Editor's note: Zack reached out to me in response to a piece I published on Jerry Falwell Jr. and what I perceived to be the commercial rot of American Evangelical Christianity. He thanked me for my words and for, as he put it, "exposing our hypocrisy". I was struck by his ...read more
As Saint Bernard of Clairvaux said in 1150, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions,". Or in the age of Trump, the road to hell is paved with selling out every one of your core beliefs in the name of banning abortion and sticking it to liberals. White, evangelical ...read more
The nonprofit (and nonprophet) group American Atheists will hold its annual convention in Memphis, Tennessee next year during Easter weekend, and you know what that means: Commence hilarious, barely-restrained freakout by the locals, including a seemingly incredulous WMC Action 5 ...read more
The Pew Forum has released a doozy of a poll about religion in public life in the United States showing that white evangelical Christians possess grossly overdeveloped feelings of victimhood. Given that the voting bloc evangelicals comprise is one of the most heavily pandered to ...read more