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How 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…

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Eight Theories on the Prickliness of Mitt Romney

…resses him on a position get stonewalled and badgered? Not fun to watch or listen to, my friends. Not fun at all. Whence cometh the prickliness of Mitt Romney? Eight theses: A. a personality flaw B. a result of having been insulated by class privilege C. a result of developing his leadership style in an LDS institutional culture wherein leaders are expected to appear “flawless” and dissent and open disagreement is not sanctioned D. a consequence o…

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Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in Black Rock City

…Visionary State: A Journey Through California’s Spiritual Landscape, journalist Erik Davis places Burning Man alongside other Golden State phenomena. Burning Man arose from the ashes of Haight-Ashbury and what Davis calls California’s “great polytheistic fusion of transplanted religions, nature mysticism, tools of transport, and creepy cults.” But nineteenth-century camp meetings and spiritualist conventions that upended traditional worship norms…

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The Other, Forgotten Apocalypse of 2011

…(in presumed contrast with the missionary’s slightly different premillenialist predilections). Curiously absent from this list is the conservative Christian persecution watch dog, Voice of the Martyrs, who has remained silent on the incident, despite the fact that it involved violence from a communist government directed at a large group of Christians (a common theme of many of their stories). And then there was the conclusion of the Vietnamese g…

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The Pundits and the Dominionists

With Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann at the top of the list of Republican presidential hopefuls, “dominionism” has garnered a good bit of media attention—Michelle Goldberg’s piece “A Christian Plot for Domination?” at the Daily Beast, Ryan Lizza’s piece “The Transformation of Michele Bachmann” at The New Yorker, and a piece at the Texas Observer, “Rick Perry’s Army of God,”  by Forrest Wilder. The increase in coverage of the religious right’s lon…

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On Women’s Equality Day, Going Back to the Sacred Texts of Feminism

…e Bachmann. As one follows the path running alongside the water wall in Seneca Falls on which is inscribed the Declaration of Sentiments, one passes two blank slates before the Declaration and two after the list of signatories, open spaces, ones for the “matrix of the imagination” to inscribe the next chapter of women’s history writ large, a history that rolls down like justice and equality….

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Moses on Facebook, Christian Pro Soccer, Televangelist Breakfast Cereal, Child Preachers

…sentenced to life in prison for sexual assault last week. The hand of St. James made it back to Reading Abbey just in time for St. James Day. A school board in Virginia has removed the Sherlock Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet from its sixth-grade reading lists because they found the book to be anti-Mormon. The Boston Globe reminds us all that the two Mormon GOP presidential candidates, Mitt Romney and John Huntsman, have different takes on their…

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Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

…whether God has been “allowed in our schools” or not. In fact, below is a list of school shootings from K12 Academics, all of which took place prior to “the removal of God” from our schools: 1700s  • The earliest known United States shooting to happen on school property was the Pontiac’s Rebellion school massacre on July 26, 1764, where four Lenape American Indians entered the schoolhouse near present-day Greencastle, Pennsylvania, shot and kille…

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Judeo-Christian America: The Fall of the ‘Christian Nation’

…ns who are bound by ideals and a set of values.” Tri-Faith America joins a list of new books on religion and American society at midcentury that reformulate the entire era. Whether it was Matthew Avery Sutton showing how Fundamentalist Christian conservatism and nationalism was made, in part, through the technological and cultural innovations of the former Canadian-faith-healer and career divorcée Aimee Semple McPherson just outside of Hollywood,…

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Christian-Only Prayer Rally The Response Goes To Early Primary States

…ugust event. The main themes:   purity and obedience to Jesus. The mailing list from the August Response is being used by the AFA to send voters information about Champion the Vote, a project of the non-profit group United in Purpose, which, according to the L.A. Times, “is using sophisticated data-mining techniques to compile a database of every unregistered born-again and evangelical Christian and conservative Catholic in the country.” United in…

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