Left Behind Classic Fridays, No. 17: ‘This ain’t science fiction’

Last updated on: January 22, 2015 at 6:54 pm By Fred Clark

"Communications and computer technology were rather different eight years ago from the way they are now," I wrote in 2003, "And, one might imagine, eight years from now these technologies will be even more different." That proved to be correct then, and it's still true now. Here's another bold prediction I'll make about eight years from today: When you check back in to read this post in 2023, the Rapture still won't have happened, but the people now saying it will occur at any moment will still be making money saying that. Read more

You buy prestige and spread decline

Last updated on: January 22, 2015 at 6:38 pm By Fred Clark

Some Thursday evening links, including: RIP Marcus Borg; that time when Jesus beat up Jesse Ventura; remembering "Michelle Remembers;" hurray for Hurray for the Riff Raff; and the video replay overturns Mike Huckabee's claims to be truthful. Read more

Al Mohler’s ‘erotic liberty’ rhetoric is a sinful, unbiblical, indecent, nasty lie

Last updated on: January 22, 2015 at 4:24 pm By Fred Clark

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

Stairways circle back to where you’ve been

Last updated on: January 21, 2015 at 6:42 pm By Fred Clark

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

NRA: Antichrist & Sons

Last updated on: January 20, 2015 at 7:25 pm By Fred Clark

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

This is the sound of the four walls falling in

Last updated on: January 20, 2015 at 8:00 am By Fred Clark

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 and Amendment No. 1: One shouldn’t say cannot when one can only say should not

Last updated on: January 19, 2015 at 3:00 pm By Fred Clark

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

Does this patriarchal construct of modesty make me look fat?

Last updated on: January 19, 2015 at 9:28 am By Fred Clark

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

Je suis Bat Boy

Last updated on: January 18, 2015 at 12:11 pm By Fred Clark

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

Sunday WTF?

Last updated on: January 17, 2015 at 11:45 am By Fred Clark

"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

Who preached the first Christian sermon on Pentecost in Acts?