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Deconstructing Chick Tracts: Totalitarianism On Earth As It Is In Heaven

I think it’s curious how closely the judgment day narrative in Chick tracts (such as in “This Was Your Life“) follows the narrative arc of secular totalitarian terror. First, notice that death tends to arrive as an arrest without warning, out of the … Continue reading

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Lark News

An evangelical Onion written as self-parody by Evangelicals. Hmm. See it here.

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Some Things to Think About if You are an Evangelical Atheist

Are you an atheist, and are you evangelical about it? In other words, do you want other people to become atheists too? I’m an agnostic myself, but I’m not sure whether I can really recommend it. It seems like a … Continue reading

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Who Would Jesus Torture? Evangelical Christian Profession Highly Correlates with Support for Torture

A new Pew poll correlates Evangelical Christian profession with support for the torture of “suspected terrorists.” That correlation is 79%. See the poll results here. And see here and here for dissection of the poll. In other words, eight in … Continue reading

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Ex-Evangelical Rightist, Frank Schaeffer (the Son of Francis Schaeffer) Discusses on CNN the “THREE R’s” (the Religious Right, Rush Limbaugh, and the Republican Party)

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Gays are “Sodomites”?: Mike Huckabee Assures Ann Coulter That His Anti-Gay Bigotry Runs as Strongly as Hers

Don’t let Mike Huckabee’s jocular demeanor fool you. He wants everybody to know that he is as intolerant of gay people as any other good religious authoritarian. In fact, he finds “sodomy” just as distasteful as Ann Coulter does. In … Continue reading

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Republican Chip Saltsman is STILL Unapologetic About “Barack the Magic Negro”

According to the NY Times today, Chip Saltsman, a leading contender for the chairmanship of the Republican party, still won’t apologize for sending out a CD to his fellow Republicans containing songs with titles like “Barack the Magic Negro” and “The Star … Continue reading

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Because the highest office held by any human being in the world—the Presidency of the United States—has been won by a black man, no child of God, anywhere on earth, need ever again limit his or her horizon because of skin color. So why are so many Christians unhappy about Barack Obama’s election?

It has been said that Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in America—and on November 4th, this habit of segregation appears to have translated into sharply divergent voting as well. 70% of white evangelicals, for example, appear to have … Continue reading

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Why They Hid Her: Sarah Palin Did Not Even Know that Africa is a Continent—and Not a Country!

Now that the election is over, the reason that the McCain campaign never allowed Sarah Palin to hold a press conference—or sit for interviews on the Sunday morning political shows—is coming out: She would likely have grossly embarrassed herself. According … Continue reading

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“Behold the lillies of the field”: Does Sarah Palin’s $150,000 Dollar Spending Spree on Clothes Hurt McCain’s Campaign—and Her Christian Witness?

Does Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount apply to contemporary Christians, or not? Here’s Politico today on Sarah Palin’s spending spree on the McCain-Palin campaign credit card: The Republican National Committee has spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice … Continue reading

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