Lies don't get much uglier than Al Mohler's "erotic liberty vs. religious liberty" slur. This rhetoric is designed to deny the humanity of other human beings, refusing to acknowledge them as anything more than walking sex acts. Humans are capable of religion, Mohler is saying. Those sub-humans over there -- those bestial walking sex acts -- are incapable of religion, only of "eroticism." Read more
I'm glad to see Anthony Foxx is still transportation secretary. The closer you look, the less defensible Tyndale House seems. The Liar Tony Perkins warns against Prairie Home Sharia and gets invited to Minneapolis. And when is a kidnapper described as a "sweetheart"? When he's white. Read more
The idea just doesn't fit with the rest of the scheme. It doesn't work with the End Times timetable. Rapture, Antichrist, Tribulation, Armageddon, The End. That all takes place in seven years. So even if the Antichrist gets busy gettin' busy immediately after the Rapture, his oldest children would only be 6 years old when Killer Jesus came back to wipe out their daddy and all his minions. Read more
Biblical place names and the biblically illiterate; a holiday to celebrate treason in defense of slavery; FDR in search of Captain Kidd's treasure; and a burly cop dances like there's no one watching. And if you don't read any of that, just click on the link about Rupert Giles because that's one of the most encouraging things I've read in quite a while. Read more
Rule No. 1 isn't the same kind of rule as Amendment No. 1. But just as the First Amendment's right to freedom of speech mustn't be limited or qualified by the obligation not to be a dick, neither should the guaranteed, unqualified right to freedom of speech be treated as an exemption from Rule No. 1. Read more
An earnest, anguished post by a Christian blogger says that God has been laying a heavy conviction on her heart about ... leggings. She's not coming at this from an anti-legging fashion perspective, a la GoFugYourself. She is, rather, convicted about leggings because of "modesty" -- which is the white evangelical euphemism for the idea that women are primarily responsible for male lust. It's the ideology that would rather put every woman in a burka than put any man in a blindfold -- the ideology that blames women for everything from men's lustful fantasies to men's infidelity to men's propensity for rape and violence. Read more
The anthrax attacks of 2001 killed five people, starting with the photo editor of a satirical supermarket tabloid. That happened. A terror attack here in the U.S. -- in Boca Raton -- targeted and killed a visual artist working for a satirical newspaper. And then, three weeks later, the Patriot Act was signed into law. Read more
"And since they bred when they came to drink, the flocks bred in front of the rods, and so the flocks produced young that were striped, speckled, and spotted." Read more
So, yeah, the book's descriptions of Heaven and angels and the afterlife were all just made up. No kidding. Death remains "The undiscovered country, from whose bourn / No traveller returns," and it puzzles the will that anyone believed -- or was willing to publish -- a tall-tale claiming otherwise. Read more
The odd Hulk out, misandrist hymns, and Just-so Stories about snakes and zebras. Plus: Bryan Fischer says he is not a monotheist, and the one thing about which the religious right is not completely wrong. Read more
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