Jesus, Muslims, Mormons. And Missouri.
Jesus… not just for Christians.
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5 Take-Aways from the Newly Viral Romney End-Times Video
Whoever took this viral thinks that Romney’s religion will scare voters away.
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Romney and the End-Times
A Republican, not just a Mormon, problem.
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Mitt, Moochers, and Mormonism’s “Other” Legacy
There are many stories on which a Mormon is raised: narratives of the elect, America and the Constitution, the latter days, and free agency—all of which play a role in Mitt Romney’s “severe” conservatism.
Read MoreRick Santorum, Muslim Theologian and GOP Candidate, Would Bomb Iran
The resurgent candidate believes it’s no accident that a non-military nuclear facility is located in a holy city.
Read MoreA Monumentally Different Kirk Cameron
With his latest film the former teen idol appears to embrace Christian Reconstructionist theology.
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Bibi’s Megillah to Obama
Be an Esther, or else.
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Secular End Times & Apocalyptic ‘Roosters’
In his new book, Richard Landes argues that in addition to the obvious End Timers many secular movements—the French Revolution, Marxism, Nazism—can be better understood as millennialist or apocalyptic.
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The Heresy of End Times Predictions
Those apocalyptically-minded souls—nationalist and Republican, and all-too-knowing virtually to a person—are also ironically the most anti-democratic forces that contemporary Christianity has produced.
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Updated: 5 Lessons Learned from the Apocalypse Fail, Or, It’s Not the End of the World as We Know It, and I Feel So-So
And so the world still turns. No rapture, no living hell, no Armageddon. We are where we were before the weekend with no signs of Christ’s return, facing the same ol’ same ol’: Arnold’s love child, Newt’s flame-out, life without Oprah. Perhaps this might be a nice teachable moment to reflect on all this—not nonsense at all, but rather an illuminating cultural moment that reveals an awful lot about the role of religion in our crazy world. What are the key takeaways from the “mediapocalypse”? Here are five for your consideration:
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