By Ann Werner on March 23, 2017
Jim Bakker, Religion, televangelists, Trump
Bigotry, Conservatives, Corruption, Extremists, Religion, Religious Intolerance

Share on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit Cloaked in religion, these money-grubbing televangelists are only in it for the money. Right Wing Watch posted a story the other day about host Jim Bakker and his guest, evangelist Billye Brim, saying women who attended the Women’s March the day after the inauguration were “driven by demons.” […]
By Ann Werner on September 17, 2016
Batshit Crazy, Donald Trump, Election 2016, politics, Religion, Republican lies, right wing hatred, Rush Limbaugh, The Tea Party
Bigotry, Conservative Media, Conservatives, Debunking Right Wing Lies, Religious Fanaticism, Republicans, Right Wing Hatred, Right-Wing Myths

Share on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit Costco is not forcing its female employees to wear burqas; nor is the discount chain advocating death to those women who dishonor their families by being raped. No, what Costco has done is far worse. Update: A previous version of this article cited American New X rather than […]
By Kimberley Johnson on April 19, 2016
Americans Identify as Christian, Atheists, organized religion, Religion, religion in modern america, religious freedom, Young Americans tend to be secular
Opinion / Open Letters / Rants, Religion, Religious Freedom Laws

Share on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit People aren’t leaving religion, religion is leaving people. I was raised by a single mom, and neither one of my parents were religious. When I was nine, I spent the summer with my Catholic grandmother, and on Sundays we’d go to church together. Because I was nine and […]
By Kimberley Johnson on March 7, 2016
Abortion, Believing in the Bible only when it is convenient, Christianity, conservatives, evangelicals, Having a living faith is much harder to talking about having one, hypocrisy, Religion, Religion by convenience, shaming, The hypocrisy of many who claim to be pro-life
Activism, Opinion / Open Letters / Rants, Reproductive Rights, Uncategorized

Share on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit Under the right set of circumstances, many evangelicals become full-fledged hypocrites Several years ago, I was friends with a woman who identified as a born-again Christian. Eventually I moved to another part of the state, and while we still keep in touch, our connection is not as close […]
By Ann Werner on December 2, 2015
ISIS, Islam, Religion, religious activism, Terrorism
Activism, ISIS, Islam, Religion, Terrorism

Share on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit A massive anti-extremism movement is underway in Indonesia. Indonesia is home to the largest Muslim population in the world, comprising an estimated 205 million practitioners of the faith. It is there that we may finally see the beginning of the end of ISIS. There have been Muslims around the world […]