‘Biblical Womanhood’: Christian patriarchs trying to blow out a bonfire

Last updated on: November 2, 2012 at 11:32 am By Fred Clark

The Powers That Be of Christian patriarchy know that their authority requires them to maintain a monopoly on information and permission. But now the Internet seems to be filled with uppity women thinking, talking, writing and asking questions without official permission from their husbands and pastors and bishops. So TPTB decided to make an example of one such woman -- put her back in her proper place and maybe all the others will learn their lesson. This plan isn't working out quite the way they hoped ... Read more

Chick-fil-A Biblical Family of the Day

Last updated on: November 2, 2012 at 12:51 am By Fred Clark

"We support biblical families," Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy says of his fast-food corporation. So let's take a look at some of those biblical families. Today's entry: Ahasuerus and Esther. Read more

Friday songs for Tuesday

Last updated on: November 2, 2012 at 12:42 am By Fred Clark

It's the Friday music game -- I'll show you mine, you show me yours. Since Tuesday is Election Day, this week's theme is elections, politicians, presidents, mayors and city council members (except I don't have any songs about city council members). Read more

‘Impressive achievements despite the implacable wall of refusal’

Last updated on: November 1, 2012 at 8:22 pm By Fred Clark

"President Obama has shown a firm commitment to using government to help foster growth. He has formed sensible budget policies that are not dedicated to protecting the powerful, and has worked to save the social safety net to protect the powerless. Mr. Obama has impressive achievements despite the implacable wall of refusal erected by Congressional Republicans so intent on stopping him that they risked pushing the nation into depression, held its credit rating hostage, and hobbled economic recovery." Read more

Election predictions from the sub-Christian religious right

Last updated on: September 10, 2014 at 1:05 am By Fred Clark

What happens if Obama wins? The sky will fall, the moon will turn to blood, the seas will boil, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together ... mass hysteria! Just ask Franklin Graham, Janet Porter, Joseph Mattera, Rick Joyner, Rick Santorum, Bishop Harry Jackson, Bryan Fischer, Jan Markell, Matt Barber, Matt Staver, Ralph Reed and other dim-bulb luminaries of the religious right. Read more

The Glorious Appearing of Mitt Romney

Last updated on: November 1, 2012 at 1:05 pm By Fred Clark

Does Mit Romney disagree with Tim LaHaye? Not at all, he insists in this video. Watch as Romney, in full don't-interrupt-me-while-I'm-interrupting debate mode, reassures premillennial dispensationalist prophecy enthusiasts that he believes exactly what they believe -- just with a little bit of extra Missouri. Read more

‘Charisma’ filled with spirit of Romney campaign, endorses mendacious Mitt with dishonest column

Last updated on: November 1, 2012 at 9:46 am By Fred Clark

Stephen Strang has crammed almost as many falsehoods into his endorsement of Mitt Romney as Romney himself manages to pack into a campaign speech. The Charisma magazine publisher is bearing false witness, quoting David Barton, and exposing himself as a partisan hack with lies about forced abortion and the persecution of Christians by a secret-Muslim president. Read more

Chick-fil-A Biblical Family of the Day

Last updated on: October 31, 2012 at 11:57 pm By Fred Clark

‘Then you have not understood them’

Last updated on: November 1, 2012 at 12:59 am By Fred Clark

Start your Thursday off with some links, including: St. Augustine on the hermeneutic of love ... St. Augustine on musical farting ... when is communion not communion? ... Strangers on a plane ... Abraham Lincoln: Savior of pigs ... witch trials on Long Island ... and the mark of every real, true Christian: owning a gun. Read more

Mark Galli of Christianity Today: ‘Another Fake …’

Last updated on: October 31, 2012 at 10:34 pm By Fred Clark

A fetus has great value, but a fetus is not the same as "a child" and a fetus is not the same as "a living person." Christianity Today once published such views, but anyone who has the audacity to agree with them today, CT's Mark Galli says, is promoting "fake history." Read more

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