Not all Christians are “Values Voter Summit” bigots. Some of us took our stand at the National Press Club in Washington DC on Thursday, Oct. 10. I had the honor to be part of a coalition of mainstream Christians and LGBT leaders. We were invited by Truth Wins Out, a non-profit organization that fights anti-gay religious extremism. We were there to endorse NALT, an exciting new platform for pro-LGBT Christians to proclaim our strong support for equality and to tell... Read more
When New York artist Andres Serrano plunged a plastic crucifix into a glass of his urine what he was unknowingly doing was illustrating what Tony Perkins, The Family Research Council, Ted Cruz, the Tea Party, the Koch brothers and the Republicans would actually do to the name of Jesus some 30 years later. Serrano photographed his urine-soaked Jesus in 1987 under the title Piss Christ. He said he was making a statement on the misuse of religion. Controversy followed the... Read more
“There is only one defense against the rising worldwide fear-filled fundamentalist tide engulfing all religions: The embrace of paradox and uncertainty as the virtuoso expression of Christ-like humility. Our egos must be curtailed by what we do not know, which is far more than we do know. This humility is rooted in a fact: we are at the beginning of creation and don’t have any clue as to how things will grow and change. We can have it both ways:... Read more
This is How Christian Delusions Are Driving the GOP Insane “The press often talks about the Tea Party like they’re secularist movement that is interested mainly in promoting “fiscal conservatism”, a vague notion that never actually seems to make good on the promise to save taxpayer money. The reality is much different: The Tea Party is actually driven primarily by fundamentalist Christians whose penchant for magical thinking and belief that they’re being guided by divine forces makes it... Read more
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (center) raises the hand of his right wing preacher father, Rafael Cruz (right). It’s no coincidence that in my new book And God Said, “Billy!” that I have my character “Billy” masturbating while he listens to his godly wife read out loud from a book by the guru of all evangelical Dominionist/Reconstructionists– Rousas Rushdoony. The evangelical world has been metaphorically jacking off to the Rushdoony/Ted Cruz/Koch brothers’ political God-hates-everybody-but-us-chosen-few porn for over forty years. Now... Read more
“Today’s conservatives are making it harder for a new generation of Christians to square conservative political activism with their faith,” writes Matt Lewis, a leading conservative columnist. He was summing up whet he’d written in The Week, the day before. Here he is with the Morning Joe crew talking about the Bible, Jesus, Republicans and politics and why Republicans are loosing the future because they are loosing the evangelical young people. Nice to have what I’ve been saying about the... Read more
With the shutdown I’m tempted to say “I told you so.” What did you expect? Religious morons hijack the GOP (with a big assist from my dad and me in the 1970s and 1980s) and now the lobotomized GOP has hijacked the rest of us and taken the country and world economy hostage. The shutdown is the religious right’s biggest “victory” and a loss for the rest of us that threatens everything we love. But it’s not all “their”... Read more
Republican Congressional Family Values Committee Preparing to Rewrite the Beatitudes Blessed are the Koch brothers, for theirs is the kingdom of Parke Avenue. Blessed are the job-creators, for they will be paid even more. Blessed are grandstanding Cuban-Canadian human puff adder carpetbaggers, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for a whites-only White House, for they will be filled. Blessed are white southern gun owners, for only they will be shown mercy.... Read more
Here’s a secretly filmed video clip of what goes on when Michele Bachmann, and other conservative home school moms and dads gather to celebrate the shutdown of the government by praising Jesus in a typical spirit-filled conservative gathering… (Sort of.) Read my new book And God Said, “Billy!” NOW # 1 in the Amazon Political Humor category, for more details about Bachmann and company… and for a thorough exploration of right wing religious delusion… Frank Schaeffer is a writer and... Read more
I predict that the slow falling away of a whole generation of evangelical young people from fundamentalist faith – and not a few older folks like me too – has just been exponentially accelerated. Thank you Jesus! Thank you Ted Cruz! The shutdown has not only laid bare the stupidity of the right wing hostage takers running and ruining the Republican Party, it’s also exposed fundamentalist American religion to the harshest light of day as never before. The root cause... Read more
Why I Still Talk to Jesus -- In Spite of Everything
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