As the right tries to turn a genuine problem at the IRS into a terrible witch hunt that would have led to Christians being rounded up and thrown into concentration camps, Christian groups are lining up to take their place among the righteously persecuted. Jerome Corsi and the Worldnutdaily are putting a megaphone in front of them so they can state their claim, with no evidence whatsoever.
May 25 2013
Christian Groups Take a Number in the Persecution Line
May 25 2013
Agreeing With the Pope
I am a longstanding and loud critic of the Catholic Church, but I’m seeing signs in the new pope that I think are positive. He’s not ever going to be what I want him to be, of course, but he’s saying and doing things that may move the church in very small increments in the right direction. I like what he said in a recent homily:
May 25 2013
Montt’s Genocide Conviction Overturned
When a court in Guatemala convicted former U.S.-backed dictator Rios Montt of genocide a couple weeks ago, I was skeptical. I wrote then, “But don’t be surprised if this does not last and the current president, who served in the military under Montt, finds some way to void the result.” And here’s the least surprising news of the week:
May 25 2013
How to Do an Atheist Invocation
The Arizona House of Representatives, like most legislative bodies, opens its sessions with an invocation — nearly always a Christian one. But on Tuesday, atheist lawmaker Juan Mendez of Tempe delivered a secular invocation and even quoted Carl Sagan. I really like the message he gave:
May 25 2013
Rick Joyner: Self-Declared Moderate
Rick Joyner went on Jim Bakker’s TV show — yes, that Jim Bakker — and made several bizarre claims. He declared himself to be a moderate, Timothy McVeigh to be a “left-wing extremist” (evidence? Of course not) and the media to be a bigger terrorist organization than Al Qaeda. If he’d declared himself to be the tooth fairy, that would be no less disconnected from reality.
May 24 2013
It’s All Jason Collins’ Fault
May 24 2013
Barber: Satan Sending America Back to Days of Noah
Matt Barber believes in a literal interpretation of Genesis, including that entirely fictitious global flood and Noah’s ark and all that nonsense. And he says Satan is the one pushing equality for gay people in order to send us back to the days of Noah that never happened:
May 24 2013
‘You Have to Thank the Lord, Right?’
That’s what Wolf Blitzer said to a woman who survived the tornado in Oklahoma: “You have to thank the lord, right? Do you thank the lord?” The woman informed him that she is an atheist. And no, you don’t. If you’re going to thank God for one person remaining safe, don’t you also have to blame God for all the people who died? I just don’t understand why anyone takes comfort in the idea that God is deciding who lives and who dies during natural disasters. That’s not comforting, it’s horrifying. It’s also completely nonsensical.
May 24 2013
Bachmann: The 37th Time is the Charm
The U.S. House of Representatives have now voted 37 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act, not one of which has had the slightest effect at all. But Rep. Michele Bachmann has faith that God is going to answer their prayers and bring a miracle to make Obama repudiate his own law.
May 24 2013
Fincher: ‘Steal’ Taxpayer Money for Me, Nor for Thee
We’ve already seen the rank hypocrisy of Republican legislators who repeatedly claimed that the stimulus bill didn’t create any jobs while simultaneously asking for stimulus funds for their district because it would create so many jobs. How about a Republican legislator who rails against food stamps “stealing” other people’s money but gets millions in farm subsidies himself? Rep. Stephen Fincer (R-TN), come on down. During a House hearing last week on food stamps and the new farm bill he said:
May 24 2013
Cuccinelli Supports Jackson, Runs From His Statements
given how far to the right Ken Cuccinelli is, it’s really kind of hard to believe that Republican voters in Virginia actually managed to put someone on the ticket with him who is even worse. So now Cuccinelli is having to support E.W. Jackson’s nomination while also trying to distance himself from some of the batshit crazy things Jackson says.
May 24 2013
British Conservative Makes Terrible Anti-Equality Argument
The English House of Commons passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, with the Tories backing the idea, and the bill is now moving to the House of Lords, where one prominent conservative leader is making a terrible and, frankly, vile argument against marriage equality.
May 24 2013
Old French Bigot Kills Himself at Notre Dame
A far-right writer in France was apparently so upset about the legalization of same-sex marriage in that country that he decided to kill himself — at the altar at the Notre Dame cathedral, for crying out loud. And this was after saying that he thought people needed to take dramatic action to stop the progress he feared so much.
May 24 2013
Robertson: Prayer Could Have Stopped the OK Tornado
And right on cue, here’s Pat Robertson saying that while God did not send the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma specifically, he would have stopped it if only people had prayed for him to do so. Does he think people didn’t pray? Were there just not enough of them? How many is enough? Did they not do it exactly right? Did they not say “Simon says”?
Update: Turns out this video is from 2012, from the last round of deadly tornadoes, not from the more recent one. Still nuts, of course, and he still believes it. But it isn’t about this latest tornado.
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