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Huckabee in the Holy Land: A Christian Zionist Campaign

By Shalom Goldman

…standing of the United States’ recognition of Israel. In a conversation at New York City’s Jewish Theological Seminary, the rabbinical school of Conservative Judaism, Truman was introduced as “the man who helped create the State of 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 cent…

It’s Only a Game: How Not to Think about Video Game Violence

By Joanna Brooks

…has in the name of freedom of speech legalized the sale of animal torture videos and struck down limits on corporate political spending on the grounds that corporations have free speech rights too. But in his dissenting opinion, Justice Stephen Breyer asked, “What sense does it make to forbid selling to a 13-year-old boy a magazine with an image of a nude woman, while protecting the sale to that 13-year-old of an interactive video game in which h…

Lila Rose, Defunding Planned Parenthood, and “Christian Worldview”

By Sarah Posner

…rings organization that teaches teenagers and young adults about the only true worldview, Christianity. I wrote about Summit last year: [David] Noebel, or “Doc” as his devotees call him, is the doyen of Summit Ministries, the Manitou Springs, Colorado-based institution founded in 1962 to teach evangelical teens about anti-God, anti-Christian threats to the “Christian worldview” and the American way of life. In his seminal textbook, Understanding t…

Romney Braces for Perry Testosterone Challenge; Huntsman Reboots

By Joanna Brooks

…r place. The Huntsman team held a closed-door reboot session on Friday. No word yet on what the new, more “aggressive” Huntsman will look like. But if Matt David had a hand in bringing on Fred Davis to develop the crypto-quirky Huntsman-on-a-motorcycle videos the campaign released to introduce the candidate back in June, I’m worried. And my worry is not eased by the fact that no one in the Huntsman campaign communications department has fixed the…

Replacing Godless Hollywood with Bible-Based “Cultural Dominion”

By Julie Ingersoll

…iew” that draws heavily on Christian Reconstructionist founder Rousas John Rushdoony. That worldview includes extreme patriarchal gender roles, marriages arranged by fathers, a 200-year “family vision” to establish faithful “multi-generational families,” and a view of world history based on Rushdoony’s Biblical Philosophy of History, that is like David Barton’s Christian American history writing on steroids. In this view, all of human history—from…

Gospel and Soul Lose a King and Queen

By Anthea Butler

…ove of women, he said: “I just got stuck on that bible verse that said be fruitful and multiply.” The passing of these two greats should be mourned not only for their contributions to the musical world, but for their contributions to helping keeping slick, overproduced, vapid praise songs from taking over every black church. Nothing irks me more than to attend a service with soulless worship music being sung by folks who want an easy life. Both Wa…

What Makes a Human Bomb Tick?

By Gordon Haber

…ribe ideological motives to their loved one’s act of simultaneous self-destruction and homicide. Friends and family do it, perhaps due to the stigma against suicide. Terrorist leaders make the same claims for propaganda purposes. Even the bombers themselves, in their final videos (another cliché) speak of their delight in martyrdom—which Lankford sees as an attempt to mask the “shame and disgrace” of suicide. Western experts, looking for a compreh…

As U.S. Went to Hell, R.E.M. Hung in Without Cynicism

By Brian K. Pennington

…very day that the state of Georgia, who also gave us R.E.M., conducted a brutally cold execution as the world looked on in disbelief, nothing might have seemed more insignificant than the retirement of a few wealthy, successful rock stars. But maybe it was a response fully in line with the band’s often unspoken religiosity. Take that video, for example [scroll down to watch]: has there ever been 4 minutes of pop culture as spiritually powerful as…

Will a Video Game Make Sense of Qaddafi’s Death?

By Rachel Wagner

…vigorously defend our myopia even as we deny we have it. We see only those news stories we wish to see, and we see them in as fragmented a form as we wish. This, we claim, is “freedom.” We often feel we need know nothing at all of the historical or social situations that give rise to important climactic moments in countries other than our own. How many of the people who play the Kuma Games Qaddafi mission will know much more of the story than what…

AIPAC and the Israel Lobby: A Graphic Retrospective

By Dan Archer

…or more about the Brookings Institute go here. Panel 4: Quote taken from a New York Times article. Panel 5: More on Freedom’s Watch 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)….