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August 2012

August 07, 2012

Utah charlatan attempts to revive Satanic panic

I recently quoted from Mere Christianity, a passage in which C.S. Lewis warns against seeking...

July 2012

July 23, 2012

Wheaton College, C.S. Lewis & Bad Jackie: On preferring the nightmare to reality

One unappealing possibility is that Philip Ryken, president of Wheaton College, is making his clumsy...

July 23, 2012

Dear Wheaton College Biology department faculty: Please correct Ryken’s mistake and/or lie regarding Plan B

TO: Dr. Jennifer Busch, Dr. Raymond Lewis, Dr. L. Kristen Page, Dr. Pattle Pak-Toe Pun,...

July 05, 2012

If you believe the logo’s Man on the Moon

Darrell at Stuff Fundies Like writes: A fundamentalist can survive without many things such as...

July 04, 2012

Why liars for Jesus can’t be believed when they say they’re anti-abortion

If you denounce the Affordable Care Act because it's "the biggest expansion of abortion and...

June 2012

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...

May 2012

May 01, 2012

Marilynne Robinson vs. evangelical tribalism

"We live in a time when the claiming of a religious identity has become more...

April 2012

April 25, 2012

Satanazis III: Night of the Satanazis

Don't imagine you're safe just because Pat Robertson, Demon Hunter, is on the job. Sure,...

April 08, 2012

Return of the Satanazis!

"Unspeakable horrors from outer space paralyze the living and resurrect the dead!" It's … We...

March 2012

March 27, 2012

Defending America from the Satanazis

Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite asks a good question: The choice between the biblical values of “good...

March 17, 2012

The immaculate connections

I am deeply impressed by Stacey Dames latest blog entry at the Christian Post. It's...

February 2012

February 27, 2012

Rick Santorum and the Anti Kitten-Burning Coalition

Burning kittens is wrong. It is cruel, it is illegal and it is, quite simply,...

February 22, 2012

Actions speak louder than “Satanic baby-killer” rhetoric

Syndicated reruns got me hooked on the old CBS show Early Edition years after it...

February 19, 2012

The Münchhausen martyrdom of Rick Warren, Chuck Colson and Fr. Jonathan Morris

These folks aren't driven by religion. They're not really even driven by politics. It's just...

January 2012

January 24, 2012

Abortion politics and the corrosive sin of pride

Franciscan brother Daniel Horan explains why he does not support the annual "March for Life"...

January 04, 2012

Three kinds of falsehoods: Innocence, interest and intrigue

If I make a false statement, your response -- and your evaluation of me --...

January 03, 2012

Say anything to take us out of this gloom

Here's Amanda Marcotte on "Why the Iowa Caucus Is About Abortion": If the Iowa caucus...

December 2011

December 10, 2011

Satanic baby-killers

They're everywhere. I should probably warn you that the article linked to and quoted below...

December 03, 2011

Chuck Colson calls himself an envious, soak-the-rich socialist

Chuck Colson's latest column -- "Killing Your Neighbor's Cow -- Income Inequality" is not the...

November 2011

November 09, 2011

Satan? Or merely Hitler?

TEAM SATAN Susan Tyrell, Bound4Life: The kingdom of Satan is united, which is why, for...

November 07, 2011

Richard Land, Bocephus and the Scandal of Evangelical Ethics

Hank Williams Jr. lost his job with ESPN recently after saying on a talk show...

October 2011

October 21, 2011

‘In American history, the monsters are real’

W. Scott Poole's Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting...

September 2011

September 23, 2011

'They don't really believe it'

My house is on fire. Oh my God! Are you OK? I'm good, you know....

September 13, 2011

The IndigNation, defending bullies and the martyr Sally Kern

I have a theory that the central motivation for much of American politics is a...

August 2011

August 31, 2011

Crops without plowing

Via ABL on Balloon Juice, this quote from loathesome con-man "historian" David Barton in a...

August 19, 2011

Belated justice in Arkansas

Good news today from Jonesboro, Ark.: Three men convicted of the murder of three West...

August 17, 2011

Pulpit glurge and ghost stories

"Glurge" is not unique to church, but churches tend to cultivate their own native varieties...

August 17, 2011

'It's not a lie if you believe it'

So says Seinfeld's George Costanza. But whether or not he really believed that is hard...

July 2011

July 28, 2011

They tend to get offended

So these three preachers walk into the White House for an argument with President Lincoln...

July 20, 2011

A lamentation for an antivaxxer

At Respectful Insolence, Orac struggles to respond to "A disturbing post on an anti-vaccine blog."...