Why I Still Talk to Jesus -- In Spite of Everything
It isn’t about "correct belief" but about life, love and character.
Is it any coincidence that the latest war of religion that started on September 11, 2001, is being fought primarily between the United States and the Islamic world? It just so happens that no two groups of humanity are more ingrained with the doctrine of literal fundamentalist religion — including a retributive view of God best [...]
On the morning after the reelection of President Obama American Christians of a conservative-to-far-right bent typified by the leadership of the evangelical establishment and the Roman Catholic bishops have to admit that along with the Republican Party they have just been resoundingly repudiated. Since I was one of the minor nepotistic sidekick architects of the [...]
All Posts NOW please read my answer to the Republican Party, the Religious Right and the Evangelicals who have signed on for the destruction of our country by greedy traitors and fools. Click HERE to read How the Evangelicals Doomed the Republican Party, God and (Maybe) America Frank Schaeffer is a writer and [...]
By Frank Schaeffer Not all Evangelicals are Right-leaning Republicans. But according to polls 73 percent are. That’s the folks I’m talking about here. No one sane disputes the fact that the base of the base of the Republican Party — post Roe V Wade and with a big “assist” from my late Religious Right [...]
This article is by Valerie Tarico and was first was published by AlterNet as “Will the Christian Right Hang Itself With Its Own Homophobia?” When teenagers, even many Christian teenagers, look at the Christian right’s homophobia these days, it makes no sense to them. It just looks ugly. With marriage equality battles in front of the [...]
According to polls 73 percent of WHITE evangelicals will be voting for Mitt Romney. If the polls are correct here’s the question I’d like to ask evangelicals using their own style of language/concerns/theological thinking as applied to their choice: What’s the explanation for the fact that WHITE American evangelicals made the allegedly philandering lying ignorant braggart [...]
I don’t care what you believe, or don’t let alone who you vote for. Vote for an atheist, agnostic, Hindu, Evangelical or Mormon for all I care. There should be no “faith test” for political office. That said if you care about religion isn’t lying about religion for political ends bad for religion? But Billy [...]
Meanwhile in the alternative USA somewhere on a planet far away and not so long ago…. With the announcement that along with his tax returns Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has kept his conversion to Islam a secret the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association removed language labeling Islam a “cult” from its website. The [...]
Billy Graham Website Down: “Mormonism Cult” Scandal Widens (This article is one I’d like to share with you from ALTERNET: Posted by Bruce Wilson) On Thursday and Friday Billy Graham’s BGEA ran high-profile full page ads, in 2012 election battleground state newspapers, encouraging voters to support “Biblical values” – foremost among which, according to [...]
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