Let us come together as one people, one nation, one humanity. Let us unite once more in peace and harmony, and begin our glorious future together. I will be there. Will you join me? Do not think about the children, just join us. Follow me. If you do not, it would be … unpleasant. (All of which is to say that I plan on beginning Book 3: Nicolae on Friday, May 18. Thanks for your patience.) Read more
Don’t imagine you’re safe just because Pat Robertson, Demon Hunter, is on the job. Sure, Robertson’s Age-Defying Shakes give him the strength to leg-press 1,000 pounds, but that won’t be enough when the Satanic baby-killers and the Nazis join forces to create the terrifying Satanazis who are coming to destroy your family and America and your American family. “Pray that God will deliver our State and Country from this attack by demonic force, and that marriage between man and woman... Read more
“Now for our prayer, we pray that the women who work in your [Military Religious Freedom Foundation] and the women in your family will befall fast moving breast cancer which can not ever be cured.” “For the church to lack love is for the church to lack everything. No heresy could conceivably be worse.” “I love the fact that there are women out there who don’t have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to... Read more
From the current New York Review of Books, Garry Wills on “Bullying the Nuns“: The Vatican has issued a harsh statement claiming that American nuns do not follow their bishops’ thinking. That statement is profoundly true. Thank God, they don’t. Nuns have always had a different set of priorities from that of bishops. The bishops are interested in power. The nuns are interested in the powerless. Nuns have preserved Gospel values while bishops have been perverting them. The priests drive... Read more
Two recent posts — one by Dianna E. Anderson and one by Chauncey DeVega — tackle the same difficult question. They’re writing about different specific topics, but the underlying concern is the same. The particular matter in Anderson’s post — “Loving at Arm’s Length” — considers the matter of Hugo Schwyzer, a male professor of gender studies whose current feminist writing is shadowed by his reprehensible “pre-sobriety” history of predatory and abusive behavior toward women. For more context (which may... Read more
The Onion reported the results of the 2008 presidential election with the headline, “Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job.” African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation’s broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and... Read more
The Family Research Council prays to God: The administration in power has imposed homosexual practice upon our military and has mandated that religious schools provide contraception, sterilization and abortifacient drugs to all students and staff — at taxpayer expense! … God, the moral breakdown in America is too far gone for men to turn the tide. We need you to do what only you can do, to heal our land. Nevertheless, show us what you want us to do! In... Read more
“I found him to be one of the most kind and gentle and thoughtful human beings I’ve ever met.” — Karl Rove, on Chuck Colson Political powerbroker turned Christianist political powerbroker Chuck Colson died Saturday. Karl Rove’s remembrance, above, is neither typical nor accurate. Mark Silk’s headline does a good job of summarizing the trajectory of Colson’s life — “Political Warrior to Culture Warrior“: Colson became increasingly unattractive — a professional Christian given to smarmy and not-quite-honest preachments. … This... Read more
“What is the meaning of a concept of sanity that excludes love, considers it irrelevant, and destroys our capacity to love other human beings, to respond to their needs and their sufferings, to recognize them also as persons, to apprehend their pain as one’s own?” “It’s been five months plus five months plus five months plus five months plus five months plus five months plus five months plus five months plus five months plus five months plus five months plus... Read more
Rachel Held Evans points us to “95 Tweets Against Hell” from Two Friars and a Fool: Here are all of our 95 tweets, categorized by the kind of argument they are making – ethical, theological and biblical, in that order. What it boils down to is that there is no ethical justification for Hell whatsoever, no good theological reason to posit a doctrine of Hell, and there are literally hundreds of Biblical passages that do not support an eternal Hell... Read more
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