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Rick Santorum apparently wasn’t the first to say Obama wasn’t a real Christian. Conservative columnist Cal Thomas said that because Obama, in an interview with Chicago Sun-Times columnist Cathleen Falsani, left open the possibility that someone might go to heaven without believing in Christ as savior: Obama can call himself anything he likes, but there…

Pity the poor person of faith who signs up to be a religious advisor to a political campaign, especially the Democrats. Their theology, board memberships, friends and colleagues will be scrutinized as if they’re Cabinet Secretaries. For those keeping score, here is the current list of targets and casualties for this election and the past:…

As John McCain and Barack Obama get close to choosing their running mates, they are weighing numerous factors: region (do they help carry a pivotal state?), expertise (strong where the nominee is weak?) and ideology (do they help with independents? Or the base of the party?). This year, to a degree rarely seen, they are…

Obama is trying to get moderate and liberal evangelicals to switch sides. More important, he is trying to win centrist Catholics, and appears to be doing a bit better with that group than John Kerry had. That’s why quite a number of his rumored VP picks are Catholic. Tim Kaine – Besides helping with a…

An interesting memo from Eleison Group, a Democratic campaign consultant operation about the McCain ad. They dissect the ad in an effort to prove that McCain camp is intentionally trying to cast Obama as the anti-christ or at a minimum, someone with a sacriligeous Messianic complex. Here are excerpts from the memo: The McCain campaign…

I admit to wondering whether Mara Vanderslice was over-reacting when she wrote over at Progressive Revival that the McCain television ad implied, to evangelicals, that Obama was the anti-Christ. But check out this column from Hal Lindsey, author of the Late Great Planet Earth. After describing how Obama is being treated as the Second Coming,…

Gosh, you might be saying. If Obama helped massacre some Christians, shouldn’t that be a bigger story? It’s one thing to be a practicing secret Muslim, but when you start slaughtering Christians, well, then you’ve gone too far. Apparently Obama gave some support to Raila Odinga in Kenya. Odinga lost. Odinga protested the results. Violence…

I’ve long considered George Harrison to be probably the most spiritually significant rocker. He introduced eastern religion in ways that influenced the rise of meditation, yoga and other practices in the United States. A new cover story in the British magazine Uncut indicates that we have Harrison to thank for something else: the charity rock…

Conservatives concerned about family values and liberals focused on the plight of slaughterhouse animals ought to spend a minute to consider something rarely discussed this year: the routine death of fathers, mothers and children on factory floors and other workplaces. I was reminded of this by reading recently about the case of Imperial Sugar, maker…

While Obama struggles to win elderly Jews, McCain’s campaign is struggling to take advantage.
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