Category Archive: Religious extremism

Oct 11

Romney’s Mormon Problem

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Nearly twenty years after his unfortunate death, Lee Atwater’s legacy remains alive and well in the Republican Party. Throughout his political career, Atwater developed a knack for transforming weaker candidates into contenders, by shifting the debate away from policy and into minutia. His techniques proved effective, but also exposed a man who never wrestled with …

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Aug 07

The Lesser of Two Evils

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Yesterday, I blasted Rick Perry’s “The Response,” as pandering to the Religious Right. The post prompted several e-mails from readers asking how Perry’s affiliations with some pretty sketchy Christian characters compares to Barack Obama’s affiliations with people like Jeremiah Wright. You’ll recall Jeremiah Wright is the brash, African-American pastor who advocates an extremely radical brand …

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Aug 06

The Reply

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Perhaps it’s my legal background kicking into overdrive, but when I see the word “response”, I immediately think of a pleading filed in response to a motion. As you may know, the proper way to answer a response is through a “reply”. Therefore, I felt it prudent to issue The Reply to Rick Perry’s “The …

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Jul 28

Even Pastors are Outsourcing Now

Jim Wallis, the founder of Sojourners.

How bad is our economy? Apparently, bad enough that pastors are seeking to outsource jobs once reserved for the Church, not to India or Taiwan, but to the United States government. Sojourners, a group of progressive Christian activists, launched an ad campaign reminding all Americans–politicians and citizens–that “God is watching” the budget debate. Based on …

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Jul 05

Two different political documentaries

It’s been a lazy Sunday afternoon in my household and I had the opportunity to enjoy two, very different, yet fascianting political documentaries. The first, from the right, Waco: The Rules of Engagement, which as the name suggests focuses on the Federal governments involvement in the raid on the Branch Davidian compound outside of Waco. …

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Mar 04

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother?

I hate collectivism! Any movement that seeks to enforce community standards on a group of people rapes the individual of his most precious gift–his self. For eight years, the nimrods in the Bush administration tried to legislate an extreme version of evangelical Christianity. I am a Christian, an evangelical even, but I don’t want the …

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Oct 17

Rural/Urban American divide: Part MMMCCLVI

I’m thinking about the election again. After two weeks of trying to process Barack Obama’s insurmountable lead, I keep on coming back to the fact that we’re a divided country. It’s a divide that goes back to the dawn of the 20th Century, a divide between rural and urban America.  Sure, there are other divides …

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Sep 23

What's the matter in Somalia?

When the country Somalia is brought up in casual conversation, it is usually in the context of our short lived military jaunt there in 1990′s. However, over the past two years, Somalia has crept back into cocktail chatter all over the nation.  In 2006, I published Islami Fascists I and Islami Fascists II on my blog. …

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Oct 22

Islami Fascists II

    I wrote about this previously, but saw this article on MSNBC this morning and felt compelled to raise the issue once again.    While the Bush administration touts Iraq, the media bombards us with horror stories of a nuclear North Korea and the Democrats talk sex, the Islami-fascists continue to destroy Somalia.    …

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Jul 19

Islami Fascists I

A tiny article, buried on Page 9A of today’s USA Today, caught my eye.  Apparently, government officials in Somalia agreed to peace talks with the Islami-fascist militia terrorist group that has long terrorized the country and region.  Evidently, the United Nations caved in to what the wire report characterized as “pressure from the international community” …

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