From a press release published by Christian Newswire: Over 8,000 California fires just in the year 2020. Over 5 million acres burned. And the season isn’t over. God’s Solution to heal a land: “Spiritual fire”–by thousands of California Christians. “Spiritual fire” means a believer in Christ “on fire”–zealous to cleanse from old sins, turning away from the world’s ways to …
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Pastor Bad Wig: To Oppose Trump Is To Oppose God
“I think Americans on the left are striving, they’re fighting with their maker. Fighting with Trump is fighting with God. This will really get them all torqued. They’re fighting God because they’re fighting Trump. “Not because Trump is Mr. Perfect, it’s because the Lord anointed him to be a wrecking ball. And he’s doing what he’s supposed to do—to pull …
Read More »Megachurch Pastor Greg Laurie Sick With COVID After Attending WH Rose Garden Event For SCOTUS Nominee
New York Magazine reports: Intelligencer’s Olivia Nuzzi reports “that Pastor Greg Laurie of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California has tested positive for COVID-19. Pastor Laurie was at the Prayer March on the Mall with Mike Pence and Franklin Graham and the [Rose Garden event for Amy Coney Barrett] later that day.” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany also has …
Read More »Actual Federalist Headline: How Strong Women Like Amy Coney Barrett Submit To Their Husbands With Joy
Matthew Cochran writes for The Federalist: The husband has a responsibility to patiently care for his wife’s needs and to help her to grow into what God ordained her to be. Some men may do a poor job of it, but nobody bats an eye when the Bible tells men to die for their wives. Tellingly, it is only when …
Read More »SCOTUS Allows Lawsuit Against Kim Davis To Proceed
Reuters reports: The Supreme Court is leaving in place a decision that allowed a lawsuit to move forward against a Kentucky clerk who was jailed in 2015 after refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The high court said Monday it would not take the case involving Kim Davis, the former clerk of Rowan County, and two same-sex couples …
Read More »Megachurch Pastor Who Said God Sent Hurricane Katrina As Punishment For Gay Festival, Has COVID
Austin’s CBS News affiliate reports: John Hagee, 80, founder and senior pastor of Cornerstone Church has reportedly been diagnosed with the coronavirus. Hagee’s son, Matt made the announcement Sunday morning during a livestreamed service on Facebook, saying doctors informed them Friday of the diagnosis. “Pastor Hagee has been diligent throughout this entire COVID pandemic to monitor his health. And this …
Read More »Mike Pence’s Daughter Launches Christian Podcast
Via press release: Edifi, a new Christian podcast app that produces powerful original shows and aggregates the best faith-inspiring podcasts, has launched an exciting show: “Doubting It.” “Doubting It” is hosted by Charlotte Pence Bond, author and daughter of Vice President Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence. The show, which is part of The Edifi Podcast Network, masterfully explores …
Read More »Amy Coney Barrett Signed Far-Right Abortion Group’s Ad Backing Criminalizing Discarding Unused Embryos
The Guardian reports: Amy Coney Barrett, the Trump administration’s supreme court nominee, publicly supported an organization in 2006 that has said life begins at fertilization. It has also said that the discarding of unused or frozen embryos created in the in vitro fertilization (IVF) process ought to be criminalized, a view that is considered to be extreme even within the …
Read More »Evangelicals Tongue Trump For An Entire Hour [VIDEO]
Hemant Mehta reports at The Friendly Atheist: Over the summer, Sid Roth, the host of a show called It’s Supernatural, praised Jesus TWICE for allegedly fixing his backed-up toilet. Yesterday, he managed to outdo himself. During an episode all about why his viewers should support Donald Trump, his entire panel decided to speak in tongues and say… I don’t know. …
Read More »Evangelicals Ask Jesus To Cloud Biden With “Confusion” During Debate And Keep Moderator Wallace Restrained
Peter Montgomery reports at Right Wing Watch: Frank Amedia and Mark Gonzales, two leaders of the dominionist pro-Trump “prophetic” network POTUS Shield, posted a video Monday night urging people to join them in praying that God will interfere with Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s performance at Tuesday night’s debate and that God would keep moderator Chris Wallace in line. Gonzales, …
Read More »The Atlantic: Trump Privately Ridicules Evangelicals
McKay Coppins reports at The Atlantic: Former aides told me they’ve heard Trump ridicule conservative religious leaders, dismiss various faith groups with cartoonish stereotypes, and deride certain rites and doctrines held sacred by many of the Americans who constitute his base. “His view was ‘I’ve been talking to these people for years; I’ve let them stay at my hotels—they’re gonna …
Read More »Man Who Calls Catholicism A “Satanic Pagan Cult” Says Democrats Are Questioning Faith Of SCOTUS Nominee
Texas megachurch pastor and Fox News contributor Robert Jeffress appeared on Fox & Friends this morning to accuse Democrats of questioning the Catholic faith of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. Here’s some of what Jeffress himself has said about Catholicism in the past: This is the Babylonian mystery religion that spread like a cult throughout the entire world. The …
Read More »LIVE VIDEO: Trump Announces SCOTUS Nomination
ABC News reports: President Donald Trump on Saturday is set to nominate Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative federal appeals court judge, to succeed the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the US Supreme Court. The expected nomination comes at a critical time in history, as the President openly questions the integrity of the upcoming election and has not committed to …
Read More »Pompeo To Keynote Event For Anti-LGBTQ Hate Group
CNN reports: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is slated to keynote a gala event for a conservative Christian organization in Florida — an appearance that comes a month before Election Day and may violate legal and ethical guidelines. Not only is the top US diplomat advertised as the featured guest at the Florida Family Policy Council’s 15th Anniversary Gala on …
Read More »Brian Brown On SCOTUS: This Is Our Chance To Ensure That LGBT Rights Will “No Longer See The Light Of Day”
Via email from hate group leader Brian Brown: It is absolutely imperative that we mount an unprecedented effort to ensure that this justice is confirmed without delay. I’m asking you to make a sacrificial financial gift to NOM right now so that we can immediately deploy a comprehensive pressure campaign aimed at holding Republican Senate votes to confirm President Trump’s …
Read More »REPORT: Trump Intends To Nominate The Handmaiden
CNN reports: President Donald Trump intends to choose Amy Coney Barrett to be the new Supreme Court justice, according to multiple senior Republican sources with knowledge of the process. In conversations with some senior Republican allies on the Hill, the White House is indicating that Barrett is the intended nominee, multiple sources said. All sources cautioned that until it is …
Read More »Theocratic Bible Study Expands To WH Underlings
Peter Montgomery reports at Right Wing Watch: Ralph Drollinger, who teaches members of Trump’s Cabinet and members of Congress that the Bible requires Christian officeholders to support right-wing policies, will announce during this weekend’s “The Return” rally the launch of a new Bible study for subcabinet officials in the Trump administration, the right-wing Epoch Times reported this week. According to …
Read More »Man Who Compared Obama To Hitler Says Anybody Who Compares Trump To Hitler Is “Ignorant Of History”
“The parallel today is simply that you have a government, a state, which is getting larger and larger and more and more powerful and it is beginning to push against the church. “There’s a window of opportunity where we can fight. If we don’t wake up and fight before then, we won’t be able to fight. That’s just what happened …
Read More »Pastor Shouts “White Power” During Trump Caravan
The Raleigh News & Observer reports: Unlike most of the speakers at the Trump rally at Ace Speedway on Saturday, Jesse Hursey wore a suit. His black leather shoes shone. His hair was carefully brushed back. The satiny red tie he wore over a light blue shirt flapped in the breeze. Hursey faced the racetrack stands. A crowd gathered around. …
Read More »Anne Graham: God Is Just About Done With America
“The United States has repeatedly shaken its fist in God’s face, removing his name everywhere from schools to the government. When you do that, God just backs away. God gives us over to ourselves, and I believe that is where we are right now; it really is the judgment of God. America has a window of opportunity to return to …
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