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Herman Cain: The Tea Party-Religious Right Candidate?

By Sarah Posner

…he be the Tea Party-religious right merger candidate? As I reported in February, Cain co-founded tvTownhall with religious right activist Allen Hardage, who told me “you cannot restore this country to the founding fathers’ vision and exclude the fact that they understood our rights and ability to grow as a nation from our reverence to God.” At the tvTownhall website, the “about” link brings you to an extended biography (and beaming photograph) of…

Conservative Republican Muslim Condemns Fox Report on Congressional Staffers as “Anti-Muslim Bigotry”

By Sarah Posner

…the government; rather the status permits it to use space and provides a structure for leadership. Other groups include Christian and Jewish organizations that host prayer and study sessions. The CMSA, Khan said, engages in two main activities: hosting briefings on a variety of issues; and hosting a Congressional iftar each year that is widely attended, including by elected officials. Friday prayers are held by individual staffers, some of whom ar…

Lila Rose Targets Planned Parenthood with Lies

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…though Catholic teaching hasn’t addressed scenarios in which telling the truth causes evil—the Nazis-at-the-door scenario, for example. Catholic teaching includes the doctrine of “mental reservation”: a kind of equivocation wherein someone says something which is deliberately misleading, ambiguous, confusing, or only truthful in a verrrry technical sense. Discussions of mental reservation can quickly become bogged down in technicalities, but imag…

Pledging Virginity to Dad: A New Doc Explores the World of ‘Purity Balls’

By Jessica Valenti

…at-great-grandmother’s wedding ring as a purity ring and is taught about “fruitfulness.” A family friend reads from a prepared speech, telling her, “If and when God brings that Godly man into your life and opens your womb, becoming a mother will be one of the most profound and significant things you ever do.” “Biblical fruitfulness is the opposite of what today’s culture promotes. Our culture actually celebrates barrenness.” Even to the women who…

Ted Haggard on ‘Loveless’ Evangelical Church

By Lauri Lebo

…He refers to it as the “tragedy” that befell him, an interesting choice of word for someone who says he’s accepted responsibility for his actions. He says the three weeks of trauma resolution therapy he received saved him and since then he says he has not had “one compulsive thought or one compulsive act.” Haggard tells me later that his message hasn’t changed and that he has always espoused a message of love. But the ubiquitous Youtube videos cer…

Kanye West’s Critique of Prosperity Preaching

By Josef Sorett

…that Jesus walks with “the least of these”—namely, “strippers, murderers, drug dealers.” We might consider the song a pop culture take on a post-black liberation theology, perhaps… In the third video, titled the “Street Version,” Kanye offers a more explicit, if subtle, parody of the prosperity gospel. Throughout the video Kanye is trailed through the streets of his hometown, Chicago, by an goofy white Jesus who performs a series of miracles. He p…

AIPAC and the Israel Lobby: A Graphic Retrospective

By Dan Archer

…here. For coverage of the story from the Times go here. Panel 6: Watch FW videos here. Panel 7: Adelson’s financial status in 2007, can be found here. Quote from the Forward. Panel 8: Quote from the Dutch documentary program Tegenlicht about the Israel lobby in the USA. View for free online. (Quote appears at 10:21). More information on Christians United for Israel here. Page 3 Panel 1: Stats from Parade magazine. Panel 2: Veto list taken from he…

Jesus Goes to the Dark Carnival: Hell House Gets a Makeover?

By W. Scott Poole

…use is less fantastical, more closely tied to the supposedly safe suburban world inhabited by the majority of the youths who attend them. It is that world of soccer moms and patriarchal traditions, youth groups and church activities, mission trips and Christian music, that offers safety and security. The message of Judgement House is that beyond this world, and beyond the simplistic theology they offer, lies nothing but madness, death… and hell. H…

Huckabee in the Holy Land: A Christian Zionist Campaign

By Shalom Goldman

…Israel.” Truman said in response. “What do you mean helped create? I am Cyrus, I am Cyrus.” As a consequence of Cyrus’ proclamation and the subsequent ‘Return to Zion’ the Second Temple was built, standing for four centuries before its destruction at the hands of the Romans in 70 CE. Rabbi Melamed and some of his colleagues in the Settler Movement believe that they are obligated and destined to build the Third Temple, a structure that would repla…

Mexico’s War on Saint Death

By Joseph Laycock

…st every town on the Mexican border. Devotees leave offerings of flowers, fruit, tequila, rum, and tobacco. Immigrants crossing the border illegally have been found with icons of the saint. While no one is certain where the movement originated, some have speculated that Vatican II deprived Mexican Catholics of devotional practices, causing new traditions to be invented. Others believe Santa Muerte is the product of hybridity: a Catholicized incarn…