News of Interest to Deists

Below are news articles that are of interest to Deists because they are related to religions, religious ideas, religious states, etc. Unfortunately, currently there are not a lot of articles strictly about Deism. As Deism and the World Union of Deists continue to grow, that will change. If you know of a news article that would be of interest to Deists, please email a link to it to deism@deism.com This page is updated every Monday through Friday. Thank you!

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September

September 4, 2026

Here's an interesting and informative article about how Christian nationalism has already failed in North America in the past. Surprisingly, it's from a Christian publication/site.

In an attack against freedom of speech, the US House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday that would block federal aid to any college or university that boycotts Israel. The US Supreme Court has in the past ruled that boycotting is a form of free speech.

The people of Gaza are still waiting to bury their family members and friends who were killed by the Jewish state of Israel. The "cease fire" agreement has had little impact as Israel kills more and more Palestinian children, women and men virtually every day. Due to this aggression by Israel, the thousands bodies cannot be removed from under the rubble. Israel killed over 73,000 people in Gaza with over 20,000 being children. That's very much Hebrew Bible/Old Testament ungodly brutality.

September 3, 2026

Victor Marx is a Christian clergyman, exorcist and the Republican candidate for governor of Colorado. In 2020 on his All Things Possible ministry's podcast Marx said, “Hey, I’ve met the devil. I’ve met Satan in person, through a person.” This superstitious/religious delusion is in line with US Vice President Vance who said he believes some of the UFO sightings are actually demons. We've fallen a very long way from Enlightenment-based leaders to religious-based leaders.

The famous Burning Man festival in Nevada is based on inclusion. A Christian group is complaining that they were excluded and kicked-out of the Burning Man festival. However, they did not tell the whole story including why they were expelled. The reason for the Christians being expelled is because they violated several rules of the festival, such as not pushing their ideas on people and performing baptisms in community water tanks.

A Utica, New York rabbi, Peter B. Schaktman, 66, was caught trying to meet up with someone he thought was a 14-year-old boy for sex but was instead caught by state police, troopers said in court papers. The rabbi was arrested as part of a police sting operation. The Roman Catholic Church is not alone in having pedophile clergy.

September 2, 2026

(There was not an update yesterday due to computer problems.)

"Several U.S. military leaders have advised Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that prolonging large-scale operations against Iran is unsustainable and risks weakening their ability to confront threats elsewhere, including the U.S. homeland, according to people familiar with a recent assessment prepared for the Pentagon chief." This really shows how US politicians put the interests of the Jewish state of Israel above the interests of America, as the Iran War was started and is being fought for Israel's benefit.

US Vice President Vance said in an interview on Monday that when meeting with some world leaders he senses a very bad, dark and evil feeling. He went on to say it wouldn't surprise him if the Antichrist was walking among. Regarding the end of the world, he did better than the anonymous authors of the Christian Gospels claim Jesus did. According to them, Jesus thought the end of the world would come during the lifetimes of the people listening to him (Matthew 16:28). Vance said he doesn't know if we're in the End Times.

The new school year is starting in most places around the world. Christian schools in Jerusalem, however, are not opening "due to the non-renewal of entry permits for more than 70 teachers and employees by the Israeli government."

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August

August 31, 2026

This past Saturday in the cruelly and illegally and biblically Israeli occupied Palestinian West Bank, Jewish terrorists/squatters/"settlers" attacked an elderly Palestinian woman while she was being interviewed by a NBC news team. The American journalist was also attacked. They were all punched, kicked, hit with stick and with stones. The elderly Palestinian woman was knocked unconscious. Israeli war criminal and PM Netanyahu condemned the attack and claimed it was just a small group of people committing the violence. He ordered the Jewish terrorists of the Israeli occupation forces to investigate, which is a routine coverup. The Jewish violence is all based on the ungodly and repulsive and irrational Hebrew Bible, what Christians have renamed the Old Testament. It's definitely time for God-given reason-based Deism to replace the "revealed" religions!

A Palestinian American from Ohio went to the Palestinian West Bank after he learned his family home is being attacked by Jewish terrorists/squatters/"settlers". He raised the American flag over his home, probably thinking the Jewish terrorists would respect that. He shouldn't count on that if the deadly sneak attacks on the USS Liberty by the Jewish state of Israel are considered.

A British activist who was trying to protect a Palestinian home from Jewish terrorists/squatters/"settlers", Finn Joughin, was kidnapped by the Jewish terrorists and held against his will. The Jewish terrorists gave him to Israeli occupation police. He was arrested and held on “suspicion of performing an indecent act against a minor.” A video shows him holding on to a gate to the Palestinians' home and a young/child Jewish terrorist pushes his way onto the property while Joughin is trying to use his body to block the little Jewish terrorist. The British government raised the arrest with Israel and Joughin has been deported from Israel back to England.

August 28, 2026

Israel and Trump's religious war against Iran is now six-months old. When they first started the Iran War, Trump boasted it would be over in a couple of weeks. He was wrong, just as he was seriously wrong to listen to Israeli PM and war criminal Netanyahu to start the unnecessary war.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is a freethinker, one of the very few in Congress. He is also Jewish. He is upsetting the Israel-first gang by investigating the charges against American universities of anti-Semitism. Representative Raskin has discovered the Trump administrations investigations of Harvard, Brown and Columbia universities to be "fabricated and predetermined." He should be awarded the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award!

California could become the first state to list ‘Jewish’ as an ethnicity. This makes sense due to the fact that many Jews are not religious Jews, yet they are still Jews. Many of the promoters of the bill are Jews. It will be interesting to see if the bill passes into law.

August 27, 2026

There's some Christian infighting about the word "abracadabra." Christian clergyman Jamal Bryant told the faithful that abracadabra, a word often associated with magic, can be equated with Romans 4:17. This upset Christian clergyman and Grammy-winning gospel star Donnie McClurkin. He said the magic word abracadabra should never be used to regarding the Bible, and that “You cannot mix witchcraft with holiness.”

"One of the largest Christian universities in the United States is opening two new schools, including a law school that the university’s president says is part of an effort to ensure students understand the biblical underpinnings of Western civilization and the law." Actually, Western civilization originally was based on the ancient Greek and Roman philosophies and legal systems. Just prior to the fall of Rome, Christianity poisoned the minds of millions of Romans and eventually knocked out the original sources of Western civilization with Semitic superstitious nonsense from the Christian Bible.

"Interfaith leaders and advocates gathered Monday at a progressive Atlanta church to denounce Israel for denying entry to 13 American citizens who sought to visit the West Bank and East Jerusalem." It's believed they were denied entry out of fear they would see and report the cruelty and brutality Israeli occupation forces and Jewish terrorists, squatters/"settlers inflict on Palestinian children, women and men.

August 26, 2026

"A Roman Catholic symposium in Brazil addresses the devil’s existence as part of Catholic doctrine. Besides affirming the existence of demons based on Scripture, tradition, and the magisterium, the symposium emphasized the need to discern between genuine demonic activity and mental illness." Satan and demons are taught as being real in the Bible. When I try to tell Christians these evil beings are not real and they were manufactured by the clergy to better control people through fear, they almost always say, "But Jesus exorcised them from people so they must be real." This is an example of why it's important for Deists to let people know the Bible is not God's word, it is merely the writings of ancient primarily Jewish clergymen.

The number of people who are turning their backs on reason-based science by not getting vaccinated and not having their children vaccinated is growing. What is also growing is the number of people being infected with diseases the vaccines protect us from. In Pennsylvania, two unvaccinated people have died from measles and the number of people being infected with measles is growing. As the Deist Benjamin Franklin wrote, "Hear reason or she will make you feel her."

Nickolay Mladenov, the senior official for Donald Trump’s Board of Peace for Gaza, accused the Israeli government on Wednesday of jeopardizing the cease-fire in Gaza and a U.S.-backed plan to disarm Hamas. The Jewish state of Israel does not want peace, it wants a Greater Israel based on the ungodly Hebrew Bible, what Christians have renamed the Old Testament.

August 25, 2026

Some of the key problems of the "revealed" religions, such as trying to silence reason-based criticism through blasphemy laws are also found in secular organizations, and in particular in Communism. This is seen in Communist China imprisoning a Chinese artist. The article reads, "Gao Zhen, a prominent Chinese artist known for provocative sculptures of the former leader Mao Zedong, has been sentenced to three years in prison after being found guilty of slandering China’s “heroes and martyrs”. The sentencing came two years after he was detained while visiting the country with his family, according to his wife and human rights groups." Anything that attacks freedom of speech is wrong. As the Deist George Washington wrote, "...reason is of no use to us if the freedom of Speech may be taken away — and, dumb & silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter."

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz wants Israel to have the capability to attack targets on Earth from space. This is what Marjorie Taylor Greene warned about and she was ridiculed. The Jewish state is based on the ungodly Hebrew Bible, what Christians have renamed the Old Testament, and its Greater Israel. Katz said, "Today, no country has the capability for a space-based attack, so I've declared for the defense establishment the need to be first in attack. We are now recruiting the best minds."

Taybeh is the last remaining Christian village in the illegally occupied Palestinian West Bank. Jewish terrorists/squatters/"settlers", with the support of the Israeli military, are forcing the Gentile Christians from this last Christian village. It's dumbfounding that millions of Christians in the US and Europe still support the Jewish state of Israel.

August 24, 2026

"During an elaborate ceremony where the skull of Saint Agatha was placed back in a gold bust, the Vatican's secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, bowed and kissed the relic as part of Christian tradition. The 1,700-year-old skull is believed to belong to Saint Agatha, a third-century martyr and patron saint of Catania, Sicily." Religions are weird. Natural reason-based belief in The Supreme Intelligence/God is much better than weird nonsense.

Jessica Bowie, 35, of Albany, New York converted to Islam and pledged loyalty to the terrorist organization of Islamic State. Federal authorities arrested her after discovering her plans to bomb the New York state Capitol in Albany. Religious violence is promoted by the Quran, regardless of claims denying that fact.

"Ten Catholic clergy from Africa, including Cardinal Stephen Brislin of South Africa, issued a statement Friday (Aug. 21) describing the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza as genocide, drawing on their continent’s experience of war and apartheid." With well over 70,000 people in Gaza killed by the Jewish state of Israel, over 20,000 of who were children, it's obvious the Jewish state is practicing genocide in Gaza.

August 21, 2026

On the Hindu island of Bali, a Swiss tourist, 26 year-old Luzian Andrin Zgraggen, was sentenced to a year in jail for insulting Bali’s "sacred" Day of Silence. He had gone out to the beach and was looking for a place to eat instead of sitting quietly and meditating in his room. He posted derogatory remarks on social media about the Hindu "holy" day. The judge said, “What the defendant did offended the Balinese people, hurt their faith and provoked public outrage.” Nonsense like this makes me even more grateful to America's Founders, many of who were Deists, who separated religion from government and guaranteed people freedom of speech.

Thomas Koch, the mayor of Quincy, Massachusetts, spent $1 million on a plan to put statues of two Roman Catholic saints in front of a new public building. Thankfully, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court unanimously agreed, 7-0, with a lower-court ruling that had prohibited officials in Quincy, just south of Boston, from displaying the statues outside a police and fire complex. The court's reasoning was it would be unconstitutional by promoting Christianity over other religions.

A Palestinian American from Ohio returned to the illegally and brutally Israeli occupied Palestinian West Bank to protect his home there from Jewish terrorists, aka "settlers" and "soldiers." This is all based on the myths in the Hebrew Bible of Jewish superiority and a Greater Israel.

August 20, 2026

The Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) has been polluting the minds of children with the ungodly fear-based myths of Christianity since 1937. The CEF state director of Vermont, Andrew Buzzell, a 34-year-old resident of West Rutland, Vermont and an elder at Green Mountain Baptist Church, was arrested and charged this month with distributing child sexual abuse material. Religious leaders have more leverage over children than most other adults due to children mistakenly believing the religious leaders are God's representatives. As one victim of the pedophile Catholic priests in Boston, Massachusetts said, "How do you say no to God."

Here's an interesting and insightful article by a woman who was sexually abused by a clergyman belonging to the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant sect in the US. The article points out how for 20 years she warned the leading clergymen of the SBC about the crimes being committed by Baptist clergymen, yet they did nothing meaningful about it.

The Jewish state of Israel is letting the world know just who the chosen people of God are - it's the Jews and their Jewish state of Israel. After Trump sent his billionaire Orthodox Jewish son-in-law and family friend of Israeli PM and war criminal Netanyahu Jared Kushner to Israel to ask Netanyahu to stop its deadly attacks on Gaza, Israel launched two more attacks, killing at least 10 people.

August 19, 2026

Israel has opened up tenders for the construction of some 1,200 settlement homes for Jews in a strategically important part of the occupied Palestinian West Bank, as the government seeks to end any chance of a Palestinian state. This is part of the Jewish state's desire for a Greater Israel in accordance with the ancient myths in the Hebrew Bible.

A Dearborn, Michigan protest has led to 22 arrests during Jake Lang's 'Christian Crusade' demonstration this past Tuesday. Dearborn has a majority population of Arabs. Jake Lang, even though he leads a Christian Crusade, was born to a Jewish mother and was photographed at the Western Wall holding his bar mitzvah certificate.

US Congressman Jared Huffman, who is a humanist, has written a book, No Prophets: The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism, about the Christian nationalists who are moving the US closer to becoming a Bible-based Christian theocracy. The article/interview brings up some interesting and important points. I hope he also writes a book about the excessive influence Israel and its lobby has on US politicians from both parties.

August 18, 2026

Adam Sheafe is a Bible believer who focuses on the Hebrew Bible (he has a "Yahweh" tattoo on his neck in Hebrew letters), what Christians have renamed the Old Testament. This caused him to believe that most Christian preachers were leading Christians astray. He then decided to start killing these false Christians. He had a long list of clergy he planned on killing. He brutally murdered the first one on his list, 76-year-old Pastor Bill Schonemann, in April of 2025. He crucified him and put a crown of thorns on his head. Police tracked him down and arrested him. He made a plea deal to avoid the death penalty and was recently sentenced to life in prison.

"Lawyers for a group of Texas families with children in the state’s public schools came to the Supreme Court on Monday, asking the justices to weigh in on the constitutionality of a 2025 law that requires each classroom in that state to display a copy of the Ten Commandments." Hopefully the US Supreme Court will uphold the First Amendment's Jeffersonian principle of separation of religion from government and overturn the lower court decision and block the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools.

The Roman Catholic Church is big on relics they claim are from saints. Relics allegedly from Saint Bernadette will be on tour in the US starting in September. They include "fragments of two ribs, kneecaps, a sample of muscle from the external part of the right femur, hair, and various fragments that came from muscles and skin." Catholic churches in the Middle Ages claimed to have the foreskin/prepuce of the baby Jesus, but the Church no longer makes that ridiculous claim now that more and more people use their gift from God of innate reason and question things.

August 17, 2026

Last week Israeli PM and war criminal Netanyahu told Donald Trump he rejects Trump's plan for peace in Gaza. Trump sent his Orthodox Jewish son-in-law and family friend of Netanyahu to occupied Jerusalem to meet with Netanyahu about this. Trump said Israel should stop attacking Gaza. Like all US politicians, he does nothing to make Israel stop its religious violence.

Religious people tend to think they have a right and an obligation to dictate to other people how to live. This is on full display in Israeli occupied Jerusalem where Orthodox Jews demonstrate regularly against a cafe in the area that is open on the Jewish sabbath.

Former Southern Baptist President Johnny Hunt had his sins revealed, which included sexual assault against a fellow Christian preachers wife, so he sued those responsible for letting the world know what a hypocrite he is. The federal judge dismissed his suit.

47 years ago today the Monty Python film Life of Brian was released. It was attacked by the clergy and branded as blasphemy because it made fun of Christian religiosity! It's a thought-provoking and hilarious movie!

August 14, 2026

Christians living in the Jewish state of Israel are routinely physically attacked by religious Jews, usually Orthodox Jews and religious Zionists. Now there are Jews who protect the Christians by escorting them in public.

In Italy the Roman Catholic Church has denied funeral rites to two high-profile people because they were members of Freemasonry. Catholic Canon Law forbids heretics the funeral rites of the Catholic Church. However, when a Catholic priest rapes a child, they do not lose the right to the rite.

Israeli intelligence recently claimed Iran was going to assassinate Donald Trump as he left Turkey. The CIA said there was no evidence of this alleged plan by Iran. It's now been revealed that Israel has been claiming on several occasions that Trump was endanger of being assassinated by Iran, and they started in the lead-up to the June 2025 12-day war Israel and the US waged against Iran.

August 13, 2026

Jewish squatters/"settlers" have been blocking a Palestinian home in the Palestinian West Bank village of Qusra for the past few days, preventing the family living there from entering or leaving. The home is owned by a Palestinian-American. When Israeli soldiers were called out to remove the Jewish squatters, the soldiers instead prayed with them!

A federal judge in Boston, Massachusetts, Richard G. Stearns, today threw out a case by the Trump administration against Harvard University that claimed Harvard allowed anti-Semitic activities on campus. Judge Stearns said that the anti-Semitic incidents cited in the administration’s March lawsuit were “too isolated and episodic” to show that Harvard is out of compliance with the law. Many of the Jews and Israelis who complained and alleged they were victims of anti-Semitism did so based on seeing a Palestinian flag or hearing people speak against the Jewish state of Israel's genocide and expanding and brutal occupation.

Here's an interesting article inspired by the Trump administration's recent attack on childhood vaccines. The article brings out the war between religion and science going back to Galileo who was arrested for contradicting the Bible by proclaiming the Earth is not the center of the universe and the Earth orbits the Sun, the Sun does not orbit the Earth.

August 12, 2026

The intelligence that claimed Iran was going to kill Trump in Turkey originated with the Jewish state of Israel. The CIA had very little confidence in Israel's claim. This is similar to prior to the US politicians from both parties starting the Iraq War for Israel's benefit. The neoconservatives working with Israeli intelligence had the Office of Special Plans to manufacture lies about Iraq having WMDs. This current manufactured "intelligence" was probably done as an effort to keep the US in the Iran War.

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon told the UN Security Council that Israel's illegal Jewish settlements on Palestinian land in the Palestinian West Bank and Palestinian East Jerusalem are going to stay there. Danon also said at a previous UN meeting that the Hebrew Bible, what Christians have renamed the Old Testament, is the Jews' deed to the land owned by Palestinians.

"The Trump administration announced plans to provide close to $2 billion in funding to faith-based and community groups for health and humanitarian assistance in more than a dozen countries." This is a direct violation of the First Amendment to the US Constitution's Jeffersonian separation of church and state.

August 11, 2026

Donald Trump says he believes the Board of Peace and its peace plan in Gaza will bring a lasting peace between Palestinians and Israel in Gaza. However, Israeli PM and war criminal Netanyahu has rejected the part of the plan regarding Hamas surrendering their weapons and Israel withdrawing from Gaza. It's important to remember that Israel does not want peace, it wants a Greater Israel based on the Hebrew Bible.

Here's an interesting article about the lack of clergy resistance from the religious right against what many see as morality problems. The article mentions in particular pornography and gambling. The author of the article thinks a Democratic politician from Ohio may be the next Jerry Falwell and lead a moral majority from the left instead of the right.

One of the gambling problems mentioned in the above linked to article is about prediction markets, which allow people to bet on virtually anything and everything. There are even bets on whether or not Jesus will return to Earth before 2026 ends! It shows the odds of that happening are only 2%.

August 10, 2026

Roman Catholic Msgr. Stephen Rossetti was relieved of duty as an exorcist this past June. Cardinal Robert W. McElroy had removed Rossetti as an exorcist for the Archdiocese of Washington, citing concerns over a May 29th Facebook video in which the cleric had mused as to whether aliens are real or demons, stating he personally believed the latter. McElroy said the reason he removed Rossetti as exorcist is was not because of his talk of UFOs and aliens, but because the role of exorcists is very private and sacred one. Now Rossetti is relaunching his nonprofit deliverance ministry with the support of his bishop, Bishop Douglas J. Lucia of Syracuse, New York. He'll be off against fighting nonexistent beings!

This article is about the true union of church and state, which is the Vatican and "Holy" See. The article gives some interesting information regarding this nonsense.

Here's an interesting and informative article about the Israel lobby, particularly the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and how it created other lobby groups to make it easier to finance politicians without anyone knowing they're doing the financing.

August 7, 2026

Here's an interesting article about the current rise of democratic socialists and how religion influences their beliefs. It mentions Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat running for the US Senate from Michigan, saying that his Muslim faith influences his progressive ideas. Islam, through the Quran at Surah 4:34 has God instructing Muslim men to beat/scourge women who they fear may become rebellious towards them. When Thomas Paine wrote, "...the Bible decides nothing, because it decides any way, and every way, one chooses to make it," Abdul El-Sayed's statement shows that can be applied to the Quran as well.

The Wall Street Journal ran an article this week about Jews in the Jewish state of Israel harassing and attacking Christians. The Israeli government attacked the article, as did the US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee. Huckabee is also an ordained Christian clergyman. It's interesting that he would take sides against Christians and on the side of the Jewish attackers of Christians.

"Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter, leader of the Gur Hasidic sect, met with an American billionaire from the rival anti-Zionist Satmar movement to discuss creating an organization aimed at petitioning the United States Congress, the International Criminal Court and other foreign bodies against Israeli efforts to conscript previously exempt ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students." Alter and his Jewish sect are anti-Zionist Jews.

August 6, 2026

In India, a woman was killed during a faith healing attempt by a Muslim "godman"/clergyman that took place at a mazar (a Muslim shrine, usually the tomb of a Sufi saint). Her husband and the "godman" were arrested, as well as others involved. One thing all religions have in common is rejection of God's gift to us all of reason.

This informative and interesting article is about the number of young women who are leaving the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon). The Mormon Church used to have a retention rate of 80%. That rate has now fallen to less than 50%.

August 6, 2026 was the 81st anniversary of the first nuclear bomb that was ever used in recorded history. It was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. This article is about the "Hiroshima Maidens" who survived the nuclear bomb at Hiroshima as children. In 1955 they visited the US and received plastic surgery to help them overcome the scar tissue caused by burns they received from the atomic bomb.

August 5, 2026

Donald Trump is reported to be very angry with his Secretary of Defense/War Pete Hegseth. Trump asked Hegseth why he didn't tell Trump how few offensive and defensive missiles the US has left after giving hundreds of them to the Jewish state of Israel for its war against Iran, the 12 Day War, in 2025, and that were used so far in the current Israel/US war against Iran. Hegseth blamed his billionaire Jewish Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Feinberg for not letting Trump know about the severe shortage of missiles.

Democrat Congressman John Fetterman is an Israel first US politician, like the vast majority of US politicians. Jon Stewart, a comedian, activist for US veterans and first responders to 9/11 and host of The Daily Show and for his Weekly Show podcast, thankfully told Fetterman in an interview on Stewart's podcast that "Israel is not our country."

The religious theocrats never stop working to destroy the Bill of Rights and the US Constitution in their work to turn the US into a suppressive Bible-based theocracy. "A proposed Jewish charter school is looking to the courts to pave the path forward for what would be the nation’s first publicly funded religious school."

August 4, 2026

In Polk County, Florida Timothy Chaneyfield, a Christian clergyman and pastor at St. James United American Free Will Baptist Church and a hospice chaplain, was arrested for sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy. Chaneyfield is HIV positive and when he sexually abused the boy he did so without a condom and exposed the child to HIV infection.

Kyle Clement is the longtime personal assistant of one of the most renowned Roman Catholic exorcists in the world, Catholic priest Chad Ripperger. Ripperger founded a society of priests that now works under Denver Archbishop James Golka – aiding those experiencing diabolical attacks. In reality, this means Clement, Ripperger and Golka are experts at pretending, since Satan, demons, etc., are non-existent mythological nonsense. Clement will be speaking in Alaska, spreading his fear-based and promoting religious nonsense.

The Jewish state of Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir wants to build a moat around an Israeli prison for Palestinians. Gvir wants the moat filled with crocodiles!

August 3, 2026

Donald Trump appears to have profound faith in Israel and Israeli PM Netanyahu. On February 11, 2026 Netanyahu sold Trump on the idea of starting a war against Iran in a meeting in the White House Situation Room. Netanyahu claimed starting the war would cause regime change, which it did when Israel bombed and killed all of Iran's leadership, however, the people who replaced them are more militant that the leaders Israel killed. He also claimed the war would weaken Iran and Iran would not be able to have influence in the Strait of Hormuz. Netanyahu was wrong. Trump should have listened to his own people who saw what Netanyahu was selling as "bullsh%t" and Trump's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine said, “Sir, this is, in my experience, standard operating procedure for the Israelis. They oversell, and their plans are not always well-developed. They know they need us, and that’s why they’re hard-selling.” Now, Trump is out of ideas on what to do about the war he started to the point of the Pentagon crowdsourcing for ideas via an email to some military personnel!

This article by a Christian in a Christian publication is about who is really a "saved" Christian and who is not. The author of the article inadvertently made Thomas Paine's point about the profound ambiguity of the Bible and Christianity. Paine wrote, "...the Bible decides nothing, because it decides any way, and every way, one chooses to make it."

Astronomers have finally measured the full size of the largest known galaxy, IC 1101. This galaxy is "about 1.7 million light-years, and containing an estimated 3.4 trillion solar masses in stars."

July

July 31, 2026

The religious war Israel and the US started against Iran was originally only supposed to last a few weeks. That was six months ago, and there is no end in sight. In fact, the Iran War is spreading to other countries. This has some of the warmongers in the religious right starting to change their tune. Hopefully, Israeli war criminal Netanyahu won't talk Trump into sending in American ground troops.

Communist China is now selling shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles to Iran. This is yet another way the Iran War can escalate between the US and Communist China.

Christian clergyman Matthew Olson of First Baptist Church of Sharon in Jones County, Mississippi claims that when he was preaching from the entire Christian Bible for 93 hours from May 30, 2026 through June 4th, a witch and her friends were putting curses on him. However, one of the witches was saved by his preaching and Jesus!

July 30, 2026

According to Donald Trump and a spokesman for Hamas, Hamas has agreed to disarm when Israel withdraws from Gaza. Much remains to be seen.

Famous podcaster and comedian Joe Rogan, who is a supporter of Donald Trump, has criticized Trump's claim that the Jewish state of Israel has not/is not committing genocide in Gaza. Israel has killed over 75,000 people and over 20,000 children in Gaza, and they're killing more virtually every day. On his interview with Tim Robbins, Robbins brought up the fact that actress Susan Sarandon lost her agent and hasn't found acting work since publicly criticizing Israel for its genocide.

This informative and interesting article helps us to see the determination of religious Jews in bringing about a Greater Israel based on their Hebrew Bible, what Christians have renamed the Old Testament. It tells how a religious group of Jews who make incursions into Syria to establish Jewish settlements on Syrian land.

July 29, 2026

Victor Marx, millionaire Christian clergyman and exorcist turned Republican nominee for Governor of Colorado, claims he went head to head against Satan himself during an exorcism. His Christian ministry is called All Things Possible and brings in $7.5 million annually. More and more politicians on the religious right who want to turn the US into a Christian theocracy are feeling more comfortable to openly display their irrational religious superstitions.

"A Chinese company is set to supply Iran with hundreds of portable anti-air missile systems as the Islamic Republic seeks to rebuild air defenses devastated by United States and Israeli strikes." Communist China is already providing Iran with satellite imagery of U.S. military targets around the Gulf. Hopefully, the Iran War which is being fought for religious reasons based on myths from the Hebrew Bible, what Christians have renamed the Old Testament, won't spill over and involve Communist China and Russia against the US.

In a big surprise, the US Embassy in Israel put pressure on the Israeli occupation forces in the illegally and brutally occupied Palestinian West Bank to leave the home they were occupying that is owned by a Palestinian American and from which the American Palestinians were flying an American flag. There is no mention that the Zionist Christian Ambassador to the Jewish state of Israel, Mike Huckabee, was aware of the situation.

July 28, 2026

Today the war criminals who started the Iran War, Israeli PM Netanyahu and his accomplice Donald Trump, had a meeting for an hour and a half in the White House. The last time that happened, Netanyahu had sold Trump on starting the Iran War. I hope this time he didn't convince Trump to send in American ground troops into Iran.

"A federal judge tossed out a lawsuit Monday from an interfaith group that challenged the legitimacy of President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, dismissing claims that its overwhelmingly conservative Christian makeup lacked a legally required balance of viewpoints." The commission consisted almost entirely of conservative Christians, along with one Orthodox Jewish rabbi, and that several commissioners were on record questioning church-state separation and supporting the idea of America as a Judeo-Christian country.

"Apostle Kathryn Krick is once again dominating headlines-and dividing Christians worldwide-after shocking new footage showed her followers collapsing, shaking and convulsing during what was supposed to be an ordinary book signing." WOW - she's an apostle when her Christian Bible doesn't even allow for women to speak in church!

July 27, 2026

According to the United Nation's human rights chief Volker Türk, the Jewish state of Israel's ongoing occupation of southern Lebanon could amount to war crimes, due to its widespread destruction of towns and villages, and the dozens of medical workers and journalists killed.

"Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said plainly what other Israeli leaders have communicated more cautiously: The current U.S.-Iran war benefits Israel most when American forces do the fighting and Israel remains outside the direct exchange." Many Bible believing Christians believe it's good for America to serve the Jewish state of Israel since the Bible says at Isaiah 60:12, "For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee [Israel] shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted."

In some potentially good news, "Donald Trump said the US halted renewed strikes on Iran at the regime’s request, warning they would resume if the two sides fail to reach a new ceasefire deal. Iran’s Foreign Ministry said there are no current negotiations with the US."

July 24, 2026

"Progressive National Baptist Convention President David Peoples ended his tenure leading the historically Black denomination with a plea for members of its churches to do everything they could to get people — in their churches and in their homes — out to the polls for the November midterm elections." In order to accomplish this, clergyman Peoples told his congregation that not to vote is a sin.

"Jen Hatmaker, a prominent progressive Christian influencer and bestselling author who quit attending church last year, now says she no longer believes in Hell." She said she doesn't believe God is cruel and petty. Hopefully, she will discover Deism.

Measles cases in the US have increased to a 35 year high. Thankfully, so far no deaths have been reported from measles. To demonstrate how important it is to have children vaccinated for measles, 93% of the current 2,318 cases are people who have not received the vaccine. In 2004 only 37 cases were reported.

July 23, 2026

Big Bang Theory Jewish actress Mayim Bialik said she saw a large man wearing a t-shirt that had written on it "Zionism is racism" in a parking lot. She said this caused her to be fearful even though the only thing she said the man said was "That's Mayim Bialik." With new definitions of anti-Semitism that chill freedom of speech, wearing such a shirt can be considered to be anti-Semitic. This, in turn, can cause great harm to someone's education and career.

Actor Mel Gibson warned Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Randall Wallace that his working with Gibson on The Resurrection of the Christ, which is the sequel to Gibson's movie The Passion of the Christ, would cause Satan to come after Wallace. The film is scheduled to be released in May of 2027. It will be interesting to see if it contains the zombies of Matthew 27:50-53.

The draft-dodger Donald "Bone Spurs" Trump appears to be preparing to send ground troops into the Iran War. He's having additional medics flown into Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. This is where wounded American troops who are badly wounded are sent from Middle East battlefields. This is all being done for the benefit of the Jewish state of Israel, just as the Iraq War was for Israel's benefit.

July 22, 2026

Donald Trump attended the arrival of the four American soldiers who died in the unnecessary he and Israeli PM Netanyahu started against Iran. Trump, who avoids the truth, claimed the dead soldiers supported the Iran War. He also claimed that polls show Americans are opposed to high gas prices, but they are in favor of the Iran War because they don't want Iran to get a nuclear weapon. He didn't say who he knows the dead soldiers supported the war or what poll he was talking about.

Iranian strikes on CIA facilities in the Middle East prompt questions about possible Russian role in sharing intelligence information with Iran. This has the potential to really escalate out of control.

Televangelists Andre and Jenny Roebert to divorce on 'biblical grounds' after 34 years of marriage. They have significant assets, including hotels and other real estate. Many televangelists are millionaires. It makes you wonder what they think of the teaching attributed to Jesus about it being easier for a camel to go through they eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into the Kingdom of God (Matthew 19:24).

July 21, 2026

Vice President Vance believes separation of religion from government is what Satan wants! I know separation of religion from government is what Thomas Jefferson and America's Founders wanted, but I didn't know Satan was in on it!

Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has described the renewed US war on Iran as the ideal outcome for Israel, provided Israelis do not have to fight it themselves. This reminds me of this statement by retired Israeli General Avraham Rotem at the start of the Iraq War, which US politicians from both parties started for the benefit of the Jewish state of Israel and the advancement of their own political careers via Israel's powerful lobby. Retired Israeli General Avraham Rotem said, 'A (US) war with Iraq serves Israel's strategic interests because it wants Saddam gone. Someone says, 'You sit back, we'll take care of it'--what's better than that?' St. Petersburg Times, March 15. 2003, p 5A

Here's an interesting article from a Roman Catholic publication/site regarding the traditionalist Catholic group SSPX and its confrontation with the Vatican and Pope Leo. Leo excommunicated the leaders of SSPX and its members. The article brings up the Roman Catholic teaching and belief that there is no salvation of a person's soul outside of the Roman Catholic Church.

July 20, 2026

Israeli PM and war criminal Netanyahu and Donald "Bone Spurs" Trump's religious war against Iran has taken the lives of three more American troops. The war is also spreading to the Red Sea as Iran's allies, the Houthis, are attacking shipping in the Red Sea. Netanyahu sold Trump on the war on February 11, 2026 in the White House situation room. Israel wants Iran to become as America made Iraq, a non-state state that cannot be a threat to Israel's expansion into a Bible-based Greater Israel.

In sporting events you often see players claiming God helped them win. This article is about the soccer team of Argentina just prior to the championship World Cup game. It covers players and clergy and fans praying and using statues of the "Virgin" Mary and rosaries to give their team an edge over Spain. However, Spain defeated Argentina.

"In a major milestone in the search for life on planets outside our solar system, astronomers have detected, for the first time, an atmosphere surrounding an Earth-like, rocky planet orbiting within the habitable zone of another star. The finding provides the strongest evidence yet that worlds with conditions similar to Earth in composition and temperature, with the potential to support life, could exist beyond our solar system, according to a new study published July 16 in the peer-reviewed journal Science." One of the reasons the Roman Catholic Church burned Giordano Bruno alive is because he said there are other planets that are part of the universe that have life on them. This discovery is another step closer to proving Bruno correct.

July 17, 2026

Doug Wilson, pastor of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, and leader of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches and an advisor to US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth doubts whether or not Mormons should be allowed to vote in the Christian nations he believes America should be. He believes the only "true" Christians are trinitarian Christians. This is an example of the start of the road to religious violence as Europe suffered and which America's Founder fought and worked to avoid by separating religion from government.

US Vice President Vance was recently on the Joe Rogan show talking about aliens and demons. He stated that he's not a "hyper-rationalist" and that he believes in God. He doesn't realize that reason is how we discover God and can differentiate between God and religion. He needs to understand what the Enlightenment Deist Voltaire meant when he wrote, "What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason."

In Gaza, which is still under a "ceasefire" the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament-based Israeli occupation forces killed 14 people, eight of whom were in a funeral procession at the time the Israelis bombed them.

July 16, 2026

In the Philippines, the Roman Catholic Church will hold a conference on exorcism next month in Makati City. It's purpose is to help Catholics better understand spiritual warfare through Church teaching and pastoral ministry. Belief in Satan and demons is very useful to the Catholic Church and to all "revealed" religions as it creates a problem to be feared and offers the "revealed" religion as the only solution.

A "lawsuit, filed in federal court in Manhattan against top administration officials by DAWN and Taxpayer Alliance Against Genocide, seeks a court order that would strike down the restrictions on their advocacy and their ability to interact with Palestinian human rights groups and other sanctioned parties. “The Trump administration is using the blunt instrument of economic sanctions not only to punish human rights defenders but to police the political expressions of millions of Americans,” said Omar Shakir, the executive director of DAWN, a U.S.-based group advocating for democracy and human rights in the Arab world that was founded by Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed in 2018."

The combination of giving billions of dollars worth of military weapons and ammunition to the Jewish state of Israel, coupled with American politicians ordering the US military to fight wars for Israel, along with limited weapons given to Ukraine, America is running very low on having enough weapons and ammunition for itself. Trump has asked weapons manufacturers to increase production.

July 15, 2026

Arkansas has been ranked number one in religious liberty. Evangelical Christian Sarah Huckabee, the daughter of evangelical Christian, clergyman and current ambassador to the Jewish state of Israel Mike Huckabee, was quick to let the world know of her state's honor of being number one in religious liberty. However, this interesting and entertaining article points out how and why this ranking is nonsense.

Evangelical Christian minister Victor Marx says claims he has rescued thousands of women across the globe, ordered an airstrike on ISIS and conducted a prayer exorcism on Charlie Kirk. He also claims that at age 7 he killed a man on orders of his abusive father. None of these stories of his check out. That hasn't stopped him from now being the Republican candidate for governor of Colorado.

In some good news, 103 Democrats and one Republican voted in the US House of Representatives to end the foreign aid of $3.3 billion American tax dollars to Israel every year. Republican Thomas Massie introduced the bill. This is the largest vote to ever go against the Jewish state of Israel.

July 14, 2026

Here's an eye-opening article about how public opinion is made. Donald Trump's ex-campaign manager Brad Parscale is being paid by the Jewish state of Israel $1.5 million per month to flood social media with pro-Israel posts. One example given is how Trump was attacked by many simultaneous posts and video posts made by Parscale's company after Trump reached the ceasefire agreement with Iran. The ceasefire agreement angered Israeli PM and war criminal Netanyahu.

The endless war Netanyahu and Trump started against Iran looks like it may spread to the Red Sea. If this happens, not only will there be more people being killed and wounded and the environment being damaged, but the price of oil could rise to $200.00 per barrel.

Many Christian evangelicals supported Israel because they thought it would speed-up the return of Jesus and the end of the world. A Pew Research survey shows that has changed. Now, the majority of evangelicals support the Jewish people, Israel and Judaism because they care about them and are concerned for them. One question was, “Christians should love and support Jewish people whether or not they accept Jesus as Messiah.” Nearly two-thirds of doctrinally evangelical respondents, 64.3%, strongly agreed.

July 13, 2026

Donald Trump has ordered the US Navy to reinstate the blockade of Iranian ports and proposed charging a 20% fee on all shipping going through the Strait of Hormuz. The third consecutive night of bombings by the US on Iran are continuing. None of this would be happening if Trump refused to listen to Israeli war criminal Netanyahu.

In the brutally and illegally Israeli occupied Palestinian West Bank, US congressman Ro Khanna was stopped and detained by armed Jewish "settlers"/terrorists/squatters. When four members of the Israeli occupation forces arrived, they told Khanna's translator that they were on the side of the Jews. Israeli PM and war criminal Netanyahu said the Israeli troops quickly freed the congressman, but Khanna said Netanyahu and the Israeli government are lying.

The Society of Saint Pius X, the conservative Roman Catholic organization that operates according to pre-Vatican II standards (one of which is saying the Mass in Latin), has 30,000 members in the US. Pope Leo XIV has excommunicated the clergy of the organization. The rank-and-file members who personally and knowingly embrace schism and reject the Pope's authority are also excommunicated. Former Catholics, such as myself, who commit apostasy (formal disaffiliation from, abandonment of, or renunciation of a religion) are automatically excommunicated. It's interesting to note that Catholic clergy who rape and sodomize children are not excommunicated.

Speaking of pedophile Catholic clergy and the Society of Saint Pius X, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation recently completed its criminal investigation into the Society of St. Pius X for its clergy sexually abusing children. The report of the investigation was given to the Kansas Attorney General who will decide if arrests will be made.

July 10, 2026

Donald Trump made over $1 BILLION last year, mostly from crypto currency. Profits from the Bible's he peddles has dropped from $1.5 million last year to $208,486.00.

In 2022 43% of Americans had an unfavorable view of the Jewish state of Israel. Today, the percentage of Americans who view Israel unfavorably has risen to 62%. This probably has something to do with being opposed to Israel committing genocide in Gaza, stealing land from the Gentiles in the Palestinian West Bank and getting the US involved in more religious wars.

Sandra Hagee Parker, the chairwoman of Christians United for Israel (CUFI) and daughter of CUFI's founder Christian clergyman John Hagee, recently said in an interview that Americans must support Israel, particularly Christian Americans, because the Bible teaches that people who support Israel will be blessed by God and people who do not will be cursed by God. Since 95% of the Bible was written by ancient Jewish clergymen, it's not surprising the Bible would have that piece of propaganda.

July 9, 2026

Roman Catholic Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of Washington explained why he removed Msgr. Stephen Rossetti as an exorcist last month. He said it wasn't because Rossetti claimed some of the UFOs being sighted were not aliens, they were demons. McElroy claims he removed him because exorcism needs to be kept private. He probably believes this because in the 21st century our innate God-given reason has caused many people to shed themselves of the fear-based superstition of belief in demons. It's concerning that powerful politicians believe in demons. The linked to article points out that US Vice President Vance believes all of the UFOs sigthed are being flown by demons!

In England, the "Chief Rabbi has warned that the Church of England’s plans to discuss a document that accuses Israel of 'genocide' in the Palestinian territories risks 'undermining' Christian-Jewish relations." This attempt at censorship and attack on free speech is to be expected from clergy. The reason for this is probably because they know the religion they devoted their lives to promoting and made a career of promoting all, without exception, violate our innate God-given reason.

The Jewish state of Israel is like a well armed spoiled brat. It does what it wants, how it wants and when it wants. There is a ceasefire agreement in Gaza that's been in place since October. So far Israel has violated it to the point of killing 1,084 Palestinians. On Tuesday, Israel launched an attack that killed four people, two adults and two children, a 10-year-old and an 8-year-old. One of the adults was Mohamed al-Wahidi, an official with Egypt’s relief arm in Gaza who helped organize a watch party of the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament.

July 8, 2026

Yesterday Iran fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz that were not using shipping lanes Iran had approved of in May. (It's important to keep in mind that prior to Israel and Trump starting the Iran War, the Strait of Hormuz was open without any problems.) This was an excuse for Donald Trump to order more than 80 military attacks against Iran. He is now saying the ceasefire is over and the war will probably be restarted. He also talked about the US taking Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf. If he's foolish enough and obedient enough to Israel to do this, that means American ground troops would be used, which would mean many more American dead and wounded and mentally scarred.

In the growing schism with the Roman Catholic Church, US bishops are "urging worshippers to stop attending Mass at Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) chapels after the Vatican declared the traditionalist group’s leadership excommunicated earlier this month."

Israeli Prime Minister and war criminal Netanyahu believes Americans’ growing negative opinion of the Jewish state isn't because of the genocide Israel inflicts on the Palestinian people, he claims it's due to the social media Americans are using to bear witness!

July 7, 2026

Israeli PM and war criminal Netanyahu has been called out on lies he told on Fox News. Netanyahu claimed Christian villages in southern Lebanon asked Israel to annex them because they were afraid of Hezbollah. Karim Emile Bitar, a professor of international relations at the Saint Joseph University of Beirut, said Netanyahu is a pathological liar and there is no truth to Netanyahu's statement.

The Jewish state of Israel is occupying parts of Lebanon, Gaza and Syria. Netanyahu said the Israeli occupations will continue, even though they have so far, the numbers increase daily, caused over a million people to be homeless and killed tens of thousands of people, including at least 20,000 children.

The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston has ruled that religious schools that take state/government money must abide by state/government laws and rules. Crosspoint Church, which runs Bangor Christian Schools, and St. Dominic Academy in Auburn believe obeying laws and rules against discrimination infringes on their religious freedoms and rights. The various religions want to be exempt from paying taxes while also taking in tax dollars. They think they're special, but they are not.

July 6, 2026

Here's an interesting survey taken by Pew Research. They asked the question, "How important is it for the United States to have to have a culture based on Christian religious beliefs."

In Idaho outspoken anti-vaxer Andrea Shaw in 2025 said her 18-month-old twins, Dallas and Tyson, died shortly after being vaccinated. It turns out that in all probability she murdered her twin children by suffocating them and has been charged with doing so. She could face the death penalty.

"Hamas has announced its intention to hand over governing authority in Gaza after two decades in power, and has invited a US-backed interim administration to take over the running of the Palestinian territory." However, the Jewish state of Israel is has not allowed the interim administration to enter Gaza.

July 3, 2026

At Exodus 15:3 the ancient Jewish clergymen who wrote the Hebrew Bible claim the Jewish God is a God of war. It reads, "The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name." Today's Jewish state of Israel is living up to the pro-war Hebrew Bible and its God. It has troops on the ground in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria and periodically exchanges fire with Iran. All of this warfare is putting a lot of pressure on the Israeli army. It has caused Israeli officials to warn that the military is at a breaking point.

Here's an interesting and informative article about the Father of the US Constitution and Deist James Madison. He and the Deist Thomas Jefferson were great friends who worked hard to keep religion separate from government.

Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is returning to theaters September 10-17. It will be remastered in 4K. It's probably part of a build-up for the release of its sequel The Resurrection of the Christ: Part One, which Lionsgate recently announced will arrive exclusively in theaters on May 6, 2027. It will be interesting to see if Gibson includes Matthew 27:50-53 which claims that when Jesus died, dead people in cemeteries around Jerusalem came back to life and when Jesus also came back to life, and then the zombies, except for Jesus, all went in to Jerusalem and "appeared unto many."

July 2, 2026

"A young couple in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province were publicly caned on Thursday after an Islamic Shariah court convicted them of violating Islamic law by kissing during a TikTok livestream." Any type of theocracy is terrible, whether Jewish, Christian, Islamic or Mormon.

"The Vatican responded aggressively Thursday to a traditionalist group that consecrated bishops without the pope’s consent, declaring the Society of St. Pius X had formally broken with the Catholic Church. It excommunicated its bishops and priests, and warned its faithful that they too face the harshest sanctions in the church." This reminds me of what Thomas Paine wrote in The Age of Reason, The Complete Edition: "The two principal sectaries, Popists and Protestants, have often cut each other’s throats about it. The Popists call the Protestants heretics, and the Protestants call the Popists idolaters. The minor sectaries have shown the same spirit of rancor, but as the civil law restrains them from blood, they content themselves with preaching damnation against each other."

A US-brokered peace agreement between the Jewish state of Israel and the Islamic state of Lebanon is being questioned because of fears it will cause a lasting Israeli occupation of Lebanon.

July 1, 2026

Here's an interesting article that points out the American Founders did not want a nation that would be in line with what today's Christian theocrats of the religious right want. It also points out lies and myths about some of America's Founders being devout Christians.

"Thousands of people have gathered in a tiny village in Switzerland to witness the ordination of four new Catholic bishops, in defiance of an appeal by Pope Leo XIV." Pope Leo is warning that this can create a schism within the Roman Catholic Church. If it wasn't for secular nations, the Catholic Church would have these heretics arrested and executed as it has historically done prior to the Enlightenment and American Revolution.

The Israeli government is moving forward a the Basic Law on Torah which states in part, "Torah study is a fundamental value in the heritage of the Jewish people and in the State of Israel." The Basic Laws of Israel are the closest thing they have to a constitution. This, along with other parts of the Basic Law, shows Israel is a religious state.

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June 30, 2026

Today at Donald Trump's Great American State Fair in Washington, DC, Christian and Roman Catholic apologist and political religious right commentator Michael Knowles was recorded on video talking/debating with a young girl. They talked about the Salem Witch Trials in which 19 people were executed by hanging (14 women and 5 men) and one man was pressed to death with heavy stones for refusing to enter a plea. Knowles told the young girl, “The one area where the Salem witch trials went a little far is, I would say, they weren’t organized enough. So, you had these, like, random judges who were, you know, kind of, burning these ladies. I don’t know if they were guilty or not. But I think more—if it were more formalized, built up a little bit more, maybe with like a grand inquisitor or something, that would’ve been the way to do it.” This makes very clear that Deists and all freethinkers need do all we can to stop the religious theocrats with our innate God-given reason!

It's been 500 years since the New Testament was translated into English. The Christian clergy taught people that to translate the Bible into any vernacular was heresy. The clergy burned any copy they could find. They wanted a monopoly on translation and meaning so they could better control the faithful.

Relics of 17th century St. Margaret Mary are on tour. The faithful can be inspired by looking at what is advertised as being a small part of her brain and the saint’s clavicles and two of her ribs. The scams of the "holy" relics has served the Roman Catholic Church well since near the beginning of Christianity. They even claimed to have the "holy" prepuce (foreskin) of Jesus! However, after advances in science and people becoming more questioning, in 1900, the Vatican issued a decree threatening excommunication for anyone who spoke or wrote about the Holy Prepuce, effectively suppressing discussion.

June 29, 2026

The Jewish state of Israel continues to move the "yellow line" that separates Israeli occupied territory from Palestinian territory in Gaza, thus claiming more of the land that belongs to Palestinians. Israel's land theft and religious war will not stop until a Greater Israel of Biblical myth is established.

This insightful article by an Israeli Jewish woman reveals the imagined and Judaism promoted idea of superiority of Israel. This quote captures the nonsensical belief in the superiority of Israel: "God oversees the entire world, other lands operate through intermediate spiritual forces; only in the Land of Israel does divine providence function directly, without intermediaries. The Talmudic teaching that 'the air of the Land of Israel makes one wise' points to the same reality...'"

In Raipur, India Hindus are upset about AI generated videos showing Jesus as being more powerful than Hindu gods. They also depict "that Jesus Christ is the 'father' of the Hindu deities, including Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu. In some clips, Lord Ram is depicted receiving sermons from Jesus, while another claim asserts that Jesus is more powerful than Lord Hanuman." There are many roads to religious violence and warfare, everything from disputes about the "true" meaning of "holy" scriptures to whose god is more powerful! Hopefully, this won't lead to religious violence.

June 26, 2026

Today the Texas State Board of Education gave the final greenlight to Bible-infused school standards after months of intense debate, enshrining Christianity as part of classroom instruction for all 5.5 million students in Texas public schools.

"A breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics will challenge Pope Leo XIV’s authority next week by consecrating four bishops without his consent. Rather than shying away from the confrontation, the Society of St. Pius X seems intent on embracing its notoriety." The Society of St. Pius X believes in saying the mass in Latin. Prior to the rise of secular states and separation of religion from government, situations like this would result in bloodshed.

Roman Catholic priest and exorcist Carlos Martins told some tall-tales while on the Fox Shaun Hannity show. One of his ridiculous claims is that a possessed girl made a screw come out of a wall without touching it and that the screw then flew into her right hand and she began stabbing her left arm with it. It seems the clergyman/con-man forgot that those types of screws are very small and would be almost impossible to hold and to stab something. He probably thinks people who are gullible enough to believe the tall-tales in the Bible are gullible enough to believe his nonsense.

June 25, 2026

Here's an interesting and informative article about Israeli PM and war criminal Netanyahu's decades of lies about Iran's nuclear program. What Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders do not mention is that the fundamental and true reason they want Iran destroyed is to complete another step in building a Hebrew Bible-based Greater Israel.

Christian theocrat Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth change the rules for the US military to allow religious exemptions to receiving flu shots. Now it looks like that exemption will end after a large outbreak of the flu at a US Air Force boot camp.

A new poll finds that 60% of Americans think the Iran war is not worth it and nearly half of Americans think the US government is too supportive of the Jewish state of Israel. Since the majority of US politicians from both parties are in the pocket of the Israel lobby, the chances of things changing to put America first instaed of Israel first are very slim.

June 24, 2026

Self-help New Age con-artists are part of a multi-billion dollar industry that can cause irreversible harm. That was the case in 2009 when Oprah Winfrey promoted self-help New Age guru James Arthur Ray held a Spiritual Warrior sweat lodge retreat, in which three people died and 18 people were hospitalized. One of the people killed was a young lady named Kirby Brown. Her family has started an organization, Seek Safely, that works to require ethics and education be applied to the self-help industry.

"Dozens of Israelis from the country’s security, political and cultural elite have threatened legal action against their government over support for Jewish terrorism and an 'ideology of ethnic cleansing' in the occupied West Bank, according to a leaked letter."

The Pentagon is requesting from the US Congress $80 BILLION to pay for the Iran War which Donald Trump started together with Israeli PM and war criminal Netanyahu. The true purpose of the Iran War, as was the case with the Iraq War, was to protect and promote the Jewish state of Israel.

June 23, 2026

The warmongering neoconservatives are not at all happy with Donald Trump trying to end the Iran War. One of the neocons who worked to get the Iraq War started, Doug Feith, is writing and working to oppose Trump's Memorandum of Understanding with Iran. Feith, like the founder of the neoconservative movement, Leo Strauss, is a Jew who believes the world should be based on the Hebrew Bible, what Christians have renamed the Old Testament. The Hebrew Bible claims God will make the Jewish state of Israel the supreme nation on Earth.

Today the United Nations released a report that shows the Jewish state of Israel has been targeting and killing children in Gaza. "The report was compiled by an independent commission of three senior international jurists who investigated the violence. It concluded that the killings were part of a strategy to destroy the future of Palestinians in Gaza and said that this amounted to genocide." Killing children is very much in agreement with the ungodly and cruel Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.

Anti-Christian attacks by Jews in Israel and the illegally occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem are increasing. This article is about how the Israeli police and government are not doing enough to stop the attacks.

June 22, 2026

In Portugal, the Roman Catholic Church is upset with people other than Catholic priests and official Catholic clergy members who are exorcists performing exorcisms on people. Since Satan and demons are myths, any scammer, official clergy member or not, will try to take advantage of people through fear-based exorcisms.

On this date in 1633 the amazing astronomer Galileo was forced to recant his scientific discovery that the Earth orbits the Sun, not the Sun orbits the Earth as is portrayed in the nonsensical Bible. 33 years prior to Galileo recanting, the Roman Catholic Church had Giordano Bruno burned alive as a heretic. One of the charges against him was that he taught people the Sun does not orbit the Earth, the Earth orbits the Sun. This probably played a part in Galileo recanting, for fear of suffer the same ungodly and horrific fate as Bruno suffered.

Here is an open letter from a rabbi to US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and to the White House Faith Office. It is a Hebrew Bible-based threat that if the US does not sever Israel, the US will be cursed by God.

June 19, 2026

US Vice President J.D. Vance is continuing to speak out about the Jewish state of Israel. He recently said, regarding people who are critical of Israel being labeled anti-Jewish, “If everything is Jew hatred, then nothing is Jew hatred.” He also pointed out that Israel and the US are not one and the same when he said, “And I find often the arguments (against the Iran deal) are, ‘Well, Israel doesn’t think this is good, therefore it’s bad,' And my reaction is Israel’s opinions matter, but fundamentally they are separate.”

Texas will have Bible classes in public schools K-12. This article is about how the Bible passages that will be used in the public schools will be decided upon. This is a very clear violation of the Jeffersonian principle of separation of religion from government that is the First Amendment to the US Constitution.

Here's an interesting article about the United States of America NOT being founded as a Christian nation. It also points out that the author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, was NOT a Christian, he was a Deist.

June 18, 2026

In Afghanistan the Sunni Muslim Taliban’s morality police have begun confiscating smartphones. The Internet has many sources that offer information that proves Islam to be a foolish and fear promoting and ungodly man-made "revealed" religion. This is probably why they've banned smartphones.

The Jewish state of Israel needs Iran removed as a power in the Middle East in order to successfully turn Israel into a Greater Israel based on biblical myths. Donald Trump's Memorandum of Understanding with Iran has thrown a wrench into Israel's mission. Israel is going directly against Trump by continuing its bombings in Lebanon and it even released a new map today showing it extended it occupation zone in southern Lebanon.

In a first, a major US politicians spoke the truth to Israel. US Vice President J.D. Vance stated Israel should not be upset with the US and Trump for ending the Iran War with the Memorandum of Understanding with Iran. He pointed out to Israelis that two-thirds of the weapons “that have protected your homeland” were American-made and paid for by Americans’ tax dollars.

June 17, 2026

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the US and Iran is now in effect. If this is on the level, it is wonderful as it avoids a US ground war with Iran. Also, the 14 points of the MoU have been released.

The Rockwall County Commissioners Court unveiled a Ten Commandments monument outside the county’s historic courthouse in Texas, where state and local lawmakers were joined by local pastors to dedicate the monument.

June 16, 2026

Zionist Christian and US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, said, "Without Israel, without the Jewish foundation, there would not be an America." He made the false statement/lie while speaking at the opening session of the International Conference on Israeli Heritage at Herodion National Park in what Israel and Zionist Christians refer to as Judea and Samaria, but what the rest of the world refers to as the Israeli occupied Palestinian West Bank.

Donald Trump may finally be realizing what a horrible idea it was to follow Israeli PM and war criminal Netanyahu's urging and starting the Iran War. Trump is publicly criticizing Netanyahu and trying to get him to stop deadly attacks on Lebanon. It seems part of Trump's agreement with Iran to end the war includes ending it on all fronts, including in Lebanon. Israel is defying Trump by continuing its bombing of Lebanon.

"Federal officials have charged multiple people who they claim discussed plots to attack the UFC fight night event at the White House, including by using drones and a gunman." The group embrace Christianity. Since most Trump supporters are Christians, this group is a group of Christians but part of a different Christian sect.

June 15, 2026

Israel is not happy about the peace deal reached between the US and Iran. This is due to Israel's need for war and conflict in the Middle East so they can created their Greater Israel based on the myths of their Hebrew Bible, what Christians have renamed the Old Testament.

The US peace deal with Iran will probably be a nail in the coffin of Netanyahu. Israeli ministers are claiming the deal was a huge failure of Israeli PM Netanyahu which puts the Jewish state in danger. Israeli officials also said they will remain occupiers of southern Lebanon. There's more religious war to come!

The Jewish state of Israel uses not only violence from Jewish terrorists/squatters/"settlers" to force Palestinian people out of their homes and farms and off their land, they also use economics.

June 12, 2026

In some good news, the Iranian foreign minister has said that a peace agreement between the US and Iran "has never been closer." Trump has repeatedly claimed over the last couple of months that a peace agreement was only a day or two away, kind of like Israeli PM and war criminal Netanyahu claiming for the last 40 years that Iran was only a couple of years or a couple of weeks away from having a nuclear weapon. This is the first time an Iranian official has agreed with Trump.

In the cruelly and illegally Israeli occupied Palestinian West Bank a Jewish member of the Israeli occupation forces shot and killed a seven-month-old Palestinian boy and wounded both of his parents. Israel promises to look into the murder. That means nothing of substance will be done based on previous similar incidents that involved Israeli Jews killing Gentile Palestinians.

US Ambassador to Israel, the Christian clergyman Mike Huckabee, gave a speech at the Jerusalem Summit, an emergency gathering of Christian leaders and scholars convened by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem to fight antisemitism. In his speech he pinpointed when the myth, which he mistakenly believes is a reality, of God choosing Abraham as the first Jew and seed for a future Jewish state of Israel, happened. Huckabee said, “The reason we stand with Israel is not political, but because of God’s promises to Abraham. The amazing thing is that a tiny, tiny country of ten million people wins, over and over again, when its existence is threatened by those who have ten times the population, many times the military budget. And yet, it not only survives. It thrives. So, what’s the secret? The secret is that 3,800 years ago, God told Abraham, ‘I’m going to create a people. And you’re it. And I’m going to put you in a place. And this is it. And this is going to be your place. And I’m going to give you a purpose. And you’re going to fulfil it’.” Huckabee seems to have forgotten about the BILLIONS of US dollars US politicians take from American taxpayers and give to the Jewish state, not to mention the lives and limbs of American troops as in the Iraq War and now the Iran War.

June 11, 2026

The human rights organization of Amnesty International released a new report that shows the Jewish state of Israel is carrying out ethnic cleansing in the Palestinian West Bank and Palestinian East Jerusalem. The report includes that over 100 West Bank villages have been fully or partially emptied out between January 2023 and April 2026. It also documents how the Jewish terrorists/squatters/"settlers" who burn down Palestinian villages and murder and maim Palestinian children, women and men are sanctioned by the Jewish state. This is all part of the building of a Greater Israel based on the Hebrew Bible myths.

Here's an interesting and revealing interview of a member of the Israeli military about the repulsive and cruel acts the Israeli military is committing in Lebanon. The mentality of the Jewish state of Israel is stuck in the ungodly and religious violence and Jewish superiority promoting Hebrew Bible.

This informative article is about how the US Secretary of Defense, the Christian theocrat Pete Hegseth, has caused some US members of the military to lose their religious freedom. This happened when he removed over 100 religions and belief systems from those officially recognized. The article points out that Deism was removed from the list and that Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin were Deists.

June 10, 2026

"Thousands of Southern Baptists overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to advance a formal ban on women pastors in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, sending a clear message that men alone should preach to these conservative evangelical congregations." This misogyny is biblical. 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 teaches Christians, "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church." Misogyny is in all of the man-made Abrahamic "revealed" religions. The clergymen who created them must have really hated women!

When US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth placed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) outside of Christianity on the Pentagon's list of recognized religions/spiritual beliefs, he upset many people. He was forced to reclassify Mormonism and put it back under Christianity. This brings up the fact that there is no clear definition of what Christianity is, which is why when Christianity was not kept in check by secular governments, Christian sects waged religious war against competing Christian sects, taking the lives of millions of people as in the 30 Years War. This article and audio is about Mormonism being Christian.

Here's an interesting and informative article about Trump appointees to lead various government agencies are using their government position to promote Christianity to employees of their agencies. Some employees are taking legal action to stop the Christian proselytizing.

June 9, 2026

Christian leaders in the ancient city of Tyre, in Lebanon are calling for quick international action after the military of the Jewish state of Israel ordered an evacuation of Tyre. Israel sometimes issues warning just prior to bombing neighborhoods. The people who escape death end up homeless.

Israel 365 is a pro-Israel Jewish organization that works to promote a Greater Israel as described in the Hebrew Bible, what Christians have renamed the Old Testament. One useful tool they know they need to accomplish this is to have as many Gentile people as possible believe the Bible is the Word of God and for those people to be very Bible-literate. In this article they describe how they are concerned biblical literacy in the US is falling and how they are working to increase biblical literacy in the US. It's interesting to note that Leo Strauss, the founder of the warmongering neoconservative movement, believed the world should be based on the Hebrew Bible, which promotes Jewish superiority and Israel over all.

Here's an interesting article about a 500-year-old Bible map. The map and the Bible it is in were printed in Switzerland in 1525. As the article points out, it reenforced in the minds of the people who looked at it the belief that what they were reading in the Bible was true due to the map showing them the physical locations mentioned in the Bible.

June 8, 2026

US Representative Thomas Massie gave a speech in the US House of Representatives today to honor the American sailors and Marines who were killed and wounded by the Jewish state of Israel's cowardly and surprise air and sea attack on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967. He also called for an investigation into the deadly attack in which 34 American servicemen were killed by Israel and over 170 were wounded.

Iran and Israel today agreed to stop firing missiles at each other. Over the weekend Israel attacked Lebanon which caused Iran to attack Israel. Donald Trump asked Israel not to retaliate so the peace process could move forward, but Israel refused. However, after Israel fired on Iran, both sides agreed to honor the ceasefire agreement.

Christian theocrat and Secretary of Defense Hegseth reversed the Pentagon classification of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) and now, once again, lists it as Christian.

June 5, 2026

The Christian theocrat and US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has dropped 180 faiths/belief systems, including Deism, from the list officially recognized by the US military. This is another move towards degenerating the US into a suppressive Christian theocracy.

The Southern Baptists will hold their annual meeting on Tuesday, June 9, 2026. At the meeting they will debate banning churches that have women in any type pastoral role. This misogyny is in line with the misogyny of the Christian Bible.

This article is by a female rabbi who was arrested 13-years-ago for praying at the Western Wall in Israeli occupied Jerusalem. The article is concerned with "a piece of legislation that would criminalize any egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall — punishable by up to seven years in prison." Judaism, the original harmful and irrational myth that inspired Christianity, Islam and Mormonism, has many terrible characteristics, one of which is misogyny.

June 4, 2026

"Months after placing pastor Ben Armstrong on administrative leave amid sexual abuse allegations, Bethel Church has announced a sweeping review of its leadership culture and distanced itself from several controversial figures in the charismatic movement, including Todd Bentley, Mike Bickle and Shawn Bolz. The reforms come as an independent investigation continues into allegations involving Armstrong, Bethel's Prophetic Ministry director and former Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry Revival Group pastor." It's not just Catholic priests who prey on children, the Protestant clergy have pedophiles, too.

Boston, Massachusetts is where the American Revolution began. It's where James Otis and Sam Adams organized the Sons of Liberty and worked to get the American Revolution started. It was the success of the American Revolution that makes it possible for Deists today to be open Deists and not have to be concerned about being arrested for blasphemy. There is now a new archeological dig going on at the site of the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Donald Trump acknowledged that he did curse at Israeli PM and war criminal Netanyahu and that he called him "crazy." He said he was perturbed about Israel's escalating fighting going on in Lebanon because it's making peace talks with Iran virtually impossible. That is Israel's goal, they want the US to topple the Iranian government for Israel's benefit just as was done in Iraq. If Trump was serious about confronting Netanyahu and the Jewish state, he would stop all aid to Israel.

June 3, 2026

Israeli official Bezalel Smotrich, who holds authority over parts of Israel's civilian administration in the Palestinian West Bank, said a planning committee approved the construction of 2,162 new homes for Jews in the Palestinian West Bank (Israel refers to it by its biblical names of Judea and Samaria). He made it clear that this is in order to build a Greater Israel based on the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament when he said, "We are continuing to build the Land of Israel in practice"

A California judge ruled last month that the nonprofit Kars4Kids violated advertising laws by urging people to donate cars without clearly disclosing that the money is funneled to Oorah, a New Jersey-based organization benefiting the Orthodox Jewish community. In addition to funding two Schoharie County sleepaway camps - known collectively as TheZone - Oorah also offers Torah study, Jewish matchmaking services and teen trips to Israel.

America's Founders created a nation where it is perfectly legal to say and write things that are “outraging religious feelings.” Complete freedom of speech is a key and essential part of the American Republic. What has happened to two Christian preachers in majority Hindu India makes very clear the wisdom of America's Founders.

June 2, 2026

"Nearly 200 years ago, in May 1846, Catholic priests and bishops named the Virgin Mary patroness of the United States of America – specifically, under her title as the Immaculate Conception, referring to the belief she was conceived without sin." Notice, this was done by clergy and not by American officials. Also, since "original sin" is a manufactured idea Christian leaders came up with in order to have a purpose for Christianity via the blood of Jesus washing away the non-existent "original sin," we are all immaculately conceived since none of us are born with made-up "original sin."

A survey published by the Israeli Diaspora Affairs Ministry this past Monday shows Jews in Israel identify as Jewish first and then Israeli. Only 22% said they would personally contribute financially to strengthening Jewish identity in Diaspora communities, and 85% said that Judaism is more than a religion and represents a shared peoplehood with common history and roots. Support for that view was particularly strong among secular Israelis, at 82%. 66% said they view intermarriage and assimilation in Jewish communities abroad as a significant threat to the Jewish people, with 54% saying the issue personally concerns them.

Most Americans are opposed to the Jewish state of Israel's genocide in Gaza and its cruel and expanding occupation of Palestinian land. In spite of this, US lawmakers are accepting lavish expensive and paid for trips to Israel given to them by a branch of the overly powerful and wealthy American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF).

June 1, 2026

The Jewish state of Israel does not want the US to end Iran War. That's a key reason they have hugely increased their bombing and invasion of Lebanon, to knock peace talks off the rails. Donald Trump is said to have cussed out Israeli PM Netanyahu about its assault against Lebanon and its negative impact on the US peace talks with Iran. However, as Joe Kent, the former Director of US Counterterrorism who resigned after Netanyahu and Trump started the Iran War, pointed out this could just be political theatre.

This article from a Jewish publication and written by a rabbi takes the position that Lebanon belongs to Israel based on the Hebrew Bible, what Christians have renamed the Old Testament. It's this backwards thinking that the Hebrew Bible is the word of God that is the root cause of the religious violence and religious wars in the Middle East. We need to free the world of the Abrahamic man-made "revealed" religions through the application of God-given reason to their ungodly and irrational nonsense. This is something Deism can do.

The irrational and fear-based superstitions of the Christian Bible are on full display in the Philippines where Manila’s chief exorcist says exorcisms are on the rise across the Philippines, with the country’s 200 Catholic exorcists struggling to keep up with demand. The clergy created the belief in demons, Satan and evil spirits to control people through fear.

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