"Woe to you who make iniquitous decrees, who write oppressive statutes, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be your spoil, and that you may make the orphans your prey." Read more
"Woe to you who make iniquitous decrees, who write oppressive statutes, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be your spoil, and that you may make the orphans your prey." Read more
Trump-loving, Holocaust-denying Christian nationalist grifter Kimberly Daniels is up to her eyeballs in ethics charges -- which makes her just the kind of author Steve Strang's Charisma House is looking for. Read more
"Watergate does not bother me" is a defiantly deplorable celebration of Nixon's politics of white resentment. The line that follows that one is even more demented. Read more
Paul's gospel of reconciliation is irreconcilable with the death-dealing, Robo-Jesus who will arrive later in these books. The god of Left Behind is a destroyer, not a reconciler. Read more
Two recent stories from the evangelical world might seem like positive, hopeful first steps. But keep in mind the difference between "John quit smoking on Saturday" and "John quits smoking on Saturdays." Read more
It's weird that no one is even bothering to attempt to say that Oklahoma isn't stolen property. The argument, instead, is just "Yeah, well, what're you gonna do?" Plus: Yet another "ex-Satanist" grifter; Fred Rogers, warts and all; and the absurdity of swearing oaths on a book that forbids swearing oaths. Read more
Some Christians balk at this notion of God learning. An almighty and omniscient being, they say, doesn’t need to learn. But this is part of the story. The story tells us this happened too. Read more
Originally posted August 14, 2009. You can read this entire series, for free, via the convenient Left Behind Index. The ebook collection The Anti-Christ Handbook: Volume 1, is available on Amazon for just $2.99. So when do we get to see the tax returns? Volume 2 of The Anti-Christ Handbook, completing all the posts on the first Left Behind book, is also now available. Volume 3 is coming soon(ish). Tribulation Force, pp. 73-74 Usually the organist began playing near the end of Bruce’s prayer... Read more
In lieu of one of those New Year's "Top 10 Posts of Last Year" posts* I decided to just review all of them and let you pick which 10 you liked best. Read more
It’s still Christmas season, liturgically if not commercially, so let me recommend a nice little Christmas reflection from Paul at the Disoriented/Reoriented blog, discussing the scandalous implications of “The Radical Incarnation.” Paul’s post focuses on Celsus the Epicurean, a member of the religious right back in the late Second Century who wrote a scathing attack against the new religious movements threatening traditional morality. The tricky and kind of fun aspect of this is that we don’t actually have any surviving copies... Read more
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