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The Democrats’ Real Religion Problem, And All Of Ours

By Daniel Schultz

…ine. Why doesn’t anyone talk about Reinhold Niebuhr anymore? Q: Who is the great and only prophet of black liberation in America? A: Martin Luther King is the great and only prophet. Q: Who marched with King? A: Abraham Heschel marched with King. Q: Who was the evangelical president? A: Jimmy Carter (blessed be his name) was the evangelical president. Q: Have Democrats lost their way? A: Since the 1980’s Democrats no longer speak the language of f…

Pence Campaigns to Southern Baptists, But He May Want to Cool His Trump Jets

By Daniel Schultz

…with the Southern Baptist Convention and commended the SBC as “one of the greatest forces for good” in the world. … Pence thanked Southern Baptists for carrying the “timeless message” of the Gospel “every day with such faithfulness to the American people.” No podium Trump or Pence stand behind, the vice president said, “will be of greater consequence than the pulpits you stand behind.” When then-candidate for president Barack Obama addressed the…

Group Behind King James Bible Congressional Resolution Thinks Obama Might Be Antichrist

By Sarah Posner

…, Levesque read at length from the Book of Revelation. Then, with all that great fire and brimstone in his audience’s mind, he observed that Obama’s motorcade vehicle is called “the Beast,” that Barack “means thunder and lightning” and that the name of his then-Chief of Staff, Rahm Emmanuel, means “lightning, God with us.” But Levesque saved the greatest conspiracy theories of them all for his conclusion: “Why doesn’t Obama answer the questions ab…

Some Of My Best Friends Are Nazi Reenactors! And Soft Porn Producers!

By Sarah Posner

…er was that I don’t work on Shabbat – the Jewish Sabbath. He said, “That’s great, I’m glad you take a break every week and spend quality time with your family!” . . . . Rich has been an overnight guest in our Kosher home, his wife Chris, and their children Ian and Devon, are always welcome. . . . Anytime the subject comes up Rich is not shy about his stance on Israel and the importance of it remaining a Jewish state. I know he also traveled to Is…

Franklin Graham Defends Himself from Birtherism Charges by Engaging in… Birtherism

By Sarah Posner

…ked about who are very good people who I could support. Mike Huckabee is a great man. He is a preacher. No question this man is saved. I like Mike Huckabee a lot. You have Sarah Palin, who is a fine lady, who has great experience as governor, as a mayor, a very successful author, good family. Her husband is a man’s man. He is one tough guy. Her kids are nice. When they talk to you they look you in the eye. Sarah has some very good ideas that could…

Taking Evangelical Support of Israel at Face Value Is a Terrible Idea: A Response

By Chrissy Stroop

…has been through subsequent history, supersessionist beliefs have caused a great deal of harm. Witness, for example, the extremely anti-Semitic writing of the aging Martin Luther, whose expectation, that his “purification” of Christianity would lead to large-scale Jewish conversion, had been dashed. But what about that apocalyptic violence, the notion that when Jesus returns he’ll “kill all the Jews”? Well, I was certainly never taught that growin…

Pseudo-Historian David Barton in the Times and on The Daily Show

By Julie Ingersoll

…the annual volume of the prayers being offered. For years it has recorded great numbers of prayers. But suddenly in 1961-63, the index tumbled; millions of prayers were no longer being prayed…the termination of millions of individual public school prayers had a significant impact.” Confusing correlation with causation is bad enough but Barton actually argues that the decline is demonstrably due to the fact that all those school children were no l…

Noah’s All-White Ark, and Other Odd Directorial Choices

By Wil Gafney

…ns. Noah speaks of the destruction of the whole world and eventually, with great reluctance, the re-peopling of the world—which seems to be all white. As origin stories Genesis and Enoch are not scientific texts, but they do have their own logic: earth brown humans are crafted from the brown earth humus and from them descend peoples of all nations. The ancient Israelites who crafted and preserved these stories knew people came in variety and accou…

Dear Amazon Prime, I’m Not a Racist, But Why Are You Destroying My Precious Middle-Earth With Black Hobbits?

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…adjectives to describe her as white when he says that she “was a woman of great beauty, smaller than were most women of that land, with bright eyes,” and that she was “fairer than silver or ivory or pearls”! I’m fully aware that the Old English word “beorht” means “bright,” “of color,” “righteous,” and even “wise.” I also know that “leoht” means “light” and “luminary”; and that “fair”—or “faeger” in Old English—means “beautiful” or “attractive.”…

Why 9/11 Changed Everything Nothing

By Paul Harvey

…minimal weight in the era of Theodore Roosevelt, one of American history’s greatest apostles of redemption through violence. Once more, war as a force to give meaning fed into the narratives soldiers gave to their experiences during World War I. Far from being a period of “disillusionment” for most, it was instead a period of “reillusionment,” as Jonathan Ebel has pointed out in Faith in the Fight: Religion and the American Soldier in the Great Wa…