Remember when Trump visited the town of “Pleasure” (our town’s name is Paradise, which also starts with the letter P and means something intrinsically nice) after the Camp Fire in 2018? He did a background check on us first.
In many ways I think that Calvary Chapel and the movement it was part of the 1970s is responsible for the current right wing religious fanaticism that is engulfing country.
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Tim Alberta’s The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory is a great book. The author’s intended purpose is to investigate the errors that have allowed MAGA extremism to permeate the evangelical church. The book’s overall sentiment can be summarized by this quote from a passage where the author was interviewing Cal Thomas: “When Trump mentioned
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The Baptists had insisted that the way Jesus made disciples was by teaching and persuasion, not by coercion. They held that the government has no competence in religion, and when it seeks to enforce faith it creates wars of religion and hypocrites who claim a faith they do not actually hold… Following a thicker Jesus
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It has been said, “Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right, whereas morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told.” As an acquaintance of the Schatz family this truth is hugely important to me. Christopher Hitchens produced the following for Vanity Fair: Do not condemn people
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Ezra Klein writes: If roads were collapsing all across the United States, killing dozens of drivers, we would surely see that as a moment to talk about what we could do to keep roads from collapsing. If terrorists were detonating bombs in port after port, you can be sure Congress would be working to upgrade
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[youtube=http://youtu.be/6TiXUF9xbTo] “Romney already sees the poor as subhuman.”
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My wife emailed the local democrat club about their affinity buttons and asked if they had any representing people with permanent disabilities who supported health care reform. They said they didn’t, but then they made some anyway!
This morning a guy bombed a Planned Parenthood clinic in Wisconsin. Then another guy took out his gun and went postal on all his friends at Oikos “University” in Oakland, a Dominionist institution that claims to provide “a Christian education that is based on solid Christian doctrine and ideology. Our main goal is to foster
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Yes, climate change is real. Ostriches ought to pull their heads out of the ground.
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