A somewhat distracted collection of links to recent political news and commentary. Read more
A somewhat distracted collection of links to recent political news and commentary. Read more
Rather than the absurd claim that climate science is "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people," Gerson would prefer that his fellow Republicans simple "raise questions about global warming." OK, great. Please proceed. Raise whatever questions you'd like to raise. Ask away. But the problem here is that asking questions entails the possibility that those questions might have answers. Read more
With a member of their tribe starring in the big half-time show, you'd think evangelicals would be cheering, but no. Plus some other random links related to the Big Game, with charity food-drives, Captain America, XKCD, white slavery, and two takes on gender roles in Super Bowl ads. Read more
"So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. All the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe upon them; and the land became Pharaoh’s. As for the people, he made slaves of them from one end of Egypt to the other." Read more
The King James Version of the Bible was completed in 1611. The first African slaves were imported into Jamestown in 1619. "Biblical" Christianity and the idea of "biblical civilization" grew up alongside slavery. The latter shaped the former, and the two things have been inextricably intertwined ever since. Read more
'We never hear again from the two-dimensional "drunk businessman." But unlike Buck, Hattie or Rayford Steele, he looked upon this still-unfolding horror and disaster and seemed genuinely horrified. Unlike our heroes, the drunk at least seems to give some thought to someone other than himself -- to recognize that the suffering and death he sees represents something more than an inconvenient delay in his own schedule.' Read more
The Bryan Fischer problem can't be fixed just by changing his job title. Skull found in northern Israel shows humans were having sex with Neanderthals nearly 50,000 years before Al Mohler's universe was created. Plus more on the Saudi game of thrones, jokes that demand comment threads, and the end of the "eco-terrorism" fad. Read more
But whatever you make of the rest of the book, I just can't see how Revelation 6:3-4 can be read as a foretelling of the future. The rider on the red horse -- war -- isn't some dreaded figure whose arrival will come in the distant future. He lives here. He's always lived here. Read more
When Andrew Sullivan first started blogging 15 years ago, there were no offshore wind farms in the U.S. Conservatives confused to find themselves agreeing with "the beating Sarah Palin took from the media in 2008." No, poor people didn't have enough money to crash the global financial system. And "If God Had Wanted Me To Be Accepting Of Gays, He Would Have Given Me The Warmth And Compassion To Do So." Read more
Is religion the source of goodness and justice? Or is religion, rather, a formidable obstacle to those things? Yes. Both. Neither. Whatever. Point is, that goodness and justice stuff? I don't care how you get there, just get there if you can. Read more
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