Archive for the ‘Crazy for God’ Category

The deranged far right inspires another violent nut Imagine our surprise (NOT!) that the accused White House shooter Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez drew some of his inspiration from the crazed conspiracy ravings of Uber Nut Alex Jones! Jake Chapman is also scheduled to make the trip to Washington. The AK-47 that Mr. Ortega is accused of using to fire [...]

Obama, Assassination, and the Antichrist Conspiracy Chip Berlet on the connections Randall Gross Nov 19, 2011 [Link: http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/11/19/153758/35/Front_Page/Obama_Assassination_and_the_Antichrist_Conspiracy] Even if the shooter is a thorough crackpot his delusions did not form in a vacuum. Hate sites like Prison Planet, Atlas Shrugs, and Farrah’s World Net Daily all do most of the heavy lifting for these [...]

10 Signs God Is Furious With the Right Whatever disaster strikes, there’s always an upside in religious rightland, always somebody to point the finger at with glee. Let’s turn the tables. September 16, 2011  | Editor’s note: the following is satire… for the most part. Why is it that whenever disaster strikes, right-wing religious nuts [...]

Mike Huckabee Says He Wants Americans To Be Indoctrinated At Gunpoint Did Mike Huckabee just flush his presidential aspirations down the proverbial toilet? Well, if American mainstream media has an ounce of journalistic gumption remaining the answer most certainly would be “yes”. Huckabee has just been caught on video, at a Christian supremacist conference, stating [...]

What science says about religious conversion by James R Coffey Conversion For many, religious experiences lead to religious conversion. While conversion need not stem from such an experience, per se, many convertees have cited religious awakenings as leading to a new spiritual perspective. But while science accepts a religious experience/conversion relationship, conversion alone is often [...]

When Religious Pandering Goes Too Far? by Hemant Mehta I’m used to politicians pandering to religious Americans. There’s more of them, so there are more votes to be gained by speaking their “language.” That coupled with the fact that President Obama is a Christian just meant we could expect a lot of religious references in [...]

Crazy for God Author has a few words regarding the theo-cons January 16th, 2011 by Dave Gamble Frank Schaeffer, son of the famous evangelical, appears here being interviewed by Rachel Maddow about the poll that discovered that 1 in 3 of NJ Conservatives truly believe that Obama is the Anti-Christ. We apparently have a sub-culture [...]