President-elect Barack Obama has announced that he has asked Fred Phelps to give the invocation at the presidential inauguration Jan. 20. The left side of the blogosphere -- the Obamaniacs who got him elected -- are apoplectic. Wait a second. It appears I got the name wrong. No, Obama invited Rick Warren, author of the […]
The current issue of Newsweek magazine has a cover article making the case that the Bible says gay marriage is OK. In fact, if you read religion editor Lisa Miller's piece, you would get the impression that gay marriage may actually be the God-preferred marriage. Let's try for a minute to take the religious conservatives […]
[Portions of this post were originally part of the social justice post below. During the editing process, I determined that though they were related, this was sufficiently off of my central thesis in that post to deserve its own.] If the Rev. Jeremiah Wright ever makes it into Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, it will undoubtedly be […]
This is a more appropriate subject for a book-length treatment, and maybe one day I'll get to the point where I've done enough research and devoted enough thought to the issue I'll write about it more in-depth. For now, in the waning days before Tuesday's election, this article will have to do. Let me start […]
I've seen this sort of thing before -- but before the kids were worshiping God. Everyone worships something. If you don't worship God, you worship money or fame or ... politicians.
That's an old G.K. Chesterton adage about what happens when men stop believing in God. In Friday's Wall Street Journal, Mollie Ziegler Hemingway points out that "comedian" Bill Maher is a prime example of Chesterton's statement. On Oct. 3, Mr. Maher debuts "Religulous," his documentary that attacks religious belief. He talks to Hasidic scholars, Jews […]
The two big news stories today are Hurricane Gustav and the revelation that Gov. Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, is pregnant. Bristol will be keeping the baby and marrying the father, known only as Levi. The first story matters. The second does not. The news was announced today in response to the loony left Internet […]
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a part-time theologian, went on "Meet the Press" yesterday and decided to demonstrate her knowledge of the positions of her chosen religion, Catholicism. Needless to say, Nancy, like fellow Democratic theologian Howard "Job is my favorite New Testament book" Dean, demonstrates only her ignorance and dishonesty. Check out Pelosi's […]
We have a double-standard check when it comes to God-talk done by Democrats vs. Republicans. Is there any doubt that the secular left would have a cow had House Speaker Denny Hastert referred to President George W. Bush as "a leader that God has blessed us with at this time"? No? Then why the silence […]
Prompted by the post below, I want to just touch on a couple of human-rights related issues. The first one is prompted by Obama's claim that the issue of when babies deserve human rights (or put another way, when does human life begin) is "above my pay grade." Think about that answer with regard to […]