I agree with the New Atheists: it's time for religion to go. Intolerant, politicized, ugly, right-wing religion, that is. I agree with religious people too, atheism has killed more people in the name of godless ideologies than all religions combined. Or put it this way, the atheist says "Crusades!" and...

The Republicans are faulting President Obama for not taking a "strong enough stand" in support of the freedom marchers in Iran. Yet if the Republican/Religious Right/Neoconservative agenda had come to full fruition over the last 35 years the Republicans would have plunged America into our own version of the misbegotten...

NOW we'll see who has the attention span and fortitude to see things as they are. Who on the Left is "disappointed" with President Obama? Raise your hands then hang your heads in shame.

From this former lifelong Republican, once religious right leader, who used to be...

Bill Maher has decided to straighten out President Obama regarding health care, and the economy. I know no more about those subjects than anyone else, but one way we judge what people say is by looking at what they have said about subjects we do know something about. I learned...

By Frank Schaeffer

The right wing propaganda machine and big time American evangelical religion turns stable people into jerks and a few unstable people into into killers. America has a right wing domestic terrorism problem exploding in our faces. Dr. Tiller is dead. Stephen Tyrone Johns is dead....

As a former lifelong Republican from an influential family of religious right leaders, I look at the national village idiot that the Republican Party has become the way I'd contemplate a demented cousin pissing on the picnic basket at a family reunion. If it is fair to blame the years...

It strikes me that President Obama's speech delivered at Cairo University provides a watershed divide. I'd like to point out that the reactions of right-wing, self-proclaimed "patriotic Americans" to Obama are almost word-for-word the same as the reactions from leading clerics of Iran. And the anti-Obama reaction of the...

My late father and I share the blame (with many others) for the murder of Dr. George Tiller the abortion doctor gunned down on Sunday. Until I got out of the religious right (in the mid-1980s) and repented of my former hate-filled rhetoric I was both a leader of the...

Ask yourself: what will happen to his church when Rick Warren dies, leaves or is thrown out? Will it remain as successful? Are people there for each other and their community? Are they there for Jesus? Or are they there for Rick Warren?

The North American evangelical/fundamentalist brand of Christianity...

I was a Republican insider. For instance, the late Jack Kemp was a friend who I often advised on "connecting" with the Religious Right, until I left the Republican Party and the evangelical subculture and slammed the door behind me. During my last call with Jack he hung up on...

The abortion issue that President Obama addressed during his commencement speech on May 17 at the University of Notre Dame cuts across party lines. The President made an honest attempt to re-frame the debate around the practical means to help women with difficult pregnancies. What this means is a further...

Mr. Vice President Cheney: You have just painted a big "guilty" sign and hung it around your neck by going on the road and treating our nation's war crimes as your personal public relations problem. The fact that you are on a PR tour to save your reputation, is proof...

I received this email from a priest. At least it was signed! (The misspelling of the President's name, double question marks, capitalization etc., is in the original.)

Frank, I just read that you are supporting the pro-abortionist Barach Hussein Obama... Now you support a man who is...

Rick Warren is the celebrity founder of an evangelical "megachurch." He's also the author of The Purpose Driven Life, which has sold 30 million copies. Warren is the icon that every ambitious evangelical pastor strives to become the way a wedding singer grinding out tunes in some godforsaken Holiday Inn...

An extensive interview with me explaining the rise of the Religious Right -- and the destruction of the Republican Party, as well as the Republican's anti-American and subversive views -- was just published. It gave me the chance to answer a lot of questions that seem to be on the...

About 100 of us just gathered at Harvard Divinity School for a conference called "Ivies and the Military -- Toward Reconciliation." (April 3-4) Harvard Divinity School is to be commended for the vision (and courage) needed to sponsor this historic first. The student organizers wanted to begin a national conversation...

Dear Democrats, progressives and all those who voted for Obama but don't agree with some of his policy decisions and are now publicly criticizing him: No, you're not traitors. Yes, constructive dissent is the lifeblood of democracy. You may even be correct in the details of what you are saying....

The president that Tim Geithner works for is making policy, and he didn't ask Paul Krugman or Rush Limbaugh for their permission! So Krugman and Limbaugh are building personal Obama-Will-Fail, media-based ego empires to hedge their anti-Obama bet.

Yes, I know that open discussion, a "loyal opposition" and all that...

You're dying of an aneurysm. Minutes count. One reason that you are in such trouble is that for the last 8 years you have been going to a quack and getting horrible care. Now, at last, you have a great new doctor! But there is something odd going on here:...

By getting their panties all bunched up in a demeaning imitation of the impatient cable news-cycle idiots -- reaction to reaction, never long term thinking -- Frank Rich, Paul Krugman and Maureen Dowd are now part of the self-fulfilling Doom Brigade that our thoughtful, calm, smart president is battling.