Category: Larry Jones

by Larry Jones Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain will share a stage – or is it a pulpit – when they appear together at the Saddleback mega church in California’s…

By Larry Jones Each year a number of NON-fundamentalist churches hold solemn memorials in remembrance of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.  Most notably the United Methodist Church,…

by Larry Jones The Louisiana Science Education Act signed at the end of June by Governor Bobby Jindal, a rising star in the Republican constellation, will allow public school teachers to teach the…

By Larry Jones Among the many disasters of the Bush and his cronies is their downgrading of genuine science, as all good fundamentalists do. One of the latest examples is their suppression…

By Larry Jones   Religion really should have nothing to do with winning or losing elections, but the religious right has made it so, despite Article VI of the Constitution, which states…

By Larry Jones   Recently John McCain met with Franklin Graham and his father Billy Graham on the grounds of Little Piney Cove in the Blue Ridge Mountains in western North Carolina. …

By Larry Jones Texas theocrats (those who want their version of God to run the country) are thrilled with the new Texas GOP platform, perhaps largely because such religious extremists had major…

by Larry Jones   “This religion isn’t an opiate of the masses; it’s the American Christ on methamphetamine.”  So states research scholar Jeff Sharlet in his compendious book “The Family,” which details…

By Larry Jones   Many progressive people are excited that Barack Obama is the apparent Democratic nominee for U.S. president.  But let’s take a look behind his oratorical eloquence, engaging smile, and…

Ben Stien “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,” produced by Ben Stein, actor and promoter of Intelligent Design By Larry Jones The woman in the ticket booth said, “Enjoy the movie.”  But I hadn’t…