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Bryan Fischer Says Sharia Law Preferable to First Amendment

Fischer says, “Just as we screen immigrants for contagious physical diseases, so we need to screen immigrants for contagious cultural diseases”

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Right-Wing Christians and Republican Policies Are Making America Stupid

The preponderance of fundamentalist Christians in America are why so many Americans are comparatively unintelligent when it comes to scientific knowledge that drives the epidemic of stupidity of American, primarily in the South, subscribing to hazardous Republican policies.

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The Problem of Fake Christians

Jesus said to love. They hate. Jesus said to turn the other cheek. They attack. Jesus said to pray in private. they pray publicly. Jesus said to forgive. They plot revenge. Jesus loved the poor. They worship Kochs.

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Matthew Hagee Says it’s Not Climate Change You’re Feeling – It’s Jesus’ Return

Hagee says, “The Bible says that whenever we approach the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ,that there would be strange weather patterns.”

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Warning! Anything You Say or Do Might be Persecuting Fake Christians

Lars Larson and C. Edmund Right are pretty sure that kiss persecuted them and worse, that it’s a lot like making it a crime to insult Mohommed. Or putting an NFL franchise out of business for drafting a gay player, I’m sure they’d agree.

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Creationists Respond to Neil deGrasse Tyson and Cosmos With Moronic Babble

Although fundamentalist Christians have no dearth of so-called tormentors, for the past eleven weeks their greatest enemy has been science in the person of Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Fox science documentary series Cosmos.

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Right Wing Extremists Are Boycotting The NFL Because Michael Sam Was Drafted

Right wing extremists have warned NFL teams that they have “a coalition of extremist Christian leaders from across the nation” ready to unleash Hell on the Rams to teach the entire NFL a Christ-like lesson.

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Creationist Battle With Neil deGrasse Tyson of Cosmos Is Humiliating For America

The ongoing, and one-sided, battle between creationist Ken Ham of “Answers in Genesis” notoriety and highly-regarded astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson of Fox’s Cosmos is humiliating for America because Ham typifies the right wing evangelical Christian ignorance founded on ancient mythology.

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Beyond Discrimination Arizona’s 1062 Bill Gives Criminals a Get Out Of Jail Free Card

This abomination masquerading as legislation is precisely what the religious right and career criminals have dreamt of throughout their pathetic lives.

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If Republicans Don’t Want to be Compared to Nazis, They Should Stop Acting Like Nazis

Republicans, like the Nazis, want to enforce through legislation obedience to and a belief in a mythical white paradise

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Jerry Boykin Says Manly Man’s Man Jesus Will Come Back Toting an AR-15

Boykin assures the faithful, “I believe now – I’ve checked this out – I believe that sword he’ll be carrying when he comes back is an AR-15”

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It Is Time For Constitution Loving Americans To Stand Up To Right Wing Republicans

Americans who value their freedoms, religious or otherwise, would do well to avoid the pitfalls of staying silent for fear of offending extremists because that silence has produced precisely what is plaguing this nation.

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Reality Bites Pentecostal Snake Handler

Apparently, a better name for reality TV series Snake Salvation would have been When Faith Meets Reality (You Will Hear a Loud Smack). Pentecostal preacher and host Jamie Coots of Tennessee, believed that poisonous snakes could not harm him because he was anointed by God. The Bible, he believed, said so (Mark 15:16-17). I speak…

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Georgia Rep. Paul Broun Supports the Bible, Not the Constitution

Broun asks a question based on a false premise: “does it fit the Judeo-Christian Biblical principles that our nation is founded upon?”

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The Religious Right Sells the False Choice of the State or Christianity

There is no ultimate choice between Christianity and the state. There is, however, a choice between state religion and freedom of religion.

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Republicans Across The Country Are Passing Illegal Laws Requiring Teaching Creationism

Republicans have illegally passed laws mandating the teaching of the creationism as science in public schools using taxpayer dollars because they claim the creation myth is real and evolution is an abomination.

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Southern Republicans Are Using Charter Schools To Inject Religion Into Public Schools

There is a concerted effort in primarily southern Republican-controlled states to use sketchy and horribly underperforming charter schools to inject a healthy dose of religion into science and history classes using funding for public schools.

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South Carolina Violates the Constitution With Plan For Mandatory Prayer In Public Schools

As the new year is getting underway, there is a renewed push to force prayer into South Carolina public schools.

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Wealthy Americans Prove Pope Francis’ Point by Threatening Economic Blackmail

Home Depot founder Ken Langone complained that the Pope is being mean to rich Americans because unlike rich people in other countries, American rich people are benefactors.

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Darrell Issa Hid The Truth About Benghazi For a Year While Attacking President Obama

Darrell Issa who has had the same information the New York Times reported for over a year and sat on his ass wasting taxpayer time and money pursuing Barack Obama.

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Right Wing Hypocrites Keep ‘Christ In Christmas’ While Harming The Poor 365 Days a Year

The glaring hypocrisy of those on the right, primarily conservative Christians, is they want Christ kept in Christmas during the Pagan winter holidays, but “abort Christ” from the policies and agendas they promote throughout the year.

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A Very Heathen Happy Holidays To You

I wish you all the best of the season, whatever your beliefs, whatever your political persuasion

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Rather Than Turning the Other Cheek, Robertson Fans Want to Slap us for Christmas

But I say to you, do not resist an evil-doer. But If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also. – Jesus of Nazareth, quoted in Matthew 5:39 (NRSV) The Religious Right’s reaction to Phil Robertson’s suspension is not only what Jesus expected out of his followers, but it has got me…

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The Pope Calls Failed Christians Pagans – He is Wrong and This is Why

For the Pope, humility-challenged Christians are Pagans but it was the Church that found Jesus’ poverty and humility too radical to tolerate

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Texas Republicans Would Murder Truth – And the Biblically Unapproved

The Texas gubernatorial race features very little science and more than a little bloodshed

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Megyn Kelly’s White Santa Betrays the Conservative’s Fear of the Other

When conservatives say they want a “white” Christmas, they really mean they want a WHITE Christmas.

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Christmas is a Pagan Holiday – Get Over it Already

If you want to know the reason for the season, you don’t have to look back to Christ but past him.

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Sarah Palin Disgraces History With Claim Adams and Jefferson Support Her War on Christmas

Sarah Palin’s contention that Founding Fathers John Adams and Thomas Jefferson would join her in the war against the imagined war on Christmas is too much of an affront to American history.

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WND Says Social Justice Doesn’t Come from Jesus but from the KGB

The KGB has cleverly and diabolically re-written every Bible ever sold all the way back to the second century of the Common Era, missing only those copies anyone actually bother to read

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Tissues for the Tea Party’s Issues

The tea party is the intersection of cognitive dissonance and reality. It’s certain to become a reality show. Oh wait – it already is.

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The Religious Right Is Counting On the Courts To Help Them Achieve Their Tyrannical Goals

Right wing Christians define their right to practice religion as forcing compliance of their beliefs on the rest of the population, and the religious right is counting on the judiciary to achieve their goals.

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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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The Religious Right With Their Weaponized Jesus Are Not Christians

For Boykin it was bromance at first sight and perhaps a wee bit of latent homosexuality as he waxed over Jesus’ “big, bulging biceps…thin waist” and “strong shoulders.”

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Sarah Palin Rejects Pope Francis I’s Liberal Agenda

Palin said, “He’s had some statements that to me sound kind of liberal, has taken me aback, has kind of surprised me.”

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Pope Francis Does Not Want Bishops Who Follow a Particular Ideology

The pope’s representative told the American bishops, “You know this comes from my admiration, respect, and loving concern for the Church in America.”

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George W. Bush Keynotes Event Promoting End Times

One of Jesus Christ’s commands to his followers was to spread the good news of the kingdom of god by convincing them he was the Messiah, but that is not the intent of the event Bush is promoting.

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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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Ted Cruz’s Father is a Dangerous Religious Fanatic

Rafael’s straw man is “if they can convince you that you came from a monkey, it’s much easier to convince you that God does not exist.”

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Fundamentalists Drool at Thought of Miley Cyrus Having Sex with Demons

“She’s basically, you know, she’s basically, at least symbolically, showing how to have sex with some satanic figure”

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A Journey to the Dark Heart of Christian Extremism

John Christian Hillcox is a mail order Baptist minister who represents everything we have come to hate about the self-righteous hypocrisy of the Religious Right

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For the Last Time, the Constitution is Not Based on the Bible

Tom DeLay says “God created the nation and God created the Constitution; it is written on biblical principles.”

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The Left Must Accept that Ted Cruz is the Dominionist Messiah

God is about to begin his “rule and reign” and the anointed Ted Cruz will oversee a big “end-time transfer of wealth.”

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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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Pope Francis Condemns Christian Ideology Posing as Religion

The Pope warned that “when a Christian becomes a disciple of the ideology, he has lost the faith: he is no longer a disciple of Jesus.”

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The Threat of the Religious Right is as Old as Christianity

Pagan Romans feared not a violent revolution but something far more sinister, a political coup exactly like we are seeing today

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John Hagee Says We are a Pagan Nation Without Shame

According to Hagee, “America is becoming a pagan society; we are in a moral free-fall.”

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Bryan Fischer Compares Ted Cruz to the Prophet Elijah

Fischer said, “Now, our Elijah today, confronting the prophets of Baal, is Ted Cruz and last night was his ‘show down’ on Mt. Carmel.”

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Family Research Council Says Starving Children is Christian Thing to Do

Ken Blackwell of the Family Research Council (FRC) says there is “nothing more Christian” than cutting food stamps

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While Persecuting Everyone Else, the Religious Right Cries Persecution

Obama administration is the “modern-day equivalent” of ancient Rome, where each citizen is made to worship Caesar with progressivism.

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Ron Paul Talks Religious Demagoguery with Pat Robertson

Ron Paul joined Pat Robertson on the 700 Club to show his Religious Right bona fides and his new homeschool indoctrination program

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The Quest to Turn the U.S. Military into the Army of God

Fundamentalist Christianity is determined to turn not only our government, but more frighteningly, our military, into their tool

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In Defiance of Christ’s Teachings Right Wing Evangelicals Become Gun Toting Maniacs

There has been a shift among evangelical Christians of late to openly oppose everything Jesus taught and trade in Christ for the NRA.

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The Republican Version of a Great Idea: For Profit Natural Disasters

If you want to see what privatized relief would look like, think of Walmart. That’s the face of Republican disaster relief

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Johnny is Demonically Possessed Because he Chose a Gray Crayon

Careful what color Crayon you choose to draw the human brain: Dr. Mungadze can tell if you’re gay or if you’re demonically possessed

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Republicans Try To Disprove Evolution By Claiming that Dragons Really Existed

The more science discovers about how the universe works, the more regressive Republican thinking becomes. Dragons were real and prove the authority of the Bible. The proof? Dinosaurs of course!

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Film Evolution vs. God Turns Bible into Science and Science into Faith

Religious conservatives need to believe so badly they shell out money for a film that has, as a central message, “beware of blind faith.”

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Pamela Geller Makes Herself the Victim in the Reza Aslan Controversy

Muslim baiter Geller is affronted that anyone defends scholar Reza Aslan for writing a book about Jesus yet not defend her for hating Muslims

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Catholic League Calls Marriage Equality One of the Most Bizarre Ideas in History

Catholic League president Bill Donohue believes some pretty far-out things himself and he may not be the one to talk about bizarre

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Religious Scholar’s Book About the Historical Jesus Exposes Fox News’ Biases

From the moment these words leave Green’s lips, “You’re a Muslim. So why did you write a book about the founder of Christianity?” the interview is all downhill.

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Pope Francis the Hipster and What He Means for America’s Culture Wars

You have to wonder at what point Pope Francis will have pulled the rug out from beneath America’s Catholic and Evangelical clergy.

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Christian Nationalism Defines the Rhetoric of Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio

The tenets of Christian nationalism – control of the government for Jesus – is behind the political aspirations of Rand Paul and others

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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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School District Indoctrinates Ohio Children With Course Teaching Fictional Right Wing History

David Barton is reaching out to corrupt the minds of Ohio children by teaching his fantastical tales of an America that never was

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Religious Right Says Supreme Court and Constitution Are Irrelevant

Apparently God already decided what constitutes marriage and he wins 1-0. Of course, they can’t show you that part of the Constitution

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Gay Representative Barred from Speaking Because He is in Violation of God’s Law

Apparently, those who find themselves in violation of God’s law, lose their rights under Republican governance

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The GOP Dream: An America Like Heaven that is For Christians Only

According to Republicans, if liberals would stop saying no to fundamentalists, we could have the America Jesus intended when he wrote the Constitution!

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Traditional Family Values Christians Throw Family Hating Jesus Under the Bus

For the sake of the very modern concept of “family values” it is essential that people not listen to Jesus and put their family second, after the Kingdom of God.

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How Christian Myth Overinflates the Religious Right’s Sense of Self Importance

The Fundamentalist Christian sense of self-importance paradoxically makes them essential to civilization, which existed long before the Bible

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Rand Paul Claims Liberal Elites Want to Exterminate Christians

“There is a war on Christianity,” he said, well ahead of the Christmas season. “Not just from liberal elites here at home, but worldwide.”

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Glenn Beck Blames Occupy Wall Street on Worship of Baal and Moloch

Glenn Beck has convinced himself that worship of Baal and Moloch led to Occupy Wall Street that he wrote a novel to prove it

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Yoga Joins The List of Things That Republicans Find Demonic

According to Republicans, Satan fills the emptiness yoga creates, allowing Satan into your soul

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Rand Paul Represents the GOP Vision of an America That Was Never Meant to Be

Paul’s vision of America has nothing to do with the United States Constitution and democracy and everything to do with the Bible and theocracy

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Are We Losing Our Religion and Does it Matter?

Gallup reported recently that 77 percent of Americans believe “religion is losing its influence on American life.”

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Pope Francis Loves Himself Some Atheists – Or Does He?

It seems as if Pope Francis has no problems with atheists, but his other rhetoric suggests otherwise.

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Michele Bachmann Endorses Tyranny Over the Constitution

Michele Bachmann seems to envision an America governed not through the democratic process but through a prayer-tyranny of the bigoted few

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Religious Right Claims If We Allow Gay Marriage We Are Persecuting Christians

More cries of persecution coming out of the Religious Right: if we allow gay marriage we are persecuting Christians

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Right Wingers Claim Prayer Doomed Manchin-Toomey

You probably didn’t know this but gun safety laws are “pagan” and it was prayer that defeated Manchin-Toomey

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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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Republicans Use Their Power to Establish State Religion and Steal Individual Rights

There are those who say the mood of the nation toward gays and women’s rights are changing for the better, yet the far right is forging ahead to restrict their rights.

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Kansas Republican Tim Huelskamp Put the Fool in April Fool’s Day

Kansas Republican Tim Huelskamp says marriage equality is unpatriotic and will destroy the family and motherhood – and even your apple pie

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God Wills It! Things You Will Never Hear an Atheist Say

When Reshad Riddle gunned down his father at Church, he didn’t say his act was the will of atheism.

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Conservative Christians Lose It and Threaten President Obama, the GOP, and the Supreme Court

conservative Christians, did not limit their threats to President Obama and the Supreme Court, and set their sights squarely on the Republican Party.

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Pat Robertson Says You Have Demons in Your Underpants

Pat Robertson thinks there are demons in your underpantsr, so be sure to rebuke them before heading out of the house

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Joseph Farah Says America Needs Ten Commandments – Wants Money

Joseph Farah is putting up 10 Commandment billboards in “Sin City” – Las Vegas – and he wants your dollars to do it

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Right Wing Bigots Claim Immigration Reform Path to Citizenship Violates the Bible

Ralph Reed, mistaking the Bible for the US Constitution, believes his holy book should govern US immigration policy

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Tolerance Wins Over Hate as Sisters Leave the Westboro Baptist Church

The granddaughters of Fred Phelps, Megan Phelps-Roper and her younger sister Grace Phelps-Roper, have left the hate group of Westboro Baptist Church.

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Fundamentalist Christians Play by a Different Set of Rules that Defy the Tenets of Their Religion

Unlike football, one group of Christians is playing by a different set of rules that defy the tenets of the religion and its adherents’ claim to be followers of Christ.

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Fundamentalist Says Refrigeration Removes Sin. Tough Luck Gays and Lesbians!

Oklahoma Pastor James Taylor says if you can refrigerate something (like shellfish) it isn’t an abomination anymore

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Republicans Use Taxpayer Dollars to Insert Religion into Public Education

There is a growing movement to insert religion into the education system using taxpayer dollars.

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The GOP Needs to Shed its God Problem Before it’s Too Late

The Republican Party needs to shed its God problem before its unhealthy obsession destroys America

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Its the End of the World as You Know It

Joseph Farah wants you to believe an angry God is about to snuff us out, but first we have to survive the Republicans

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Piers Morgan Says Flawed Bible Must be Amended

Piers Morgan, already being attacked for his stance on guns, has truly thrown caution to the wind by proclaiming that the Bible is flawed and must be amended.

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The Demographics of Progress and the Demise of the America of Conservative Dreams

The numbers don’t lie: they didn’t lie on Election Night, and they do not lie in the longer run when they prove that America is becoming more, not less progressive.

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Conservatives Are Dreaming of a ‘White’ Christmas

Conservatives are dreaming of a ‘white’ Christmas, and that is all Christmas really is to them: a means to an end that has no role for Jesus

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Man Charged with Blasphemy for Pointing out Weeping Jesus Miracle was Plumbing Problem

In India, you can apparently be charged with blasphemy for pointing out that a statue of Jesus is not, in fact, crying.

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Fox News Has a Holiday Wish List but Governor Chafee Can’t Have a Holiday Tree

“All I want for Christmas is to kill it,” seems to be the song conservatives think liberals sing each and every holiday season. Fox News has made a lucrative living pushing a nonexistent war on Christmas, seizing on every example of religious pluralism in this country – that is, the right of people to believe…

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