Rehabilitating McCarthy: Doug Phillips’ Festival Award
Award-winning movie is perfect synthesis of Christian Right with Tea Party ideology.
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The Tea Party Illusion
The Tea Party is claiming credit for the Republican trouncing of the Democrats last night, but the Tea Party wave is just an illusion.
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Replacing Godless Hollywood with Bible-Based “Cultural Dominion”
For anyone wondering what the “culture” would look like if the Christian Right achieved its dream of “taking it back” from secularists, feminists, and the other dread enemies of God’s plan for a Christian America, the San Antonio Christian Film Festival, which begins next week, provides a telling…
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The Brutality of the American Eden
Last week’s six-hour PBS documentary, God in America, wasn’t really about God in America. Nor was it about religions in America. Following a fairly conventional narrative in mainstream discourse (albeit not one adopted by the contemporary Christian right), the series…
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The Rubio, Crist, Meek three-way and other fun stuff in the Florida Senate race.
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What they mean when they call for “biblical law.”
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The Real Context Of The “Taliban Dan” Ad
Put in context, Dan Webster does indeed hold fundamentalist religious beliefs outside the mainstream.
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Tea Party candidate makes a country club appearance with the religious right’s historian, David Barton.
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Glenn Beck’s Salvation Army
One of the strange aspects of broadcaster Glenn Beck’s recent moves to transform himself into a religious leader as well as entertainer and “educator” has been his intense attacks on President Obama’s theology of salvation, which he has called “evil” and “satanic.”
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