Please Do Tell, Benham Brothers, Why We Liberals Hate Christmas
The Benham brothers don’t experience reality like the rest of us, so their explanation of why we liberals hate Christmas is rather bizarre
The Benham brothers don’t experience reality like the rest of us, so their explanation of why we liberals hate Christmas is rather bizarre
The problem for conservatives is not that the Pope made room for Paganism in the Church, but that he refuses to make room for capitalism
It is hardly a surprise the Religious Right does not want to talk to those of other religions. After all, it’s harder to hate those you get to know
“You can give them Gospel tracts and tell the story of how every ghost, goblin, witch and demon was trounced the day Jesus rose from the grave”
Cameron says, “It’s obvious that there is a deliberate attempt to snuff out the holy root that has produced all this wonderful Christmas-time fruit.”
Fischer says, “Just as we screen immigrants for contagious physical diseases, so we need to screen immigrants for contagious cultural diseases”
For the Pope, humility-challenged Christians are Pagans but it was the Church that found Jesus’ poverty and humility too radical to tolerate
If you want to know the reason for the season, you don’t have to look back to Christ but past him.
According to Hagee, “America is becoming a pagan society; we are in a moral free-fall.”
Obama administration is the “modern-day equivalent” of ancient Rome, where each citizen is made to worship Caesar with progressivism.
If you want to see what privatized relief would look like, think of Walmart. That’s the face of Republican disaster relief
More cries of persecution coming out of the Religious Right: if we allow gay marriage we are persecuting Christians
Conservative Christians want to be able to spew hate and lies but for nobody to have the right to disagree with or refute them
You probably didn’t know this but gun safety laws are “pagan” and it was prayer that defeated Manchin-Toomey
Visiting Grandma should not carry with it the prerequisite of conversion
When Reshad Riddle gunned down his father at Church, he didn’t say his act was the will of atheism.
Joseph Farah is putting up 10 Commandment billboards in “Sin City” – Las Vegas – and he wants your dollars to do it
So Ralph Reed of the misnamed Faith and Freedom Coalition, took exception to my findings yesterday, that the Bible is irrelevant as a determinant of United States immigration policy reform. He thinks he’s pretty clever and like any good conservative these days, goes right to invoking MLK: “So MLK was wrong to invoke the BIble &…
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
According to GOP gun nut Larry Pratt, gun-control policies are Pagan, thus proving Piers Morgan’s accusation that he is unbelievably stupid
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.
Conservative Christians despise atheism as being a subjective form of morality, ignoring the history of their own subjective belief system
What happened to belief? Aren’t fundamentalists who try to prove the resurrection as bad as the atheists they decry for demanding that proof?
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
Even when compared to 2012’s other conservative ranters and spewers, a sour-faced lot if there ever was one, Muslim-baiter Pamela Geller stands out.
In India, you can apparently be charged with blasphemy for pointing out that a statue of Jesus is not, in fact, crying.
“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…
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.
Even in troubled times, there are a great many things to be grateful for. Here are a few of mine.
James Dobson determined that Obama’s defeat means we are living in a time of judgment and that God can make use of Obama
Conservatives insist that economic prosperity is impossible without their God but America wil prosper just as well with 20 gods or no gods
Fundamentalists are forever looking for a working equation to make same-sex attraction unnatural but the only thing unnatural is their logic
Harry Jackson said he cursed the Washington Blade, a gay newspaper, out of existence. But the Blade is still there. Am I missing something?
Pamela Geller disengenuously claims she does not hate all Arabs and Muslims despite paraphrasing an Ayn Rand quote which does exactly that
I blame the First Amendment. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not making excuses for bad behavior by Islamic fundamentalists or any other fundamentalists. And the First Amendment is great. It’s my favorite amendment. It’s why I can do what I do here. It’s why I can read what I read and believe what I believe…
John Stemberger tosses facts aside to claim that only Christianity could create the American experience and only Christianity can save it
Christian Fundamentalism represents less a coherent religion than a collection of excuses and justifications for bigotry and hatred
For years we’ve been told Obama’s Christianity matters but where Romney’s Mormonism comes in, will expediency win out over dogma in 2012?
The verdict is in: based on fundamentalist Christian response to the Democratic Party’s marriage equality platform, God is a whiny little bitch
Conservative Christians love to talk about religious freedom, never quite getting that something isn’t freedom unless everyone enjoys it
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
It can’t be proven that Nero persecuted Christians because while Rome had a large Jewish population, there is no evidence for a multitude of Christians to be persecuted.
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
The conservative mind is focused on a sense of privilege and possession of rights nobody else gets to enjoy, whatever the Constitution says
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
Apparently, President Obama has ripped away from imaginary protective layer over the White House for which surface-to-air missiles are no substitute
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
Most 21st century Americans deal with the world they see and give no thought to an underlying reality full of demons and demonic influences
You get the idea that if we banned the word Satan we’d all be a lot happier but that fundamentalists wouldn’t have anything to talk about
Monotheism is built not just on the rejection but the ejection of the constructed other. If we live in the end times they are the end times of religious liberty
In a world where saying “Happy Holidays!” makes you guilty of waging a war on Christmas, telling the truth about media bias means you’re anti-Christian!
After spending 1500 years relentlessly persecuting every alternative to itself, the Catholic Church has the audacity to claim it is the persecuted party
A visit to the National Mall leaves you with the impression that it was “We the People” and not “the Lord thy God” which inspired our government
Easter isn’t just about Jesus but a Heathen fertility goddess named Eostre and the bunnies aren’t about resurrection but fertility, the ancient gospel of spring
For the Roman world, Augustus was a messiah, and the cities were eager to proclaim his “good news” (evangelion) even before Jesus was born
It is no surprise that Talibangelicals can compare women to livestock, as State Rep. Terry England did recently in Georgia. Livestock can’t control their own bodies, so why should women? It’s how God wants it, after all.
There is nothing new or original in Genesis so claiming science proves Genesis has an effect fundamentalists won’t tell you: it actually proves every creation myth
The grim calculus of conservatism’s so-called rights of conscience is this: I don’t believe so you can’t… Their religious freedoms are your slave chains.
Jeffrey T. Kuhner of the Edmund Burke Institute, who last year accused President Obama of having “black nationalist sympathies” (whatever those are) wrote a column for the Washington Times on February 23, which he entitled Obama’s pseudo-religion, arguing that the “President’s secular moves” are “out of step with Judeo-Christian culture.” His claim is that “Mr. Obama is…
Kristi Watts, Pat Robertson’s co-host on the 700 Club wants to know why atheists don’t chop down all the trees since Wiccans “worship” trees
Newt claims that marriage equality represents perfectly natural pagan behaviors and are somehow a fundamental violation of our civilization
The Religious Elite like the Wealth Elite wants us to subordinate our interests to their own. We can Occupy the Bible or let it destroy us
The Tea Partier in question, John Trautman, was criticizing the build of a mosque. He said “are not only our enemy but pagans. Why would we want them in our backyard?”