Oct 10 2010

Pop quiz

Test Your Savvy on Religion By Nicholas D. Kristof October 9, 2010 … Time for a pop quiz. The New York Times reported recently on a Pew Research Center poll in which religious people turned out to be remarkably uninformed…  [more]

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2010/10/10/pop-quiz/

Oct 07 2010

Bravo, Brandon Davis

This was sent to me today by Ilene Cohen, Executive Editor of World Politics, journal of Princeton’s Institute for International and Regional Studies.   October 7, 2010   Here I am sitting in an office at Princeton University and I missed this…  [more]

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2010/10/07/bravo-brandon-davis/

Oct 03 2010

Patriot’s Bible

I happened to notice The American Patriot’s Bible yesterday at our local Sam’s Club (a Costco-like retail warehouse owned and operated by Wal-Mart).  Following are some of Greg Boyd’s thoughts about the flag-draped idolatry that Patriot’s Bible represents.  Boyd is…  [more]

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2010/10/03/patriots-bible/

Oct 02 2010

Professor Beck

From the conclusion of Dana Milbank’s “Glenn Beck is obsessed with Hitler and Woodrow Wilson. (I’m just saying.)” Sunday, October 3, 2010 … The Apollo Alliance, funded by Soros, wrote Obama’s stimulus bill! Apollo’s Jeff Jones, along with…  [more]

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2010/10/02/professor-beck/

Sep 28 2010

The Family Camel

… From “Junkets for Jesus” by Jeff Sharlet, Mother Jones, Monday Sep. 27, 2010 3:00 AM PDT … THE OLDEST AND MOST politically influential Christian conservative organization in Washington is known to the public, if at all, for one…  [more]

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2010/09/28/the-family-camel/

Sep 24 2010

Seriously?

This little gem, titled “Islam a legal system,” appeared on page 8 of the opinion section of the September 23, 2010 Sentinel Record… Dear editor: Regarding Mr. Vogt’s defense of Islam in America, I have two websites…  [more]

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2010/09/24/seriously/

Sep 21 2010

War talk

MEC Analytical Group 21 September 2010 War talk We are grateful to Richard Dalton for bringing to our attention the account below of an exchange of views on 17 September on the prospect of another war between Israel and Lebanon.…  [more]

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2010/09/21/war-talk/