The media failed to tell the real story of how we reached the shutdown and brink of default. To get what’s happening to the GOP and, to America, you need to understand the theology of the extremist frankly stupid and misinformed evangelical heartland. We don’t have a political problem. We have an evangelical stupidity problem. The Republican Party has fallen into the grip of an evangelical-led group of religious fundamentalists who are either true believers or who know how to... Read more
“For those that weren’t aware, Billy Graham is prophesying the end-times and the second coming of Jesus Christ. This is the kind of crazy, magical thinking that Frank Schaeffer so masterfully portrays in his new novel, And God Said, Billy! and his memoir Crazy For God.” By johnfromberkeley Follow RSS Daily Kos member first published in the Daily Kos. Originally posted to johnfromberkeley on Thu Nov 07, 2013 at 01:39 PM PST. Also republished by Street Prophets . Thu Nov... Read more
From: John of Berkley To: Franklin Graham and Frank Schaeffer Dear Franklin Graham and Frank Schaeffer, The other day, I published an article about Why I Won’t Be Celebrating Billy Graham’s 95th Birthday. I wrote the article out of sincere concern about the infantile state of faith in America, and the role and influence of the religious right in bringing it about. In your own ways, both of you have inspired me to reflect deeply on my own life and... Read more
I got this email from someone I’ll call “Wounded Recovering Evangelical”, who gave me permission to post it here but says “That being said, please remove all the identifiers. When I say we’re from rural parts, I mean that. Everybody knows everybody. Our people are bible thumping (and twisting), Obama hating, tea party rednecks, bitter and broken and full of indoctrinated blame… ” So here’s the letter emailed from somewhere in the South: “My name is —, 43 years old,... Read more
Here’s my latest MSNBC interview from last night, in which I explain Ted and Rafael Cruz’ demented deluded evangelical/Tea Party anti-American “religion.” Evangelicalism has become the enemy of Jesus, sanity and of American values. We don’t have a political problem, we have a theological problem. It’s destroyed the Republican Party and risks our country’s future, as I show in my new book on religious delusion And God Said, “Billy!“ Strange that angry evangelicals attack those including me that bring the... Read more
Surprise! Atheist marriages last longer than Christian ones. Yet conservative Christians see themselves as the last defenders of traditional marriage. Yet many don’t quite live up to the ideal. To understand why evangelical marriages fail read my latest book — And God Said, “Billy!“exploring the roots of American religious delusion and also this… October 30, 2013 | First published in Alternet By Valerie Tarico Conservative Christians think of themselves as the last line of defense for a time-honored and holy... Read more
There is a steady stream of lies pouring from evangelical and other far right media about the Affordable Care Act. The right has lied and obstructed. Please take 30 minutes and open yourself to the truth about the Affordable Care Act. There are actually Republican governors sacrificing their people out of spite against the president. Are they racists, evil or just more deluded evangelicals of the kind I describe in my new book exploring the roots of American religious delusion... Read more
How can the Jesus-deniers like Franklin Graham and the other evangelical leaders be reached with the gospel of Jesus Christ? Are they beyond hope? In human terms they are. But all things are possible with God. So perhaps, even the American evangelical Jesus-hating tribe may be saved. Franklin curses Jesus by (according to media reports) taking a $612,884 per year salary* from funds donated to help the poor and spread the gospel. What did Mother Teresa pay herself? Evangelicals... Read more
Once in a while I read something that is so blindingly dumb I assume its a parody. But when you dip into the evangelical world of paranoia and end time fantasy that Billy Graham and most evangelicals live in, even the Onion couldn’t outdo the reality of what the broken brains of the religiously deluded churn out. Do they believe this crap? I don’t know because it’s so mixed up with fundraising. I hope its just a scam. If... Read more
We have a problem:We’ve launched a civil war as thoroughly destructive here in the USA as is the civil war raging between Saudi-backed Sunni extremists and Iran-backed Shia terrorists across the Arab world. They do it with suicide vests, we just did it with the shutdown and flirting with default. America is two countries: a nation of blacks, Latinos, gays, women, Democrat-voting liberals, union workers, atheists, agnostics, Jews, progressive liberal Christians, Hindus, Muslim and those who answer “None” on forms... Read more
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