Mao’s Latest Bow
Between politics and religious ecstasy: Maoist believers in Nepal. Brad Tytel As China’s quasi-communist leadership continues to shed any remnants of its ideological progenitor, Maoism still lives just south of Continue Reading →
Tag: Religion and Politics
Cast the First Vote
A Christian think tank in Bangor, Maine is mobilizing to oppose a November ballot question that could reverse the state’s new gay non-discrimination law, which protects gays’ rights to equal Continue Reading →
Rice Hosts Assorted Epithets
A somewhat baffling news story, about Condeleeza Rice’s recent hosting of Muslim community leaders for a fast-breaking Iftaar dinner at the State Department building, appears on the website of the Continue Reading →
Wrath, Etc.
Generally speaking, U.S. politicians’ and religio-rock stars’ explanations for God’s periodic, environmental fits of wrath are predictable: gay sex, casual sex, unwed sex, unusual sex, and oh, occasionally a political Continue Reading →
Steele Hates Westboro
Republican Indiana State Senator Brent Steele said he intends to propose legislation in response to the antics of the Westboro Baptist “God Hates Fags” traveling prayer protesters, making disorderly conduct Continue Reading →
Atheist Lobbyist
Atheists get a lobbyist too, in the form of Lori Lipman Brown, former Nevada state senator and the new congressional lobbyist and spokeswoman for The Secular Coalition for America who Continue Reading →
Conservatism, Born Again
Can conservatism — or at least Bush’s variety of it — be born again? Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal columnist and former Bush, Sr. speech writer, counsels the president to Continue Reading →
Miers Saved from Idol-Worshipping Cult
Harriet Miers either “found Christ” in 1989, or else she lost her faith in that same year, and she is either definitely going to hell, or she isn’t, depending on Continue Reading →
The H-Word
Interfaith offense was given this week in Virginia’s gubernatorial race, after Republican nominee, Jerry W. Kilgore, launched a new ad-campaign attacking Democrat candidate Timothy M. Kaine’s opposition to the death Continue Reading →
Design Schism
Jason Carter: Although the irony is difficult to miss, The Los Angeles Times’ Josh Getlin dutifully points out that the trial between Dover residents and the city’s school board looks Continue Reading →