Religion Dispatches
…n Isidro basilica in Leon, Spain for the past week, in order to see a 2,000-year-old ebony cup that has been dubbed the original chalice of Christ. The crowds got so heavy, in fact, that the vessel was removed from display. But there are pictures of it all over the news. It looks like this: My first thought upon seeing photos of this ancient relic was, That can’t be right. It doesn’t look like that. My second thought was, Why do I think I know w…
Read More…g! Get ready! Planet earth is about to become the playground for the Anti-Christ and his New World Order. The church will be raptured before the Anti-Christ appears; and I believe he could be introduced in Europe at any time. Pray up! Pack up! We’re going up…and very soon. I’ll chat with you next week! I hope his followers, for their sakes, didn’t pack up too much stuff, because he was back the very next week with this: If there was ever a ti…
Read More…eality,” which pinpoints where the next world “hot spot” will be. That soon-to-be-flaming location is where the Book of Esther was set: namely Persia, or in modern parlance, Iran. Seated beside Lapin in the ornately gilded Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) studio was Pastor John Hagee, the author of an incendiary new book purporting to show that the Bible predicts a military confrontation with Iran. By then, Hagee’s book, Jerusalem Countdown, had…
Read More…has been the place where GOP presidents are made by the religious right. In 1979, as Huckabee recounts in his book, his then-boss James Robison organized a meeting of the emerging leaders of the religious right at a Dallas “Freedom Rally,” where, according to Huckabee, Robison realized the political power of conservative Christians and “would later be a part of a small circle of conservative evangelical leaders who would meet with Ronald Reagan an…
Read More…ortune married Benjamin Stakes—a divorcé. The status of LaFortune’s husband-to-be was revealed in a school newspaper featuring the couple’s upcoming nuptials. According to Catholic doctrine, marriage must be between an unmarried man and unmarried woman. Citing this doctrine, Deacon Patrick Cunningham of Central Catholic High suggested she either resign or seek an annulment. He stated in a letter to LaFortune: There is a high likelihood of scandal…
Read More…to acknowledge whether Strache had attended. Also reportedly present was 24-year-old Marion Marechal-Le Pen, a French politician for the far-right National Front party. Marechal-Le Pen is also the granddaughter of the party’s founder and niece of its current leader Marine Le Pen. Miranda Blue at Right Wing Watch notes: As it happens, the Russian oligarch who convened the meeting is Konstantin Malofeev, who is also heavily involved with the Illinoi…
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…amilies has regional conferences scheduled in Belgrade, Serbia on September 16-18 and Nairobi, Kenya on September 23-25 each featuring an array of speakers from the global religious right. Another regional conference is planned for Cape Town, South Africa, in December. WCF hosted a regional conference in Argentina in June. The Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers published a wide-ranging interview with British activist Peter Tatchell, who spoke about…
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…isitor. That’s a useful reminder of a central significance of guns that non-gun-owners often forget: They’re fun. They’re owned and used largely for sport. And when they’re not being used, guns can be fondled for the pure pleasure of it. The fun aspect, too, is largely seen as a “guy thing,” even when the gun owners are women. Teddy Roosevelt knew all this very well when he led his well-armed Rough Riders up San Juan hill, and when he sent the Gr…
Read MoreChristians United for Israel, the apocalyptic advocacy group founded by San Antonio televangelist John Hagee, has just announced a generous donor who offered to match donations of up to $500,000, to help it raise a million dollars by the end of the year. CUFI has always maintained — despite all evidence to the contrary — that it is primarily motivated by concern for Israel and the Jews, not by Hagee’s apocalyptic vision for the return of Jesus at…
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…ddlers in order to “wear them out.” Baucham, who helped popularize the Stay-at-Home-Daughter Movement, has written that a father’s job “is to present our daughters to their husbands as virgin brides.” Baucham is not an outlier among TGC’s contributors. TGC council member Kevin DeYoung wrote an editorial for the site in 2020 advocating that Christians “strongly consider having more children than you think you can handle” as a “culture war strategy”…
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