Religion Dispatches
In his latest the Times’ conservative Wunderkind Ross Douthat attempts to explain the current crisis as the result of our nation’s departure from orthodoxy. An honest look at the history of orthodoxy and he might see a past rife with the sin and brutality, enforced less by faith than by coercion.
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After some perfunctory praise of the last three popes, Boteach gets down to his Glenn Beck-ish business: “The American Evangelical community has proven the most stalwart and reliable friend of Israel in the United States.” Christians and Jews are now “brothers” because “together they confront the implacable foe of Islamist terrorism.”
Read MoreThe legacy of Christian anti-liberalism/anti-communism/anti-social gospel.
Read More“We are all Catholics now.”
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In order to restore meaning to the ideas of freedom and community, Rev. Billy exposes their current bankruptcy through a “religious” performance drawn from institutional, theatrical, and cultural realms. But make no mistake, it is real.
Read MoreAnti-Mormonism takes center stage; FRC’s Perkins says Romney “had a very legitimate and poignant point” in calling out Fischer.
Read MoreWhere in the world did Perry’s analogy come from?
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In Dave Ramsey’s plan, God looks an awful lot like a libertarian with a conservative American protestant streak.
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One can see why Beck, positioned between the end of his Fox TV program and the beginning of his internet broadcast venture, would stage his next rally in Jerusalem.
Read MoreFox guards henhouse.
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