Reading Time: 3 minutes How extreme are GOP abortion bans? So extreme that some Republicans are even daring to publicly question whether their colleagues’ Christian faith is sincere. That’s what South Carolina State Sen. Katrina Shealy did this week after her male Republican colleagues fought to remove exceptions for rape and incest in their near-total abortion bans. As it […]
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Tucked into the South Carolina budget: A $1,500,000 gift for a Christian school
Reading Time: 3 minutes Tucked into page 443 of the South Carolina 2022-2023 budget is a $1,500,000 taxpayer-funded gift to the Christian Learning Centers of Greenville County. (It’s misspelled in the budget.) The organization’s mission is to “provide biblical instruction to school-aged children.” For the past 25 years, it has also transported public school children to local churches for […]
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Only God Can: The Huge Official Mega-Riffic Review!
Reading Time: 17 minutes We’re kicking off our review of the 2017 Christian movie Only God Can. In this movie, a bunch of really privileged women discover that they actually needed self-induced religious euphoria Jesus all along and all that Problem of Evil stuff is just silly. Get your intoxicants of choice lined up!
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Somebody DIED, Pat Robertson
Reading Time: 13 minutes Pat Robertson’s latest stunt merits our special attention and scorn. Dude accidentally revealed just how ineffective his magic spells are. But it gets worse. He also revealed just how little his religion has done to make him into a decent human being.