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LBCF, No. 210: ‘The second-biggest story’

November 16, 2018 By Fred Clark

Buck Williams was hand-picked by the Antichrist to be the sole journalist at the birth of the New World Order. But it turns out that while Buck was useful for help burying stories, he’s of no use for actually reporting them. Read more

Religious-right ‘prophets’ say Trump will cure cancer

November 15, 2018 By Fred Clark

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We now have at least two white evangelical “prophets” teaching that some evil cabal of “Them” is keeping a secret cure for cancer from the public. It would be funny if the implications weren’t so potentially deadly. Read more

I’m going to heaven on a rocket ship

November 13, 2018 By Fred Clark

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“We can foresee almost no circumstances at this point that would intervene in the mutual love affair — the equally yoked relationship — between white evangelicals and Trump.” White evangelicals and Trump are a romance for the ages, like Ahab and Moby Dick. Read more

You’re fighting with a ghost

November 12, 2018 By Fred Clark

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Holiday greetings from Kurt Vonnegut, Jim Wright, Eric Bogle, Wislawa Szymborska, and Fang Fang. Read more

Sunday favorites

November 11, 2018 By Fred Clark

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“They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” Read more

LBCF, No. 209: ‘Skip verse 10’

November 9, 2018 By Fred Clark

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Martin Luther believed in the doctrine of grace. Buck, LaHaye and Jenkins believe in believing in the doctrine of grace. RTCs are not real, true Christians because of the grace of God — they are real, true Christians because their sentiments are aligned with the correct side of the argument about the role of God’s grace in salvation. Read more

The balance comes due some day

November 8, 2018 By Fred Clark

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An illustration of what Orwell means by “nationalism.” Plus: the devil as fodder for, and as the product of, pop culture. Read more

Smart people saying smart things (11.8.18)

November 8, 2018 By Fred Clark

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These smart things are good and beautiful and true, from: Gershom Gorenberg, Tara Isabella Burton, Aleksandar Hemon, James Baldwin, and Gene Demby. Read more

Orwell on why Donald Trump isn’t quite a nationalist

November 7, 2018 By Fred Clark

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A “nationalist,” in Orwell’s taxonomy, is a person who has subsumed their self and their identity into that of “the nation or other unit.” Trump doesn’t do that. He’s trying, rather, to the opposite of that. Read more

We try to control forgiveness because we know we need it

November 5, 2018 By Fred Clark

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We know we need that forgiveness, desperately, and the realization that such forgiveness is out of our control drives us wild with fear. So we try to control it — to demand it, to mandate it and expect it. Because we know. Read more