American Idol(atry): McCain-as-Jesus
McCain’s repudiation of Hagee has made news while a remark from a Georgia Republican has gone unnoticed…
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Hagee and McCain Part Ways
What should be more offensive to a political candidate, a claim that God is fully in charge of history, or a claim that the biblical text, not human thought, is the source of truth? It’s the latter that violates the spirit of the first amendment…
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The New Christianity: What the Mainstream Media Has Missed
To cover a new religious movement, you have to know that the movement exists. An interview with Bruce Wilson.
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Jerusalem Countdown: Christian Zionists and the New Israeli Government
Three of the top Apocalypse-watchers of the Christian Right have big love for Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Is Obama Satan’s Warm-up Act?
The co-authors of the eschatological Left Behind series appeared on the Rachel Maddow show to offer a variation on the theory that Obama may be the Antichrist.
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Don’t Blame Secularism: Reading Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion
A new book of essays argues that the American media suffers due to secularism and a general ignorance of religion. But is secularism really at the heart of it, or is it a far broader and longer-standing relationship with ignorance of our “enemies” that creates the Blind Spot?
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Ten of Our Favorite Top Tens
Thou shalt not ignore the Top Ten list. We, the editors, rank the top of the tops, including The Onion’s list, comparisons between Religion and Dentistry, Reality TV’s Most Memorable Christians, Top Intellectuals, and many more. Six more to be precise.
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Amway, Religious Right Pyramid Scheme, Returns to the Motherland
“Emerald”-level member uncovered fraud and deception before being kicked out; Charles Colson and “Redemption”; Americans United’s Top Ten Church-State stories; and more.
Read MoreRD News Round-Up: October 27, 2008
Ghouls, ghosts, goblins and Halloween Hell Houses; Traditional Values Coalition’s shameless Video Voter Guide; More on Sarah Palin’s religious affiliations; Hagee hears a Who-mageddon; No candy, no soda, no birth control!
Read MoreRD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008
Top Ten Religious Right groups rake in more than half-a-billion dollars; Churches v. Christian Zionism; Bush turns to faith-based groups to bail US out of health care crisis; Saving the GOP from itself?
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