Is Richard Mourdock's extreme politics the consequence of his odious theology? Or is his odious theology a consequence of his extreme politics? It doesn't matter. Whichever one he latched onto first was bound to introduce the other. The two things require one another and cannot be separated. Politics twists theology which deforms politics which warps theology which ... Read more
Scot McKnight on the difference between the white Social Gospel and the social justice tradition of the black church: "A theology done from the oppressed and for the oppressed is not the same as a theology done from the position of power and privilege." Read more
Some links to read before the power goes out: "How to give a cat a pill" ... verses from the Koran at high school pep rallies ... bad rituals and snake handlers ... Aristotelian ethics in professional wrestling ... 40 years of unpersuasive propaganda ... laughing at LifeWay ... and the Angel of the Gap. Read more
Psalm 72:13-14 -- "He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the lives of the needy. From oppression and violence he redeems their life; and precious is their blood in his sight." Read more
Keep safe if you're in the path of the Frankenstorm. ... Obama's CFPB sides with humans against credit-rating agencies. ... 19 out of 20 people who work in collections misunderstand karma. ... John Sununu only votes for white guys. ... The return of the lustful cockmonster. ... The dire musical consequences of a Romney regime. Read more
When you vote for Mitt Romney, you vote to deny health care to sick people. This is not theoretical, this is not hypothetical and this is not rhetorical: These are actual, flesh-and-blood real people with names and faces. These are millions of your neighbors. And this is a real and significant harm that you will be doing to them. Read more
Anti-science Republican Rep. Paul Broun is unopposed on the ballot for re-election to his U.S. Congress seat from Georgia. But Broun -- the "lies from the pit of Hell" guy -- is now facing a bipartisan challenge. Georgians who care about reality are waging a write-in campaign for Charles Darwin. Read more
This week in "Nicolae: The Rise of the Antichrist," we learn that swearing is bad -- evidence of our old, sinful nature. But sneering at someone else's less-expensive car, cutting off others in traffic, and threatening to run-down emergency workers on the highway? That's all good, godly behavior. Read more
Richard Mourdock et. al. are appealing to an expansive-but-shallow "all things work together for good" notion of divine providence to defend preventing rape victims from seeking abortions. They fail to notice that this same appeal to providence also means that every abortion must also be "something that God intended to happen." Read more
The Republican former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff praised President Barack Obama because he saw "the president get us out of one war, start to get us out of a second war, and did not get us into any new wars." Read more
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