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The Specter of a Controlling Islam Hides a Controlling Religious Right
It’s a neat trick, pretending facts don’t exist so you can replace them with some agenda-friendly invented facts. *Cough* Benghazi *Cough*
Tagged Mosaic Law
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Conservative Christians Claim They Should be Able to Spew Hate Without Consequence
Conservative Christians want to be able to spew hate and lies but for nobody to have the right to disagree with or refute them
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Right Wingers Claim Prayer Doomed Manchin-Toomey
You probably didn’t know this but gun safety laws are “pagan” and it was prayer that defeated Manchin-Toomey
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Grandmother Says She is Persecuted if She is Not Allowed to Convert Grandson
Visiting Grandma should not carry with it the prerequisite of conversion
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Buster Wilson Wakes Up to Discover He’s a Hate Monger
Buster Wilson complains that if he believes what he says the Bible says about homosexuality, he is a hate monger
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NBA Player Jason Collins Comes Out – Religious Right Apoplectic
NBA player Jason Collins says he’s gay; the religious right says he is immoral and aberrant and so are we for supporting him
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Fox News Says Rep. Keith Ellison Is ‘Very Dangerous’ Because He’s a Muslim
Apparently if you actually exercise your First Amendment rights to be something other than Christian, you’re dangerous.
Bryan Fischer Says Liberals Hate America and Christianity
Bryan Fischer dishonestly says liberals hate America and Christianity because they want to replace America as it was founded
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The GOP’s Boston-inspired Insanity
The GOP: Sodomizing our shared reality – and you
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Kansas Republican Tim Huelskamp Put the Fool in April Fool’s Day
Kansas Republican Tim Huelskamp says marriage equality is unpatriotic and will destroy the family and motherhood – and even your apple pie
The Republican Party’s Bad Character-Guy Culture
The NFL hates ’em, the GOP loves ’em: bad character guys. Who needs Nazis and the KKK? We already have the Republican Party.
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Pat Robertson Says You Have Demons in Your Underpants
Pat Robertson thinks there are demons in your underpantsr, so be sure to rebuke them before heading out of the house
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80 Republicans Sign Supreme Court Brief in Support of Marriage Equality
More than 80 Republicans have signed a brief which will be submitted to the Supreme Court in support of Marriage Equality
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America’s Capitalism Has Embraced White Slaves as Well as Black
American capitalism supported white indentured servitude before and alongside black slavery and relinquished it only reluctantly.
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World Net Daily to PoliticusUSA: Facts are anti-Semitic
Reality-challenged Joseph Farah of World Net Daily feels that inconvenient and uncongenial facts about ancient Israel are anti-Semitic.
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Joseph Farah Says America Needs Ten Commandments – Wants Money
Joseph Farah is putting up 10 Commandment billboards in “Sin City” – Las Vegas – and he wants your dollars to do it
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Buster Wilson Claims Obama Wants to Declare Christians to be Mentally Ill and Lock Them Up
Buster Wilson lets go of his meat long enough to claim Obama thinks he’s crazy and wants to lock him up.
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Right Wing Bigots Claim Immigration Reform Path to Citizenship Violates the Bible
Ralph Reed, mistaking the Bible for the US Constitution, believes his holy book should govern US immigration policy
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Bryan Fischer Condemns Interfaith Prayer and Counterfeit Gods
Some have realized that people might be praying to the same god or gods and that mixing it up isn’t a bad thing. Not Bryan Fischer
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Fundamentalist Says Refrigeration Removes Sin. Tough Luck Gays and Lesbians!
Oklahoma Pastor James Taylor says if you can refrigerate something (like shellfish) it isn’t an abomination anymore
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The Right Claims Liberals Have a Dull-Witted, Self-Defeating, Abjectly Wicked Worldview
Conservatives seem completely confused and befuddled by reality, as evidenced by Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber and his recent scree
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Gun Nuts to Build 2,000 Acre Citadel in Idaho’s American Redoubt
How do America’s most extreme gun enthusiasts want to live? You’ll soon get to find out as they build their own city in the mountains of Idaho
Michele Bachmann Refuses to Pay Employees Unless They Promise to Hide Illegal Activities
Americans should be asking themselves this weekend why Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is refusing to pay five of her staffers for the work they did helping her try to win the presidential nomination.
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Right Wing Insanity Boils Over With Claim Marriage Equality Caused Noah’s Flood
Right wing Pastor Scott Lively hit a new level of crazy even for the far right by claiming that same sex marriage caused Noah’s Flood.
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The GOP Needs to Shed its God Problem Before it’s Too Late
The Republican Party needs to shed its God problem before its unhealthy obsession destroys America
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Piers Morgan Says Flawed Bible Must be Amended
Piers Morgan, already being attacked for his stance on guns, has truly thrown caution to the wind by proclaiming that the Bible is flawed and must be amended.
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This Holiday Season Do Your Own Thing and Damn the Critics
Conservative Christians despise atheism as being a subjective form of morality, ignoring the history of their own subjective belief system
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The Religious Right Wants You Dead in God’s Name
The endless chorus from the Religious Right that all that plagues our society is the result of divine wrath has grown tiresome…and then some.
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David Barton Says We’ve Got to Have the Same Guns the Government Has
David Barton says the Founding Fathers would want us armed with the same weapons available to the government – because the Bible says so
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Sanity Prevails in New Orleans as Revisionist Texas Textbooks Banished
Six schools have been saved for science in New Orleans, where humans will never walk with dinosaurs and Noah’s flood did not create the Grand Canyon
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James Dobson Says Sandy Hook is God’s Judgment on America
James Dobson says America has turned its back on God and Sandy Hook is God’s response: the murder of our children in retaliation.
Bryan Fischer Claims Homosexuality is a Birth Defect
The American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer misrepresents a scientific study to claim that homosexuality is a birth defect
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Federal Judge Says North Carolina’s Choose Life License Plates are Unconstitutional
A federal judge has ruled that North Carolina cannot offer choose life plates without also offering pro-choice plates
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Conservatives Are Dreaming of a ‘White’ Christmas
Conservatives are dreaming of a ‘white’ Christmas, and that is all Christmas really is to them: a means to an end that has no role for Jesus
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Conservatives Introduce Their New Fantasy: Barack the Destroyer
Bryan Fischer introduces Barack the Destroyer, the man who wants to destroy America and make Americans suffer because of their racism
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The Religious Right Freaks Out Over West Point’s First Same-Sex Marriage
When West Point hosted its first gay marriage this past weekend, the Religious Right went bananas, talking about moral cliffs and decadence
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Man Charged with Blasphemy for Pointing out Weeping Jesus Miracle was Plumbing Problem
In India, you can apparently be charged with blasphemy for pointing out that a statue of Jesus is not, in fact, crying.
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Glenn Beck’s Philosophical Belch – Agenda 21
Glenn Beck takes the new Egyptian Constitution as an opportunity to push his UN conspiracy and to predict a US dictator within 5 years
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Fox News Has a Holiday Wish List but Governor Chafee Can’t Have a Holiday Tree
“All I want for Christmas is to kill it,” seems to be the song conservatives think liberals sing each and every holiday season. Fox News has made a lucrative living pushing a nonexistent war on Christmas, seizing on every example of religious pluralism in this country – that is, the right of people to believe…
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Why Conservatives are Wrong When They Say Liberalism Will Fail
Conservatives have convinced themselves of libearlism’s illigitimacy; now they have convinced themselves liberalism will fail
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Just in time for Black Friday conservatives revive the War on Christmas
It is that season again – and no, I am not talking about Christmas. I am talking about the War on Christmas, which is a far more important season to religious conservatives.
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America is a Christian Nation. If We Don’t Like it, We Should Get Out
Another one of the 24 percent tells the 76 percent to get out because America is THEIR country: white and Evangelical
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Let’s Not Give Right Wing Religious Idiots and Hypocrites the Last Laugh
The Religious Right says some laughable things, but there is nothing laughable about their money, power – or influence on American politics
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Mrs. Cleaver’s America is Dead – and Thank God For It
Republicans, in appraising the causes for the Republican defeat in 2012, shy away from the real reasons for that defeat: the culture war
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Ryan to Evangelicals: Obama’s Path Compromises Judeo-Christian Values
Paul Ryan says Obama’s path compromises some non-existent values; the real problem is that Obama stands between Ryan and the Constitution
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Romney Lies on CNN. This is his Real Vision for America
Mitt Romney took to CNN’s opinion page to lie about his vision for America but his real vision is somewhat different
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Franklin Graham Says Election Day 2012 is America’s Last Call
Not only has God decided Mormonism is not a cult, but that former heretic Mitt Romney is his last true hope: vote Mitt or burn in hell!
Romney’s Endorsement of Rape Enthusiast Richard Mourdock
Mitt Romney wants Richard Mourdock, who thinks rape pregnancies are a gift from God, changing things in Washington, D.C.
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Bryan Fischer, Kicked off CNN for Lying, Reacts like Childish Buffoon
Bryan Fischer appeared on CNN this week to share his hateful and dishonest spew but ran into a host who was having none of it
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GOP Congressman – Evolution a Lie Straight from the Pit of Hell
Paul Broun and Todd Akin, both serving on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, deny evolution and embrace superstition
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What Last Night’s Debate Tells us About How Team Romney Sees Women
Paul Ryan made clear last night that he wants his religious beliefs to inform our decisions, while claiming it is his that are under attack
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Kirk Cameron Throws Stones at Gays But Says He is the Stoning Victim
Kirk Cameron has been stoning gays and lesbians but wants to present himself as the victim because people dared criticize his hate speech
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If a Straight Man Can Resist Polygamy a Gay Man Can Resist Other Men?
Fundamentalists are forever looking for a working equation to make same-sex attraction unnatural but the only thing unnatural is their logic
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Can Reality Be Prayed Away? Fundamentalists Say Yes
Harry Jackson said he cursed the Washington Blade, a gay newspaper, out of existence. But the Blade is still there. Am I missing something?
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Biblically Clueless Joseph Farah Attacks the Left’s Biblical Literacy
Joseph Farah just can’t wrap his mind around a Christianity that includes its Christ, and attacks Jim Wallis for getting Jesus right
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I Would Like to Say Goodbye to Patriarchy
You would think that in 2012 we’d be in a position to say goodbye to patriarchy but instead it has become the focus of the Republican Party
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An Interview with Nonbeliever Nation’s Author, David Niose
I ask David Niose, author of Nonbeliever Nation, a few questions about his book and about recent events in both America and around the world
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Nonbeliever Nation by David Niose is a Secular Manifesto
David Niose’s timely book is not another look at the Religious Right; this call to arms is written for Secular Americans about secularism
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Pamela Geller’s New Ad Campaign Calls Muslims Savages
Pamela Geller disengenuously claims she does not hate all Arabs and Muslims despite paraphrasing an Ayn Rand quote which does exactly that
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John Bolton Says Obama Planning Blasphemy Laws to Protect Islam
It’s probably needed but Obama is not going to do it, and why are we even talking about something like blasphemy? It’s so sixteenth century
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Romney and Ryan – The Haters in Chief
It is un-American to have as a president a man who preaches religious intolerance and who promotes the idea of state-sponsored religion
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The Recipe for a Republican Politician
The unsavory ingredients that go into making a Republican politician create a perfect storm for America and the world in 2012
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Tea Party Deadbeat Joe Walsh Tells Sandra Fluke to get a Job
Tea Party hero Joe Walsh told a diner full of old white folks that Sandra Fluke needs to get a job, equating healthcare with’entitlement
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Maryland Delegate Tries to Silence NFL Player’s Support of Gay Marriage
Maryland delegate Emmett Burns wrote the Baltimore Ravens demanding they silence their player, marriage equality advocate Brendon Ayanbadejo
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The DNC in Charlotte To Be Ground Zero for Fundamentalist Bigots
The Democratic National Convention in Charlotte is being targeted by fundies as Ground Zero for acts of martyrdom and cries of persecution
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Invalid Signatures Keep Colorado Personhood Off the Ballot in November
Personhood fell victim to its own dishonesty yesterday in Colorado, even as the Romney campaign called the abortion debate a distraction
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Rick Santorum Tells Convention Romney and Ryan Will Keep Dream Alive
The Republican Dream apparently being one where children will be forced into life by Big Patriarchy but allowed to die in poverty after that
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Florida Family Council-Only Christianity Could Create or Save America
John Stemberger tosses facts aside to claim that only Christianity could create the American experience and only Christianity can save it
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Rick Warren Cancels Candidate-less Candidate Forum and Lies About Why
Warren says he canceled his planned forum with Obama and Romney because of incivility but the real reason was neither man was interested
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Todd Akin Says Raped Women Do Not Get Pregnant So No Abortions
Missouri Republican Todd Akin says that women who are legitimately raped don’t get pregnant and that abortion punishes the child, not the rapist
Brian Fischer Says Shooting Proves NRC and AFA Not Hate Groups
Brian Fischer thinks if somebody hates a hate group that the hate group is magically no longer a hate group and wants SPLC to agree with him
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Ross Douthat Wants Moderates to Believe Paul Ryan is Their Guy
Ross Douthat removes the details from the picture so he can clarify it, getting rid of all those pesky, distracting facts
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Fundamentalist Christianity Is a Collection of Justifications for Hate
Christian Fundamentalism represents less a coherent religion than a collection of excuses and justifications for bigotry and hatred
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Sleazy Southern Baptists Use Tragedy to Lure Vulnerable Sikhs into Bed
Rather than reaching out to the Sikhs with love for love’s sake, the Southern Baptists have chosen to use love as a means of conversion
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Note to Chick-Fil-A Bigots: If You’re Going to Quote God, at Least Get Him Right
Fundamentalist Christians have invented a position for their God in defense of their religion-based bigotry, but God himself never said it
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The Great Commission’s False Prerogative A Specter of Doom on the World
A falsified passage in the New Testament leads conservative Christians to believe they have the right and obligation to convert us all to their gospel
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Marriage Equality Verdict is In: God is a Whiny Little Bitch
The verdict is in: based on fundamentalist Christian response to the Democratic Party’s marriage equality platform, God is a whiny little bitch
How Michele Bachmann Profited off her Islamophobic McCarthyism
Michele Bachmann was spanked by her party leadership but got herself appointed to an Islamophobic law center and hauled in a cool million
Louisiana School Voucher Decision Banishes Children to the Bronze Age
Rather than fixing its troubled public school system, Louisiana will remove standards and replace modern science with Bronze Age belief
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NOM Says Chick-Fill-A Can Endorse a Controversial Political Issue, But Not General Mills
The National Organization of Marriage accuses General Mills of hypocrisy but hypocritically supports Chick-Fill-A and condemns General Mills
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Less Than One Million Moms Doesn’t Like What’s Normal
Less Than One Million Moms wants to boycott NBC’s The New Normal, which features two gay parents and a surrogate mother to give them a child
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The GOP’s Wacky One-Way Religious Freedom (We Got it, You Don’t)
Conservative Christians love to talk about religious freedom, never quite getting that something isn’t freedom unless everyone enjoys it
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Fear Factor: The Conservative Christian Crusade Against Mormonism
When one scary religion tries to make another sound scary, it’s time to step back and take stock of the facts and remember the Constitution
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And Google Shrugged – The Insane Fundamentalist Dream of Boycotting Google
The American Family Association is toying with the idea of boycotting Google because it supports LGBT rights. I say good luck with that.
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Televangelist Tells Christians to Write in ‘Jesus’ on Election Day
Televangelist Bill Keller doesn’t like Mormons or Romney and he doesn’t like Obama so he says you should vote for Jesus on Election Day
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The Response To Stir Up Extremists in Kansas City
After underwhelming Houston, Iowa, South Carolina and Florida, The Response is bringing its brand of extremist Christianity to Kansas City just before Election Day
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Pastor Who Wants to Kill Gays Should Read his Gay Friendly Bible First
Yet another Evangelical hater wants to kill gays like the Pilgrims did but he might want to stop and read his gay friendly Bible first
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Vaginas and Uteruses and Republicans, Oh My!
Republicans must talk about vaginas given the laws they’ve been making but they’re not about to extend Democrats the same privilege
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Shut Up, Know Your Role, or Die – the GOP’s 2012 Platform
The conservative mind is focused on a sense of privilege and possession of rights nobody else gets to enjoy, whatever the Constitution says
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Demythologizing Christianity’s Most Cherished Moment: Nero and the Christians, Part One
It is always claimed that Christianity has been persecuted ever since Nero but it can be argued that this is the biggest non-event in history
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Brian Fischer Says You Cannot Reason with Liberals Because God Gave Them Deranged Minds
Brian Fischer complains liberals cannot reason or employ logic though his real problem is we won’t simply take his word for it and believe
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Family Research Council Loses Cool Over Employment Non-Discrimination Act
The idea that we all enjoy equal rights under the law is abhorrent to the totalitarian mindset, as the FRC proves in an anti-rights tirade
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Carrie Underwood’s Support of Marriage Equality Exposes Fundie Confusion Over Love and Hate
Carrie Underwood came out in support of marriage equalitylast weekend, leaving fundies to misread the Bible and to confuse love with hate
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Obama Has Removed the Last Shred of Divine Covering Over the White House? Really?
Apparently, President Obama has ripped away from imaginary protective layer over the White House for which surface-to-air missiles are no substitute
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Fundamentalist Christian Predators Target School Children
Your children aren’t safe at school; there are spiritual predators prowling our nation’s elementary schools, preying on the innocent.
David Barton’s New Thesis: People Who Are on Welfare Don’t Read the Bible
David Barton attempts to prove we’d all be better off economically if we read our Bibles with a pedestrian attempt at developing a thesis
Trapped by Religion
Thomas Jefferson once hoped to liberate us from being trapped by beliefs not our own but the GOP has made trapping us the basis of their platform
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Conservatism Looks More Like an Online MMORPG Every Day
You have to wonder the degree to which conservatives are even aware any more of reality as they indulge in increasingly twisted fantasies
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Demonize It! The Fundamentalist Obsession with Demons
Most 21st century Americans deal with the world they see and give no thought to an underlying reality full of demons and demonic influences