Does Religion Condemn Homosexuality?
Religions are richly variable in their organizations, belief systems, rituals, and practices. This is true…
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Nadia Bolz-Weber on Becoming ‘God’s Bitch’
“The book is vulnerable, to have all these stories about myself and these truths about myself out there. It’s not like the book is going to impress anyone—nobody’s going to say, ‘Wow, Nadia Bolz-Weber is a fucking spiritual giant.'”
Read MoreNew Book: God Favors Supply-Side Economics
As budget cuts are hotly debated in the House, Godonomics comes along to tell us “what the Almighty says about the almighty dollar.” Finally.
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Christians v. Gays: The Damage Done
Christians (understood to mean here heterosexual activist traditionalists) have become identified with actively pursuing the denial of rights and benefits to others that they themselves enjoy. In other words, the “Gospel” has been identified with the cause of self-benefiting social discrimination against a minority group, a losing hand if ever there was one.
Read MoreGOP Lawmaker Botches Bible to Punish Poor
I do not think that verse means what you think it means.
Read MoreImmigration Reform According to Ralph Reed’s Bible
Reed’s helpful advice for politicans who missed biblical injunctions against a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
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Finding Noah’s Flood: A Misconception of Biblical Proportions
I hate to break it to you, but Noah’s Flood is not a real thing. As geologist David Montgomery wrote in his recent history, The Rocks Don’t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah’s Flood, the religious idea that the Flood was real has been to the actual history of geology as a science. But by now, however, science knows better. I can’t say as much for the media.
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Pam Geller’s Latest Subway Ad Inadvertently Attacks Hebrew Bible
When you don’t know anything about the object of your hatred, it has a tendency to show.
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Denzel’s Profane Preaching: A Religious Movie for the Rest of Us
Flight, like most of the other religiously-themed scripts to which Washington agrees to lend his star power, is no Kirk Cameron morality play. As in The Book of Eli, in which Washington played a post-apocalyptic loner who creates a trail of gore during a violent spiritual pursuit of the lone remaining copy of the Bible, the celluloid preaching in Flight is rated R. In addition to the early lingering shots of full-frontal and rear nudity, the film provides a steady stream of f-bombs, and from nearly start to finish it is awash in booze.
Read MoreLet’s Make it Legal to Execute Disobedient Children!
The theology that gets you to a point where you can say this.
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