religious persecution

Reality Check for Religious Nuts: Laughing at You is Not Persecution

Reality Check for Religious Nuts: Laughing at You is Not Persecution

Religious nuts hate being mocked and laughed at when they say catastrophically stupid things, but that's freedom of speech, not…

9 years ago

7-Year-Old Banished Student Feels Wrath Of Evangelical’s Religious Freedom

In February of this year, a seven-year-old 2nd grade student in Indiana was "banished" from having any contact with other…

9 years ago

No, Being Told You Can’t Persecute People is Not Persecution

Dr. Richard Land calls opposing persecution of others "ugly...thuggish...brutish. It's the totalitarian left in all of its ugly face."

9 years ago

Pew Report Details the Sorry State of Religious Tolerance in the World

Pew tells us restrictions on religion were high or very high in 39% of countries and that Muslims are as…

9 years ago

Under Religious Right Threats, Duke University Backs Down over Muslim Use of Chapel

After granting Muslim students use of the school chapel bell tower for call to prayer, Duke University backed down in…

9 years ago

America’s Reaction To 9/11 Played a Role In Paris Terror Attack

Of course down through the ages violent wars have been waged over imposition of a particular religion, but in modern…

9 years ago

Religious Purity Movement By Right-Wing Fanatics Threatens Faith in America

What is curious, is that although America is not, was not, and never will be a Christian nation, there are…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

Propaganda Demonizing Islam Is Starting to Infect Public Schools

Of course the Americans putting Goebbels's propaganda tactics into practice are Fox News, neo-conservatives, Republicans, and their religious right sycophants,…

9 years ago

It is Time for Peaceful Christians to Speak Up for Coexistence

According to the Religious Right, Islam is the enemy, and ISIL, or ISIS as it is often called, is a…

10 years ago

Pope Francis Condemns Those Who Use Religion to Promote Violence

"Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and…

10 years ago

Bryan Fischer Says Sharia Law Preferable to First Amendment

Fischer says, "Just as we screen immigrants for contagious physical diseases, so we need to screen immigrants for contagious cultural…

10 years ago

Arizona Republicans Propose Bill That Would Allow Them To Break Any Law

If Arizona Republicans are successful a new bill will give any Arizonan the right to break any law with impunity…

10 years ago

The Pope Calls Failed Christians Pagans – He is Wrong and This is Why

For the Pope, humility-challenged Christians are Pagans but it was the Church that found Jesus' poverty and humility too radical…

10 years ago

While Persecuting Everyone Else, the Religious Right Cries Persecution

Obama administration is the "modern-day equivalent" of ancient Rome, where each citizen is made to worship Caesar with progressivism.

11 years ago

Religious Right Claims If We Allow Gay Marriage We Are Persecuting Christians

More cries of persecution coming out of the Religious Right: if we allow gay marriage we are persecuting Christians

11 years ago

Grandmother Says She is Persecuted if She is Not Allowed to Convert Grandson

Visiting Grandma should not carry with it the prerequisite of conversion

11 years ago

The Demographics of Progress and the Demise of the America of Conservative Dreams

The numbers don't lie: they didn't lie on Election Night, and they do not lie in the longer run when…

11 years ago

Sorry GOP: We Do Not Need Churches in order to Prosper Economically

Conservatives insist that economic prosperity is impossible without their God but America wil prosper just as well with 20 gods…

11 years ago

The Right’s Religious Liberty Lie Hides the Heart of the War on Women

Religious liberty proponents don't understand that Obama's policy does not require any man, or woman, to use contraception or to…

12 years ago