Researchers Say Christian Nationalism is Making It Harder to End the Pandemic
BY HEMANT MEHTA JANUARY 3, 2021 We know the pandemic won’t end unless enough Americans are vaccinated, and one of the biggest barriers to people getting the shots they need…
Evangelist: If “Wicked” Democrats Win in Georgia, LGBTQ People Will Have Rights
BY HEMANT MEHTA DECEMBER 28, 2020 In case you need to know what the difference is between the two major political parties, evangelist Franklin Graham offers a perfect example of…
Idaho Pub Faces Backlash After Supporting “Menstruatin’ With Satan” Fundraiser
BY HEMANT MEHTA DECEMBER 29, 2020 The Idaho chapter of The Satanic Temple is currently hosting a charity drive cleverly titled “Menstruatin’ with Satan,” where they’re collecting donations of personal…
Mark Meadows’ Dinosaur Skeleton Scandal is Gaining New Life Online
BY HEMANT MEHTA DECEMBER 28, 2020 There’s never a bad time to remind people that White House chief of staff Mark Meadows (below) is an unethical Creationist, and a recent…
State Dept.: 1,000 Pakistani Girls Are “Forcibly Converted to Islam Each Year”
BY HEMANT MEHTA DECEMBER 29, 2020 Roughly 1,000 girls in Pakistan are forcibly converted to Islam each year, and the crisis has become worse as a result of COVID, according…
Cop Implicated in Black Man’s Murder Used Faith to Justify “Righteous Release”
BY HEMANT MEHTA DECEMBER 29, 2020 Earlier this month, police in Columbus, Ohio shot and killed 23-year-old Casey Goodson Jr., a Black man with no criminal record who had just…
Creationist: Evolution Tells Us There Were Surfing Monkeys 34,000,000 Years Ago
BY HEMANT MEHTA DECEMBER 28, 2020 It’s been a while since I’ve posted about Matt Powell, the budding hate-preacher who has said the government should execute gay people because the…
Report: Missouri Parents Watched As Their 4-Year-Old Was Killed During Exorcism
DECEMBER 30, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Religion Poisons Everything: Missouri parents watched as their 4-year-old child was killed as a result of a brutal exorcism in which the little girl…
Martha’s Vineyard COVID Outbreak Linked to Christians Trusting Jesus Over Masks
BY HEMANT MEHTA DECEMBER 30, 2020 There’s been a COVID outbreak in Martha’s Vineyard, the Massachusetts island, that involves 11 people, five of whom were members of a Bible study.…
If Low-Level Life Exists on Other Planets, What of God?
DECEMBER 31, 2020 BY JONATHAN MS PEARCE With the news that certain cloud compositions on Venus are best explained by molecular Venutian life existing, this prompts some interesting questions. If…
Michigan Pastor Blames Man’s COVID Death On Lack Of Faith
DECEMBER 31, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Despicable: An obnoxious Christian pastor in Michigan is caught on video blaming a man for his COVID death because he claims the man was…
God is Not an Old Man in the Sky. Now What?
DECEMBER 30, 2020 BY JONATHAN MS PEARCE Dana Horton is back with another look at atheism and spirituality, this time concentrating on what we do with the idea of God.…
Judge: Civil Cases Against Danny Masterson Must Go Through Scientology Mediation
BY HEMANT MEHTA JANUARY 2, 2021 Earlier this summer, actor Danny Masterson, best known for his role in That ’70s Show, was charged with three counts of rape. His criminal…
Social Justice and the Problem of Evil
JANUARY 7, 2019 BY D. G. HART Why is it that when many Christians talk about the systemic nature of social injustice, they don’t think about theodicy — or the…
In Symbolic Proclamation, Trump Says “a Nation Without Faith Cannot Endure”
BY BETH STONEBURNER JANUARY 1, 2021 Earlier this week, Donald Trump released a proclamation commemorating the 850th anniversary of Christian martyr Thomas Becket‘s death. (It seems safe to say this…
Conspiracy Theorist: I Will Refuse the COVID Vaccine Even “If Jesus Takes It”
BY BETH STONEBURNER DECEMBER 11, 2020 Not that anyone was asking, but conservative activist and conspiracy theorist DeAnna Lorraine wants you to know that she will never, ever take a…
Vaccine Developed Against Religion
DECEMBER 7, 2020 BY ANDREW HALL As some pharmaceutical companies race to discover and produce vaccines for COVID-19, there are many organizations that are experimenting with drugs that will protect…