American Views of Salvation
The Pew Forum recently released the results of a follow-up survey to one they’d released earlier this year, on how Americans view salvation. The first survey had been controversial among evangelicals...
View ArticleThe Burned-Bibles Fiasco
This is one of those stories that has a backstory to it. The US military had to burn a batch of Bibles that had been sent to Afghanistan, and the Religious Right (such as the American Family...
View ArticleHow Not To Uphold The Sanctity Of Marriage
We’ve heard for years, from the Religious Right, how “sacred” marriage is, and how it must be “defended.” This talk has led to — among other things — the passage of the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996,...
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The Real Dobson Story … Maybe
A couple months ago I blogged about James Dobson’s final and total departure from the evangelical group he founded, Focus on the Family, and the end of the last job he had with them, as a radio-show...
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Schuller, Famous Televangelist, Retires
I’ve blogged a couple times about problems and infighting over at the monument to evangelical Christian opulence known as the Crystal Cathedral. Along with having lost its financial luster, that...
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Evangelicals Go Berserk Over “Heresy” Of Universalism
Evangelicals around the US have gone into fits of apoplexy over a book that hasn’t even been released yet, by a well-known Christian pastor, Rob Bell. The controversy began when a Christian blogger...
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Rob Bell Denies He’s A Heretic
Ten days ago I blogged about the uproar of the supposed “heresy” of evangelical pastor Rob Bell. In an interview reported on the CNN Belief blog, however, Bell claims he’s not a “universalist” and...
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Pastor Fired For Supporting Rob Bell
I’ve blogged twice about the controversy over evangelical pastor Rob Bell’s new book, Love Wins. Supposedly, Bell is an evil, Satan-loving heretic who dares promote the vile and disgusting heresy known...
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Is Christianity Only About Hell And Nothing Else?
The hubbub over evangelical pastor Rob Bell and his supposed universalism hasn’t let up yet. Perhaps in memory of a momentous article that magazine published decades ago (cached), Time magazine — in...
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Religious Right’s Favorite Historian Is No Historian!
David Barton is popular among the Religious Right, at the moment. He’s a Christofascist’s Christofascist, happy to tell Chrisitianists around the country that the US was originally founded as the...
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Florida Atheist Harassed By Evangelical Sheriff
The persistence of evangelical Christians to cross every line, and break every rule, in their continuous effort to force their Jesus on everyone, amazes me. Nevertheless, they do it constantly. Not all...
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Christianity’s Campaign Of Psychological Terror
I know I’m going to get complaints about this, so let me straighten this out, right at the start. There are many sorts of “terror” in the world. Only a little of it is what we generally connect with...
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Louisiana Creationists Teach That Loch Ness Monster Disproves Evolution
We’ve seen that Creationists will stop at nothing to indoctrinate school children with their irrational, non-factual, hyperreligious dogma. They’re ferociously angry at the idea that anyone might...
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Can Dealing With Sexual Abuse Really Hurt Jesus?
There are a number of evangelical Protestant colleges in the U.S., and Bob Jones University in South Carolina is one of the strangest and most controversial of them. It resisted admitting blacks until...
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America’s Evangelicals Are Childish Whiners
As I’ve said many times, one feature of fundamentalist religiosity — regardless of which overall religious tradition it’s in — is immaturity. They have a very powerful sense of how things should be,...
View ArticleAmerican Views of Salvation
The Pew Forum recently released the results of a follow-up survey to one they’d released earlier this year, on how Americans view salvation. The first survey had been controversial among evangelicals...
View ArticleThe Burned-Bibles Fiasco
This is one of those stories that has a backstory to it. The US military had to burn a batch of Bibles that had been sent to Afghanistan, and the Religious Right (such as the American Family...
View ArticleHow Not To Uphold The Sanctity Of Marriage
We’ve heard for years, from the Religious Right, how “sacred” marriage is, and how it must be “defended.” This talk has led to — among other things — the passage of the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996,...
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The Real Dobson Story … Maybe
A couple months ago I blogged about James Dobson’s final and total departure from the evangelical group he founded, Focus on the Family, and the end of the last job he had with them, as a radio-show...
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Schuller, Famous Televangelist, Retires
I’ve blogged a couple times about problems and infighting over at the monument to evangelical Christian opulence known as the Crystal Cathedral. Along with having lost its financial luster, that...
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