I May Disagree with You, but I’m Pretty Sure You’re not Satan
Does the new moderate movement have a religion?
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Masculine Christianity, Praying Ballplayers, & Satanist Discrimination
The Week in Religion, Poetically
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Jesus Goes to the Dark Carnival: Hell House Gets a Makeover?
Evangelical-sponsored haunted houses known as “Hell Houses” were spooky attractions filled with the ghosts of the culture wars. Now, a softer, gentler version, the “Judgement House” claims to eschew politics, but does it?
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A Secret History of Satan
The Devil created by American culture is made in the image of American culture; our beliefs about Satan are part of a theological narrative that has shaped religion, pop culture, and even, in some cases public policy.
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Satanic or Silly: Does Yale Press Censorship of Cartoons Insult Muslims?
While the rioting over the Danish cartoons seems to be well behind us, Yale University Press recently removed the images from a new scholarly work on the topic. Do Muslim extremists need a scholarly book as pretext with two wars being fought in Muslim nations and an ongoing crisis in Gaza? The problem isn’t with these images, but with the ubiquitous Islamophobia in the United States.
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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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“The Call” Warns of Antichrist Legislation in California and Beyond
The conservative evangelical founder of “The Call,” Lou Engle, is on a crusade to end legal abortion in the United States. He believes that George W. Bush and his Supreme Court picks were the result of prayer and, as depicted graphically in Jesus Camp, he aims to inspire young evangelicals to defeat the forces of Satan and his legislation.
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Blood and Politics — Christian White Nationalism in the Age of Obama
What’s a white racist to do these days? A new book examines the history of white nationalism as it has moved from the fringe to the mainstream, describes the religious roots of the movement, and alerts us to its political and social goals.
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Religion Poll Proves that Liberals Are Not Conservatives
A new Barna poll plays off of the tarnished “liberal” label and seems to push the idea that conservative religion is the real religion.
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Satan Has a Posse (of Bats)
Are those really Christian radio ads or is someone just messing around?
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