Send the rich away empty. Two questions for defenders of Uganda's anti-gay law. Barcelona star "thanks" racist fan for nutritious "gift." Mosquitoes are annoying, and deadly. Nicolae Carpathia and the Affordable Care Act. "Nazareth" may give Jesus the "Smallville" treatment. I just now learned the name of one of my favorite musicians. Read more
One solution would have been to repent -- to advocate justice rather than opposing it. But white evangelicalism didn't take that path. Instead, it struck upon an ingenious solution: If the key moral issues facing the culture make it clear that you're on the wrong side, introduce a new moral issue on which you can be right while everybody else is wrong. Read more
"And when I was born, I began to breathe the common air, and fell upon the kindred earth; my first sound was a cry, as is true of all. ... There is for all one entrance into life, and one way out." Read more
"You shall annihilate them, the Canaanites, just as the Lord your God has commanded." Jesus seems to have ignored that clobber text when he dealt with Canaanites. Read more
Here is a single paragraph from Peter G. Heltzel's "Jesus & Justice: Evangelicals, Race & American Politics." These five sentences describe a single tantalizing fork in the road, and a wrong turn taken. Understand and absorb these five sentences and you can understand the entire history of white evangelicalism in America over the past 50 years. Read more
Farewell and thank you to two terrific bloggers. David Barton: still lying (plus a prophylactic against future lies). The King of All Rodents. Requiring a daily recitation of a Pledge of Allegiance is just plain creepy. Another Christian rocker in support of marriage equality. Read more
Everyone was shocked this week to learn that right-wing gun-nut, "militia" hero and anti-American "patriot" Cliven Bundy is also a frothing racist white supremacist who believes "Negroes" were "better off as slaves." And when I say that everyone was shocked, I mean of course that no one should have been surprised even slightly, because duh. Read more
The particulars of the dispute have changed over the centuries, but the argument remains the same. The two sides of the argument are still arguing the very same thing. "You can't pick and choose texts," one side says. And the other side responds, "No, you can't pick and choose people." Read more
In order for this prophecy to unfold as prophesied, the Antichrist will either have to be uncharacteristically devoted to gentlemanly sportsmanship and fair play, thus refusing to stray from the agreed-upon script of prophecy, or else the Antichrist will have to be wholly ignorant of that script. Such ignorance seems impossible, though, in part because of the sensational popularity of things like the Left Behind books. If any future Antichrist were to arrive in accordance with Tim LaHaye's prophecies, that Antichrist would surely know all about those prophecies because of the best-selling books of Tim LaHaye. Any such Antichrist should therefore be expected to deviate from the script of prophecy described in these books, ensuring that those prophecies never come to pass. Read more
Media Research Center says it's no fun being a hegemonic majority unless you're allowed to pretend minorities don't even exist. Want a glimpse of how America has changed over the past dozen years? Watch the pilot episodes of "Roswell" and "Star-Crossed." The epistle from Romans to Paul. Reporters are shocked -- shocked -- to learn that white Main Line preppies can be criminals too. "Satire is parody that has a point." Read more
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