The Ku Klux Klan is a Christian organization whose website states “Our Nation is Under Judgement from God!” If that latter part is true, God’s judgment may not turn out so kindly for Frazier Glenn Miller, the founder of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who allegedly shot and killed three people at a couple of Jewish centers in Kansas earlier this month. Read more
If you’re saying something offensive, how do you remove yourself from all responsibility so that people don’t get mad at you? Simple. Just say you’re quoting the Bible. That is the wisdom that Pastor Dean Inserra has in a video interview with Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission’s Dan Darling. Darling asks Inserra how he can preach against homosexuality without getting everyone all riled up — and Inserra thinks the Bible gives him cover for spouting bullshit: Read more
When his jailmates kept asking Daniel Genis for money to buy tobacco and coffee, he devised a humorous plan. Genis, a literature-loving math tutor who was doing time for a string of armed robberies, would only furnish the coin if his fellow prisoners agreed to give him something in return: their souls. In an article for Vice, he writes: Read more
Pastor Steven Anderson, as you might expect, has a problem with birth control. But the way he goes about railing against it is full if ignorance and nastiness, as you might except. Taking birth control, in his mind, is always a selfish decision made by whores. Read more
Like my friend Benjamin Corey, I don’t know why the following two things aren’t the opposite of how conservative Christians think. Asking critical questions about the Biblical case against homosexuality, as Dan Haseltine did (Haseltine is a prominent Christian who fronts the band Jars of Clay) … is an damnable act. Saying we should happily waterboard (torture) Muslim prisoners of war as a way to “baptize them,” which is what Sarah Palin proposed … is fine. Read more
Following on the heels of the unfortunately successful God Is Dead, there’s another movie coming out this fall pitting another godless professor up against a faithful Christian student and her father. This one’s called A Matter of Faith and the trailer features the scare-line: “The guy’s an evolutionist!” Read more
The video below, part of The Atheist Voice series, discusses the recent canonizations of two former Popes: Read more
GOP candidates tend to talk a good game about the Constitution. Too often, that’s all it is — talk. Take the political forum that was held in Ankeny, Iowa last Friday, sponsored by the conservative Christian group Family Leader. The GOP candidates for the U.S. Senate seat who appeared there said things that are so at odds with the Constitution, it’s hard to believe that they’ve actually read it, or that they’ve understood that the United States isn’t supposed to be a freakin’ theocracy. Read more
