Christianists

Three months ago when I first mentioned Pastor Steven Andrew’s attempt to launch a “censorship-free” Christian version of Facebook, his crowdfunding page showed just over $100,000 with “26 days to go” in the campaign. As of this writing Andrew has raised $158,513. Curiously, the campaign still has “26 days to go.” Andrew’s money begs continue to appear nearly daily on …

Via press release from blowhard Bill Donohue: Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro needs to explain why he never convened a grand jury to investigate the sexual abuse of minors in the public schools. That’s where the action is — his state has one of the worst records on this score of any state in the nation — so why is …

Fortune Magazine reports: They were supposed to come two by two, or better yet, stuffed into minivans and tour buses, but tourists to Kentucky’s life-sized Noah’s Ark attraction so far seem fine being left out in the rain. The Ark Encounter has sold just over 860,000 tickets in the past year, according to the Courier Journal, which obtained the numbers …

The Daily Show this afternoon tweeted out the below skit about the DOJ’s just-launched “religious liberty task force” whose mission is to thwart LGBT rights nationwide under the direction of anti-LGBT hate groups such as the Family Research Council and Alliance Defending Freedom. Watch below as “RoboChrist patrols the streets, making the country safe for the Christian right.” Jeff Sessions’s …

Newsweek reports: A pastor speaking at President Donald Trump’s rally called for God to protect the U.S. President from what he defined as “jungle journalism.” Leading the invocation during a rally on Saturday night in Ohio, Gary Click, a pastor and member of the Ohio GOP’s State Central Committee, launched a scathing attack against the Fourth Estate. “Tonight, I pray …

Via press release from blowhard Bill Donohue: Who cares about Stormy Daniels? The media care. Indeed, they are obsessed with the story. They are also angry: they are angry that the public doesn’t care. Nor does the public care about the tapes that President Trump’s former lawyer has about Trump’s alleged sexual encounter with a former Playboy model. How to …

Via press release published by Christian Newswire: Across the country and around the world more than 1,500 leaders, organizations and individuals have declared America a Christian nation through Ideclared.org. It is expected that this mass movement will expand rapidly over the next few months, continuing on into the New Year. The team at Ideclared is working endlessly until 70 million …

What took so long? Kyle Mantyla has the transcript at Right Wing Watch: “If you look at the history of California, they have been at the forefront of this. The first gay pride march occurred in San Francisco in 1970 and then San Francisco legitimized homosexuality in 1972. In 1982, Laguna Beach, California, elected the first openly homosexual mayor in …

Right Wing Watch has scamvangelical Lou Engle’s message: Immediately following Justice Kennedy’s retirement announcement, something quite revealing began to take place—something you won’t hear about in the news. Sources revealed that witches began making phone calls to Senators’ offices to curse them with brazen witchcraft in an effort to exert a demonic influence over the process. Make no mistake—this is …

Contemptor reports: Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, the famous Christian college, has labelled Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler a progressive and suggested he was a liberal. In a series of tweets Thursday night, Falwell defended President Donald Trump and attacked Trump’s perceived opponents. Falwell tagged Hillary Clinton in his tweet comparing her to Adolf Hitler. She has not yet …

“U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced that the Department of Justice is creating a religious liberty task force. He said the goal of the new task force will be protecting religious groups from persecution. He cited ‘a dangerous movement’ aimed toward stripping away the First Amendment right to freedom of religion as the reason for forming the task force. …

Via press release from the Catholic League: Over the past several weeks, we have asked Catholics to contact some of the sponsors of Samantha Bee’s TBS show, “Full Frontal,” asking them to discontinue advertising. Our objections are grounded in her relentless assaults on Catholics and her use of the “c-word” to describe the president’s daughter. The following companies honored our …

Hemant Mehta reports at the Friendly Atheist: Back in June, self-proclaimed Christian “Prophetess” Kat Kerr told an audience that she had met Jesus and he was six feet tall and “very handsome.” Furthermore, he lived in a mansion and loved dancing and desserts. Obviously. Somehow her claims just got more bizarre. Over the weekend, Kerr spoke at the ELEVATION: RISE …

According to Politico Playbook, last night Jerry Falwell Jr. was spotted “huddling” with Donald Trump Jr. in the lobby of the Trump DC hotel after attending the “red carpet” premiere of Dinesh D’Souza’s latest deranged propaganda film, Death Of A Nation. Then, purely by coincidence and at 2AM, Falwell posted the below tweet denouncing Jeff Sessions as a “phony.” Not …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Using footage of the classic Real Ghostbusters animated series from the ’80s, The Late Show renamed the supernatural hunters as the “Religious Liberty Task Force” and threw in an animated version of Jeff Sessions in a jumpsuit and proton pack ready to battle the evil threat to religion. Spoofing the theme song by Ray Parker, Jr., The …

The Christian Post reports: A former New Jersey pastor who co-founded the Creation Festival, which bills itself as the country’s largest Christian music festival, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for sexually assaulting multiple young children. Harry Thomas, 75, who formerly pastored Come Alive New Testament Church in Medford and went on to help create the popular music …

Via press release from hate group leader Tony Perkins: In the wake of the Obama administration, we are witnessing a revival of freedom! The announcement of the creation of a new Religious Liberty Task Force by Attorney General Jeff Sessions is the launch of the next phase of President Trump’s campaign promise to protect the religious freedoms of all Americans. …

Media Matters reports: ADF [Alliance Defending Freedom] was one of the first to break the news of the July 30 “Religious Liberty Summit” in which the task force was announced, noting that the event would feature a panel including the group’s client Jack Phillips, a Christian baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple and who …

Via press release from the Democratic National Committee: Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the creation of a “Religious Liberty Task Force” focused on protecting religious-based discrimination. This task force will be dedicated to implementing his previous directive, which outlined the Trump-Pence administration’s position in support of using religious beliefs as a license to discriminate in employment, housing, business, and …

“We take power over all of the power of the enemy controlling the fires in California. We take power over all the power of the demonic that is controlling and ruling in that situation, and we command – as commanders, like Christ commanded the host – we take authority over the situation and we command the host of heaven to …