Oct 22 2012
If massacres like Cromwell’s avert suffering, perhaps they can be justified By Andrew Brown, Friday 19 October 2012 03.29 EDT The pleasure of reading history is that it’s so much more unexpected than the news. Who would have thought that one of the great philosophers of the enlightenment defended Oliver Cromwell’s massacres in Ireland? …
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Oct 22 2012
Tap Dancing at the Cataclysm By Charles Redfern, 10/15/2012 12:41 pm So there are two ants on a hill, see, and both feel the ground tremble and boom. They notice a gargantuan creature — a sky-high behemoth — walking toward them. One ant says to the other ant: “Human: better run.” The other replies: …
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Oct 22 2012
Pigs to the Lake: The Evangelical Exorcism By Morgan Guyton, 10/18/2012 5:15 pm In Mark 5, Jesus casts a legion of demons out of a man chained to a graveyard by sending them into a herd of pigs, who race with fury to a cliff and throw themselves in a lake. This event is …
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Oct 21 2012
Billy Graham’s lurch towards Mitt Romney risks his legacy By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Thursday 18 October 2012 07.57 EDT As America’s pastor for the past half century, Billy Graham has earned a reputation as a wise and holy man. But the respect he has gained as a man of unflinching, unerring principles has been severely …
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Oct 13 2012
Were Obama my perfect candidate, then most of the prior administration would be rotting away in Guantanamo, a latter-day Spandau prison under UN jurisdiction. What was left of the Grand Old Party would be its ridiculous, remnant wackadoodle tea party born-again John Birchers and a handful of secessionists still itching to fight …
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Oct 12 2012
Good solid pro-family evangelical Southern Baptists By Fred Clark, October 9, 2012 Remember when we were told that Dominion Theology is just a myth? Well here’s a new book outlining how the Bible — read “literally,” of course — should be the basis for all civil law. It’s called God’s Law: The Only Political …
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Oct 10 2012
One last letter before these portentous elections, a short compendium of awkward questions. Here’s hoping they all survive our small-town editor’s butchery… Given how simple-minded Arkansas politicians have once again embarrassed themselves and their constituents and our kinda unnatural state, is there any doubt now that Republicans are the preferred party for Islamophobic racists? After WW2, …
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