Notre Dame's argument gets big laughs in court. What's the simplest explanation for why Ted Nugent keeps saying really, really racist things? A pastor's open letter to the white Christians of Florida. And a local traffic reporter has had enough of being Frozen. Read more
I wish that Hal Lindsey hadn't convinced tens of millions of Christians that their faith was an otherworldly business that consisted of little more than sitting around waiting for the Rapture. I wish that Francis Schaeffer hadn't transformed American evangelicalism into a movement that identifies itself as an anti-abortion Van Helsing chasing after Satanic baby-killers. But it would be dishonest to pretend, as D.G. Hart does, that their lamentably massive influence was of no real consequence. Read more
Jenn at Words From Poor Folks says poverty "is like being punched in the face over and over and over on a daily basis." Peter Enns responds to an Evangelical Theological Seminary flyer that looks like someone like me made it as a parody of anti-reality tribalism. Brian McLaren says there's "a long list of things that older white evangelicals need to rethink." And Rachel Tabachnik digs up some John Birch Society paranoia about the Civil Rights Movement that reads like a tea party blog from 2014. Read more
But the really confusing and upsetting part isn't the stuff they find in there that ain't there, it's the stuff that is in there that they somehow never see. "Loose the bonds of injustice ... share your bread with the hungry." "Do justice, love mercy, walk humbly." Those are messages from God, spelled out right there on the page. Read more
A five-day work week? That's a union thing -- and unions are evil doncha know. "Jesus wants you heavily armed." Houston church desperately fighting to get on the wrong side of the gospel. (You thought I was gonna say "wrong side of history"? That too.) After they finished writing the Constitution, the Founding Fathers had a drink or two. "This is a problem." Read more
I read some Linelander nonsense from a theologian flattening out eternity into a static, fatalistic crushed beer can. I let that go, though, because I'm not a physicist, and because I'm a temporal being whose every thought is shaped by my temporal reality, and this stuff exceeds my grasp. But then I heard the exact same Linelander nonsense coming from a fictional detective on TV, so now I want to respond. Read more
I'm doing some cutting and pasting and -- ugh -- Microsoft Word formatting, and I hope too soon have available, via Amazon, Volume 1 of a kinda sorta book-like version of the Left Behind series. This will need a title and a cover. And that's where you come in. Read more
"NoSavesies" in Philly? Here's a better goat simulator than the one you had been using. Blah blah blah Christians must be either right -wing or quiescent blah blah blah. Washington slept there. Plus dilophosaurs, anti-vaxxers, Southern Baptists and other small-brained creatures doomed for extinction. Read more
This bill is the epitome of the recent effort to redefine "religious liberty" as a way of enshrining the privileges of the privileged. It is an attempt to, in Thomas Jefferson's phrase, secure a "monopoly on worldly honors and emoluments." The thing about monopolies, of course, is that unlike liberties, they can't be enjoyed by everyone -- only by the select chosen few. Read more
Episode of "House" helps save a real-life patient; a 500-year old song from a painting of a demonic butt-tattoo in Hell; correcting myths about the book of Revelation; Brent Bozell is the first of the ghostwriting president/founders to fall. Read more
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