The Hysteria Surrounding the Ebola “Issue” is the Perfect Lens to Look at BOTH Secular and Religious Dumb and Dumber America Through

Last updated on: March 12, 2015 at 5:39 pm By Frank Schaeffer

Jeff Daniels Says Jim Carrey ‘Dumb & Dumber’ And now to our Ebola/election year present… Evangelical control of the right wing has fused with secular stupidity to create a perfect storm of willful ignorance. Our American reaction to the Ebola “crisis” is the actual crisis. The hysteria surrounding the Ebola “issue” is the perfect lens to look at ourselves through. What we see exposed is the root cause of both our failed religious and secular anti-education “cultures.” What we see is how the glorification of ignorance... Read more

The Perfect Picture of Just About Everything Wrong With Just About Everything! (Add Your Own “I’m lovin’ it!” Sucky Caption!)

Last updated on: March 12, 2015 at 5:39 pm By Frank Schaeffer

Jesus USA as beefy, cheesy glory: A Classic American Portrait. A brilliant photograph by a great photographer. Perfect in every way. All credit to you Hayley Karl Photography Hayley Karl Photography Schaeffer is a writer. His latest book —WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD: How to give love, create beauty and find peace Available now on Amazon Follow Frank on Twitter www.twitter.com/frank_schaeffer See Frank’s paintings http://www.frankschaefferart.com/ Follow Frank on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/frank.schaeffer.16 Contact Frank at http://www.frankschaeffer.com/ Read more

Apple CEO Tim Cook “So let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay”

Last updated on: March 12, 2015 at 5:39 pm By Frank Schaeffer

Apple CEO Tim Cook came out as gay in an essay for Bloomberg Businessweek where he said “So let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.” Will the editors of Christianity Today, the college presidents, like Gordon College’s leader who signed a letter demanding to be exempt from civil rights laws that protect gay men and women from discrimination as a matter of “religious liberty” now ban Apple products... Read more

Pope Francis To “Creationists” GET LOST!

Last updated on: March 12, 2015 at 5:39 pm By Frank Schaeffer

Pope Francis I stated that God should not seen as a “magician with a magic wand.” Pope Francis also said that evolution and the Big Bang theory are both true. In other words he believes in paradox! VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis on Monday (Oct. 27) waded into the controversial debate over the origins of human life, saying the big bang theory did not contradict the role of a divine creator, but even required it. The pope was addressing the plenary assembly of... Read more

Jesus Was not an Evangelical nor a Conservative Roman Catholic Bishop: He Did Not “Believe in the Bible” nor in “The Church”

Last updated on: March 12, 2015 at 5:39 pm By Frank Schaeffer

Jesus never could have been the pastor of an evangelical church nor a conservative Roman Catholic bishop. Evangelicals and conservative Roman Catholics thrive on drawing distinctions between their “truth” and other people’s failings. Jesus by contrast, set off an empathy time bomb that obliterates difference. Jesus’ empathy bomb explodes every time a former evangelical puts love ahead of what the “Bible says.” It goes off every time Pope Francis puts inclusion ahead of dogma. It goes off every time a... Read more

Frank Schaeffer v. Texas (The Interview) “From Francis Schaeffer to Christopher Hitchens”

Last updated on: March 12, 2015 at 5:39 pm By Frank Schaeffer

Luke Norsworthy Search SKIP TO CONTENT ABOUT LUKE NEWSWORTHY WITH NORSWORTHY PODCAST FRANK SCHAEFFER: WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD. LISTEN to the INTERVIEW HERE: OCTOBER 26, 2014 LUKE LEAVE A COMMENT 04:12 59:07 Author Frank Schaeffer joins the show to discuss growing up as Evangelical royalty, embracing paradox, choosing empathy over theology, asking “What is beautiful?” How religion hurts people, yet he’s still at church every Sunday and Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in God. About these ads... Read more

Calling for Southern States to Secede From the Nation Over Gay Marriage

Last updated on: March 12, 2015 at 5:39 pm By Frank Schaeffer

Douglas MacKinnon Calls For Southern U.S. To Secede As Anti-Gay Nation Called ‘Reagan’ The Huffington Post | By Curtis M. Wong Posted: 10/23/2014 4:28 pm EDT Updated: 10/23/2014 10:59 pm EDT A former Reagan administration aide is calling for southern U.S. states to secede from the nation over that region’s more conservative stance on same-sex marriage and other rights pertaining to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. Douglas MacKinnon made the remarks in an interview with Janet Mefferd while promoting his new book, The Secessionist States of America:... Read more

The Worst Idea since ISIS: American Evangelical Ex-Military Mercenaries Heading To Iraq to Fight ISIS “For God” Yes, it IS Happening!

Last updated on: March 12, 2015 at 5:39 pm By Frank Schaeffer

Can you think of a worse idea than evangelicals, who believe they are serving God by killing Muslims, fighting Muslims who think they are serving God by killing Christians? The US government should crack down as hard on both the evangelical free-lance American mercenaries going to Iraq to fight ISIS and on American Muslims heading overseas to fight for ISIS. These people who want to fight in the name of Jesus or Allah are all a threat to us. On BBC... Read more

For All My Sisters Who Might Feel Like Giving Up in This Stinking Misogynistic Pit We call the World

Last updated on: March 12, 2015 at 5:39 pm By Frank Schaeffer

There are women reading this who have known despair, will know despair or are in despair at this moment. This is for you sister! Black, white, brown, gay, straight, queer, bi, trans, old, young, mother, single, grandmother– if you are a woman you live in a world of perpetual insult. Nowhere is it clearer that we humans are merely jumped-up half-evolved primates than in the way our species treats women. As a man who loves his muse, best friend and... Read more

Here’s (some of) what’s at Stake if the Republicans Take the Senate

Last updated on: March 12, 2015 at 5:39 pm By Frank Schaeffer

WAR If Republicans gain the Senate majority in November, President Barack Obama will face pressure from Congress to send ground troops into Iraq and Syria. “Frankly, I know of no military expert who believes we are going to defeat ISIS with this present strategy,” Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said at a Pacific Council on International Policy conference on last Saturday. “We may be able to ‘contain,’ but to actually defeat ISIS is going to require more boots on the ground, more... Read more