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Religious Right “Compassion” and Other Lies

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ought to even bear consideration is because Sprigg and people like him dedicate their entire careers to making the lives of gays and lesbians so incredibly miserable. They produce ridiculous studies full of lies that no reputable psychologist or social scientist would touch with a ten foot pole and when their scientific lies are exposed they play the religion card and say, “well, God didn’t create you gay.” What creates the “hopelessness” of being…

Focus on the Family’s Conversation Starter a Non-Starter

By Sarah Posner

…f history.” But his current offer to talk led one religious pro-choice advocate, Catholics for Choice president Jon O’Brien, to remark that Daly’s “mindset is not one of understanding, compassion or respect for women — it is not possible to have a conversation when his starting point would put American woman back in the dark ages.” We’ve head the words “common ground” before; and while many of the proponents of “common ground” on abortion said the…

Unreasonable Doubt: Vincent Bugliosi Defends Agnosticism

By Eric Reitan

…ndeed, endearing account of Bugliosi’s relationship with his late, beloved cat, whom he calls “the egg.” At the end of it all, no one with substantive background in theology or philosophy of religion (and I suspect few lay readers who have been following the recent God debates with care) will come away from Bugliosi’s book confronted with arguments they haven’t encountered elsewhere, typically in a more philosophically powerful form. And, for reas…

Rick Perry and the New Apostolic Reformation

By Sarah Posner

…ponsors and participants in his prayer rally are like endorsers of a political campaign; he can’t help it if they compare gay people to Nazis, for example. But obviously this is more than an endorsement; it’s a collaboration. And it’s a collaboration that is gaining not just more endorsers, but the imprimatur and participation of the religious right elite. At this point the more interesting development to watch is how much traction it gets with th…

How Breivik’s “Cultural Analysis” is Drawn from the “Christian Worldview”

By Sarah Posner

…Piven, Bill Ayers and others in a complex diabolical plot to subvert American capitalism. Bowers’ film shows handwritten charts, which endeavor to demonstrate that Gramsci, who died in 1937, has played a crucial role in the trajectory of the American left, leading to the election of Barack Obama. As Fischer, who nonetheless relies on the same demonizing, scapegoating ideology, protests, Breivik doesn’t share his view of Christianity or his strate…

When Religion Kills: The Narco-Traffickers of the Borderlands

By Luis Leon

…of Peace and advising his followers to turn the other cheek. Yet, in other canonical places Jesus is capable of great anger and even violence: he upsets the tables of money changers at the Temple, whipping them while in a frenzy (this is a pivotal reference for Eldredge). Jesus also demonstrates a destructive response when piqued, what with cursing (and killing) a tree that bore no fruit. In his telling, Jesus was not a nice guy; on the contrary,…

Jeffress is Both Right and Wrong on Religion & Politics

By Peter Montgomery

…ee speech and to believe that it is not good for our country to have political campaigns revolve around which candidate’s faith is more sincere, or for policy debates to turn into battles over competing interpretations of scripture. I will be the first to acknowledge that there is plenty of room for honest disagreement about where to draw the lines between what does and does not violate the spirit of the Constitution; what is and is not the approp…

This is not a Religion Column: Sarah Palin, American

By Jeff Sharlet

…at he wrote was no longer publishable, but he sat in his empty, pure, American landscape pounding out more and more of it, trying to get at the monster he couldn’t name. Nearly 40 years after his death, Palin has dragged Pegler into the spotlight again and resurrected his blinking words. In his mind, they were hate, but in her speech, they were theology. Palin, for all her bigotries, is not a hater. She’s too holy for that. Her religion allows her…

By the Way: Fractured Religious Right Endorses McCain

By Randall Balmer

…alternative is so bad,” Phyllis Schlafly declared, “we must support John McCain.” The meeting was called by Mathew Staver, dean of the law school at Liberty University. Those in attendance included Phil Burress, president of Citizens for Community Values in Ohio, Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr., Donald Hodel, former head of the Christian Coalition and Focus on the Family, and Jim Garlow, pastor of Skyline Church in San Diego. Also pre…

By the Way: Fractured Religious Right Endorses McCain

By Randall Balmer

…alternative is so bad,” Phyllis Schlafly declared, “we must support John McCain.” The meeting was called by Mathew Staver, dean of the law school at Liberty University. Those in attendance included Phil Burress, president of Citizens for Community Values in Ohio, Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr., Donald Hodel, former head of the Christian Coalition and Focus on the Family, and Jim Garlow, pastor of Skyline Church in San Diego. Also pre…