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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Video: “How Will Religion Influence the 2012 Presidential Race?”
Why is religion featuring so prominently in the Republican presidential race? What happened to jobs? […] Melissa Harris-Perry argues that religion has been central to Republican party politics for more than a decade. After 9/11, faith became a central part of conservatives’ electoral strategy as politicians tapped anti-Muslim anxiety to gain votes.
Article: “Why Rick Perry is Headed to the White House”
His Saturday speech in South Carolina will make clear that he is entering the race for the White House and will spawn the ugliest and most expensive presidential race in U.S. history, and he will win. A C and D student, who hates to govern, loves to campaign, and barely has a sixth grader’s understanding of economics, will lead our nation into oblivion.
Quote: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Every time that we say that God is the author of some phenomenon, that signifies that we are ignorant of how such a phenomenon was caused by the forces of nature.
Image: “Don’t Be Prejudiced Against Atheists”
Article: “Rick Perry’s Army of God”
A little-known movement of radical Christians and self-proclaimed prophets wants to infiltrate government, and Rick Perry might be their man. The phrase “New Apostolic Reformation” comes from the movement’s intellectual godfather, C. Peter Wagner, who has called it, a bit vaingloriously, “the most radical change in the way of doing Christianity since the Protestant Reformation.”
Video: “Fox News: Cancer Patient ‘Cured By God’s Voice'”
Article: “Flag Fetishism & the Cult of the Flag”
When people treat common objects like this, we say that they suffer from a mental imbalance — obsessive-compulsive disorder, to be exact. When they treat religious objects like this, we simply say they are devout. What are we to say about someone to treats a flag this way? Perhaps it’s not a coincidence that those who insist on doing so are also often highly religious.
Article/Audio: “Barton On Spanking: ‘We Do The Same Thing With Horses'”
Barton argues that a judge had no right to convict her because, he explained, the Bible justifies and even encourages spanking. He claims that if anything parents should spank their children not with their hands but with “belts or hairbrushes (sic), or they can use a paddle or whatever it is,” because “always in the Bible discipline is with a rod, it’s not with a hand.” Barton goes on to say “we do the same thing with horses,” saying spanking children is like beating horses with a rod or crop.
Article/Video: “Barton: If Christians Ran Things, Schools Would Institute Prayer & Government Wouldn’t Help The Poor”
During the discussion, Barna asked Barton how America would be different if people actually followed the teaching of Jesus, to which Barton explained that everything from our economic to our foreign policy would be drastically different and that public schools would start the day off with prayer because “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge” and the government would stop helping the poor.
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