I hadn’t heard of John Hagee until he endorsed John McCain. But
GLS is right. He’s an important member of the Christian Right and represents an enormous voting bloc. For McCain, who’s struggling to get the support of the religious fundamentalists he once called dangerous, Hagee’s endorsement is a really big deal. And worthy of [...]

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I don’t know how I missed Mary Lefkowitz’s editorial on
Polytheism in the LA Times, but it’s an interesting read here as we listen to all the “Christian Nation” hollering. It’s a bit scattershot, but Lefkowitz makes a pretty good pass at discussing some of the advantages of polytheism over a monotheistic world view. I [...]

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Let’s talk about this instance of a cartoon called “Atheist Eve.” It’s hard to see in the thumbnail so you might have to click through, but the strip features a Christian woman making all sorts of legal suggestions: outlawing abortion, gay marriage, sponsoring religion in schools. The atheist essentially responds “leave us alone and we’ll [...]

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Mac at pesky’apostrophe
points to Newt Gingrich —
the commencement speaker for the University of Mary Washington, a Virginia State University — joining forces with
James Lewis to lay blame for the Virginia Tech shootings on either liberal policies or liberal culture. It’s a little unclear which.
But a lot of the asshole wingnuts on the [...]

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E. J. Dionne
much of what I’ve said here about “neo-atheism” — not just the idea that there is no god, but that religion is primarily destructive force in society. He’s particularly critical of Neo-atheism’s attack on the moderate and liberal religious communities.

The problem with the neo-atheists is that they seem as dogmatic as the [...]

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