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Clergy Shouldn’t Be Able to Steal Funds for Grindr or Dolls

By Andrew L. Seidel

…h clerk—a “church lady”—in the archdiocese of New York stole $1 million to buy dolls. Nor is the problem limited to the Catholic Church. Nearly every sect has seen million-dollar fraud from within, including Episcopalians, Baptists, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, and other religions too. We could debate whether immoral people seek out positions in the clergy or whether clerical life corrupts people, but that debate misses the point. Most crimes are…

“[I] Pray For Barack Obama To Die And Go To Hell”: The Story The Media Missed

By Frederick Clarkson

…rewhella, founder of Missionaries to the Preborn (who has urged parents to buy each of their children “an SKS rifle and 500 rounds of ammunition” for their church militia); Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry (who ran as a Constitution Party candidate for Congress in 1998, but who has since become a Republican); and even Rev. Michael Bray, a convicted felon and longtime leader in the Army of God. Like the Reconstructionists, Anderson believes i…

Zeroes and Sums: Is It Wrong to Praise Paul’s Positions?

By Peter Laarman

…m for sane positions on some matters could prompt less discerning folks to buy into the whole package. Nor am I asking us to imagine that because we all fall short of God’s glory we cannot make distinctions between the merely flawed (Anthony Weiner, say), the more deeply flawed (Paul), and the truly fallen (Hitler): those who actively pursue evil and who must accordingly be stopped cold. But really, are we incapable of even hearing Paul on the so…

Don’t Feed the Trolls

By Daniel Schultz

…he water, and we keep snapping it up. Which makes them, yes, master baiters. The rest of us are just chumps. Don’t take the bait, please. Ignore Glenn Beck and don’t buy crappy products from his crappy sponsors. Eventually he’ll change his tune. Maybe he’ll even go away….

Obama’s Oil-Soaked Prayers

By Johnny P. Flynn

…Likewise nuclear weapons, human cloning, machine guns and land mines. Cell phones in church are a wash as well and nary a whisper on the need for a satellite feed of Christian programming into godless parts of the world. When it comes to a scriptural basis for handling modern technology we are as far adrift as oil-soaked pelicans: The chains are locked and tied across the door. The environmental movement was a whisper after the publication of Rach…

Can Mormonism Save Mitt Romney’s Campaign?

By Joanna Brooks

…nn writes, Romney sees himself as a “rescuer,” “not a guy who used debt to buy and resell businesses.” Hard facts stand on the side of the latter. The insularity, privacy, and opacity of Romney’s worlds and his guardedness are rooted, I believe, in the historic experience of LDS people as a historically persecuted American religious minority that continues to value its separateness from the “world.” To be a Mormon in the late 20th century was to w…

“Future of Babylon” Project Preserves History to Some, Ushers in “End Times” to Others

By Bill Berkowitz

…o this site, you will have people staying at hotels, visiting restaurants, buying souvenirs,” Allen said. “The site is in some ways a revenue generator for the local community.” Joel Rosenberg, the best-selling author of several apocalyptic novels about the Middle East, sees the path to the “End Times” going through the rebirth of Babylon. In a recent blog post Rosenberg wrote that, “Bible prophecy says the ancient city of Babylon, Iraq will be re…

Social Cost of Christianity?

By Lauri Lebo

…l. (Note: the filmmaker gets a few facts wrong about evolution and I don’t buy his assertion that Charles Darwin is the messiah of atheism. But I’m willing to grant him the artistic license to make his broader point.) Door To Door Atheists Bother Mormons – Watch more Funny Videos I have no doubt that many Christians, particularly fundamentalists and evangelicals, in this country believe they suffer stigma for their religious beliefs. It’s built in…

What’s Behind a Conservative Mormon’s Call For “Religious Freedom” Advocates to “Stand Down” on LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…contention.” “Why should people who are trying to live a Christ-like life buy into all the contention?” he asks, adding that the Mormon tradition considers contention “the enemy.” That contentiousness, Mero argues, has been fueled in large part by the LGBT community’s broad insistence that “everything about their lives is a civil right—in the same way that the color of skin is a civil right.” Mero, of course, rejects that characterization, and be…

RDNews: Oct 20, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…to mislead voters and downplay Obama’s extreme pro-abortion views.” The ad buy, which will run in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Michigan, and in the Washington D.C. market, “will target Christian radio stations that earlier this year carried the Matthew 25 campaign.” Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council and the FRC Action PAC, said that “Last year, when he addressed Planned Parenthood he declared that his ‘first act’ as p…