Jun 03 2012

Christians of comfort like myself

A Snake-handler’s Lethal Embrace of Religious Ecstasy

By , 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…  [more]

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Jun 01 2012

Rousas John Rushdoony

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…  [more]

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Jun 01 2012

Scowling, spitting ball of godless epigrams

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…  [more]

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Jun 01 2012

Tall tales and paranoid fears

The GOP Sees Dead People — Voting

By , 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…  [more]

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Jun 01 2012

When wood is chopped, chips fly

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…  [more]

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May 30 2012

A religious experience

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…  [more]

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May 30 2012

Exterminist rhetoric

How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide to schoolchildren

By , 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…  [more]

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