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August 2012

August 19, 2012

Culture warriors produce a new, improved Bible

Fundamentalist Christians are fond of the final verses of the book of Revelation: The grace...

August 15, 2012

Someday we’ll find it, the rainbow connection

I've mentioned before that I love the story of Rainbow Crow, the beautiful Lenape tale...

August 14, 2012

Cruciform dildo-swords decorate church lawn in Tennessee

Those are not crosses on the lawn of Grace Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, Tenn. The...

August 11, 2012

‘Stuff that you long ago forgot isn’t general public knowledge’

"What do Christian fundamentalists have against set theory?" asks Maggie Koerth-Baker at BoingBoing. She goes...

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 07, 2012

Setting the world on fire for Jesus

Perhaps you've seen the video. A peculiar fellow in a pink shirt stands on the...

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 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

Clowns, prophets and the Chick-fil-A Flustercluck

I suspect James McGrath is probably right when he says, regarding Chick-fil-A: "Satire is likely...

July 2012

July 31, 2012

Chik-fil-A flustercluck link roundup

"I mean, it's so unhealthy it's probably killed more Southerners than crystal meth, Gen. Sherman,...

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 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 11, 2012

‘Hi, I’m looking for a Christian book …’

Ring. "LifeWay Christian Bookstore, how may I help you?" "Hi, I'm looking for a Christian...

July 10, 2012

‘Christian bookstores’ and the unsustainable bubble of the evangelical subculture

Some evangelical "gatekeepers" imagine they can still control the boundaries of their subculture and thereby...

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

‘The Cult of the Individual and the Idolatry of Greed’

Michael Bird is a very conservative evangelical theology professor. He's theologically conservative in the tradition...

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 26, 2012

Evangelical = anti-abortion, anti-gay white Protestant?

"Is a 'black evangelical' a contradiction in terms?" Molly Worthen asks at NYTimes.com: In recent...

June 24, 2012

The evangelical mind must obey the moneyed enforcers of the tribe

Peter Enns offers a powerful one-two punch on the subject of what Mark Noll called...

May 2012

May 19, 2012

Tribalism and the cruelly weird idea of zero-sum human rights

Anti-gay activist Peter LaBarbera said this recently on a conservative radio show: All of a...

May 11, 2012

The battle against the culture wars II

More smart people saying more smart things about the "culture wars" and the culture warriors...

May 10, 2012

The battle against the culture wars

Three smart people saying smart things about the "culture wars." John Aravosis: "Mr. Cantor, your...

May 08, 2012

Will the majority allow minority rights in N.C.?

The citizens of North Carolina vote today on Amendment One, a ridiculous exercise in "Scissors...

May 07, 2012

Is Billy Graham being exploited for political gain?

Both Alvin McEwen and Jan Edmiston wonder if the Rev. Billy Graham is being exploited...

May 07, 2012

Three commentaries on N.C. that are far more moral than Billy Graham’s cruel embrace of ignorance

Each of these commentators also offers a far better understanding of the Bible than you'll...

May 05, 2012

The ‘Big Four’ markers of the evangelical tribe

Not all of the Big Four carry equal weight. I've commended Jonathan Dudley's excellent book,...