The American Family Association’s news service — which frequently promotes the Obama-is-a-secret-Muslim smears — is now worried that Mattel’s talking baby doll, the Little Mommy Cuddle ‘n Coo, is saying “Islam is the light.” The toy manufacturer says (quite reasonably, don’t you think?) that the doll only coos giggles, babbles, and says “mama.” But I […]
Sarah Posner
Sarah Posner’s coverage of religion and politics has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Week, and many others.
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RICK WARREN PROPOSITION 8 ENDORSEMENT FURTHER EXPLODES THE “NEW” EVANGELICAL MYTH.
The well-circulated myth that Rick Warren, the best-selling author and megachurch pastor who hosted the unmistakably pro-McCain presidential forum at his Saddleback Church back in August, is a “new” kind of evangelical abandoning the culture wars has been further debunked by his endorsement of Proposition 8, the California ballot measure that would amend the state’s […]
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The FundamentaList (No. 55)
How the current Republican attacks on Democrats are straight out of the religious right’s play book and why the Florida gay marriage ban is failing.
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The FundamentaList (No. 54)
Religious conservatives name Palin as heir-apparent, the Family Research Council launches a new anti-Obama ad, and gay-marriage opponents outplay opponents in California.
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NEW CONSERVATIVE PAC: OBAMA WILL GIVE DRIVER’S LICENSES TO TERRORISTS.
A newly formed political action committee, the National Republican Trust PAC, is buying up e-mail blasts to the readers of conservative outlets like Newsmax and Townhall to raise money for what it calls a “shock and awe” advertising blitz against Barack Obama in key states in the last weeks of the campaign. One of the […]
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The FundamentaList (No. 53)
Dobson endorses McCain after insisting he wouldn’t, it’s the High Holidays, so it must be time for Jews to find Jesus, and is Sarah Palin the modern Queen Esther?
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PROPHECY AND PRAYER FOR PALIN’S DEBATE PERFORMANCE.
Lou Engle, the anti-abortion crusader and founder of The Call, which brought thousands of “end-times warriors” to the National Mall in August, and which is holding a similar event in San Diego, just sent out an e-mail alert about a prophetic dream a friend had about tonight’s debate. Engle, who frequently prophesies about the election […]
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The FundamentaList (No. 52)
Conservative pastors seek the right to practice politics from the pulpit, and a conservative group says Obama is not a Christian. Also, does Sarah Palin think Putin is the Antichrist?
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GOD, MONEY, GOVERNMENT, AND JOHN MCCAIN.
Pastor Dan has a great riff on God’s Profits, showing how Kenyan preacher Thomas Muthee’s expression of the prosperity-gospel message through his prayer over Sarah Palin shows that John McCain can’t run or hide from the theology of his ex-friends John Hagee and Rod Parsley. As I wrote in God’s Profits, and as Pastor Dan […]
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WITCHCRAFT IN WASILLA.
Max Blumenthal has the goods on the Kenyan preacher Thomas Muthee (who claims to have chased down a witch and cast out the spirit of witchcraft from his village) who laid hands on Sarah Palin at the Wasilla Assembly of God church, apparently before she ran for governor. He prayed for the casting out of […]
