The stunning and terrifying interviews CNN conducted with anti-vaxxers at a recent Trump rally in Alabama illuminate the role religion plays in accepting disinformation and justifying immoral action.
President Trump declared victory in the “War on Christmas” two years ago: “We’re starting to say merry Christmas again.” Sure, it was May and yes,
As the pool-boy cuckolding scandal swells daily around Jerry Falwell Jr and his wife, Becki, he has officially resigned as president of the world’s largest Christian school, Liberty University.
We’re trading overt bigotry for subtle bigotry. NC is ousting a racist for an anti-Semite. MS is replacing the confederate flag with a racist dog whistle.
Mormon painter Jon McNaughton refers to himself as “America’s artist” but he’s the Thomas Kinkade of Christian Nationalism.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation comes across ever-so often outrageous state-level giveaways to organized religion.
Bill Donohue, the Catholic League’s resident bloviator, is once again tilting at straw men. Never one to stake his reputation on facts or data, Donohue’s
One wannabe Osteen, a right wing preacher named Jonathan Shuttlesworth, posted a video that called churches that follow medical guidance and close are “sissies” and “pansies,” with “no balls” who “got neutered somewhere along the line.” But in between his sips of Acqua Panna, this Patagonia-clad preacher stumbled on the truth when he asked of the basins bereft of holy water, “how holy is the water then? That should be a sign to you that your whole religion’s a fraud. Any faith that doesn’t work in real life is a fake faith. Totally fake.”
Trump’s cabinet is full of Christian Nationalists like Pence who believe in the bible and not science. But it would be hard to pick a worse candidate to lead this effort. Pence was actually responsible for an HIV epidemic in his home state of Indiana in 2015. That’s not hyperbole, that’s the conclusion of scholarly studies.
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