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Texas Republican Prays to God to Forgive America for the U.S. Constitution

He said “Lord, we have gone to killing the most innocent amongst us,” ignoring God promising Samaria’s “pregnant women” will be “ripped open”

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Religious Right Leaders Say No Cruz, No More America

They’re falling over themselves with dire predictions, like Tony Perkins’ “I’m afraid we may not have another election for our republic.”

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Marco Rubio Works the Friendlier Confines of South Carolina

Rubio’s opposition to the First Amendment found a sympathetic ear, asking “How can we use the constitution to cut down our religion?”

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Ben Carson Vows to Punish Liberal Colleges if Elected President

Carson wants to punish liberal colleges for teaching things he doesn’t approve of – “extreme political bias” – otherwise known as facts.

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Right Wing Media Loses it Over Idea of Obama as Jewish President

A bunch of white gentiles are maybe not the best people to be talking about who is and who isn’t Jewish, in blood or in thought

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Minority White Christians’ Religious War On the Constitution

There is a misconception among ignorant Americans that this nation was founded on the tenets of the bible and is therefore a Christian nation

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Republican Kasich Forces Public Schools To Partner with Religion Or Lose Taxpayer Funding

Ohio Governor John Kasich made that “religious extremist duty” mandatory in Ohio. Kasich issued a statement through a spokesman informing Ohio schools that if they fail to align with Christian organizations, they will lose funding.

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The First Amendment Protects All Religions – Including Satanism

You don’t have to approve of a religion to understand and accept that every religion is on equal footing in the United States

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The Religious Right Wants to Choose the Republican Candidate for President

Bryan Fischer wants an Evangelical conclave to choose candidates for president. Tough luck, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Atheists, and others

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Pope Francis Condemns Those Who Use Religion to Promote Violence

“Let no one consider themselves to be the ‘armour’ of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!”

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American Legion Post Betrays The Constitution and Launches a Religious Threat to Democracy

For the second time in six months an American Legion Chapter has distinguished itself for abandoning the Constitution over its opposition to the 1st Amendment’s Separation of Church and State.

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The Unfair Tax Exemption for Politically Active Churches Must End

There is a simple solution that will satisfy the Christian churches and the secular groups suing for equality, and it is simply stripping the tax-exempt status from all churches.

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Festival of Lights Invites Demons into White House Says Bryan Fischer

Bryan Fischer says of Hinduism, “This is a counterfeit religion,. It is an Eastern religion. It is, in essence, an occult religion.”

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Religious Right’s Pet Rabbi Calls Liberty Twisted and Diseased

Lapin says atheists are parasites and we’d be better behaved (do what conservatives want) if we acted like we had God looking over our shoulders

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The True Jeffersonian Face of Religious Freedom

For Thomas Jefferson, religious freedom was neither freedom to coerce nor a coerced mind, but rather a free mind

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Grandmother Says She is Persecuted if She is Not Allowed to Convert Grandson

Visiting Grandma should not carry with it the prerequisite of conversion

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Michael Salman and Conservative DIY Martyrdom

Michael Salman claims he was holding small bible studies in his home but he built a 2,000 square foot church in his backyard for 80 people

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The Great Commission’s False Prerogative A Specter of Doom on the World

A falsified passage in the New Testament leads conservative Christians to believe they have the right and obligation to convert us all to their gospel

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How Michele Bachmann Profited off her Islamophobic McCarthyism

Michele Bachmann was spanked by her party leadership but got herself appointed to an Islamophobic law center and hauled in a cool million

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NOM Says Chick-Fill-A Can Endorse a Controversial Political Issue, But Not General Mills

The National Organization of Marriage accuses General Mills of hypocrisy but hypocritically supports Chick-Fill-A and condemns General Mills

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Having Backed Herself into McCarthy’s Corner, Bachmann Lashes Out

Michele Bachmann’s anti-Muslim witch-hunt has backfired, drawing condemnation from fellow Republicans and mockery from the Muslim Brotherhood

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The GOP’s Wacky One-Way Religious Freedom (We Got it, You Don’t)

Conservative Christians love to talk about religious freedom, never quite getting that something isn’t freedom unless everyone enjoys it

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Fear Factor: The Conservative Christian Crusade Against Mormonism

When one scary religion tries to make another sound scary, it’s time to step back and take stock of the facts and remember the Constitution

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The Response To Stir Up Extremists in Kansas City

After underwhelming Houston, Iowa, South Carolina and Florida, The Response is bringing its brand of extremist Christianity to Kansas City just before Election Day

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Pastor Who Wants to Kill Gays Should Read his Gay Friendly Bible First

Yet another Evangelical hater wants to kill gays like the Pilgrims did but he might want to stop and read his gay friendly Bible first

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Obama and Radical Islam: The Ultimate Obama Hater’s Conference

If you have very low expectations and care nothing for facts and hate Obama, Cliff Kincaid of America’s Survival, Inc. has something for you

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In Louisiana School, Loch Ness Monster Disproves Evolution

A fundamentalist Christian textbook used in a Louisiana school insists that because the Loch Ness Monster is real, evolution must not be

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Shut Up, Know Your Role, or Die – the GOP’s 2012 Platform

The conservative mind is focused on a sense of privilege and possession of rights nobody else gets to enjoy, whatever the Constitution says

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Demythologizing Christianity’s Most Cherished Moment: Nero and the Christians, Part One

It is always claimed that Christianity has been persecuted ever since Nero but it can be argued that this is the biggest non-event in history

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David Barton Supporters Say Criticism of Barton Proves Barton is Right

David Barton’s deputy Rick Green and the ACLJ’s David French claim that criticism of David Barton proves that Barton is telling the truth

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Carrie Underwood’s Support of Marriage Equality Exposes Fundie Confusion Over Love and Hate

Carrie Underwood came out in support of marriage equalitylast weekend, leaving fundies to misread the Bible and to confuse love with hate

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Obama Has Removed the Last Shred of Divine Covering Over the White House? Really?

Apparently, President Obama has ripped away from imaginary protective layer over the White House for which surface-to-air missiles are no substitute

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Fundamentalist Christian Predators Target School Children

Your children aren’t safe at school; there are spiritual predators prowling our nation’s elementary schools, preying on the innocent.

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David Barton’s New Thesis: People Who Are on Welfare Don’t Read the Bible

David Barton attempts to prove we’d all be better off economically if we read our Bibles with a pedestrian attempt at developing a thesis

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Why the GOP is the Party of Choice for Sociopaths and Psychopaths

Pastor John Hagee’s hateful preaching is an example of why the GOP has become the party of choice for sociopaths and psychopaths

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Trapped by Religion

Thomas Jefferson once hoped to liberate us from being trapped by beliefs not our own but the GOP has made trapping us the basis of their platform

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Demonize It! The Fundamentalist Obsession with Demons

Most 21st century Americans deal with the world they see and give no thought to an underlying reality full of demons and demonic influences

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Religious Bigots Gather at National Religious Freedom Conference

Religious Freedom: a euphemism used by Christian groups who embrace subordination and a culture of suppression of other religious viewpoints

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A Look at 30 Extremists Who Want to Destroy America

Southern Poverty Law Center offers a list of 30 New Activists Heading Up the Radical Right, who represent the worst America has to offer

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Satan Ate My Government! The Fundamentalist Addiction to Satan

You get the idea that if we banned the word Satan we’d all be a lot happier but that fundamentalists wouldn’t have anything to talk about

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Romney to Speak at Ralph Reed’s 2012 FFC Conference & Strategy Briefing

Ralph Reed wants to play Kingmaker like he did in 1994 and he has Mitt Romney lined up to slobber over his ring this year in Washington, DC

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The NAACP Comes Out in Support of Marriage Equality

The NAACP has come out in support of President Barack Obama and marriage equality in a press release dated yesterday, May 19, 2012.

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Under-Mom’d One Million Moms Throws Hissy Fit at GAP

After failing to terrorize JC Penney into submission, One Million Moms threatens to do the same to GAP for showing two men in one t-shirt

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What the Bible Says Versus What Republicans Wish it Said

The GOP insists we obey the Bible but the Bible doesn’t define traditional marriage and it turns out God orders abortions with wild abandon

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Obama Adding a Faith Vote Director to Campaign

Obama has a religion problem. His answer to that problem is a Faith Vote Director. He has already shown that the Bible is not the exclusive property of the GOP

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Fundie Says Obama is Gay, Imprison Gays Before They Kill Kids

Discredited psychologist and anti-gay “expert” Paul Cameron, claims that Obama is gay and that gays must be imprisoned before they kill kids

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Sen. Rand Paul Says He Didn’t Know Obama’s Views on Marriage Could “Get any gayer”

Sarah Jones says Republicans must evolve or die. Rand Paul chose a third option: third grade: “[he] wasn’t sure [Obama’s] views on marriage could get any gayer”

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The Dimensions of Fundamentalist Christian Deceit

Did you ever stop to wonder why Throckmorton and Coulter’s Getting Jefferson Right is being favorably reviewed at a liberal news site and not at the Blaze?

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The Barton Lies: A Review of David Barton’s The Jefferson Lies

In the Jefferson Lies (2012), David Barton lets loose a barrage of lies and invents terms to turn Thomas Jefferson into a non-racist, clergy-loving Christian

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Female Republican Strategist to Head Atheist Organization

The Secular Coalition for America, an atheist advocacy group, has hired Edwina Rogers, a female Republican strategist and atheist as its new executive director

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David Barton Says Science Can’t Cure Divine Punishments like AIDS

David Barton claims that science won’t be able to cure AIDS because AIDS is a punishment for sin showing he is as ignorant of science as he is of history

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America Faces the Specter of Religious Apartheid

Monotheism is built not just on the rejection but the ejection of the constructed other. If we live in the end times they are the end times of religious liberty

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CBN News Claims Media Matters is anti-Christian

In a world where saying “Happy Holidays!” makes you guilty of waging a war on Christmas, telling the truth about media bias means you’re anti-Christian!

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Catholic Bishop Goes Into Persecution Mode – Claims Obama is Hitler

After spending 1500 years relentlessly persecuting every alternative to itself, the Catholic Church has the audacity to claim it is the persecuted party

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Blaming America’s Problems on Bad Religion

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat claims that America’s problems stem from bad religion – heresy – without looking at the problems caused by orthodoxy

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Condemning the Catholic Church’s Attack on Americans’ Freedoms

You live in a modern world only because you have insisted on living in a modern world, not because the Church has ever agreed to or condoned it, but simply because since the Enlightenment they haven’t been able to do anything about it

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Gene Roddenberry, Where is My Star Trek Future?

Star Trek promised us a Utopian future of peace and tolerance and science; the Republican agenda has thrown all this – and us – under the bus

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World Net Daily Scandalized! Moses Led Muslims Out of Egypt?

WND says those nasty Palestinians are re-writing the Passover story. The problem is that the Qur’an says that Moses led Muslims (like himself) out of Egypt, and therefore are not re-writing anything

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Tony Perkins Claims Gay Pride Flag in Afghanistan Endangers Americans

Tony Perkins claims a gay pride flag endangers American lives, but apparently Nazi flags, urinating on dead Afghans and burning Qur’ans does not

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The Bible – The False Premise of American Theocracy

The GOP wants us to believe that we must all collectively and individually do as their God wants or suffer the consequences, but how to know what God wants when the Bible was written and what we are supposed to believe decided by fallible humans?

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Taking a Ride on Bryan Fischer’s Secular Sharia Crazy Bus

After putting words in George Washington’s mouth, Bryan FIscher produces bullshit from his and claims “the Ten Commandments of secular Sharia law” is taking over the land

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Imagining a Life Without Jesus – Two Minutes That Decided History

Two minutes in the life of Pontius Pilate decided world history for the next 2000 years, two minutes in which Jesus could have been pardoned – and forgotten by history

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Fundamentalists Are Hell-Bound, Says Jesus: More From Our Exclusive Interview

Jesus explains that his ministry was for the poor and oppressed, not against them, and that the rich and powerful serve Satan and the demonic powers in control of the earth

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Jesus Says David Barton Doesn’t Speak for Him: An Exclusive Interview

David Barton has little to do with actual Christianity and even less to do with first century Judaism, as Jesus explains in this exclusive interview

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Sharing the Gospel of Augustus Caesar

For the Roman world, Augustus was a messiah, and the cities were eager to proclaim his “good news” (evangelion) even before Jesus was born

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Profiteering for Jesus

And Jesus so loved the rich he gave his life for them. Or so you’d think. Jesus’ evolution into a plutocratic champion of the ultra-wealthy beggars belief. That is certainly the outlook of prosperity gospel, the idea that Jesus will make you rich.

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The Republican Platform Aims at a Time Before the Constitution

Republicans don’t want to take back our country; they want to take our country back, back to a time before the United States, before the Constitution to the unworkable Articles of Confederation, to pre-Constitutional religious intolerance and oppression of minorities and of women.

Taliban? Talibangelical? They Both Hate Women

It is no surprise that Talibangelicals can compare women to livestock, as State Rep. Terry England did recently in Georgia. Livestock can’t control their own bodies, so why should women? It’s how God wants it, after all.

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The Grim Calculus of Rights of Conscience

The grim calculus of conservatism’s so-called rights of conscience is this: I don’t believe so you can’t… Their religious freedoms are your slave chains.

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The Dirty Thirty – March 2012 Edition

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High Pucker Factors Are Not Just for Caliphates Anymore

Republicans insist we must fear the specter of an world Islamic Caliphate while ignoring the dangers of a Christian theocracy at home

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Obama’s Constitution-friendly Religion

Jeffrey T. Kuhner of the Edmund Burke Institute, who last year accused President Obama of having “black nationalist sympathies” (whatever those are) wrote a column for the Washington Times on February 23, which he entitled Obama’s pseudo-religion, arguing that the “President’s secular moves” are “out of step with Judeo-Christian culture.” His claim is that “Mr. Obama is…

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Christian Right’s 2012 Meme: Atheist Dictatorship or Secular Theocracy

The more Rick Santorum pushes for an American theocracy the more the Christian Right accuses liberals of plotting an atheist dictatorship

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Tony Perkins Claims Obama Plans Left Wing Theocracy

It was inevitable, I suppose: The forces of theocracy accusing the so-called political left of trying to foist a theocracy upon the United States. And no, it’s not for the reason voiced by Ann Coulter that liberalism is a religion, but that Obama (gasp!) quotes scripture in defense of his policies. The accusation comes from…

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