Jun 03 2012
A Snake-handler’s Lethal Embrace of Religious Ecstasy By Jack Levison, 06/01/2012 2:12 pm … I was driving into downtown Seattle when I heard the news of Randy “Mack” Wolford’s death on National Public Radio, in a British accent no less. Randy, a snake-handler in West Virginia, had died — bitten by a snake and poisoned. …
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Jun 01 2012
The Libertarian Theocrats By Michael J. McVicar, Fall 2007 … In their struggle to understand George W. Bush, some liberal intellectuals have looked to the writings of Rousas John Rushdoony, the Armenian-American minister whose championing of a theocratic America influenced some of the nooks and crannies of the Christian Right during its rise to prominence. …
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Jun 01 2012
Repent, brother Dawkins By Charles Foster, Published May 24, 2012 … Richard Dawkins is at it again in the Guardian. It’s the familiar stuff: a fluent, funny, whingeing litany of jibes about genocidal Israelites, filicidal Gods and benighted Tennessean Creationists. We’ve all heard it all before, of course. Dawkins has become a hackneyed national treasure. …
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Jun 01 2012
Hymns to the Violence: The NYT’s Love Letter to Obama’s Murder Racket By Chris Floyd, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:21 … I must, at last, admit defeat. I simply have no words, no rhetorical ammunition, no conceptual frameworks that could adequately address the total moral nullity exposed in Monday’s New York Times article on the …
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May 30 2012
Preparing for Pentecost Announced by Archdruid Eileen (Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley), Saturday, 26 May 2012 … It looks like we’re all set for Pentecost then. The flame-throwers will be fired into the Moot House at a height of nine feet. This will enable us to provide that authentic “tongues of fire” effect without incinerating …
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May 30 2012
How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide to schoolchildren By Katherine Stewart, Wednesday 30 May 2012 10.15 EDT … The Bible has thousands of passages that may serve as the basis for instruction and inspiration. Not all of them are appropriate in all circumstances. The story of Saul and the Amalekites is a case in …
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May 17 2012
Excuse Me, But Israel Has No Right To Exist By Sharmine Narwani, Thu, 2012-05-17 21:46 … The phrase “right to exist” entered my consciousness in the 1990s just as the concept of the two-state solution became part of our collective lexicon. In any debate at university, when a Zionist was out of arguments, those three magic …
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