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Putin's Violent Holy War Rhetoric Made it to the Christian Right Fringe — And There's Reason to Believe it'll Go Mainstream

Thomas Lecaque — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 05:30:57 EDT

It starts with a tweet: https://twitter.com/realRickWiles/status/1585375961033605120?s=20&t=DZQ… And it is, of course, not simply that. Shortly before, in support of Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin appointing a “chief exorcist” against Satanism, he said : “Can you think of anybody, in the…

Why Did an Antisemitic Christian Zionist Have the Chutzpah to Declare That He'd Be Leading a Holocaust March?

Ben Lorber, Aidan Orly — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 05:35:26 EDT

This week, Jews in Israel and around the world will commemorate Yom HaShoah, a Holocaust Remembrance Day that marks a somber time for remembrance and reflection. On Thursday, thousands of Israeli and diaspora Jews and supporters will walk silently from…

Bill Mill-ennialism: Arkansas' End Times Politics May Be Coming to a State Near You

Frederick Clarkson — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 02:43:35 EDT

It was the best of the end times. It was the worst of the end times. It was the age of Trump. It was 2019. Trump was compared with the greatest of God’s biblical champions. Things would never be the…

Unquestioned Support for Israel Wasn't Always the Way for Conservative Christians

Amy Fallas — Wed, 26 May 2021 04:01:31 EDT

As civilians in southern Lebanon fled an impending Israeli ground offensive, over three thousand Christian advocates converged in Washington D.C. to demand U.S. support for Israel. This was the summer of 2006. Israel’s invasion of Lebanon had entered its second…

Christian Nationalism Was the Loser of Tuesday's Debate

Chrissy Stroop — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 11:32:13 EST

If you’re pondering the question of who won last night’s final Democratic primary debate, one possible answer, depending on your perspective, is secular Americans. Religion, after all, hardly came up in the raucous affair hosted jointly by CBS News and…

Netflix’s Iranian 'Messiah' Is a Gift to Trump and His Evangelical Base

Tony Keddie — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 04:10:51 EST

Amid horrific natural disasters and a global refugee crisis, an Iranian menace emerges. This might summarize the news cycle at the start of 2020, but it’s also the premise of Netflix’s controversial new series Messiah. Critics have blasted the series…

Taking Evangelical Support of Israel at Face Value Is a Terrible Idea: A Response

Chrissy Stroop — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 01:18:32 EDT

Writing under a pseudonym in the Forward, a Christian lawyer dismissed the apocalyptic component of Christian Zionism urging readers to take evangelicals’ love for Jews at face value. But Chrissy Stroop, who was raised in fundamentalism, calls this gaslighting.

Trump May Be the End of the World As We Know It—But For Some Evangelicals, That’s Just Fine

Nelle Smith — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 12:42:28 EST

In the flurry of coverage surrounding the evangelical Christian voting bloc that overwhelmingly supported Donald Trump, I’ve seen many images of happy people holding “Thank God for Trump” signs and commentary about conservative Christians who are deliriously happy about new…

Media Hit Hard On Trump's White Supremacist Appointee, But Which "Media"?

Carmen Celestini — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 05:20:28 EST

President-Elect Trump’s announced this weekend that Breitbart News chairman, Steve Bannon, would be his chief strategist.

Dear Governor Kasich, Will You Come Lead My Passover Seder?

Michael Schulson — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 01:14:20 EDT

Dear John Kasich, I’ve got four questions for you: Will you come to my Passover seder? Please? Pretty please? For real? Hear my plea, governor: I’m Jewish, and I’m supposed to lead a seder on April 22nd, the first night…

'Religious Liberty' and the Origins of the Evangelical Persecution Complex

Randall J. Stephens — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 01:00:13 EST

Last week, Roy S. Moore, chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, ruled that his state’s probate judges must enforce Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriage. Moore, who first rose to national fame for his crusade to publicly display a mammoth…

Will Huckabee's Ovens Comment Be the End of His Candidacy?

Sarah Posner — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 05:45:21 EDT

Alright, Governor Huckabee, since you asked… After Mike Huckabee, who portrays himself as perhaps the most loyal friend Israel has in American politics, told Breitbart News that President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran “will take the Israelis and…

About That "Pledge in Solidarity to Defend Marriage"

Sarah Posner — Fri, 01 May 2015 01:53:26 EDT

A group of religious right activists (and a couple of presidential hopefuls) have signed a ” Pledge in Solidarity to Defend Marriage,” in which they “warn” the highest court in the land that they plan to resist if it strikes…

Hagee's New Film Uses Jews and Science to Prove Christian, Pro-US God

Michael Schulson — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 03:31:57 EDT

Blood, warfare, and Nostradamus-style speculation make for good entertainment.

Netanyahu's (Republican) Esther Moment

Sarah Posner — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 11:40:17 EST

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is using the upcoming Purim holiday to justify the need for his speech to a Joint Session of Congress (minus several of them) because the modern-day Persia wants to destroy the modern-day Israel. In an…

What Netanyahu Learned from Texas

Sarah Posner — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 04:26:42 EST

Last week, the Texas Board of Education approved the use of controversial public school history textbooks that university professors charged “exaggerate and even invent claims about the influence of Moses and the ‘Judeo-Christian tradition’ on our nation’s founding and on…

Hagee Calls Obama "The Most Anti-Semitic President Ever"

Sarah Posner — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:47:53 EST

At the Zionist Organization of America’s gala Sunday night, Republican megadonors Sheldon and Miriam Adelson bestowed an award on Christians United for Israel founder John Hagee. In his remarks, Hagee called President Barack Obama “t he most anti-Semitic president ever.”…

Will Growing Alliance With Christian Zionists Split the American Jewish Establishment?

Sarah Posner — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 02:44:04 EST

Peter Beinart, writing about Sheldon Adelson’s remarks at the inaugural conference of the Israeli American Council (which I wrote about here), argues that Adelson’s comment ” I don’t think the Bible says anything about democracy” “lobbed a grenade at the…

The New Disciples: Report from South Carolina

Sarah Posner — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 05:11:31 EST

Across South Carolina—and indeed the country—voters attend tiny churches, Bible studies, and prayer meetings. Their collective views on the candidates are much more difficult to measure and assess. And while they may be consumers of Christian talk radio, or televangelism, or other religious media, they are not lock-step followers of the decisions of elites who met at a ranch in Texas, or of Jim Bob Duggar, or of anything but their own received revelation.

Romney and the End-Times

Sarah Posner — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 11:51:13 EDT

A Republican, not just a Mormon, problem.

Pastors Urged to Defy IRS to Defeat Evil, Hitlerian Obama

Peter Montgomery — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:57:03 EDT

Religious right aims for 1500 pastors to preach politics on “Pulpit Freedom Sunday.”

Bill Donohue, Arbiter of Political Correctness

Sarah Posner — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 07:05:41 EDT

Demands Perry to make a break with Jeffress.

HBO’s Game Change Hits, But Sarah Palin Pic Misses Religion

Anthea Butler — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:12:59 EDT

Game Change reveals what no one else apparently has the chutzpah to say: that Sarah Palin was the opening salvo in the the dissolution and destruction of the Republican Party.

The 50 Shades of Evangelicalism

Jonathan D. Fitzgerald — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 05:33:20 EDT

Once we understand that there are shades of evangelicalism, and that they manifest in a variety of political convictions, perhaps we can recognize that religious beliefs deserve legitimate space in the public square.

The Gospel Church and the Ruining of Gay Lives: An Interview with Anthony Heilbut

Douglas Harrison — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 03:19:55 EDT

Most insiders to this world are privy to the open secret of gospel’s deep reliance on the contributions and influence of gay men and women. But Heilbut opens wide the closet doors and peers in with the bright light of righteous outrage for the plight of the children in an increasingly homophobic religious culture, while also bringing a deeply felt sensitivity for the stories of the children and their musical sensibility. As he writes: “It is impossible to understand the story of black America without foregrounding the experiences of the gay men of gospel.”