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Christian Zionists, Bibi, Obama, and Armageddon

By Sarah Posner

At Think Progress, Lee Fang highlights how Florida Congressman Dan Webster (of “Taliban Dan” fame) told a local televangelist that if the U.S. were to cut off aid to Israel, “we lose God’s hand and we’re in big time trouble.” Par for the course among Christian Zionists. Genesis 12:3 is their seminal verse, proof-texted to support anything from foreign aid to Israel to maintaining the occupation to bombing Iran. In Genesis, Christian Zionists main…

Famous Atheists, Fat Ministers, Papal Tweets, and a Mega-Hoax

By Michael J. Altman

An atheist in Florida claims she is being harassed by an evangelical sheriff. Here’s a periodic table of famous atheists. An atheist billboard ended up being posted on the property of a church in Ohio. American ministers are fat and happy. The Obedient Wives Club is spreading among Muslim women in Asia. It’s becoming harder for female rabbis to find a puplit. On Tuesday, an elaborate hoax claimed that the Southern Baptist Convention was close to…

God’s Law is the Only Law: The Genesis of Michele Bachmann

By Sarah Posner

…the first day of law school. But Burnetti, now a personal injury lawyer in Florida, told me, “My personal worship experience has changed because of those people, and the way I see God’s active involvement in my life has changed because of that.” The law school at ORU was a first effort at creating a “Christian” law school that would teach the “biblical” foundations of the law—essentially substituting Rushdoony’s totalizing worldview for mainstream…

The Debt Ceiling Crisis and Biblical Economics

By Julie Ingersoll

…group, First Coast Tea Party, for example, is calling members to gather at Florida Senator Bill Nelson’s office today to urge him to vote against a debt ceiling increase. Bachmann’s stance on the debt limit is not unlike Sarah Palin’s opposition to the Federal Reserve that I wrote about here in November 2010. Both are rooted in what I described at a “theocratic reading of the Bible, arising out of the nexus between (Ron) Paul (and now his son, Sen…

It’s Not Just About Ground Zero

By Mark S. Byrnes

…government and it’s 100 percent against our Constitution.” A Gainesville, Florida church has planned a Qur’an burning for the ninth anniversary of September 11. This is what people do when the principle of freedom of religion gets in the way of their fears and prejudices: they deny that it is about religion, and they make it political. This is what anti-Catholic bigots like the Know-Nothings did in the 19th century. Since the structure of the Cat…

Romney Braces for Perry Testosterone Challenge; Huntsman Reboots

By Joanna Brooks

…didn’t file a quarterly report with the FEC, but his reported fundraising numbers (about $4 million, with Huntsman reportedly pitching in about half of that himself) suggest that Republican donors haven’t jumped on board the way his campaign might have hoped. Weeks ago, as his campaign bathed in a luminous media spotlight, Huntsman fancifully compared his chances to catching “lightning in a bottle,” a phrase that sounds like something he fished f…

Islamophobia by PowerPoint

By Julie Ingersoll

…lam. At last week’s First Coast Tea Party-sponsored event in Jacksonville, Florida—“What Every American Needs to Know About the Koran”—Federer came equipped not only with a flashy video presentation and slideshow, but also with a vast collection of distortions and misrepresentations about Islam. Despite repeated assertions that the Tea Party is really about taxes, this was an out-and-out “God and country,” “Christian nation,” Islamophobia-promotin…

Breivik’s Emasculation Paranoia Fueled Vision for Patriarchal “Reforms”

By Julie Ingersoll

…women more stupid and less enlightened than men, since they in such great numbers are paving the way for their own submission? He comes up with an equally provocative answer: “When women are paving the way for sharia, this is presumably because women want sharia.” They don’t want freedom because they feel attracted to subservience and subjugation. The English author Fay Weldon has noted that “For women, there is something sexually very alluring a…

Week in Religion: Satan Sandwich, Captain Israel v. Foreskin Man, Christian Missile Launchers

By Michael J. Altman

…ball league is attracting Jewish American players skipped over by the NBA. Florida Marlins baseball manager Jack McKeon prays to St. Thérèse during the national anthem before every game. Do you speak the Christian lingo? The Air Force has suspended an ethics briefing for missile launch commanders that relied heavily on Christian doctrines. The Philadelphia Museum of Art will exhibit a set of Rembrandt’s paintings of Jesus that have hitherto never…

Rubio’s Failure Reveals Dearth of Moderates in GOP

By Patricia Miller

…y try to do something. Of course, as his final humiliation at the hands of Florida voters shows, it’s hard to build a relationship with your constituents when you run on the pretense of going to Washington and not doing anything for them. Of course, Ted Cruz is an even a bigger advocate of tearing the government down, and he won his state of Texas and almost 2.5 times the number of delegates. But just as Donald Trump has found his constituency amo…