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George Soros EXPOSED (or, “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor”)

Christians believe in telling the truth about people. Christianists believe in gaining power by means of any lie: What staggers me is the thought-free, moral recklessness of the way in which all the lies chronicled here are simply swallowed and then barfed up again for consumption by their fellow True Believer Republican Rite Christian by […]

Heresy always mutates into its opposite

I pointed this out years ago in an essay I wrote for the New Oxford Review called “Truth Cancer and the Redemption of Rebellion“.  And now the Christianist heresy, a theopolitical cult that dresses the Trumpian adoration of money and power in Christian trappings, imagery, and jargon, illustrates my point yet again by sacrificing its […]

So it appears The Remnant is thinking about libelling me

Steel Magnificat has the story. Dunno if they will go through with running this silly charge that I advocate violence against the GOP and the Gun Cult now that Mary has done such a hilarious takedown.  But for those metaphor-impaired readers who seriously think that my calls for the destruction of the GOP and the […]

Deacon Steven Greydanus on the Denial of Jesus by Peter

This is really good: Some thoughts inspired by a friend’s comment about Peter denying Jesus despite having seen his miracles: Something we have to constantly keep in mind as we read the Gospels is that the story as we read it and the story as it appeared at the time to those living through it […]

Racism, Anti-Semitism, and the Gun Cult

We’ve heard it a million times.  The second amendment was ratified so that portly suburbanites in Lubbock and Butte could make war on Future Hitler when he takes over the government. It is therefore necessary to offer 35,000 real human sacrifices each year in order to prevent the imaginary slaughter that is come.  Never mind that […]

As you knew would happen…

…the Right Wing Noise Machine and Gun Cult lie spread by FOX, claiming that CNN tried to script their Town Hall meeting on guns is now exploded: The family of a Parkland shooting survivor appears to have provided doctored emails to Fox and HuffPost in an attempt to support their claim that CNN "scripted" its […]

And now Walmart ends sales of assault weapons

Bravo, Walmart!  Words I never thought I’d write.

Glorious!

The NRA is bleeding corporate ties

…and you can help it hemorrhage to death. Credo has a petition to the remaining corporate sponsors of this poisonous organization with this message. “The NRA is a dangerous extremist group. Its ‘guns everywhere’ agenda threatens public safety and makes it almost impossible to pass gun control legislation at the federal or state level. It’s […]

Opposite evils–so far from balancing–aggravate one another

Case in point, the following tweet and rebuttal: Listen to me carefully: YOUR RIGHTS DO NOT COME FROM ANY GOD. YOUR GOD DIDN’T WRITE THE CONSTITUTION.  The Constitution is an agreement between citizens regarding how government will be run. No more. No less. YOUR GOD HAS NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH IT. NOTHING. To declare […]