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2010: A Banner Year for Biblical Patriarchy

By Julie Ingersoll

…onmental pantheism. Environmental pantheism is a direct attack on the biblical family because it devalues human life and seeks to obliterate the mandate that men through their families take dominion over the earth. Most importantly, it substitutes the worship of the creature, for the worship of the Creator. So how did the Vision Forum do in 2010? Well, it promoted patriarchal male authority, framed any activity outside of motherhood on the part of…

CUFI Entices Donors for Israel with Christmas Ornament

By Sarah Posner

Christians United for Israel, the apocalyptic advocacy group founded by San Antonio televangelist John Hagee, has just announced a generous donor who offered to match donations of up to $500,000, to help it raise a million dollars by the end of the year. CUFI has always maintained — despite all evidence to the contrary — that it is primarily motivated by concern for Israel and the Jews, not by Hagee’s apocalyptic vision for the return of Jesus at…

Spiritual Envy: Michael Krasny’s Agnostic Quest

By Lisa Webster

…id for the feelings of community you get during worship. But it’s hypocritical, because if you don’t believe, or you don’t know certainty in your heart then it doesn’t make any sense and just feeds all these baleful and banal things about religion. I write about that Elvis song, “Crying in the Chapel.” Boy, that just says it. The envy part has to do with people who can feel joy, feel peace, and feel uplifted. I would have welcomed, oddly, those ki…

McCarthy, Born Again and Retooled for Our Time

By Sarah Posner

…ence of Keynesian economics on Obama economic policy, “is kissing the American capitalist system goodnight!” When I asked him for his evidence of the claimed socialist tendencies of House Democrats, he pointed me to the recent reissue of the 1960 book You Can Trust the Communists (To Be Communists), written by the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade’s Fred Schwarz. Schwarz, an Australian evangelist, launched a school in the U.S. to train anti-communi…

“Liberal Nazis”: The Republican Crusade Against NPR

By Paul Harvey

…otestant churches, and some stupas set up in the mountains overlooking the San Luis Valley, historically considered a spiritual center by Native peoples who first inhabited the area. But ethereal spirituality, as the piece makes clear, is a challenge when you’re trying to make it through the bitter winters and swarms of spring mosquitoes in that remote corner of southwestern Colorado. Even those who practice meditation routinely have been known to…

‘Dog-Cat’ Incumbent Reelected to Texas Board of Education

By Lauri Lebo

…ve another four years on the Texas Board of Education last week. Mercer, a San Antonio Republican, remains one of at least five far-right conservatives who will be reviewing new material over the next two years. Nonetheless, the election results spell cautiously good news. The far-right Christian voting bloc on the 15-member board has dwindled. Voters have rejected several of them, including Don McLeroy, who was the chief architect behind the rewr…

Rehabilitating McCarthy: Doug Phillips’ Festival Award

By Julie Ingersoll

…secuted by 20th century communists. There are also documents from Joseph McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee in a context that seems to suggest we should return to the era in which “real Americans” dealt seriously with communists. Agenda asserts that “the Left” is “either ignorant or they’re evil.” “Liberal” Americans (and anyone who does not embrace their agenda is a liberal) are, in the film, literally called the enemies of America…

Replacing Godless Hollywood with Bible-Based “Cultural Dominion”

By Julie Ingersoll

…ian Filmmakers’ Academy, which features Hollywood’s most outspoken evangelical Kirk Cameron as a “faculty” member, intends to create a “Christ-honoring replacement industry outside of Hollywood.” Replacing godless Hollywood with a Christian film industry is one piece of the Christian right strategy known as dominionism: creating “biblical” alternatives to, and ultimately replacements for, secular political, cultural, and economic institutions. The…

White Rockers in Search of Soul Salvation

By Paul Harvey

…ist Church in Savannah, Georgia. The first two are hallowed ground of American musical recording history. The third is the oldest black Baptist congregation in the country; so far as I know, it has no history of being used as a backdrop for popular recordings. All three, though, have deep mythical meanings for white Americans in search of authenticity. For those who could not escape Mellencamp’s older hits—when he still called himself “Cougar”—the…

Obamunism? The Traditional Values Coalition Coins a Term

By Bill Berkowitz

…. Anthony List announced a campaign titled “Stop the Abortion Bailout! Advocacy Campaign.” ++++++++++ 22 Weeks, an Anti-Abortion Docudrama Promotional materials for the new anti-abortion film, 22 Weeks—a joint project of BornAliveTruth and Operation Rescue—declared that the film “tells the true story of a young woman locked in the bathroom of an abortion clinic after her aborted baby was born alive. It’s a film about decisions and the echoes they…