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      Even if Voters ‘Get What They Asked For’ it’s More Likely to Cause a Fascist Death Spiral Than a Lesson Learned
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      Progressive Christian Election Response ‘Give us Barabbas’ May Be Well-Meaning — But Functions as Anti-Jewish Dogwhistle
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      New Doc Claiming Columbus was Jewish May Have Some Accuracy Issues — But There’s a Far Bigger Issue We Need to Reckon With
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      Packed with Threats of Political Violence, Media Largely Ignore the NAR’s ‘Million Women’ Rally in DC
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      New Doc Strives for Christian Unity—But What if Unity is the Problem?
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      Phoning It In: ‘Heathen’ Isn’t a Neutral Religious Description — It’s Also a Significant Force in the Creation of Race in the US
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      Trump’s Fervent Christian Zionists Poised to Lead the Military — And US-Israel Relations
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Sarah Posner

Sarah Posner, author of God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters, covers politics and religion. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The American Prospect, The Nation, Salon, and other publications. Follow her on Twitter. RSS feed Email

OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerDecember 3, 2014

The Divorce Rate Is Falling. Shouldn’t That Mean the Sky Isn’t?

By Sarah Posner

Claire Cain Miller of the New York Times Upshot blog dismantles the myth of the…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerNovember 25, 2014

What Netanyahu Learned from Texas

By Sarah Posner

Last week, the Texas Board of Education approved the use of controversial public school history…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerNovember 25, 2014

Hagee Calls Obama “The Most Anti-Semitic President Ever”

By Sarah Posner

At the Zionist Organization of America’s gala Sunday night, Republican megadonors Sheldon and Miriam Adelson…

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Israel-Palestine, OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerNovember 24, 2014

When Is a “Religious War” Not Really a Religious War?

By Sarah Posner

Is Jerusalem seeing a “religious war?” A day after last Tuesday’s terrorist attack that killed four worshippers…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerNovember 19, 2014

Israel Will be a 2016 Evangelical Litmus Test

By Sarah Posner

Or so say Penny Nance, president of Concerned Women for America, Ralph Reed, founder of…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah Posner, Sexuality/GenderNovember 18, 2014

Polygamy Still Very Much Alive in Mormon Theology

By Sarah Posner

On my bloggingheads program, I spoke with Joanna Brooks about her piece here, about how the LDS…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerNovember 12, 2014

Will Growing Alliance With Christian Zionists Split the American Jewish Establishment?

By Sarah Posner

Peter Beinart, writing about Sheldon Adelson’s remarks at the inaugural conference of the Israeli American…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerNovember 12, 2014

Israel Votes to Limit Sheldon Adelson

By Sarah Posner

A bill titled a “law for the advancement and protection of written journalism in Israel” passed…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerNovember 5, 2014

Why Don’t “Nones” Vote?

By Sarah Posner

Adding a bit more context to my post from this morning: Pew has analyzed the…

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Politics/Law, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerNovember 5, 2014

Big White Evangelical Turnout for Midterms

By Sarah Posner

Last night’s results show that pollster Robert Jones was far, far too optimistic about the…

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