Category: Christianity

Apoplexy of fear and hatred

Brigitte Gabriel is a vicious and probably deranged Islamophobe By Hussein Ibish, October 1, 2009   A lot of readers seemed to benefit from and enjoy my evaluation of Irshad Manji from yesterday’s Ibishblog posting, and I have been asked to give my views on another charmer, called Brigitte Gabriel. I argued that Manji is …

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Funny things

Dear editor, This is a letter about funny things. A random collection perhaps, but some readers may discern a veritable fountain of flummery, deep and wide, that flows through them all. Funny thing about that young bigot slaughtering all those people away yonder in a Charleston church just a few weeks ago. Suddenly there’s a …

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The Passion of George Zimmerman

We now know that Dylann Roof, the young man who murdered nine people in Charleston last week, left behind a manifesto.  And from it, we know that the killer’s Damascus-road conversion happened once he believed in the righteousness of the Passion of George Zimmerman, the Miami vigilante who gunned down a black teenager for wearing …

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Pathetic political aggrandizement

A Woman Dies on Beech Street: Revisiting the Terri Schiavo Case By Charles P. Pierce, Dec 23, 2014 @ 1:40 PM   The one abiding characteristic of the two generations of the Bush family that have gifted the nation with their political leadership is a reckless, selfish brand of political ambition. Quite simply, in the …

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Advanced Training Institute

I could’ve been a Duggar wife: I grew up in the same church, and the abuse scandal doesn’t shock me By Brooke Arnold, Thursday, May 28, 2015 10:36 AM CDT   Unlike most of the writers covering the Duggar sex scandal, I was raised in Advanced Training Institute (ATI), the fundamentalist Christian organization with which …

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Birthright

Sheldon Adelson Turns Israel Into ‘The Walking Dead’ By Eli Valley, May 14, 2015   http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121789/sheldon-adelson-turns-israel-walking-dead or http://bit.ly/1FitBKv

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We are all guilty

Too By The Observer (Arkansas Times), April 23 2015   There’s an enemy out there, lurking in the dark. It’s the enemy of every human being and — The Observer has become convinced over the years — the root of all evil, no matter what you’ve heard about the Greenback Dollar. Money, it turns out, …

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