It’s because the truth in the movie “It’s A Wonderful Life” is what Millennials long for and they are the key to taking back the House in 2018. Taking back the House in 2018 isn’t…
It’s a war for national survival. Here’s my first shot in that war for a sane, good, and decent America. Photo credit: Nancy Pelosi
The son of a famous theologian and evangelist ripped into “prosperity gospel” pastor Joel Osteen, saying his disastrous decision to deny help to the flood-ravaged citizens of Houston exposed him as a follower of Ayn…
Then tar and feather them and defeat Trump’s deluded white Evangelical anti-science voters by voting for Democrats in 2018! Photo credit: R. Crap Mariner.
No matter what. Photo credit: Gage Skidmore
Republicans have been enabling Trump’s agenda and that of the white Nazi militias for a very long time. The Bush hierarchy may say they deplore racism and other GOP leaders make appropriate noises but these…
I’m trying to save America from Trump… Let me explain.
BUT his craven theocratic Evangelical advisory board remains 100% pro-fascism/oligarchy hoping to turn America into a real ‘Handmaid’s Tale’. A mix of radical far right born-again preachers, televangelists and ultra-conservative political influencers, still stands with…
In Charlottesville, Heather Heyer, was murdered. She died only yards away from heavily militarized armed far right militiaman. She died because Donald Trump has unleashed hatred made in his own image into the American mainstream….
Those like General Kelly who still serve Trump/Bannon are as complicit as Trump is in the Nazi, KKK and White Nationalist Attack on America.
Many evangelicals don’t know it but what they are doing now in backing Trump unconditionally — no matter what he does — was advocated long before Trump came on the scene by a movement most…
It’s Mike Pence and the Pentecostal Evangelicals who really do want to turn America into their version of “The Handmaid’s Tale”… And the lazy, ignorant secular media don’t get it!
By Ben Wright I promise that if you keep reading, we’ll get to Let Me Be Frank, an amazing new documentary that exposes the American Religious Right as fraudulent and cynical. But first, indulge me…
This year at the Wild Goose Festival, I sat down with Shawna Bowman to discuss the intrinsic value of art. Watch the video of our conversation below.
Trump brags about his great electoral victory. His numbers about his Twitter following are also trumped up and provide another insight into this liar’s liar. As Celisa Calacal writes in AlterNet, “Trump tweeted on June 17 about his overall…
The Republican party has sold out to Trump to strip medical care from millions of Americans to bankroll lavish tax cuts for the super wealthy.
Trump has done us a favor. He has reminded anyone patriotic on the left and right — that has even part of their brain working — that we “enemies” share common ground. Trump did this…
The elite mantra “It’s the economy, stupid!” most often has stood in for the axiom that secular concerns always prevail. Everything was about the nuts and bolts of growth, and if “social issues”—the inaccurate media…
Do you care what some man sings about redemption from homelessness, evangelical credulity, substance addiction and mental illness? What if he’s also a man who then finds enlightenment that is equal parts Jesus (on one…
Artist Statement Why religion-obsessed art in 2017? Because in an era when Trump hijacked the white evangelical vote mimicking the bitter radicalization of some Muslims, religion is not just relevant—it is deadly. It must be…
Welcome to Ayn Rand Hell. Republicans are about to try to destroy President Obama’s landmark Affordable Healthcare Act. To do so they will sacrifice the well-being of tens of millions of Americans. They will thus…
My Interview on MSNBC's "AM Joy" ICYMI: Here's my interview on AM Joy on MSNBC this past Saturday where I talk about Trump and the evangelicals working for him. Please watch!If you enjoyed this video,…
I predict a coalition will rise up to wipe away the stench of Trump. Trump is the last stinking fart of a dying white supremacist oligarchy supported by a diminishing underclass and a white evangelical…
Forbes just published a piece “How Donald Trump Shifted Kids-Cancer Charity Money Into His Business,” about Trump taking money meant for cancer research for children for himself. No kidding. How low will Trump go?…
“Donald Trump can’t be counted on to give accurate information to Americans when violent acts are unfolding abroad.” So notes the Associated Press (AP). Please watch my video here related to this devastating AP article…
Denying science in general and the science of climate change in particular is now an article of faith for white American evangelicals right up there with the divinity of Christ. Thus when Trump announced that…
Trump is out to destroy the human race’s hopes of reversing climate change. He molested women and now he is raping the planet. Trump said women were forced to let him assault them because…
Pastor Billy Graham’s daughter Anne Graham Lotz, says that God allows terror attacks “because of transgenders and theory of evolution.” Cardinal Caffarra, speaking May 19 to the Rome Life Forum, to 100 family values leaders…
Why did 81 percent of white evangelicals believe Trump’s lies? Why do they still persist in supporting this failing and flailing “president”? Why do they prefer fake news to facts? The answer can be found…
Please WATCH my 8 minute video commentary on this… thanks! In The Trump/Pence/Putin/ISIS Terror-Era It’s Time To Tell The… In The Trump/Pence/Putin/ISIS Terror-Era, It’s Time To Tell The Hard Truth: All Fundamentalist Religion Is the…
In The Trump/Pence/Putin/ISIS Terror-Era, It’s Time To Tell The Hard Truth: All Fundamentalist Religion Is the Enemy of Peace. Period.
Before Trump became president there was room for debate about what and who we Americans really are. Not anymore. We know ourselves now because Trump is our mirror. Before Trump became president there was room…
“Gold-Plated Oligarchs” WATCH my Video Please… The Saudi Extremist Woman-Haters Who Financed 9/11 Will Love T… The Saudi Extremist Woman-Haters Who Financed 9/11 Will Love Trump: Trump is Into Hate and Racial and Religious Exclusion…
Trump is a fool. America is in trouble. Evangelicals made him president. Evangelical theology set the stage for Trump. So did people calling themselves Christians who did not stand up to the American evangelicals. Now…
Bono is on tour and denouncing Trump. The problem is that Bono unwittingly helped get Trump elected. Bono did this by providing cover for the white evangelicals that are Trump’s most reliable base. Bono has…
Trump’s unfathomable bizarre behavior proves he is frightened of things the Russia-connection investigations might expose. His “way” of dealing with this threat was also irrational– create a firestorm by firing Comey. Trump suffers from a…
In Calvinism, the theological cult of an angry God in which I was raised, humans are created by a God who like Trump, has determined to give them only the illusion of free will. And…
We are being conditioned to chaos by Trump. Thank God he’s not caring for my grandchildren. My daily joy is found in the stillness of repeated tender moments. If you understand children you know that…
Clearly Trump wants the FBI to become his version of Putin’s lapdog FSB (the Russian intelligence services successor to the KGB, that hacked both the American and French elections) — and just do what they…
Please WATCH my 6 minute video commentary on just why we Americans will win against the con artist Trump and his family of grifters… We Will Resist the Trump Clan of Con Artist Crooks and…
More than 20 states have proposed bills that would crack down on protests and demonstrations since Donald Trump was elected. The proposed laws would variously increase the penalties for protesting in large groups, and, in…
Say you hate everyone but the super rich and wish to redistribute hundreds of billions of dollars from working class people to the Koch brothers, the Trump clan and the founders of Facebook and…
Institutions known for sexual assault (including child rape and spousal abuse) are mostly organizations closed to supervision that do not have checks because they answer only to a supreme leader of some sort, usually a…
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White evangelicals love Trump because he’s delivering what his core constituency craves: the real possibility of a white supremacist male-dominated Christian theocracy. Judging by Trump’s first 100 days he’s off to a resoundingly failed legislative…
Take the Fyre Festival — the disastrous failed luxury “Music Event” story about disappointed rich brat music festival goers — and the “presidency” of rich brat Donald Trump… and merge them. Here’s an oddly entertaining…
“His Presidency has become the demoralizing daily obsession of anyone concerned with global security, the vitality of the natural world, the national health, constitutionalism, civil rights, criminal justice, a free press, science, public education, and…
In his first 100 days Trump has failed at everything but one initiative: he’s been very successful at finding more corrupt ways to make money off the American presidency for his family members and pals…
Yes they are stupid- Please WATCH
Trump voters have changed the old saying “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me,” to “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice– just fine by me!” A new…
Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye’s Left Behind series of sixteen novels represents everything that is most deranged about American religion. To understand why Trump became president — with 81 percent of the white evangelical vote…
“Letters to Lucy” is a multimedia project I’ve worked on for 3 years. Now I’ve teamed up with EJ, a great designer to bring it out as an iBook. We’ve chosen to publish the book…
As Trump melds TV-watching with Tweeting, in his warped flow of media-addled consciousness, he is the perfect example how our TV-addicted culture has now morphed into the tech-addicted culture of alt-“facts.” Mental health experts have…
When I grew up in the evangelical ghetto good manners about all things sexual were the gold standard of both my evangelical upbringing and our ideas about what it meant to be a conservative. The…
Dear Trump Voter, He played you for a fool. That wall will not built as advertised let alone be paid for by Mexico. The “repeal of Obamacare”- a flop. Major tax reform- not happening either….
Trump has spent his lifetime defining the word grifter as synonymous with his last name. Here’s how the dictionary defines it: grifter noun, Slang. a person who operates a side show at a circus, fair,…
When it comes to Internet privacy Trump, and the GOP are adopting the corporate-authoritarian model of China – where the state can not only watch everything you do on the Internet, but can also censor…
“How can I make my relationships and my life work?” Hint: It isn’t anything you’ll learn about male or female orgasms online. The Alpha Males on Wall Street and running Silicon Valley have nothing to…
Trump is a symptom. We’re losing our souls. Silicon Valley billionaires think they will live forever by downloading their consciousness to computers. Evangelicals are waiting for Jesus. What all agree on is that our true…
Normalizing abuse, violence and tyranny in America to protect corporate greed is now our way of life. Left and Right unite! Let’s destroy United Airlines and send a message to our overlords: enough! We are…
Here’s why we need to punish United Airlines and send a message to our Trumpian corporate masters: United Airlines overbooked a flight. So what? So this– A man was dragged and bloodied off the plane….
Trump is a man so reckless, so petulant, so full of blind self-regard, it is impossible to know where his presidency will lead. Will he fake terror? Will he go to war to distract us?…
One day in 1968, a few weeks after I’d run away from by UK boarding school (age 15) and was back in Switzerland at my parent’s evangelical mission of L’Abri, Dad said, “I took your…
Trump’s election was just one more nail in the coffin of what was — according to humanistic idealists such as Winston Churchill — supposed to be a secular age of reason and enlightenment. Instead of…
How else to explain the irrationality of Trump’s scorched earth “policy” than severe mental illness? Since it makes no sense to destroy the planet Earth, there must be some unhinged psychological obsession at work here….
In 2011 Kevin Miller, asked me “Do you believe in hell?” Miller, a Canadian movie producer, was interviewing me for his documentary Hellbound?, gathering a variety of perspectives on the subject of hell. His interviewees…
Once during a brief visit home while I was on a particularly travel-filled and arduous university lecture tour in 2014, my granddaughter Lucy (then 5) asked me plaintively, “Ba, but why are you traveling so…
Three bullies are competing to punch each other in the mouth: Trump, Bannon and the so-called Freedom Caucus in Congress. It would be fun to watch the GOP self-destruct post “Trumpcare” except for the fact…
When President W Bush sent my Marine son to war three times (2003-2004) I thought Bush was a fool, but not a dishonorable person. I wrote this in the Washington Post: Before my son became…
Put it this way: How does one talk someone mired in irrational beliefs into accepting fact-based reality? More to the point these days, how does one change a Trump voter’s mind and get her or…
I had never thought about ancestry much until Trump was elected. His fanning the flames of hate for the “other” reminded me that my family goes “way back” in America. Far from that being a…
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore How to define the followers of Trump? Here are 3 ways. Trump supporters are victims of: A pyramid scheme of false hope built on selling empty glitter A desire to share…
I am painting a new series of large canvases—huge for me—deconstructing the failure of fundamentalist religion. I was raised as a missionary pastor’s kid. I tell the story of why I left the evangelical movement…
According to the Donald Trump/Paul Ryan GOP “budget” proposals, Americans are now “free” to live without health insurance…and: without science without a clean environment without racial equality without women’s rights without education without art without…
The Daily Show was an epic fail: irony and snark lost to the reality of Trump, as it were. Trump is president because the left, liberals and especially younger people put their faith in late…
I’m a white male in North America’s upper middle class. This inglorious inheritance of slaveholders, misogynists, and war-makers shapes what I experience and, just as importantly, do not experience—i.e., what black men undergo in our…
Science fiction has made theology interesting once again. The legion fans of Blade Runner and its derivatives or the millions who participate in Star Trek conventions may not have read the Bible or the works…
