Religion Dispatches
…freedom (especially Christian religious freedom), Dr. Gary Cass at the web site Defend Christians has come out with his top ten “Anti-Christian Acts of 2010.” Coming it at number one on the hit parade is the passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) that ended employment discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Americans. Cass warns that the new law “would force ministries to hire people who oppose the beliefs o…
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…president could stage a photo-op with the Bible in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church. He didn’t go into the church; he didn’t speak about religion or offer up a Biblical passage. He simply delivered a visual message that said, “No one is going to stop me; I’m the most powerful person in the country and my wishes will not be denied.” Once the pictures were taken, the entourage moved back to the White House. They’d never even asked permission to…
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…ism rather than means of God’s grace. In fact, that’s exactly what the web site of Wasilla Bible Church says. But I would hope that even these traditions wouldn’t take it so lightly as to joke about it in the context of waterboarding. Or even if it is considered OK to joke about waterboarding being baptism by these folks, I’d hope they recognize how blasphemous it sounds to the ears of Christians who retain the historic and high view of the sacram…
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…ic killings of Nuban civilians. White body bags were also seen at a second site containing two apparent pits, where, according to the SSP report, a witness saw men “unloading dead bodies from the trucks and depositing them in the open pits” including some that appeared to be in bags that were ‘white’ and ‘plastic’; others were in light brown bags made of a different kind of material. Some bodies were not in any type of body bag or wrapping.” No on…
Read More…it warned that in light of the religious and political sensitivity of the site, “violent confrontations are liable to develop with our forces.” Three days later the intelligence researchers stated: “Arafat is not interested in an all-out confrontation, which is liable to pull the ground from under him.” A 2004 investigation…conducted by MI’s Palestinian desk, found unequivocally that the second intifada erupted as a “popular protest” because peop…
Read More…es being raised now in defense of building the center near the ground zero site. For the religious right, religious freedom is about “defending” Christians against anti-Christian bigotry. That sort of supposed “discrimination” includes letting gay people get married, not allowing prayer in public settings, and the like. In other words, the religious right not getting its way. The right is so dedicated to this narrative that it has succeeded in ref…
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…B-A-M and another A you get o-BAMA. That’s a link. I’m just saying. Lowe’s = Obama = Socialism. Think about that, left-wingers. RM: I think Lowes’ ill-conceived PR decisions of late are even mind-boggling to my Canadian Socialist self! In your role in taking over our entertainment industry, you’ve appeared in some of America’s best-loved shows. You are even versatile enough to play brown, Muslim, American terrorists. But don’t you find your role i…
Read More…econd-generation Indian Americans are working to Americanize Hinduism. The Hill Cumorah Pageant wraps up this weekend in New York. The festival takes place on the site where Mormon founder Joseph Smith discovered the golden plates that became the Book of Mormon….
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…d have been ripped from the headlines of the sensationalistic conservative site World Net Daily, but the setting was far more staid. The speaker, David Noebel, part of The King’s College Distinguished Visitors series, was introduced by outgoing King’s Provost and World magazine editor Marvin Olasky as “one of the long-lasting stalwarts of fighting for a lot of things we’re for here at King’s: religious, political, and economic liberty.” King’s, a…
Read More…12 candidacy. If you watch religion (which you must if you’re reading this site), Pawlenty is a former Catholic-turned-Baptist who attends the Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, a suburban megachurch pastored by Rev. Leith Anderson, the Minnesotan-mild-mannered head of the National Association of Evangelicals. Which means the 2012 race as it stands looks like a thoroughly correlated (our word for orthodox) Mormon (Romney), a recently-mint…
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