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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Jesus Camp II
If you’ve seen Jesus Camp, you probably remember the Pentecostal preacher Becky Fischer and her “Kids on Fire” camp. Here she is again, this time supposedly in Singapore, playing games with kids like “raise someone from the dead.” Check out … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Videos
6 Comments
Bigots and the Bible
Rachel Held Evans has been running a series of posts in which she invites various people with different religious perspectives to answer questions left by her readers. The most recent post is Ask a Gay Christian, where Justin Lee, the … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Sexuality
33 Comments
Bigger than Jesus
Speaking of changes in attitude among Christians, check out the posts from Charity R. Carney over at Religion in American History. Carney has been writing about her experiences working in a Christian retail store, and this latest post is about … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Music
26 Comments
Even Joseph Smith Talked Like a Pirate
Some folks on the Ex-mormon forum mentioned a connection between Captain William Kidd and Joseph Smith. In hindsight, it makes perfect sense: Smith was a treasure seeker, using his peep-stones as divining tools, and Kidd is the most famous pirate … Continue reading
Posted in History, Mormonism
4 Comments
The Christians and Thomas Jefferson
Here’s pseudo-historian David Barton explaining how the supposed confirmation that Thomas Jefferson had a child with Sally Hemming was a liberal plant to make Bill Clinton’s infidelity seem less bad: I don’t remember that retraction. I do know that the … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, History, Politics
21 Comments
Baiting Westboro
So the Foo Fighters do an internet video/promo for at upcoming tour. The video, loosely titled “Hot Buns,” stars the band as truck driving good ol’ boys (and one startled janitor) who soap up, bare (almost) all and do a … Continue reading
Posted in Cults, Music, Videos
23 Comments
DC-40
The Wild Hunt blog has been covering the New Apostolic Reformation as well as most of the news commentators. With good reason; the NAR have a special message on Facebook for Pagans, “We release perfect Blood-covered love into the core … Continue reading
Posted in Cults, Current Events
23 Comments
The Stories We Tell With Our Lives
Paul Wallace has written an open letter to atheists titled Believing in Johnny Cash: An Open Letter to Atheists in which he asks the following: “do stories point us, in even the smallest of ways, toward anything that might be … Continue reading
Posted in Religion
8 Comments
Dr. Oz and Apple Juice
Dr. Richard Besser, the ABC News Health and Medical Editor, had a confrontation with Dr. Oz on “Good Morning America.” Besser basically accused Oz of fear mongering. The argument was about a recent episode of Dr. Oz, where the good … Continue reading
Posted in Medicine, Science
31 Comments
Wedging in Creation
One of the more annoying things I see biblicists doing is trying to squeeze the creation account of Genesis into the scientific account. The most famous example is where they point out that fish evolved before birds, and that Genesis … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Science
10 Comments
