Akin and the God Factor
…, who owes nothing to anyone other than his God, his family, and his loyal base. Yup. (UPDATE: In case you had any doubts, check out this lengthy list of pastor and Christian activist endorsements on his site.) …
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Family Research Council is Attacked—Tony Perkins is Quick to Blame SPLC
Listen to FRC president Tony Perkins talk about the deplorable shooting that took place at his group’s headquarters yesterday: [The shooter] was given a license to shoot an unarmed man by organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center that have been reckless in labeling organizations as hate groups because they disagree with them on public policy. Naturally, you want to tear your hair out. You want to mention that if the Southern Poverty Law…
Read MoreLDS Church Drops Missionary Age for Women to 19
…mental, pragmatic ways to increase egalitarianism within the Church without doctrinal change. Signatures have been collecting in support of a list of such changes published by Mormon women last month….
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#OccupyWallStreet and the Antichrist
…y the other types of institutions Kazin names, and I’d add churches to his list of “think tanks, legal societies, lobbyists, talk radio and best-selling manifestos.” The Democratic Party thinks it can’t afford in any way to support an institution that might take on the Wall Streeters who stuff campaign coffers with cash. Fear of an imagined “false prophet of peace” and prophesied leader of a “one-world government” and “one-world economy” could he…
Read MoreJews and Christians for Santorum?
…uslim high school students, secularists, and yes, Mormons, are also on his list. Perusing my inbox, a sampling: “Obama’s Fraudulent Faith Just Unmasked.” “Obama’s Economic Policy Directly Opposes the Bible.” “Rick Santorum is Right: Satan Has Targeted America.” “Stand Strong: Stop the Intimidation Today.” “Twisted Scripture: Overcoming the Lies of Homosexuality.” “URGENT: Stop Sharia Law in Florida.” “Obama Withholds Important Opt-Out for Christia…
Read MoreHow Mormon is Mitt Romney? Over 50 Jokes For Trump
…the Secret Service with the Danites. Mitt is so Mormon his Secret Service codename will be Mahonri Moriancumr. Mitt is so Mormon he thinks Harvard is the BYU of the east. Mitt is so Mormon he thought the debt ceiling was something that could only happen in a temple. Mitt is so Mormon, he doesn’t campaign: he “fellowships.” Mitt is so Mormon that he’s installing two basketball hoops at the inaugural ball so there’s a place to hang decorations. Mit…
Read MoreGay and Christian and About to Lose Their Jobs
…that institutions such as the military and private Christian colleges, who promote the ideas of honesty and integrity would force their members to adhere to statements that may result in employees feeling they must lie or hide to protect their livelihoods. Certainly, those who don’t like it can find new jobs and Shorter will have the employee base it wants — good, obedient, homogenized Christians who gladly sign a list of beliefs and adhere to the…
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Jeff Sharlet’s Weird Religion, in 13 Chapters
…ce needs the wide-open space of east Texas to ground a globetrotting evangelistic enterprise, while Will’s globetrotting activism leans on his grounding in Kenilworth, Illinois. Plots are constantly plotted. Ultimately, emplotting people’s tales and locations entails their humanity, and hence we stumble over the third emplotment, the cemetery plot. In “Begin with the Dead,” Cornel West offers his attitudes toward teaching and all other manner of…
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Waiting for Lightning to Strike: A Wobbly Agnostic among the Atheists
…there is no God, just as I always knew there was a God. Call us fundamentalists, the two of us. But here’s the difference: I am a reformed fundamentalist. I can now entertain the idea that my truth may not be the only truth. I want to understand, to listen and consider other people’s points of view, even when I find their convictions strange or frightening. That’s why I’m here. If I reject this group’s beliefs without understanding them, then I h…
Read MoreRomney’s Mild Rebuke to Bryan Fischer, and Fischer’s Ugly Speech
…f sincere, authentic, genuine Chrisitan faith.” In the rest of his laundry list of presidential prerequisites, Fischer veered from there to discuss the “mythical separation of church and state,” the need for a president to “reject the morally and scientifically bankrupt theory of evolution,” and to believe in “the same Creator” as the founders— the “creator revealed in the pages of the Old and New Testaments.” That led him to an extended anti-Musl…
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