Over at Religion Dispatches, I have a new piece about GOD TV, a U.K.-based Christian network that has set up its headquarters in Jerusalem, because, you know, that’s where all the Jesus action is. GOD TV broadcasts the programming of many of the usual suspects of the prosperity gospel movement, like John Hagee and Kenneth […]
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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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The FundamentaList (No. 35)
Conservatives rail against the California Supreme Court, moderate evangelicals are divided, and will Mike Huckabee be picked as John McCain’s VP?
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THE HAGEE APPEASEMENT PLAYBOOK.
Over at HuffPo, I break down a pattern with which long-time Prospect readers, particularly followers of the Pastor Strangelove chronicles, already know: that Bush’s speech smearing Obama as this century’s Neville Chamberlain is straight out of John Hagee’s playbook. Who has a pastor problem now? McCain is trolling for votes by propping up the spiritual […]
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HAGEE’S APOLOGY.
In a letter to the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue — hardly a paragon of tolerance himself — John Hagee apologized that his statements that the “apostate church” was the “great whore” of the Book of Revelation were perceived as anti-Catholic, and for suggesting that the Spanish Inquisition and Adolf Hitler’s Catholic upbringing defined the Catholic […]
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The FundamentaList (No. 34)
The Evangelical Manifesto makes an inauspicious debut, the Alliance Defense Fund seeks to legalize politics from the pulpit, and is Huckabee at the top of McCain’s VP shortlist after all?
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The FundamentaList (No. 33)
Wead and Copeland join to denounce Grassley, Copeland and Huckabee prevent a schism, and a new evangelical manifesto angers the religious right.
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THE SORCERY OF JOHN HAGEE.
Over at the Beliefnet blog’s God-o-Meter (a scale-of-one-to-ten blog that measures how intensely the presidential candidates are displaying their religion cred), Dan Gilgoff re-posted a video of John Hagee and his usual hellfire-based denunciations of the homosexuals, abortionists, Harry Potter, ACLU and the like. I dropped Gilgoff a note, pointing out that Hagee’s sermon is […]
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The FundamentaList (No. 32)
Jeremiah Wright and John Hagee agree on theology, Hagee explains divine “curses,” and the Christians-only National Day of Prayer comes to Washington.
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CONSERVATIVE DEFENDS WRIGHT’S “GOD DAMN AMERICA” COMMENT.
Well, there you have it, remarkably counterintuitive, and you are reading it right. Gary McCullough, who runs the Christian Newswire, a press release service whose clients (and proprietor) are conservative, sent out a release of his own this morning, arguing that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s “God damn America” statement is not different from the statements […]
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REACTIONS TO THE WRIGHT INTERVIEW: THE STUPIDITY CONTINUES.
The transcript isn’t up yet, but on Hardball last night, Chris Matthews’ roundtable (consisting of Tucker Carlson, Margaret Carlson, and Michelle Bernard) concluded that the Bill Moyers interview of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was very, very bad for Obama. (And they hadn’t even seen the whole thing!) Matthews, in his inimitably clueless way, called the […]
