There are myriad reasons why Romney is unqualified to serve as president, but chief among them is his willingness to pit American against American on the basis of race and socioeconomic status.
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
Kirk Cameron has been stoning gays and lesbians but wants to present himself as the victim because people dared criticize his hate speech
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
Pamela Geller disengenuously claims she does not hate all Arabs and Muslims despite paraphrasing an Ayn Rand quote which does exactly that
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
I don’t mind paying their taxes as many of the religious organization need the tax break to spread the word of their god. And their word? Peace. Yet when extremists battle extremists, I have an issue.
Religious liberty proponents don’t understand that Obama’s policy does not require any man, or woman, to use contraception or to abandon their own religious prohibition against using birth control.
Most of us like a little reality in our diet, but the Republican Convention seems to be focused more on how to mainstream the crazy
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
As the birth control mandate went into effect this week, religious freedom arguments continue to threaten it. Here’s why they’re wrong.
We need to believe in the competence of our public institutions for our society to function. When they don’t function, how should we react?
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
For rational people, there is a difference between opposing the exploitation of religion for political gain and opposing religion.
Barton’s The Jefferson Lies has been criticized by scholars, but Barton won’t argue history: he’s more interested in character assassination – and his own martyrdom
Michigan lawmakers are pushing through a bill that allows professionals to discriminate against GLBT clients in defiance of Codes of Ethics
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.
Ryan Tate, president of a Christian-based Oklahoma publishing company which claims to obey Jesus’ words, first insulted then fired employees
David Barton wants to pretend Christians were being burned at the stake by the government but doesn’t mention it was a CHRISTIAN 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
The bible is rife with death and destruction for the non-believer and that is the impetus for the religious right’s assault on women, gays, Democrats, Liberals, and peace-loving Americans.
It is a modern-era phenomenon to shirk responsibility for one’s actions that at one time was the domain of criminals and spoiled little children. In the past, the clergy preached that unless one accepted responsibility for their actions and repented, they were still sinning. So, in keeping with the tendency of today’s mindset of deflecting blame, the Pope stated that the church’s child sex-abuse scandal was a product of secular society where child abuse is commonplace.
Comparisons of Sarah Palin to Abraham Lincoln are absurd. It takes more than stacking wood as a child to make another Lincoln. Facts allow no such comparison.
There is a sickening trend in this country of conservative Christians decrying science as fraudulent, and it affects everything from addressing global climate change to stem cell research. It will have long-term effects on America, its standing in the world, and the health of millions of Americans. Whether or not it is because conservatives are too stupid to understand science, or too steeped in ancient Jewish mythology, it is harmful to every person in America.
In a recent issue of The Atlantic, Garrett Epps an article titled “All Patriots ‘Know’ that Moses Wrote the Constitution.” This is just one of many myths that the far right has constructed about our constitution, and the religious origins of our governmental system.
Conservative Christians fear for this country and its future (that should be read as their privileged position in this country). They seem uncertain as to what the answer is. Do they vote? Do they pray? Do they just scream a lot and stomp their little feet?
It is past time, as the Midterm Elections approach, that American voters look at exactly what sort of country the Tea Partiers, conservative Republicans and the Religious Right, want to give us. If you think it is in any great respect different from a country governed by Sharia law, you are wrong.
The pros and cons of abortion aside, Dobson seems to miss one of the original purposes of the Constitution, which was to protect the American people from “excesses of democracy†of local legislatures, which tended to run roughshod over the rights of the minority.
We should not expect much out of FOX when it comes to reporting the news. Sure, it can be argued that there is no news that is undistorted by spin, but there is spin and there is propaganda, and there is outright fiction. If you are going to step before a camera and say something, it should at least be made clear to the watcher if what you’re saying is fact or fiction. Peter J. Johnson, Jr., graduate of Columbia College and Columbia University’s School of Law and has served them as a legal propagandist since 1997.
