Weekly Rant
Weekly Rant: Rick Warren’s Real Purpose for Christmas
Is the restricting of holiday parties in schools a new story? It has been this way in my kid’s school for quite some time. In fact, it all started with Halloween. I remember being outraged when they weren’t allowed to dress up for Halloween parties at school. These events were cancelled because of the Christian [...]
Weekly Rant: Frank Schaeffer and New Atheist Fundamentalists
As far as the religious go, you could say that Frank Schaeffer is one of the good guys. He is the son of one of the first televangelists, Francis Schaeffer, and in his book, Crazy for God, he did a great job explaining how he helped found the Religious Right, and why he now regretted [...]
Weekly Rant: Benny Hinn – Man of God?
Weekly Rant: Defending atheist fundamentalism?
Weekly Rant: Jay Bakker and Fred Phelps
Weekly Rant: Billy Graham says atheism is a fad for fools
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Billy Graham, is often sited as the standard by which all preachers should be judged. Anytime you speak with Christians about the foibles of the televangelists, they continually point to the untarnished Graham. Of course, this is not true.
For some reason, Billy Graham gets a pass for his controversies. As [...]
Weekly Rant: Mega-churches and professional athletes
ESPN’s, Outside the Lines, has published a fasinating article about prosperity preachers Randy and Paula White and their relationship with professional athletes.
You might remember the Whites from a couple years back. They (and five other ministries) were sent a letter from Sen. Charles Grassley requesting their financial records. Grassley was concerned the ministers were benefiting [...]
Weekly Rant: Do Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, & O’Reilly inspire hatred?
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Recently, I have spent a lot of time criticizing the right-wing talking heads and their sway over the crazies in America. Both Hannity and Limbaugh falsely claimed Obama said America was a Muslim Nation (just weeks after saying we weren’t a Christian nation). O’Reilly continually called Dr. George Tiller a murderer and compared [...]
