This week’s NPR Religion Podcast featured a piece from “All Things Considered” looking into the debates in Denmark relating to Muslim immigration and religious tolerance. Especially interesting was the observation about changing attitudes to multiculturalism in Europe: The very concept of multiculturalism is now being called into question in much of Europe. Danish writer and [...] Read more »
Sarah Palin’s “Fire in her belly” is Not Dominionist Code
Sarah Jones over at PoliticusUSA has posted a piece attempting to decode Sarah Palin’s odd repetition of the phrase, “I have that fire in my belly” in an interview on Greta van Susteran’s “On the Record,” explaining (with help from an accompanying video put together by Leah Burton) that Palin’s use of this phrase connects [...] Read more »
Massive Leak to AP Reveals Details of Osama Bin Laden Raid
I wonder how much the AP paid these songbirds to leak these details. Adding exclusive new details to the account of the assault on bin Laden’s hideout, officials described just how the SEAL raiders loudly ditched a foundering helicopter right outside bin Laden’s door, ruining the plan for a surprise assault. That forced them to [...] Read more »
Granderson – “Don’t Let Ignorant People Vote”
LZ Granderson has put forward quite a provocative proposal: before anyone can register to vote, they should be required to take and pass a test modeled off of the citizenship test required of immigrants. He roots this in the (true) observation that the founding fathers weren’t exactly “a bunch of average Joes with gripes about [...] Read more »
Why Climate Change Rhetoric Fails with Evangelicals
It occurred to me in the process of thinking about the similarities between much of the rhetoric used by those screaming about anthropogenic climate change and “rapture watchers” that the very fact that their rhetoric is so simple is one reason that climate change arguments will remain unconvincing for most dispensationalist Evangelicals. It’s not so [...] Read more »
