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Controversial Congressman meets controversial Islamophobe.

CNN commentator Erickson also complains Obama’s moment of silence “accommodated” nonbelievers.

Two-year hearing finally comes to an end.

Pastor claims Loughner was a campaign worker for Giffords and that gun control causes genocide.

Talk of compassion in the wake of the shootings seems like the typical namby-pamby response of religious liberals. Could it be the answer?

If you believe your opponents are evil does it makes sense to “respect them?”

The latest Bloggingheads TV dialogue.

The Tea Party-inspired constitutional recitation of January 6 immediately ran into the problems any fundamentalism has with sacred scripture: what do you do with the parts that speak to the original intent of an entirely different era—stoning adulterers, casting down fire on one’s enemies, selling all one’s possessions and giving to the poor, requiring the return of runaway slaves, and counting slaves as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of taxation and representation?

Penance, a new iPhone app, gathers its sacred power through agnosticism. While existent applications for socially-networked religion like Prayer Wall or Manistone facilitate shared reflection on sacred realities beyond the crowds they attract, Penance draws instead upon the growing faith that social networking can miraculously generate spiritual orientation, evading with sacrilegious humor where one expects guidance. Behold: crowdsourced Catholicism.

The truth is that the administration simply caved before the still potent specter of so-called “Death Panels”—a specter created last year by the likes of Sarah Palin, John Boehner, and other disingenuous opponents of health care reform. Let’s just say that in this new year, Team Obama is worried to death (pardon the expression) about defending its signature health care law from further assaults from the newly-emboldened Republicans.