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“Far Too Extreme For America To Accept,” Hamas “Endorsed Obama,” “Forced Abortions,” and More

By Sarah Posner

…anti-Christian ACLU.” Some of Wheeler’s recent columns at the conservative site Townhall have included “America’s Enemies Prefer Obama,” “Queen of Jihad” (referring to Nancy Pelosi), and “Obama Stimulating Marxist Revolution Using Taxpayer Money.” These, and the ad, are not merely words of political demonization; they evoke religious conflict and Christianity versus satanic forces. The PAC raised $11 million and spent $10 million in the 2008 cycle…

Capricology: Television, Tech, and the Sacred

By Diane Winston

…family in the future destruction of humanity. Zoe’s life is like that web site FMylife, instead on Caprica, it’s frak my life. Imagine: you’re a teenager thinking about blowing up a virtual reality club, your parents find out you are in trouble at school and ground you. In the process of running away from home you “die”. Your dad pretends to love your virtual reality self, but instead, captures you and sticks you into a giant metal body. That’s a…

Academic Freedom Bills

By Lauri Lebo

…publicists for the Ben Stein movie Expelled, launched a joint-venture Web site that not only promoted “academic freedom” bills, but provided sample wording for writing the legislation. Stein held press conferences and showings of the movie—which tries to make the argument (poorly) that academic freedom is under attack because science professors are being persecuted for believing in intelligent design—in states where the bills had been introduced….

Lou Engle Attacks Planned Parenthood Facility As “Abortion Super-Center”

By Sarah Posner

…ston, we have a problem,” Engle intones in a new “crisis” video on his web site. In the video, which is filled with his characteristic predictions of the earth-shattering impact of his prayer movement, he claims that an unspecified “they” are calling the clinic “an abortion super center.” But who is the they? Engle himself. In unveiling its planned move to the new facility, Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas announced, “we look forw…

Religion at Decade’s End

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ce on the northern pole when the time comes for someone to reflect on this site about religion’s future in 2020. A decade can be a very long time, and some things can move and change very rapidly indeed. Global warming is such a thing. Max Weber famously observed that capitalism’s real crisis would come when the last bit of the earth’s coal had been burned. What contemporary environmental scientists have reminded and urged upon us is the way in w…

Religious Right: God Should Kill Health Care Reform to Save America from Herod

By Sarah Posner

…n Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (the former governor of Kansas, the site of some of the most violent anti-abortion extremism) “the most pro-abortion governor in America.” Wright followed FRC’s Perkins, who claimed health care reform efforts are not about the well-being of Americans, but a “Planned Parenthood bailout.” Americans United for Life’s Charmaine Yoest portrayed Planned Parenthood as an evil giant motivated by profit (even though i…

Quiverfull on Your TV

By The Editors

…If you get the Women’s Entertainment channel in your cable package, be sure to tune in tonight at ten to see RD’s Kathryn Joyce discuss her book Quiverfull on a special program, “Born to Breed.” For other broadcast times, check out the web site. …

The Abandoned Orphanage: Hillary Clinton’s Mother Teresa Moment

By Jeff Sharlet and Kathryn Joyce

…tiative, “cutting red tape with the housing authorities and human services officials.” The Mother Teresa Home for Infant Children opened in 1995. On opening day, writes Clinton, Mother Teresa “gripped my arm in her small, strong hand and dragged me upstairs to see the freshly painted nursery and rows of bassinets waiting to be filled with infants. Her enthusiasm was irresistible. By then I fully understood how this humble nun could move nations to…

Alleged Fort Hood Shooter Is Muslim. So What?

By Sarah Posner

…h to Pope Benedict XVI has condemned. But that did not stop right-wing web sites from exploding with incendiary speculation about a “Jihad at Fort Hood?” and a “Terrorist Incident in Texas.” The Huffington Post reported this morning that a Republican congressional candidate in Florida, Allen West, a retired mililtary officer, issued a statement on the massacre headlined “Terrorists Are Infiltrating the Military.” Muslim groups were quick to condem…

Would Tea Partiers Consider Jefferson a Heretic?

By Lauri Lebo

…who follow attacks by the religious right on civil liberties. From the web site: 1) The faith of Thomas Paine — the man who inspired the American Revolution, and the writing of the Declaration of Independence. This film shows how Paine’s influence over the Revolution was critical, while his anti-Christian writings revealed much of what the other founders truly believed. 2) The faith of Thomas Jefferson — author of the Declaration of Independence….