{"id":28353,"date":"2015-06-19T14:39:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T18:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=28353"},"modified":"2016-03-31T19:28:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T23:28:20","slug":"15-famous-celebs-who-have-committed-horrible-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2015\/06\/19\/15-famous-celebs-who-have-committed-horrible-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Famous Celebs Who Have Committed Horrible Crimes!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u2022 Danny Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., holds\u00a0some surprisingly Baptist<\/em> ideas about religious liberty<\/a> for religious minorities, dissenters and freethinkers.<\/p>\n

After posting a video in support of the civil rights of the non-religious, Akin was challenged for supposedly thereby advocating \u201can evolutionary, anti-Christian worldview, homosexuality, atheism, Agnosticism, amorality and immorality, and every other ungodly movement of our society<\/a>.\u201d (That\u2019s a direct quote, not a caricature \u2014 those folks are impossible<\/em> to caricature.) His response to that challenge was impeccably Baptist in a way that Southern Baptists rarely are these days:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NmrBa_A7lM0<\/a>\n

That video is from the SBC\u2019s Avance 2015 gathering, where Ronnie Floyd and 5,000-some delegates from local Southern Baptist congregations partied like it was 1999<\/a>. Or like it was 2004, at the latest.<\/p>\n

\"Splendor\"<\/a>\u2022 RIP Elisabeth Elliot<\/a>, author of Through Gates of Splendor<\/em><\/a> and Passion and Purity<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dear FreemantleMedia North America and Starz: Don\u2019t screw this up<\/a>. Thank you. (via<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Matt Barber of right-wing nonsense machine Liberty Council<\/a> is very pleased that Texas is retricting\u00a0access to cancer screenings for poor women. Because, you know, that\u2019s what it means to be \u201cpro-life.\u201d<\/p>\n

No one has ever accused Barber of being especially bright, but his latest screed is also notable for his hilariously inept attempt to update the fantasy rhetoric\u00a0of Satanic baby-killing. Planned Parenthood, Barber says, is \u201clike Baal worship of old.\u201d<\/p>\n

Baal worship was a fertility<\/em> religion. Try again, genius.<\/p>\n

\u2022 OK, the snark level\u00a0above is a bit harsh \u2014 not too much<\/em>, but perhaps too soon<\/em>. So here\u2019s a link to an actual obituary for Elisabeth Elliot<\/a>. That\u2019s from Christianity Today<\/em>\u00a0(a publication that believes gay and lesbian couples are \u201cdestructive to society\u201d<\/a>).<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s \u201cA complicated eulogy for Elisabeth Elliot<\/a>,\u201d from Addie Zierman.<\/p>\n

\u2022 What is it with right-wing politicians weirdly trying to conscript angry protest songs into service as jingoistic anthems<\/a>? What exactly did Donald Trump hear in this<\/em> song that made him think it would work as his campaign theme?<\/p>\n