FIELD GUIDE TO COMMON CHRISTIANS. I have no words. My words… this has stolen them!!! Just click. You won’t regret it. A tiny, tiny sample:

…[I]t’s hard to be frightened by any group that communicates its message through dance. Goldberg draws explicit parallels between today’s Christians and the Nazis of 1920s Germany,which only makes the whole thing more ridiculous: my own, admittedly non-intensive, study of the Third Reich has convinced me that ballet was generally low on the list of Stormtroopers’ tactics. …

Let’s start with some of the terms that got Goldberg confused:

Premillenialism
This is the belief among some Christians that, ever since Jan. 1, 2000, it has no longer been possible, in the words of the Prince song, “to party like it’s 1999.” Postmillenialists are those Christians who believe that it will always be possible to do so, while Amillenialists believe that in this context, “1999” cannot be understood literally, but must be read as an allegorical term roughly meaning “a time at which it is especially appropriate to party.”

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