The Thom Hartmann Program
I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Thom Hartmann to discuss the evangelical obsession with Donald Trump and the cynical manipulation of a lunatic fringe. Despite evangelicals’ best efforts to bring about the…
Who in Their Right Mind Would Have Anything to Do with These Con-Artists, Let Alone with the Word “Prayer” Once It Comes out Of Trump’s Lying Mouth?
Americans are declaring themselves unaffiliated with organized religion. This trend is especially so among the under-30s forty percent of whom claim no connection to a religion. To understand why this opt-out of religion trend will…
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, You Are a Porn Star and the Worst Person in the World
Sarah Huckabee’s lies and Trump’s lies are catching up with them both. Huckabee now looks more like Stormy Daniels than a press secretary: just another porn star twisting in the wind. As the Washington Post…
American Civilization Is Fighting an Uphill Battle against White Evangelicals’ Tendency to Choose Make-Believe as a Self-Justification for Well-Honed Ignorance
White evangelicals grew up on a theology that trains people to be those who can’t tell the difference between reality and make-believe. They then opt for make-believe again and again because fantasy is kinder and…
The Fundamental Reason Trump Is President and the Only Real Answer to This Fool
The Fundamental Reason Trump Is President and the Only Real Answer to This Fool. Posted by Frank Schaeffer on Friday, April 27, 2018 What would we tell Lucy, our common ancestor, about what we have…
Evangelical White Trump Supporters Are Practical Nihilists
With white evangelicals’ help the GOP enjoys more power than at any moment since the New Deal. With all this power they have done nothing at all except give billionaires more money, white supremacists more…
Thank You Donald Trump for Empowering White Evangelicals and Proving That They Are Indeed America’s Most Deadly Enemy
Yes, it was white evangelical preachers who ran the KKK in the 1920s. Nothing’s changed. Now they love Trump. If evangelicalism ever wants to play a more positive role in social and political life after…
Evangelicals’ Problem Isn’t Trump, it’s That They Believe in Lies
Evangelical leaders are meeting this week at Wheaton College to try and figure out post-Trump how to make evangelicalism respectable again. Good luck with that! You can’t advance Jesus’ vision of liberation by oppressing the…
Time to Re-Define the Words White Evangelicalism as A Myth-Based Cult Little Better Than A Jumped-Up Lynch Mob
A visitor from another planet – or perhaps an angel sent by the Lord to check in on the church – when figuring out what white American evangelicals are today might be slightly confused. If…
When Trump Falls Here’s How the White Evangelical Leadership Will Explain and Profit from His Fall
Trump has a lifetime of criminal activity to hide. The dumbest thing he ever did was run for president. He’s going down. How will the white evangelical leaders that talked their followers into voting for…