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“[I] Pray For Barack Obama To Die And Go To Hell”: The Story The Media Missed

By Frederick Clarkson

…self (in addition to being pastor of a church) as the owner of a “firearms business” operating in “several states” and closed with a plea for an American government based on God’s laws as set out in the biblical book of Deuteronomy. The Constitution Party (which has tended to be the political home for people with views strikingly similar to Anderson’s) is frequently dismissed as a fringe party of little electoral consequence, even though its signi…

This Just In: College Will Make You an Atheist

By Susan Henking

…, of course, on your stance, religion can be seen as a potential savior of American society (not to mention individuals). In this regard, the Heritage Foundation has been adamant that religion is of critical importance to sustaining social stability. Others note that the spiritual lives of American undergraduates are both important to them (perhaps increasingly so), and nurturing that spirituality critical to higher education’s public responsibili…

Far-Right Evangelicals And The Campaign Against Obama

By Frank Schaeffer

…the evangelical “left” who are tied to these groups.) Above all, ordinary Americans—and especially religious people who seek faith rather than power—need to understand that the evangelical right is basically unpatriotic and anti-American. They feel alienated from the diverse, pluralistic country that America has become, and are working to undermine it both here and abroad. They resent the system that allowed Obama to succeed, and they worship wha…

Hagee and McCain Part Ways

By Ira Chernus

…time. Linking one’s political fortunes to a preacher is bound to be risky business. Pulpits are supposed to be places where controversial words are uttered. Who would want to attend a church, mosque, temple, or synagogue where the sermons never risked offending anyone? They would be as bland and superficial as they would be boring. So a pastoral endorsement or connection is an utterly unpredictable animal that can jump out and bite you at any mom…

Purpose Driven Politics: Rick Warren’s Civil Service

By Bill Berkowitz

…a press release posted on Christian Newswire, “Over 1,700 leading pastors, business and Christian institutional leaders from 39 countries and all 50 states gathered” at Lake Forest’s Saddleback Church for a three day Purpose Driven Network Summit organized, “to create The PEACE Coalition, a new international alliance of churches, businesses, ministries, universities, and other institutions.” P.E.A.C.E. is an acronym for: Promote reconciliation; Eq…

The Religious Right’s Apocalyptic Visions of an Obama Presidency

By Bill Berkowitz

…oppression has now taken over” the country, and “hundreds of thousands of ‘American sympathizers’ have been labeled traitors, imprisoned, tortured, and killed.” At home, Obama directed U.S. intelligence services “to cease all wiretapping of alleged terrorist phone calls unless they first obtained a specific court warrant for each case.” Captured overseas terrorists are no longer given military tribunals but are “now given full trials in the U.S. c…

Joe the Plumber: Horatio Alger with Plumber’s Crack

By Jonathan L. Walton

…t it. The Joe the Plumber costume works in the minds of a critical mass of American society because it strikes a familiar cultural chord. He is the archetype of a hard-working, thrifty, and industrious Americans who simply want government “out of the way” so that he can thrive. In this regard, Joe the Plumber is the latest reincarnation of the ahistorical, decontextualized protagonist of America’s myth of success. The narrative is so neat, compell…

Pat Robertson: No Longer a Relevant Player

By Becky Garrison

…y book Red and Blue God, Black and Blue Church: Eyewitness Accounts of How American Churches are Hijacking Jesus, Bagging the Beatitudes, and Worshipping the Almighty Dollar , I cited how the words of the Greatest Commandment have been repeated ad nauseam to the point where the radical message of Christ has been lost in our “yeah, right” cynical culture. Sometimes this cynicism is warranted. For instance, let’s take a look at the pronouncements of…

Even After an Obama Victory Reports of the Death of the Religious Right are Greatly Exaggerated

By Bill Berkowitz

…onomic concerns, which all of the polls show are of most importance to the American people.” But, Boston noted, “these organizations will have to do some strategic shifting.” Without virtually any “clout in the White House and among the congressional majority leadership, religious right groups will have to start focusing more on state and local governments. This could mean more church-state conflict and ‘culture war’ battles in local public school…

Michael Jackson, Muslim

By Hussein Rashid

…get us. [/sarcasm] —- OK, now that I’ve got the Islamophobe’s rant out of the way, here’s my real take on Jackson’s conversion: Who cares? He’s a dated, washed-up recluse who is no longer musically important and is culturally relevant only amongst comics. What he chooses as his faith is his business. Global Voices does a good round-up, as always, of what the world is saying on the topic, and to be honest, all the good stuff was taken. Read them….