Category: Gimme that Old Time Religion
Who Would Jesus Protest?
Want a quick test to see if someone knows the Bible? Ask them if Jesus would be out protesting at Occupy Wall Street (#OWS) today.
Pat Robertson, Cheap Advice Columnist
If I held any regard at all for Pat Robertson before today, I hold none now after he told his vast television audience that people with Alzheimer’s are “kind of dead”. “I know it sounds cruel, but if he’s going to do something, he should divorce her and start all over again, but make sure [...]
The Bias and Bigotry of Bill Keller
On Thursday, outgoing executive editor of the New York Times Bill Keller wrote one of the most proudly ignorant columns I have ever had the misfortune to read on the subject of religion and politics. In it, he strongly intimated that Presidential candidates — Republican Presidential candidates, actually, since he obviously didn’t feel that “God [...]
The Camping Heresy: Why the World Won’t End This Weekend
I don’t like ripping fellow Christians on points of faith. I avoid it as often as possible, to the point where I will let minor things slide past me. However, something’s come up recently that I as a Christian and a church teacher simply can not ignore. There is a man named Harold Camping who [...]
What European Christians Have Learned from Islam
Over the past few years, we’ve seen several incidents where violent Muslim protests over relatively minor slights earned big government and corporate concessions. Death threats over a few cartoons of Mohammed caused media outlets all over the world to censor themselves in ways that they would never have done otherwise. Muslims have murdered people because [...]
It Helps To Read The Bible Before You Write About What’s In The Bible
I’d like to offer Robert Wright of the New York Times a little helpful advice. Robert, when you want to appear smart by offering one of those little quizzes wherein the deluded masses believe the answer is one thing but you, by dint of your superior intellect, know the real answer, you should make every [...]























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