Category Archives: Religion

Hallelujah! Rightwing Christians Turn Left

Personally, while I believe in a greater power, I really would hate to see God and Jesus (or Yahweh or Allah or Buddah or Shiva or Vishnu… you get the idea) bother Themselves with earthly politics but hey… let me … Continue reading

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Barack Obama, the Antichrist

I’m not joking. Welcome to the nutter cavalcade. We have a dedicated blog, a Snopes post (false!), and even Glenn Beck, resident douchebag, is seriously asking the question. Unmentioned at all sources: how the book of Revelation, source of Antichrist … Continue reading

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What The (Bleep) Is Wrong With Lieberman, Installment #9284

Now, to be fair, it’s never taken all that damned much to get Connecticut Senator (formerly Dem, now independently installed up the butt of the Bush/McCainies) Joe Lieberman to wander off the reservation. And whenever he wanders, it reminds you … Continue reading

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Speaking of John McCain’s Free & Easy Ride In The Media

First, the mainstream media joined the tighty-righties in villifying Barack Obama for about three minutes worth of comments given by his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, over the decades in which the men knew one another while simultaneously, they paid … Continue reading

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McCain’s Pastor Problem

No, not Hagee, but another religious issue. Well, according to the media, very much like Hagee, not really an issue; he’s only saying all of Islam needs to be destroyed, and everyone already thinks that. Right? Brave New Films and … Continue reading

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Hagee’s Non-Apology Non-Retraction

Remember Reverend Hagee? That guy who’s endorsing McCain? Who McCain says he’s happy to have that endorsement? That guy who said we need to bomb Iran to usher in Armageddon, the End of Days? The guy who said Katrina was … Continue reading

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Of Dems, Obama, And Telling Wright From Wrong

The Rev. Wright controversy, perhaps the first one with serious staying power beyond the too ridiculous madrassah militant story or the equally trumped up one about Barack’s Muslim credentials, seems in no threat of dying anytime too soon. Not when … Continue reading

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John McCain’s Nobility In a Nutshell

From Keith Olbermann on the GOP’s latter-day John McCain who has sold every ounce of the old maverick McCain in exchange for a vote or two: “The televangelists who say [Hurricane] Katrina was retribution against gays, that the Catholic Church … Continue reading

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As The Rightmost Republicans Shat Themselves

It’s almost enough to make you like John McCain. ALMOST. The way fat druggy slimelord Rush Limbaugh keeps after McCain and Ann Coulter threatens to vote for Hillary Clinton over McCain AND, the latest, the Reverend (from the Church of … Continue reading

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Of All The Lies The Republicans Told In Thursday’s Debate, Huckabee’s Stood Out

Mike Huckabee, the same man who last week insisted that it was his solemn duty to change the U.S. Constitution to reflect HIS interpretation of the word of God – namely, to outlaw homosexuality and a woman’s right to choose … Continue reading

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Your Dinner Menu of Cut to the Chase Quick Bytes for January 22, 2008

Questions About Terrorism? Invite €œAsk Al Qaeda€ To Your Next Social Organization Brunch! Oddly enough, this is not entirely a joke though €œBreakfast with the Bin Ladens€ may not be quite as popular as €œHave Hot Chocolate With Santa.€ On … Continue reading

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And Fred Thompson is OUT!

Not that his poor showing in Republican caucuses and primaries ever proved he was actually IN the race for GOP presidential nominee race for this November but… Let me say that using the “I need to stop to care for … Continue reading

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The New Odd Couple: A McCain-Lieberman Presidential Ticket?

Did you catch the love-in between John McCain and (he’s such a liar he still calls himself a Democrat) Joe Lieberman? The one where there was more than just a slight suggestion that McCain might actually consider the hawkish Orthodox … Continue reading

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Huckabee: Change The U.S. Constitution To (My Version of) God’s Word

Update: Here’s a strange note; the video has now magically disappeared from YouTube. Hmmmm…. From Greg Mitchell’s personal blog (some may recognize his name, however, as editor at Editor and Publisher and columnist of Pressing Issues): Obama got heat today … Continue reading

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Huckabee’s Chuck Norris? Is This The New Defense Secretary?

Has anyone else been scared brownless at how often Chuck Norris – with his most recent hair color and young chick/former Hooters wannabe wifette (now that proves he’s a Republican, if nothing else does) – is grinning like a fool … Continue reading

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Only NOW They Think Huckabee Has Gone Too Far?

The Media never ceases to (unpleasantly) amaze me; after Huckabee has denied evolution, slung as much dirt wherever he can, believes women must “submit” graciously to their men, tried to liken himself to Christ being persecuted over his “cross” Christmas … Continue reading

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Today in Huckabee Land

From Reuters preposting about this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine: Huckabee was asked if he considered Mormonism a cult or a religion. “I think it’s a religion,” he said in the interview, published on the newspaper’s Web site on Wednesday. … Continue reading

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Mitt Romney: You’re Free To Be Required To Believe in Religion His Way

Bhfrik already posted about GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s extremely tortured logic and compared it, as much in the media did on Thursday, with JFK’ famed speech on Catholicism, religion, and the United States’ highest office. Yet, when I went … Continue reading

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On Faith And Freedom

John Kennedy, Sept 12 1960 at the Greater Houston Ministerial Association. ” I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute”   Mitt Romney today at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library. “Freedom requires religion … Continue reading

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On Christ and Christians

Gandhi got it right enough, and he didn’t live to see the latest, most perverse of the American fascist evangelical movement (trust me, not all evangelicals are fascists but far too much of what gets practiced in this country “in … Continue reading

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