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August 2012

August 15, 2012

‘Put your gun away …’

"Put your gun away; for all who take the gun will perish by the gun."...

August 10, 2012

Religious right groups jump at chance to shield members from seeing books

Concerned Women for America and the American Family Association are both urging their followers to...

August 10, 2012

Religious right pretends that Obama has a ‘God-talk’ problem

So here's a common urban legend on the religious right, stated here by Phyllis Schlafly:...

August 08, 2012

Defending Franklin Graham by smearing his father

Back in May, I asked "Is Billy Graham being exploited for political gain?" Following that...

August 07, 2012

Battling imaginary Satanic baby-killers in Utah and Ohio

This is a disingenuous diatribe against Satanic baby-killers that exist only as an urban legend....

August 06, 2012

‘The terrible downward spiral of our nation’s moral standards’

Christian Piatt quotes from another of the recent statements purportedly from Billy Graham, a fundraising...

August 06, 2012

Billy Graham did not go to Chick-fil-A (and he didn’t tell you to go there, either)

Steve Knight does not believe that recent statements allegedly from evangelist Billy Graham are really...

August 05, 2012

Fred Phelps: Why it is not possible to believe that you ate Chick-fil-A because of ‘freedom of speech’

Please stop pretending that the orgy of hate last week at Chick-fil-A had anything to...

August 04, 2012

Untrustworthy spirits: Pat Robertson and Eliphaz

A couple of stray notes formed a chord for me. First was a remark by...

August 04, 2012

David Brody says tea party isn’t ‘far-right,’ just ‘constitutional’

David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network is upset that his beloved "teavangelicals" were recently...

August 02, 2012

Chick-fil-A Flustercluck: The Day After

"Had there been a Fox News back in 1960, I'm sure there would have been...

August 02, 2012

Progressive religious voices not irrelevant, just ignored

So yesterday, more than 60 Christian leaders released a statement "expressing their strong opposition to...

July 2012

July 31, 2012

The Chik-fil-A Flustercluck: What’s Next?

For all the buzz about "boycotting" Chik-fil-A, we haven't really seen anything that formally organized...

July 30, 2012

‘Stance’ vs. substance: why evangelicals are confused about the actual harm Chik-fil-A is doing to actual people

Inside the world of American evangelicalism, one must always have the proper stance. Stances, actually,...

July 26, 2012

Evangelicalism and ‘time wasted in disabuse’

Ta-Nehisi Coates is discussing an unrelated topic here, but his analogy captures the frustration with...

July 26, 2012

Phyllis Schlafly confuses urban legend with truth, Arlington with Europe

Phyllis Schlafly says that President Obama is planning to remove the crosses at Arlington Cemetery:...

July 25, 2012

Robot Eurythphro and news from the religious right

"And a good day to you, Robot Euthyphro." If you're not familiar with the original,...

July 19, 2012

When a lack of anger reveals a lack of love

"Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are Anger and Courage; anger at the way...

July 19, 2012

More on the Bad News Boors of the Gospel Coalition and Doug Wilson’s demented views on slavery

From Morgan Guyton: I could say a lot about this, but I don’t have the...

July 18, 2012

The men of the ‘Gospel Coalition’ really, really hate women

What in the name of all that is holy is wrong with these people? Before...

July 18, 2012

Bryan Fischer is an AIDS denier

Tweet from Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association: "New pill stops HIV virus. But...

July 08, 2012

Misogyny isn’t new; consent shouldn’t be confusing

Helen Lewis at the New Statesmen shows us "What online harassment looks like." It's an...

June 2012

June 28, 2012

Churches praise health care law, lobby groups condemn it

David Gibson of Religion News Service has an interesting round-up: "Religious groups react to Supreme...

June 28, 2012

Rise of the Planet of the Satanazis

Some say that America is under attack by Satan himself. Liberals have been duped by...

June 27, 2012

A Southern Baptist minister bears false witness

Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, is bearing false witness. “It’s becoming increasingly clear...

June 24, 2012

Evolution and the profit motive behind evangelical tribalism, in 8 panels

Sometimes people think I'm overstating the case when I describe American evangelicalism as primarily driven...

June 23, 2012

What doth it profit religious demagogues to gain direct mail millions and lose their souls?

Jane Mayer's New Yorker profile of culture warrior Bryan Fischer -- the American Family Association's...

June 21, 2012

Pope Jim Garlow I joins the Münchhausen martyrdom brigade

Jim Garlow is a silly, silly man. We've written here before about the Münchhausen martyrs...

June 12, 2012

‘Rights for me, but not for thee’

"Rights for me, but not for thee" creates all sorts of problems. For example, if...

June 11, 2012

You can’t deny people their rights and be nice about it

"The Theological Is Personal," Dianna Anderson writes. She's talking here specifically about the perennial controversy...