Jun 03 2012
Mythologizing Evolution By Karl Giberson, Ph.D, 05/31/2012 12:09 pm … A prominent new atheist blogger has just completed a week-long series paying homage to the great journalist H. L. Mencken, best known for his coverage of the 1925 Scopes Trial. The series represents ongoing efforts to enhance the mythology of evolution, efforts that have been …
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Jun 03 2012
The Islamophobia Industry Strikes in Kansas By Nathan Lean, 06/01/2012 3:21 pm … Just like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, Republican Governor Sam Brownback had a feeling he was not in Kansas anymore. At least not the Kansas that he once knew. His Sunflower State was teeming with unfamiliar creatures and though not tin-men …
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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
The GOP Sees Dead People — Voting By Scott Keyes, Thursday, May 31, 2012, at 12:35 PM ET … When Americans go to the polls this November, they better have some ID. If they don’t, millions of them won’t be casting a ballot. Over the past two years, Republican legislators from Texas to Florida to …
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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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