Paul Ryan’s Judeo-Christian Values
More on the electionpocalypse.
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Catholics Choose Conscience Over Church
Catholics may well decide the election. But I daresay it won’t be because they line up behind the bishops.
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Electionpocalypse, Part I (Christianity)
As Election Day approaches, the most craven, partisan, dire (and dumb) religious appeals begin to surface.
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Romney and the End-Times
A Republican, not just a Mormon, problem.
Read MoreBishop Jenky’s Last Stand
The “Vote Catholic” campaign.
Read MoreSeen Andrew Sullivan’s Expose-Style Footage of the LDS Temple? Now Read This.
Bottom line: hyping age-old anti-Mormon suspicion does nothing to combat racism in the presidential elections. Sullivan should know better.
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Politics in a Time of Crisis: Sandy? Blame Socialism
If there is one thing people need during a national disaster, it is functioning and effective government. If there is one time we need redistributive justice, it is during a crisis. Much of politics perhaps just comes down to what is, and is not, a crisis—a hurricane I hope we can all agree on. But what about climate change? Or health care? What is life-threatening? What is an emergency?
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Mitt Romney’s Prosperity Gospel
Mitt Romney’s endorsement by various televangelists obscures the more important ways in which the candidate himself now projects the essence of televangelism.
Read MoreRomney Tax Secret Revealed—and It’s About Religion [UPDATED]
Is this what Harry Reid was taunting Mitt Romney about?
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Rape and Richard Mourdock’s Semi-Omnipotent God
After Richard Mourdock, a Republican Senate Candidate in Indiana, called pregnancy after rape a gift from God critics were furious. Were they wrong to conclude that this popular theology leads to some very disturbing beliefs?
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