Recovering Fundamentalists Blog

Patience With God: The Prologue

By: Frank Schaeffer

Tags: Christianity, atheism, republican

Type: Cause

An Editorial on Christian Zionists

The truth is that when it comes to pandering to powerful religious/ethnic "blocs" in the US the biggest game in town is the across the board bowing to the white Evangelical "base" of the Republican Party.

By: Frank Schaeffer

Tags: Christian Zionists, evangelical, featured, International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, military, Palestinian people

Type: Cause

Christian Propaganda Fact Check

There’s a disturbing meme making its way around Facebook and other social-media sites right now.

By: Rob Steiner

Tags: Christianity, Barack Obama muslim, christian gossip, Christian propaganda, Memetics, Muslims slaughter Christians, sunni muslims

Type: Cause

Thank You, Mike Huckabee. Newtown Makes Sense Now.

Watch Mike Huckabee contradict the GOP principles of gun control while insulting the decency of society as a whole.

By: Rob Steiner

Tags: GOP, Gun Control, Mike Huckabee, Ronald Reagan, featured

Type: Cause

December 20, 2012

Shane Bitney Crone on WFAA News

Watch Shane Bitney Crone explain why he made the It Could Happen to You video to the WFAA news team.

By: Rob Steiner

Tags: LGBT Rights, Equal Love Equal Rights, gay, gay rights

Type: Cause

May 10, 2012

Equal Love, Equal Rights

LGBT rights was a big reason why I began to question my faith. Tom and Shane were the first to remove the boundaries placed on love by my fundamentalists upbringing. I owe them both a sincere debt of gratitude.

By: Rob Steiner

Tags: LGBT Rights, Equal Love Equal Rights, gay, gay rights

Type: Cause

May 8, 2012

Politics of Religious Hate

Frank Schaeffer discusses Mitt Romney's punch-the-token-gay fiasco.

By: Frank Schaeffer

Tags: LGBT Rights, Politics, featured, Frederick Douglass, gay rights, Islam, Mitt Romney, Richard Grenell

Type: Cause

May 4, 2012

The Skeptic (EP)

The latest EP from Recovering Fundamentalists co-founder Drew Stedman explores the contradictions of faith and the beauty of truth.

Tags: Drew Stedman Music, featured, music for atheists, secular humanism music, The Skeptic EP

Type: Cause

April 30, 2012

Can You Prove That Hell Isn't Real?

Of all of the negative aspects of religion, I have found none of them to be more profoundly damaging to human dignity and self-respect than the threat of Hell for non-believers.

By: Drew Stedman

Tags: Christianity, Agnostic, Atheist, burden of proof, evidence, fear of hell, featured, hell, Pascal's Wager, religious abuse

Type: Cause

April 23, 2012

Politics Masquerading as Religion

Here's my (satirical-but-all-too-true?) version of the bishop's anti-Obama "Statement on Religious Liberty".

By: Frank Schaeffer

Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Catholic, Ronny E. Jenkins, tea party, USCCB

Type: Cause

April 16, 2012

Dismantling Fundamentalism: In the Beginning - Part II

Fundamentalists often insist on a required choice between belief in their view of the Bible and an eternity of suffering.

By: Drew Stedman

Tags: Debunking Creationism, big bang, Drew Stedman, former fundamentalist, human evolution, intelligent design

Type: Cause

April 13, 2012

Child Celebrities Opposing Kirk Cameron

Former child stars speak out against the hate-ridden words of Kirk Cameron.

By: Rob Steiner

Tags: LGBT Rights, Pop Culture, CCOKC, gay humor, homosexuality is unnatural, Kirk Cameron

Type: Cause

April 12, 2012

Reason Rally Highlights

Check out highlights from the Reason Rally on the National Mall.

By: Drew Stedman

Tags: Bad Religion, featured, Michael Shermer, Reason Rally, Richard Dawkins, Tim Minchin

Type: Cause

April 11, 2012

Kirk Cameron's Bad Science

Watch Kirk's BFF Ray Comfort make an ass of himself by using a banana to prove the existence of a divine creator.

By: Rob Steiner

Tags: Pop Culture, CCOKC, creation debunked, intelligent design, Kirk Cameron, featured

Type: Cause

August 13, 2011

Recovering Fundamentalists on BBC's Sunday Morning Live

Recovering Fundamentalists Co-Founder Drew Stedman will appear on BBC One's Sunday Morning Live on August 7, 2011 to discuss his personal experiences with exorcisms.

By: Rob Steiner

Tags: BBC, Drew Stedman, exorcism, featured, Sunday Morning Live

Type: Cause

August 4, 2011

Planned Poverty

In a nation with 3 million hungry children and 2 million prison inmates, the abolishment of Planned Parenthood seems unreasonable. Once again, religion can be found where reason is lost.

By: Rob Steiner

Tags: abortion, featured, greater good, human condition, Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood, pro-choice, pro-life, women's rights

Type: Cause

May 27, 2011

Dismantling Fundamentalism Intro

This series will focus on some of the many errors within the Bible in the hope that those who are questioning these beliefs will find the information helpful.

By: Drew Stedman

Tags: deSkepticon, Dismantling Fundamentalism, featured

Type: Cause

December 12, 2010

Psychology of God: Do Christians Believe God Has Emotions?

Most religions posit the existence not just of a supernatural realm, but of supernatural persons, with loyalties, preferences and other human psychological qualities including emotions.

By: Valerie Tarico

Tags: Bishop John Shelby Spong, Does God exist?, Einstein, featured, Spinoza

Type: Cause

October 15, 2010

Wile E. Coyote Searches for Meaning

After finally catching Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote searches for new found purpose.

Type: Cause

May 16, 2010

NotW?

Memetics in action. The latest decal to festoon the windows of cars all over the country is the edgy ?NotW? sticker. You may have seen it. It bears the tough-looking lines of any other clothing or car accessory logo.

By: Jim Etchison

Tags: brainwashing children, featured, Memetics, notW, notW Clothing, notW stickers, propaganda, Richard Dawkins

Type: Cause

May 14, 2010

Poetry of Reality - Symphony of Science

The Poetry of Reality is the fifth installment in the Symphony of Science music video series. It features 12 scientists and science enthusiasts, including Michael Shermer, Jacob Bronowski, Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawki

Tags: Symphony of Science, Brian Greene, Carl Sagan, Carolyn Porco, Jacob Bronowski, Jill Tarter, Lawrence Krauss, Michael Shermer, Neil deGrasse Tyson, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking

Type: Cause

May 11, 2010

The Unbroken Thread - Symphony of Science

"The Unbroken Thread" is the fourth video in the Symphony of Science series, and it features David Attenborough, Jane Goodall, and Carl Sagan.

Tags: Symphony of Science, Carl Sagan, David Attenborough, Jane Goodall

Type: Cause

May 11, 2010

Symphony of Science

The Symphony of Science is a music project created by Washington-based electronic musician John Boswell. The project seeks to "spread scientific knowledge and philosophy through musical remixes." Boswell uses pitch corrected audio and

Tags: Symphony of Science

Type: Cause

May 11, 2010

A Glorious Dawn - Symphony of Science

A musical tribute to two great men of science. Carl Sagan and his cosmologist companion Stephen Hawking present: A Glorious Dawn - Cosmos remixed. Almost all samples and footage taken from Carl Sagan's Cosmos and Stephen Hawking's Univ

Tags: A Glorious Dawn, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking

Type: Cause

May 11, 2010

We Are All Connected - Symphony of Science

This is a tribute to great minds of science, intended to spread scientific knowledge and philosophy through the medium of music.

Tags: Symphony of Science

Type: Cause

May 10, 2010

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