The media will publish his obituary widely and commentators will discuss it exhaustively. So only vanity could compel me to add more. Therefore, I shall limit my tribute to one final meeting Francis had on his last day. It speaks volumes about his papacy. US VP JD Vance was reportedly the last outsider to visit… Read more.
Religion
Christians Too Often Make Christ’s Crucifixion and Resurrection Seem in Vain
It looks like these evangelical leaders are praying for God to bless and protect Trump. In fact, they’re praying for Trump to recognize and enrich them. Not since the lost Israelites worshiped that Golden Calf have religious people so brazenly forsaken God. These evangelicals sold their souls to a Mammon — all for tax cuts… Read more.
My Good Friday Sermon
Good Friday: My childhood rituals I grew up the son of an evangelical preacher man. But the Holy Spirit was no match for my Adamic nature. Which is why I found so many things in my childhood dispiriting. Most dispiriting was having to listen to the same sermon over and over again. Especially knowing my father… Read more.
Republicans Feast on Trump’s Orwellian Beatitudes at National Prayer Breakfast
President Trump delivering the sermon at a national prayer breakfast is like the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan delivering the keynote address at the NAACP convention. Yet, DC politicians dutifully assembled on Thursday to hear his MAGA sermon. But MAGA evangelicals listening to Trump’s blasphemous, self-worshipping drivel had to feel trapped in a… Read more.
Holy Hunger: Force-Feeding Religion as Education
Now Nuns Are Raping Girls? Catholics Cannot Believe God Exists
Catholic nuns are predators, too? Anyone who attended Catholic grade school can testify to witnessing nuns display spasms of demonic violence. Witnessing that informed the cynicism I vented earlier this year (on February 26) in “More Catholic Depravity: Nuns Pimping Orphans to Priests.” But if nuns could serve as madams for pedophile priests, it’s hardly… Read more.