“This white, 53-year-old mother hadn’t counted on God sending an African American with dreads named Glenn.” A Christian blog post headlined “When God Sends Your White Daughter a Black Husband” is just as good as you would think.
Learning How to Get to Heaven at the RNC
CLEVELAND — “Art creates conversation,” Julian Raven, a painter from upstate New York tells me. Raven, an alternate delegate and true Donald Trump believer, drove the print of the original 8' x 16' painting from his Elmira studio which apparently has a 25-foot Trump banner hanging outside of it. He’s standing on a…
"We Don't Know Anything About Hillary in Terms of Religion," Says Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton is a Methodist Christian. She grew up in a Methodist household, and taught adult Sunday school classes at her parish long before becoming first lady. This information is extremely easy to find, such as by typing “Hillary Clinton religion” into the search engine of your choice and pressing Enter on your…
What a Series of Cosmic Evangelical Thrillers Tells Us About Money in America
The sixteen-novel Left Behind series of evangelical thrillers is at least as influential a text in the annals of latter-day prophecy belief as the Book of Revelation. Which, of course, happens to furnish source material for the series’ intensively literalist accounting of the rapture, the tribulation, and the final…
The Los Angeles Times has the story of Brother Nelson, the Jehovah’s Witness known to the rest of the world as Prince. “I look forward to the time we can welcome him back on the Earth,” one of the artist’s fellow congregants in Minnetonka, Minnesota told the paper.
Alabama Refuses to Remove Textbook Disclaimer Calling Evolution "Controversial"
For the past decade, every student in Alabama has been greeted by the same paragraphs-long disclaimer in the front of their bio textbooks claiming that evolution is a “controversial theory” that has “not been directly observed.” And after putting it to a vote last week, the state Board of Education decided that that…
Cool Pope Probably Not a Trump Supporter
Cool Pope “Francis” (a rap name), a Catholic man that religious people must pretend to respect, continues his irksome habit of making public statements that do not comport with the official positions of Republican presidential candidates.
Bernie Sanders Doesn't Give a Shit About God
You don’t have to read too close between the lines to see a heathen peeking out.
The Leftovers Is a Great Model for Coping With Other People's Religion
“Everybody is wondering what and where they all came from,” rang out Iris DeMent’s jubilant voice every week during the opening credits of HBO’s second season of The Leftovers. She continued: “Everybody is worrying about where they’re gonna go when the whole thing’s done / But no one knows for certain and so it’s all…
"Does Islam Really Say It’s Okay To Kill People Or Is That Just One Interpretation?"
A hard topic explained clearly by Thought Catalog dot com.
A public meeting about building a new mosque in Spotsylvania County, Virginia degenerated into two men shouting down a Muslim engineer, yelling “Every one of you are terrorists.” Frankly, American Muslims would be safer if they were all heavily armed.
The Black Church: A Haven and a Hardship for Its LGBT Members
For too long, gay experience was defined by outsiders who tended to condemn rather than empathize. As reporting has become democratized and stigma has eroded, more and more people who actually live the experience—the real experts—have been able to share it. The new documentary directed by BET’s Clay Cane Holler If You…
Three GOP Candidates Join Pastor Who Thinks Frozen Turns Kids Gay
Next week, Des Moines, Iowa will play host to the National Religious Liberties Conference—a warm, welcoming place where you get to hear about how birth control literally fills women’s wombs with tiny dead fetus babies and how homosexuals should be put to death. Naturally, GOP candidates Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal, and…
School District Tells Football Coach to Stop Public Prayers, Coach Doesn't, Guess What Happens
An assistant high school football coach in Bremerton, Wash. became the center of a national controversy after school district officials asked him to stop leading public Christian prayers on the 50-yard line after games and Fox News got ahold of the story. Coach Joe Kennedy did not stop the prayers, and guess what?…
