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BY HEMANT MEHTA JANUARY 20, 2021 I was going to go through James Dobson‘s insane newsletter, but it ended up being a rant against conservative Christianity’s irrational fear of a…
BY HEMANT MEHTA JANUARY 10, 2021 You may have heard that Derrick Evans, a newly elected Republican delegate from West Virginia, has resigned after getting arrested and charged with federal…
BY HEMANT MEHTA JANUARY 8, 2021 Hey, evangelical Christians: Take notice. The editors of the National Catholic Reporter issued a blistering denunciation of the Capitol coup that named names of…
BY HEMANT MEHTA JANUARY 6, 2021 Amidst the attempted coup of the Capitol by right-wing terrorists, one of the participants bragging about it all is former Pennsylvania State Rep. Rick…
BY HEMANT MEHTA JANUARY 7, 2021 The usual brand of Trump-worshiping Christian sycophants were still at it last night, following the right-wing insurrection, falsely claiming that the siege of the…
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…
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…
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…
BY VAL WILDE FEBRUARY 7, 2020 In most cases, LGBTQ conversion therapy and religion go hand in hand. But that’s not always true. Infamous Twitter personality Graham Linehan is here…
BY VAL WILDE FEBRUARY 8, 2020 It turns out Virginia really is for lovers. Now that the state legislature has passed the Virginia Values Act, the motto applies even to…
BY VAL WILDE FEBRUARY 9, 2020 The homepage for Christian women’s website Girl Defined — all pastel and floral and sweetly feminine — promises to help visitors with “getting back…
BY HEMANT MEHTA In case you need something else to worry about, Christian writer Thomas Horn would like you to know that an asteroid is going to crash into the…
BY VAL WILDE JANUARY 25, 2020 Two young women who jumped to their deaths from a tall building in West Jerusalem last weekend left behind a note explaining their choice…
BY HEMANT MEHTA JANUARY 19, 2020 In a story that exhibits both religious delusion and the harm that can come because of someone’s religious delusions, a lady in Pennsylvania let…
BY HEMANT MEHTA JANUARY 9, 2020 A woman is Texas is suing the United States Postal Service for not allowing her to preach Christianity on official postage stamps. It turns…
BY HEMANT MEHTA JANUARY 7, 2020 We know atheists are more liberal than the general public. We know white evangelicals are more conservative. So here’s a question: Which side is…
BY RICHARD WADE JANUARY 6, 2020 Note: Letter writers’ names are changed to protect their privacy. Dear Richard, I am the mother of a young adult woman (30) who has…
BY HEMANT MEHTA JANUARY 6, 2020 Atheists love pets more than frequent churchgoers. Science proves it. Or something like that. According to a new article in the Journal for the…
BY BETH STONEBURNER JANUARY 5, 2020 With bushfires raging through Australia as a result of the climate crisis, you knew a pastor somewhere would take the opportunity to come up…