updated 10:42 PM ET, Tue January 14, 2020 John William Kirby Kelley (CNN)The Justice Department has charged a Virginia man with conspiracy to make threats over…
End-timers gleefully anticipate a bloody war led by Trump and Jesus
JANUARY 21, 2020 BY BARRY DUKE DONALD Trump, according to his certifiably insane ‘spiritual advisor‘ Paul White, above, will shortly be in the vanguard of a battle that will lead…
Narcegesis
JANUARY 21, 2020 BY JAMES F. MCGRATH I don’t know how I missed coming across this term until now, but I’m so incredibly happy to have added it to my…