It seems a group of atheist students at the University of Texas, San Antonio, have set up an interesting program to trade pornography for bibles — not vice versa, however. I am not sure that the two, bibles and porn, are mutually exclusive though, that one would have to give up the latter for [...]
Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy. – R.J. Rushdoony, Christian reconstructionist and father of the Christian home school movement.
The first strategy and in many ways the most important strategy for evangelicals is secrecy. Sun Tzu says that’s what you have to do to be effective at war and thats [...]
I have been slowly catching up on some of my online reading, and was struck by an apparent argument occurring between Glen Greenwald, Ann Althouse, and others regarding the use of term ‘Christianist’, as a Christian version of the popular usage of ‘Islamist’. I don’t wish to re-hash the entire set of arguments (please read [...]
A few days ago an orthodox Jewish man was forced off an Air Canada flight for praying before take off. Yves Faguy, a passenger on the flight noted:
He wasn’t exactly praying out loud but he was lurching back and forth . . . The attendant actually recognized out loud that he wasn’t a Muslim and [...]
Give me that old time religion
Give me that old time religion
Give me that old time religion
It’s good enough for me
We will worship Aphrodite
You can see her in her nightie
Some folks say she’s kinda flighty
But she’s good enough for me.
(refrain)
We will all worship Apollo
We will all worship Apollo
When he drinks, his legs are hollow
But he’s good [...]
For the past five years those who seek power and influence have used every imaginable specter to engender fear among their followers and the nation at large. At some point much of this ‘wolf crying’ becomes a parody of itself, and frequently it has become so hyperbolic that many of us just snicker to ourselves [...]
I was listening to the BBC coverage of the foiled terrorist plot today at work, and I was struck by one American women’s reaction. The woman (whose name unfortunately I didn’t note) kept pushing her point that the problem was Muslims and their drive towards the “islamicization of the world”. I immediately began sensing that [...]
