Plunderbund

Sigh.

The more widespread this stuff becomes, the more likely we fall further and further behind the rest of the world technologically.

On of the guys who bleats loudest about the “War on Christmas” (other than Bill-O, of course) is Bill Donahue of the Catholic League. He’s now criticizing Huck for injecting too much religion into politics, specifically about his latest television advert.
Donahue, the president of the Catholic League and an ardent defender of Christmas in […]

Did you know gay sex is a relatively new phenomenon in human history? Mike Huckabee sets the record straight.
The governor regards 1968 as the dawning of ‘‘the age of the birth-control pill, free love, gay sex, the drug culture and reckless disregard for standards.’’
Apparently the Greeks and Romans didn’t have widespread gay sex. […]

Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, had this to say about the shootings at two Colorado churches on Sunday (transcribed from Countdown):
It is hard not to draw a line between the hostility that is being fomented in our culture from some in the secular media towards Christians and Evangelicals in particular, and the […]

I just read an excellent article in Christianity Today about the “Merry Christmas” v “Happy Holidays” flap. One hard-core Christianists who rail against “Happy Holidays” might do well to read.
But since 2005, when the “war on Christmas” reached a fever pitch, some organizations and many individual Christians have put more emphasis on the season’s […]

Following up her rather astonishing claim that the Earth is flat (which I can’t seem to find in the archives here), Sherri Shepard now claims that Greeks threw Christians to the lions and that nothing existed before Christianity. Ironically, in direct conflict with what the Bible says.

Sherri makes Elizabeth Hasselbeck look like the smart […]

The implosion of the GOP is the fruits of their own labor. They worked so hard to court the far-wingnut-right, especially the “Values Voters”, that those hardline evangelical groups feel entitled to get their ideal GOP candidate. They aren’t very happy.
In June, [Focus on the Family’s James Dobson] said: “I cannot, and […]

No comment needed except… 1) Wow! and 2) It will be interesting to see how this story will play out alongside the presidential primary election cycle. Surely there will be a hailstorm of commentary on that over the next few days.

DES MOINES, Iowa - A Polk County judge on Thursday struck down Iowa’s law banning gay marriage and ordered the county recorder to permit gay and lesbian couples to marry.

Less than two hours after word of the ruling was publicized, two Des Moines men applied at the Polk County recorder’s office for a marriage license, and for the first time the application was accepted. The process of granting a license to marry in Iowa takes three days.

As insane as that sounds, it’s the central theme of a religiously motivated anti-evolution piece of media.
Ann Coulter is stunned. How is it, she asks, that she could go through 12 years of public school, then college and law school, and still not know that it was Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution that fueled Hitler’s […]

Last night, CNN debuted part one of “God’s Warriors”, a three-part series looking at people of the three Mosaic faiths (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) who feel they are God’s Warriors. Last night was Judaism, tonight (9PM) Islam, and tomorrow (also 9PM) Christianity.
Here’s an example of the “God Warrior” concept found on GodTube.

And a preview […]

From the Baltimore Sun:
At National Right to Life’s conference this year, Mitt Romney set out to convince anti-abortion leaders he was their candidate. At the podium, he rattled off his qualifications. To a layman’s ears, it sounded pretty standard for abortion politics. He wants to overturn Roe v. Wade. He supports teaching only abstinence to […]

First it’s comedic genius Alec Baldwin’s ugly divorce proceedings (and it’s ugly fallout with his daughter), now it’s Born-Again Stephen “BioDome” Baldwin’s unfortunate involvement in turning the Iraq War into millennialist proselytizing.
Baldwin became a right-wing, born-again Christian after the 9/11 attacks, and now is the star of Operation Straight Up (OSU), an evangelical entertainment troupe […]

If we are going to allow invocations at government functions, we should represent the diversity of faith expressed by our citizenry. Unfortunately, wingnuts don’t want that - obviously.
I’d suggest that perhaps the way to avoid this kind of controversy is to remove all vestiges of religion from government, but then the wingnuts would claim […]

Check out this great post from Colorado Confidential…
Focus on the Family Chairman James Dobson devotes his entire June newsletter to advising people to buy copies of his book, Life on the Edge, and give them away as graduation presents. The book is designed to target the 16 to 26 crowd - and includes a vexing […]

The LA Times did a great piece this week about Conservapedia.com.
Labeled “a conservative encyclopedia you can trust”, Conservapedia is basically a christian homeschool history teacher’s equivalent to the creation museum.
The LA Times article bashes the site for its poor grammar and spelling as well as for its crazy, biased entries like:

the Pleistocene Epoch “a theorized […]