Religion: Last News

Lt. Governor Mark Robinson to resign after video of remarks he made in June, calling LGBTQ people “filth,” went viral this week, as NBC News and others are reporting.Robinson, who is also a conspiracy theorist, climate change denialist, anti-abortion activist, and NRA board member, is not only refusing to resign, he’s now claiming he is the one being attacked because of his political beliefs.“We will not be intimidated.

Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe” — was a good choice for the position due to young people’s increasing lack of religiosity. “There is a rising group of people who no longer identify with any religious tradition but still experience a real need for conversation and support around what it means to be a good human and live an ethical life,” Epstein, who grew up in a Jewish home, told the New York Times in an interview published Thursday. “We don’t look to a god for answers,” he added.

last Sunday that anyone who believes in evolution must oppose marriage equality and that homosexuality “proves the existence of God.”“When two people of the same sex get together, it’s out of sheer wanton lust and pleasure only for self,” Hibbs said during his sermon. “Nothing comes of it.

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham doesn’t often talk about principles, but on Wednesday the South Carolina Republican declared his willingness to go to war for them.

Salt Lake City Tribune reports.He received criticism from a number of women, which led to Smith branding them nonbelievers and encouraging his followers to do the same.Calvin Burke, a gay BYU student and practicing Mormon, responded by tweeting out an apology for Smith’s comments.“On behalf of Mormonism, I apologize for Hank Smith,” Burke wrote.Smith responded by calling Burke “Korihor,” a term from the Book of Mormon associated with the anti-Christ. In the book, he is punished by God, who renders him mute and a crowd kills him by trampling him to death.The backlash was immediate, which led to Smith deleting the tweet and issuing an apology.“I do need to apologize for calling Cal what I did,” Smith tweeted.

Right Wing Watch’s Kyle Mantyla.“Jesus wasn’t a wimp,” Jansen told parishoners. “He was a tough guy. He was a man.

almost 16 million views due to the woman’s brazen proselytizing and bigotry.In captions accompanying the video, Kaiden — who is trans — notes that the woman was staring at him and his cousin, Jordan, before approaching their table.She asks them if they “go to church anywhere?”When they say that they don’t, she responds, “Do you guys know how to get to heaven?”“I don’t know you guys at all,” Jordan replies.Unfazed, the woman proceeds to misgender Kaiden, saying, “I know, I know, I just see you guys — you guys aren’t girlfriends, are you?”Jordan notes that they’re cousins, politely adding that, even if they were together, “it’s genuinely none of your business.”“You’re right, you’re right,” the woman says, before launching into her sermon.

fired for the “moral failure” of cheating on his wife, Laura. Now, reports are emerging that Laura, too, was let go from the church in the wake of the affair.Carl, 41, was a lead pastor in the US arm of the church since 2010, and famously baptized Justin Bieber in a bathtub at the Manhattan home of then-Knicks player Tyson Chandler in 2015.The heavily tattooed hipster met Laura while he was in a minister training program in Australia; the two have been married for 17 years and have three children.

Dolly Parton is urging fans to “keep the faith” during the coronavirus crisis, insisting the pandemic is a “lesson” from God.

Justin Bieber is leaning on his faith during the coronavirus pandemic spreading the world.

When right-wing pastor Perry Stone held a prayer service at his church in Cleveland, Tennessee, earlier this week, he declared that the current COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in America is a “reckoning” brought on by the nation’s rejection of God and its embrace of reproductive rights and marriage equality.

The frontman of a leading Christian rock band has admitted he no longer believes in God.