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Tim Russert: Not a Catholic…
By
David Gibson
Who knew?! Luckily, Hadley Arkes is here to straighten us out. In an essay at “The Catholic Thing,” Arkes bravely ventures back onto the hallowed ground surrounding Russert’s passing in June, when he first wrote (read “Tim Russert: The Story Untold”) a rather firm word of dissent from what he called “this out-of-scale display for…
More high jinks from those jokesters on the Religious Right…
By
David Gibson
This time the hilarity is from Stuart Shepard, correspondent for the Focus on the Family network (that’s run by that guy, whatsiname, who said he’d never ever endorse McCain–ecxept he might), who muses on bothering God about prayers for some biblical rains to wash away Obama’s convention speech in Denver this month. After all, he…
Senator McCain: Take Down this Ad
By
Mara Vanderslice
Thank you everyone for your emails and response to my earlier blog post on McCain’s “The One” ad. The McCain campaign has said that they meant the ad to be humorous. But make no mistake about it: this ad is directed at Christians with a very dark message. Please join us in asking John McCain…
Dog Whistles, Hypocrisy, and “Traditional” Christianity
By
Ed Kilgore
I’m less certain than Mara Vanderslice that John McCain’s recent pattern of decrying Barack Obama’s “messianism” is a deliberate effort to label him as the Antichrist. It’s not that I consider Team McCain incapable of “dog whistle” appeals to the Christian Right; their candidate has certainly mastered those dark arts in a variety of abstract references to his hatred of “judicial…
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