Joe Biden has responded forcefully to Donald Trump’s attack on his religious faith. The former Vice President said the President was willing to stoop to any low to win power. Biden issued a statement late on Thursday after Trump claimed he would “hurt God” if he were elected. “Like so many people, my faith has…
Following their departure from the White House in January of 2017, Barack and Michelle Obama have been relatively quiet. The pair, however, promised they would do whatever they could to help Democrats in the 2020 election. Barack Obama has been vocal in his support for former Vice President Joe Biden and recently filmed a talk…
Donald Trump claimed on Thursday that Joe Biden is against the Bible. The President has tried to frame himself as the candidate for religious people amid the ongoing campaign. Trump spoke to Geraldo Rivera on his Cleveland radio show Thursday morning and his remarks were reported on Twitter by CNN’s Daniel Dale. The President covered…
Donald Trump has made an appeal to Roman Catholic voters by citing his support for the Second Amendment and even claiming he saved it from being repealed. The President gave an interview to Catholic network EWTN on Tuesday. A transcript was released on Wednesday showing Trump touting his gun rights credentials as a pitch religious…
Donald Trump was sent by God to lead the United States, at least according to one of his biggest fans on Twitter. Conservative Bill Mitchell caused a stir online with his claim. Mitchell has been one of President Trump’s most enthusiastic cheerleaders, winning the derision of many critics. Many saw his comments on Friday as…
There are some who appear to be taking advantage of the spread of coronavirus across the country in order to gain from others’ hardships in a financial way. Some of these individuals are religious figures, including Paula White, the spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump. White, who heads the president’s Faith and Opportunity Initiative, recently…
There is not a holy book on the face of the planet – certainly not the Bible – that can justify Trump’s words or deeds.
According to the right-wing pastor, it’s okay if we elect immoral leaders because “Jesus was the only perfect man who walked the earth.”
Greedy evangelicals expected much more in remuneration for their electoral support for Trump’s candidacy than freedom to violate IRS rules with impunity.
Yoest has a long record of undermining women’s access to health care by distorting the facts; her selection shows the administration is pandering to extreme evangelical conservatives.
She thinks biblically, She doesn’t need time to figure out how to vote because she sees the world through a scriptural lens. “We need more like her in office.”
Repealing the Johnson Amendment will create a loophole in campaign disclosure laws; nonpartisanship is a cornerstone principle that has strengthened the public’s trust of the charitable community.
The world is a different place than conservatives wish it to be, and those differences are only going to become more pronounced.
The evangelical fundamentalists, all 13.2 percent of them, are appealing to vice president-elect Pence by petition and demanding that he, as head of domestic policy, inform president-elect Trump that it is crucial to immediately issue an executive order in”definitely banning†the teaching of evolution as science.
The Republican Bevin’s “insurrection talk†has elicited the second call for his impeachment as governor in six months; the first came within a month of him being sworn in office as Kentucky governor.
“You know that Daniel Radcliffe has declared himself an atheist? I’m serious. What a weird thing. Why would a guy who has had all that success just, I mean, what the hell is wrong with him?â€
It was ironic that an insurance company specializing in covering churches refused to pay for flood damage to a church they said it was an act of god.
The latest drive toward an iteration of Sharia Law for the cult of right-wing Christians panting for a theocracy is playing out in Kentucky.
These leaders came together to “guide their congregations’ prayers toward protecting a woman’s right to access an abortion.â€
The Pope has inserted his holy self into American politics by questioning Trump’s Christian bona fides
Ryan says prayer comes first, when disaster strikes their home districts, it’s money that comes first. Prayer is what they offer for other people.
Kentucky taxpayers are being “compelled” to spend at least $18 million to build and support the Answers in Genesis Noah’s Ark theme park
A coalition of Muslim organizations held a press conference in Washington DC to denounce the Paris terrorist attacks.
Pew has announced that the religiously unaffiliated (or “nones”) are “now the largest single religious group among Democrats.”
Drowning in evidence, Cruz denies there is evidence, and then claims if we say he “denies” it we’re proving climate change is a religion
Ben Carson said Sunday that Muslims with nukes tip the world toward the biblical “end of days,” not religious fanatics like him
Theodore Shoebat wants a “collectivisit society” to kill those non-Christians who don’t respect Christianity, and of course, all gay people
The Republican Party has taken America for a nightmare ride, but this did not just happen overnight. We – Americans – let it happen
Apparently, 5 days in jail did little more than embolden the newly crowned martyr to thumb her nose at Judge Bunning’s condition of release
The Pope’s bible, the rule book containing every single one of god’s utterances, plainly says to obey the government authorities, period
We have been hearing for a long time that the Religious Right is dead; demographics or not, I’ll believe it when I see it lying in the road
Jindal has refused to expand Medicaid in Louisiana, depriving thousands of healthcare, but says Planned Parenthood disrespects human life
Conservatives want you to believe that American history consists of the mighty white Northern European male imposing his will on a continent
Bill Maher poked the Religious Right’s persecution myth full of holes. Joseph Farrah’s attempt to discredit Maher only discredits himself
This is not an epistle of despair, but more of a secular gospel of hope, and a plan for positive change that can come about only through a revolution in thinking
But now, the Texas-size extremism is spreading to Arizona and it includes Texas-style armed biker thugs, conspiracy theorists, and anti-Muslim sentiments that set Texas apart as right-wing extremist central.
It is curious that so many Americans were surprised over the revelations that a religious conservative idol is guilty of molesting his sisters, or that Republicans embraced the FRC’s icon they must have at least suspected was a fraud. In fact, the close relationship between Republicans, the FRC, and Josh Duggar was a match made in heaven.
Once again Republicans show they haven’t read their Bibles – or their Constitution – before they start legislating Jesus into law
Father Jonathan Morris took to Fox & Friends to push fear of eternal damnation while ignoring the Constitution’s No Religious Test Clause
Dr. Richard Land calls opposing persecution of others “ugly…thuggish…brutish. It’s the totalitarian left in all of its ugly face.”
Both Republicans and so-called sovereign citizens are citizens and subject to federal authority. If not, we should rethink deportation laws
Fox & Friends wonders if students learned that the Qur’an says to kill nonbelievers, ignoring that their Bible says the exact same thing
Yes, actually exercising your First Amendment right to have your own beliefs is a “huge concern” with “spiritual ramifications” in Iowa
Jesus valued women and saw the need for money. Republicans value money and see little need for women beyond the need for sex
A powerful CEO of a giant corporation took the time to say what few others have; “There is something very dangerous happening in states across the country” of people using religion as a legislative weapon.
On Thursday, Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed legislation legalizing discrimination based on the religious right’s “free exercise” of their bigoted beliefs that Republicans in Indiana contend are the law of the land.
At a prayer breakfast, Duck Dynasty star, Phil Robertson fantasized aloud about an atheist family being raped, tortured, and murdered.
Since 2009 it has been painfully obvious that Republicans or their supporters do not want Americans to have access to healthcare whatsoever, and it is particularly curious because they claim to be devout followers of Christ.
Mike Huckabee thinks he can call down fire from heaven to smite his opponents, an act (phew!) in violation of the United States Constitution
It is hardly a surprise the Religious Right does not want to talk to those of other religions. After all, it’s harder to hate those you get to know
There is a gross misconception among the people and pundits alike that extremism in the Republican Party is limited to one wing of the conservative movement.
Pew tells us restrictions on religion were high or very high in 39% of countries and that Muslims are as likely to be persecuted as Christians
Ralph Peters calls Obama Pontius Pilate, but Pilate, according to the Bible, tried to save Jesus and early Christianity made him a hero
Despite the insistence of Republicans that the War on Terror is unidirectional, that it extends only outward, in the direction of Islam, it is omnidirectional, and extends inward as well as outward. The Western World, like the Middle East, is facing terror from within. Fox News and Republican politicians would have you believe that Islam…
The point is that all Christians should advocate and revere the truth with religious fervor; unless it is uttered by President Barack Obama at which point they “can’t handle the truth.”
I’m not seeing anything remotely relevant or meaningful coming out of right wing circles any time soon, until they work out their sexual frustrations
Today is the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling giving women the right to choose when they give birth and, like every year for over two decades, religious fanatics will protest the landmark decision. Their contention is that patriarchs in Catholic Church, not women, own the right to make reproductive choices for American women.
The Pope said, “You cannot provoke, you cannot insult other people’s faith, you cannot mock it” but mocks critics of religion as provocateurs
After granting Muslim students use of the school chapel bell tower for call to prayer, Duke University backed down in the face of Religious Right outrage
Charlie Hebdo tells Republicans that people who don’t look like Fox News hosts should be killed, or at the very least, expelled from the US
Think responsibly. If we lived in a fact-based world, and want those facts to matter, we should be less like Elisabeth Hasselbeck, not more
In Donohue’s ideal world, Muslims and artists would convert to Catholicism, “If both did,” he says, “we would have peace and civility.”
Tea Baggers love Louie Gohmert, which may explain why the man sounds barely sane to the rest of us. McCain got it in one: the man is an idiot
Betty Bowers nails Dick Cheney by pointing out that for him, rectal feeding “is just eating through his mouth.” That explains a lot!
Our future could do with a lot less volleying and thundering. It is not appeasement to stop and think a little before we start shooting
Perry’s message is clear; there is no reason to address poverty, income inequality, or make any effort to help those suffering, and people in Texas are suffering, but not because it is written in scripture.
Donohue says, non-religious people “believe in no-holds-barred. They don’t like the three dreaded words in the English language…thou shalt not”
It’s not that we want to walk in the darkness that we fear plastic baby Jesuses, but that they don’t belong on our courthouse steps
Larry McQuilliams, who fired off over one hundred rounds of ammunition in Austin Friday, was a homegrown extremist with racist views.
You don’t have to approve of a religion to understand and accept that every religion is on equal footing in the United States
I’m perplexed by my continued existence. I mean, supposedly, my gods don’t exist, and supposedly, if this Religious Right dude smites us all, I’m going down with all y’all.
What is curious, is that although America is not, was not, and never will be a Christian nation, there are signs that a religious purity crusade is gaining traction.
It is no great shock, then, that the religious right, staunch supporters of corrupt Republicans, are blatantly violating the law right up till Election Day and daring anyone to stop them because they know no-one will.
It’s a neat trick, pretending facts don’t exist so you can replace them with some agenda-friendly invented facts. *Cough* Benghazi *Cough*
Last week, the hate mongers’ efforts finally paid off and drove an extremist Christian into a rage that earned him banishment from the Maryland high school his daughter attended for making what amounts to a terrorist threat against school officials.
The problem with Halloween isn’t kids walking around in scary costumes and falling prey to Satanic influences; Jesus has identified a far more dangerous group – the rich
Pope Francis has declared that evolution and the Big Bang are facts, no longer to be debated, saying of evolution: When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. He created human beings and…
“You can give them Gospel tracts and tell the story of how every ghost, goblin, witch and demon was trounced the day Jesus rose from the grave”
“When government defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman…It’s doing its job. It’s fulfilling its role as a minister of God”
Of course the Americans putting Goebbels’s propaganda tactics into practice are Fox News, neo-conservatives, Republicans, and their religious right sycophants, and their big lie is that the greatest threat to this nation is every person who adheres to the Muslim faith.
Jessa Duggar owes her religion to the anti-Semitic Martin Luther. But Darwin, who lived three centuries after Luther, is to blame for anti-Semitism?
For Williamson, facts are a “metaphysical dodge” and zygotes are people simply because he says so
According to the Religious Right, Islam is the enemy, and ISIL, or ISIS as it is often called, is a manifestation of all the hate and intolerance inherent in the world’s second largest religion. When President Obama says that ISIL is not Islam, the Religious Right quakes in outrage. Islam is the enemy! Sarah Palin…
These speakers want to fundamentally alter our way of life. In the ideal fake-Christian world, our freedom of religion would be an actual negation of freedom
ISIS is so bad, there is a Fatwa issued against them by their own religion.
“Let no one consider themselves to be the ‘armour’ of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!”
The Religious Right, which regularly mocks and profanes the beliefs of others, thinks other religions should be banned from mocking and profaning theirs
“They persecuted the Prophets of the Old Testament (Hebrew Scriptures) who were speaking truth to power and these so-called Christians are persecuting Sen. Cruz in the same manner.”
Even while WND’s Joseph Farah claims there is no difference between CAIR and ISIL, we see Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson embrace ISIL’s own policy, that Muslims must “convert or die.”
The United States Air Force, itself sworn to “support and defend the Constitution,” cannot abide by, support, or defend either the First Amendment or Article VI and rejected an atheist airman’s attempt to reenlist to serve and defend his country unless he swears a religious oath.
Apparently, ISIS utilizing America’s war tactics caught the attention of Robertson and his Christian theology informs him it is time for America to embrace the ISIS tactics and religious ideology, and as a Christian nation issue an ultimatum to the Islamic terrorists to “convert or be killed.”
Selena Owens at WND points to Lady Gaga and Beyonce and says the IBC “stem from the deep abyss of the occult”
The Catholics on the High Court made a serious error in ruling that any government prayers were constitutional.
Kevin Sorbo and Rick Wiles say atheists know God exists and hate him for “judging how they live their life.”
Pastor Michael V. Williams claims “While Christians are becoming increasingly tolerant of homosexuals, homosexuals are becoming increasingly intolerant of us.”
One would think most Americans support the 14th Amendment’s prohibition of unequal treatment under the law unflinchingly. Unfortunately, the religious right is intent on abolishing the concept of equality and rejects the idea that no American, or government entity,
The Trojan Horse in the Hobby Lobby ruling is a term, closely held corporation, that created an opening for nearly all businesses to use the new corporate religious freedom exemption with impunity.
While we are on the subject of “religious freedom,” that is, Christians having a unique right, a privileged place in this country far above all other belief systems – at least according to the Supreme Court – I thought I would mention that it has always struck me as odd that a religion – Christianity…
Whether most Americans realize it or not, they have been spectators, victims, and often combatants in a sectarian religious war that one side appealed to, and won, the support of a religious male cabal with the ultimate weapon of mass destruction; the U.S. Constitution.
Dan Forest told the Faith and Freedom Coalition this weekend, “America is at a great crossroads where it must decide for or against God.”