Teabaggers Turn Their Ids Inside Out

Teabaggers threatening violence against health insurance reform That we are now firmly involved in what Jacques Ellul called the irreversible, integration/activation phase of a 30 year long corporatist propaganda campaign was on full display today at the nation’s Capitol. Hundreds of highly agitated Teabaggers, whipped into a frenzy by the demigods of right wing radio and television and a few …

Torch Me Up, Scottie

The attack against Christians by Beck may turn out to be the most interesting opportunity for Religion to finally provide some genuine open criticism of itself, and quickly provide the sort of self-correction Christianity so desperately needs. So you go, Jim Wallis, and don’t stop until Christianity is once again the religion of Jesus.

Gaslighting The Beckian Beanstock

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Survival Seed Bank www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care reform Nothing moves product like the hot stink of fear One way to prepare for the promised Beckapocalypse is with one of his remaining sponsors’ signature product, Magic Beans. But mixing 24/7 gaslighting propaganda with beans of any sort …

Beck To Jesus: Drop Dead

I’m begging you, your right to religion and freedom to exercise religion and read all of the passages of the Bible as you want to read them and as your church wants to preach them . . . are going to come under the ropes in the next year. If it lasts that long it will be the next year. …

Eternity Road: The Isle of God

One of the more astonishing voids in Christian theology is the abject conceptual poverty and shear lack of knowledge about where God supposedly abides: Paradise. There are just three mentions of Paradise in the Bible, and two of those are actually confused references to other places, while the third is a mere mention of Paradise by Jesus to the thief, …

When Culture Goes Crazy (UPDATED)

The failure of America’s leaders to recognize the importance of unifying her cultural factions by finding ways to bring them together in respect and intelligent patriotism has resulted in an all-out culture war…