HomeTagged ‘religious right’
Huffington Post: why we need to get past stereotypes of conservatives
Clay Farris Naff of Nebraskans for Science shares some reflections on “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” after viewing it with in a packed house in Lincoln, Nebraska — a region with, of course, close ties to Kansas and itself home to a fiesty, hopeless outnumbered band of progressive prairie populists.
Perhaps in part because he recognizes [...]
Obama = Antichrist? Sutton responds.
The other day I posted a critique of Matthew Avery Sutton’s claim that “the vast majority of American evangelicals” are radical fundamentalists who are soon going to conclude that President Obama is the Antichrist. My critique came in the form of a question: Where’s the evidence? Although it’s fun and easy to pick on evangelicals, [...]
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 [...]
The religious pendulum swings again
American pastors are getting back into the political game — from the left.
The American Values Network, for instance, has launched ads on Christian and country music stations advocating strong government action on climate change. One ad begins like this: “As our seas rise, crops wither and rivers run dry, God’s creation cries out for relief.” [...]
From Warren’s lips to Muslims’ ears
Rick Warren bolstered his non-extremist bonafides this past weekend by preaching interfaith action to a group of 8000 Muslims. The problems that he proposed tackling together include what he called “the five global giants” — war, poverty, corruption, disease, and illiteracy.
This list recalls the “common enemies of man” that JFK lamented in his 1961 inaugural [...]
The more things change…
A new religious right organization is emerging from the tattered remains of groups like the Christian Coalition and Moral Majority. This organization — calling itself the Freedom Federation — purports to have a kinder, gentler face than its predecessors, which all too often came across like the Blue Meanies. But the group’s agenda is anything [...]
Holding the coats of killers?
Repentant religious righty Frank Schaeffer — son of the legendary fundamentalist Francis Schaeffer and a former evangelical leader in his own right — lays the blame for the recent uptick in domestic terrorism squarely at the feet of of our nation’s conservative leaders. He recalls the biblical story of pre-conversion Paul (then known as Saul) [...]
Dancing with the devil
As gay pride parades took place across the country yesterday — including one in Wichita — some gay rights activists in Texas decided to show pride in a different way: by attending an infamously anti-gay church. They went en masse to the San Antonio congregation of firebrand pastor John Hagee, sporting buttons that read: The [...]
The cross of hypocrisy
The Washington Times, of all places, is reporting (in the news section, not an op-ed) that social conservatives have fallen from the moral high ground. The most recent example, of course, is Mark Sanford, the Republican governor of South Carolina who went missing for six days when he was visiting his mistress in Argentina. Last [...]