evangelicals – Deep Sand

Getting Past The Village Idiot

September 27, 2009September 27, 2009 John evangelical Christians, evangelicals, Frank Schaeffer, Rachel Maddow, ultra-conservatives

Rachael Maddow reports on a survey that says that more than one in three conservatives in New Jersey believe that Obama is the anti-christ. She discusses with Republican operative and former religious right co-founder Frank Schaeffer how we respond to the idiocy. Schaeffer rightly notes that there is a sub-culture within the ultra-conservative evangelical right that is taught from birth to reject fact as a matter of “faith.” These are people who believe the world is only about six billion years old, that humans lived with dinosaurs, and that John F. Kennedy was the anti-christ. He refers to them as a “fifth column of insanity.”

Featured Gay Issues Religion Right Wingnuts Society

Rick Warren Screws Himself All Around

April 8, 2009April 9, 2009 John evangelicals, Larry King Live, Proposition 8, Rick Warren, Saddleback Church

Mark Twain said, “Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” Rick Warren, darling of the “intellectual evangelicals,” is learning that lesson the hard way this week after an appearance on Larry King Live. Obviously I don’t agree with the evangelical view on homosexuality, and believe they are misreading the Bible based on many years of misinterpretation by their clerics, but I understand their right to believe as they wish. One thing, though, I’m fairly clear about is that lying is pretty much frowned upon throughout the Bible, yet Warren decides to play fast and loose with the truth. Now, even the evangelicals are mad at him.

Congress Election Legislature Politics Presidency Religion Right Wingnuts

2006 Mid-Term Elections

November 9, 2006March 24, 2008 John amtaliban, Bush, evangelicals, Filibuster, Iraq, War

Of course I can’t pass by the 2006 mid-term elections without comment. It was clearly a stunning victory for Democrats, and I can only hope the new Democratic majority will roll back some of the powers granted to the executive branch. Unfortunately, that normally comes very slowly.