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 author of Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost... Read more
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 leader father Francis Schaeffer and me (before I changed my mind) — is evangelical voters. No one sane disputes the fact that the Republican Party is funded... Read more
America was just attacked by forces far greater than anything Osama bin Laden or Al Qaeda could ever have mustered. Maybe we can respond with the Navy SEALs or a drone attack. No doubt the proper response will be to bomb the Atlantic Ocean or at least Iran into submission. Gov. Cuomo of New York State said, ” don’t call it ‘global warming’ because you trigger a whole political debate.” Here’s his remark in full as quoted in the New... Read more
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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 voters in four states, the faithful are out in flocks to defend traditional wedlock. I don’t know exactly what traditional means in this context. It... Read more
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 lapsed Roman Catholic Dinesh D’Souza their anti-Obama hero, embrace a pro-choice Mormon bishop who promoted abortion and Planned Parenthood in MA, are working to elect a job-destroying tax-avoiding... Read more
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Lurking in the heart of the Jewish/Christian communities — the people of the book — is a strange take on sex that keeps exploding into public view. The Mourdock “scandal” is just the latest episode proving that certain types of religion make people sick. Calvinist-style retributive woman-hating religion is the illness that’s infected the Republican Party. Republican Tea Party/Evangelical “Christian” candidate Richard Mourdock explained his belief that women should not have access to abortion, even in cases of rape or... Read more
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 (perhaps manipulated) and Franklin Graham have sold evangelicals down the river by declaring that Mormonism is not a cult and (by implication) is just another... Read more
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 Evangelistic Association (BGEA) newly edited the entry on their website page: “The Gospel and World Religions” now reads as as follows: ISLAM 1.3... Read more
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