HomeTagged ‘fundamentalists’
Obama’s fruitless evangelical outreach?
Over at Religion Dispatches, Matthew Avery Sutton argues that President Obama’s entreaties to evangelicals will inevitably fall flat because the conservative Christian movement is “obsessed with the apocalypse” and bound to think Obama is the Antichrist.
The vast majority of American evangelicals interpret the most obscure books of the Bible (Daniel, Ezekiel, and Revelation) in a [...]
The Pope’s “Christian humanism”
For those who think Pope Benedict XVI is the Antichrist, the latest papal encyclical won’t come as a shock. But for other conservatives who have come to rely on the Pope as a defender of right-wing orthodoxy, it just might.
Benedict’s encyclical, released on Tuesday, attacks global capitalism from the left. He argues we need to [...]
Those dangerous fundraisers
In stark contrast to the lovefest (or at least awkward smiling) between gays and fundamentalists at John Hagee’s Texas church this past Sunday, a gay-straight exchange in California last weekend turned violent.
The scene was a fundraiser for Democratic congressional hopeful Francine Busby in California’s 50th district, which includes parts of San Diego and a few [...]