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It's almost Halloween, and with it comes the opportunity to scare kids so bad that they'll accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Haunted houses are a favorite attraction for trick-or-treaters.  But fundamentalist Christians are taking the fun away and turning Halloween into a ghoulish evangelical opportunity.  Beginning with Jerry Falwell's "Scaremares" in the [...]

Paul has been described by one of the Church Fathers as having been a small, crooked balding man with thick eyebrows, a fierce glare and jaunty airs who walked with a pronounced limp. What strikes us most about him, at first acquaintance, on the pages of the New Testament scriptures, however, is the intensity of [...]

***Site ANNOUNCEMENT for my longtime readers and a WELCOME to all new visitors*** Due to the increasing demands on my time with the book contract from Trine Day for “Palin’s America ~ God, Guns & Greed”; my position on the Board of Directors of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation; my consulting contract with California Council of Churches [...]

***MERGER ANNOUNCEMENT*** Due to the increasing demands on my time with the book contract from Trine Day for “Palin’s America ~ God, Guns & Greed”; my position on the Board of Directors of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation; my consulting contract with California Council of Churches & California Church IMPACT; and development of my new upcoming Webinar [...]

American Fascists The Christian Right and the War on America Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like hyperbole [...]

The folks who deliver beer and other beverages to liquor stores have joined the fight against legalizing marijuana in California. On Sept. 7, the California Beer & Beverage Distributors gave $10,000 to a committee opposing Proposition 19, the measure that would change state law to legalize pot and allow it to be taxed and regulated. [...]

Voter caging is an example of underhanded tactics used on the right to cheat. Yep…call it what it is…cheating. Look at what was uncovered in Wisconsin…a big thank you to American Hatriots.com for this article! WI GOP, Tea Party and Americans for Prosperity busted plotting coordinated and illegal plan to suppress Wisconsin voter turnout in November [...]