Martin Luther

Baneful Baptist Predatory Pernicious Pastors Destroying Democracy

This essay is dedicated in appreciation to Paul Pearson Southern Baptist pastors have been spiraling downward  into the abyss of fiction and fraud for generations, pushing the iniquitous sword attacking civil rights, women, people of color, and the customary whipping boy for ignorant people: the LGBTQIA+ community. From Billy Graham and G. Marion “Pat” Robertson …

Anti-maskers, Anti-vaxxers, COVID-deniers and Donald Trump

Anti-maskers want to control everyone’s body and increase COVID deaths. Most are poorly educated, white christian evangelicals–the same as the white christian evangelicals in Germany 1939-1945 backing Hitler as their god’s Chosen One.

There are Fruitcakes who Want to Destroy Democracy

The pastor of Mercy Culture Church[1. https://www.facebook.com/MercyCulture/ the “church” is openly political: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07/11/mercy-culture-church/] in Fort Worth, Texas has divined that he was charged by his god to warn people to make ready to live in a “bible based society”. The pastor, Landon Schott, had traveled a month after the Jan. 6 insurrection and filmed himself …

White Evangelical Christians and their Ancestors

QAnon at the riot

The cult-like conspiracy system and conservative Christianity are influencing one another and creating potentially violent fanatics under the stress of the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic fallout.  Both movements are angry and bitter over former president Donald Trump’s election loss — which they believe was fraudulent. “Older members would ignore Black Lives Matter and …

Discovering Different men called Jesus in the New Testament—Part One, No. 2: Psychology of Jesus–How I lost Jesus and Found Art

How I lost Jesus and found Art 1. Introduction: Learning to fear and love God 2. Psychology of daily Bible reading to find Jesus 3. God’s gift: fear and love 4. Living Biblical Literalism 5. Mistake of questioning god-fearing parents 6. Rebellion 7. Sex and Jesus 7a. Sex, sin, and psychology 7b. Masturbation 7c. Impure …

Iowa State Sen. Dennis Guth: A Study in Ignorance, Hypocrisy, Self-Loathing, and Lack of Education

On April 17, 2013, at the beginning of the Iowa Senate workday, the most junior Senator from Klemme, Dennis Guth, a man of the soil but without serious learning and no solid education beyond an initial degree in agriculture. He has no training in medical, psychological or psychiatric sciences, or in any of the social sciences.  Guth …

Ignorance increasing in Iowa: Idiots in the Legislature, Predators in Pulpits

Iowa Legislature: House of Representatives

Iowa Legislature: House of Representatives Nine self-righteous sedentary state Representatives in Iowa: Tom Shaw (R-Pocahontas), Greg Heartsill (R-Melcher-Dallas), Dwayne Alons (R-Hull), Jason Schultz (R-Schleswig), Robert Bacon (R-Maxwell [1. Bacon releases no personal information on the Iowa Republican Legislators website]), Larry Sheets (R-Exline), Kevin Koester (R-Ankeny), Joel Fry (R-Osceola), and slothful sciolistic Sandy Salmon (R-Janesville [2. …

Freedom of Religion: Fact and Fantasy

Freedom of religion is a centuries-old expression. In most cases freedom of religion does not exist. It is not accepted by SCOTUS or most courts or jurists. It is not enshrined in the nation, nor in separate states. At best it is a buzzword, but in reality freedom of religion is a fantasy that has enchained …

Hector Avalos and the Holocaust in the Bible and today: Israel, Inquisition, Luther, Hiter and what the Bible Says

People read scripture as if each story enabled them to obtain eternal life–but at what cost. A literal reading is enough to scare most people away from religion, yet pastors, priests, rabbis and others see the Old Testament as a guide for life: one filled with rape, pillage, and holocaust.

When religion triumphs over reason, faith, psychology, investigation, and research, learning dies

Religion has always opposed human freedom. Instead of liberty to expand the mind, religion has sought mind control from the days when the Christian church was formed in 325 CE, to the rise of islam and beyond. Many tortured souls, like Josemaria Escrivá hid behind mortifications of the flesh (flagellation), and pretended, like John Paul II, that these were pious acts encouraged by St. Paul–proving their own linguistic and Biblical illiteracy.