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Remembering the ‘boat people’ gives me a sinking feeling

July 6, 2018 By Fred Clark

One Sunday when I was a kid, Pastor Stady announced that our church had the opportunity to sponsor a family of “boat people.” And our very white fundie, very white Republican congregation was thrilled to do it. Read more

LBCF, No. 192: ‘L&J vs. ORBP’

July 6, 2018 By Fred Clark

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Same title. Same premise. Very similar End Times check list. But this book barely registered when it was published in 1969. Read more

Out in the hall they were talking in a whisper

July 5, 2018 By Fred Clark

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Mike Pence takes a spectacular swing-and-miss at using the Bible to defend his buddy Trump’s anti-immigrant, anti-refugee, anti-asylum, anti-family, anti-children policy. Read more

Talk about your revolution

July 4, 2018 By Fred Clark

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I’ve got your back now. You’d better have mine. Read more

The con-game of anti-abortion partisanship that replaced Christianity has been so successful that we forget how recently it was invented

July 3, 2018 By Fred Clark

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Fea is simply stating how it is, not necessarily how it ought to be. He’s descriptive, where Jeffress is prescriptive. But they’re in agreement on the function of white evangelical abortion politics. Read more

Smart people saying smart things (7.2.18)

July 2, 2018 By Fred Clark

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“The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.” Read more

LBCF, No. 191: ‘The worst mankind has ever seen’

June 29, 2018 By Fred Clark

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“A Thief in the Night” Thief was relentlessly preachy, but you sensed that these were people who were really trying to save you from hellfire and damnation. “Left Behind” is preachy too, but the point of its sermonizing is that you deserve hellfire and damnation, and the filmmakers are happy about that. Read more

I am now an alarmist

June 28, 2018 By Fred Clark

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We have become hyper-vigilant about not being perceived as hyper-vigilant. Nothing alarms us more than the possibility of developing a reputation for being alarmist. This does not serve us well. Read more

The task at hand for white evangelicalism

June 27, 2018 By Fred Clark

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White evangelicals have some work to do expunging white supremacy and white nationalism from their religion. You’ve likely already guessed why I’ve juxtaposed the two photos here. The analogy is not subtle, but it is also not wrong. Read more

‘The Soreno has politely said No’

June 26, 2018 By Fred Clark

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No, “Bull Durham” was not set in the 1960s. North Carolina in the 1960s was too “polite” and “a-political” to allow an integrated baseball team to ride the same bus. Read more