It seems like a weekly occurrence for the GOP to cause rational thinking Americans to wonder how they ever passed 5th grade science. One consistency in their complete and utter ignorance is that it is almost always based on their religious beliefs. This is by no means an attack on faith, but rather a clarification […]
Libby Phelps Alvarez, whose grandfather founded the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church, told the Today Show that the Westboro Baptist Church was not satisfied with just protesting the funerals of fallen soldiers – that they began praying for people to die. “There was a point when we started praying for people to die,” she said. “I […]
The last thing we want to do is water down the teaching of biology because some people don’t recognize that evolution happened. Transcript — It amazes me that people have pre-existing notions that defy the evidence of reality. But that they hold onto them so dearly. And one of them is the notion of creationism, […]
It’s no great surprise that the Tea Party includes Christians possessing extreme right-wing political beliefs. Within the Tea Party, there are “soldiers for God” who are going out and attempting to overthrow conventional wisdom and science as representatives of God. One such individual is Cal Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance who is the religious right’s favorite anti-climate […]
The outspoken Rev. Franklin Graham, the president and CEO of both the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) and the international Christian relief organization Samaritan’s Purse, told the Christian Broadcasting Network this week that Christians should be “upset at themselves” for President Obama’s re-election. “We know that from of the statistics that I’ve heard that the […]