Religion Dispatches
As they muster their forces against health care reform, Republican culture warriors and conservative media outlets stir fear of “deadly doctors” and “government-encouraged euthanasia”.
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We’ve made Abraham Lincoln into a secular saint, as a visit to the Lincoln Museum in Springfield, Illinois—complete with relics and incense—easily confirms. But what of his cutthroat skill in the political arena? Contemporary politicians can’t compete.
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Myths of good versus evil have long sustained conservatism, but these narratives, with their shining heroes, and dastardly evildoers, are irrelevant to the civil debates at hand, and threaten to undermine the reforms that would help us all the most.
Read MoreThe debate about health has turned into a debate about death. Why has our heath care debate shifted so easily and so quickly into a fright-fest concerned with the care we owe to the dead and dying?
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What looks like discussion about deductibles and co-pays, preventative treatment, and end-of-life care, is really about something else entirely. And then there’s all the yelling.
Read MoreShouldn’t a professed “health and wealth” preacher be concerned with health care? Apparently, politics get in the way…
Read MoreWhen a coalition of religious progressives stands firmly in support of the president’s health care reform, why insist that it’s not a partisan move? How about “God’s Partisanship”?
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In his first act as the Democratic nominee for president Barack Obama stood up before AIPAC and triangulated his way into their hearts. Is it good for the United States? For Israel? For the Jews? For Palestinians?
Read MoreDeep, rich, wingnuttery abounds as everyone from Pat Buchanan to Fred Thompson falls over one another to try to terrify us about government-sponsored eugenics.
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From the media influence of the “birthers” to suggestions that the president wants to euthanize the elderly, a propaganda campaign against Obama is in full swing. Who, exactly, is behind it?
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