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Rachel Weiner of the Huffington Post reports today that a conservative group that calls themselves The Conservative Bible Project believe that "Liberal bias has become the single biggest distortion in modern Bible translations" so they are re-translating. Upon first reading this story, I was reminded of the great Kevin Smith movie Dogma, where Jesus is repackaged as the Buddy Jesus (see photo above) to attract a younger crowd to Catholisism.  Sadly, these folks aren't joking.  The...

It's time to retell the American story the way it was intended to be told. Sure, I'm a history buff, but this is more about perspective than it is history. There has been a ton of talk lately about Obama being either a communist, fascist, or socialist (as if these are interchangeable) and how that goes against what the framers wanted. They are even having tea parties like those rebels in Boston before the revolutionary...

Over the weekend the Hilton Hotel in St. Louis was the site of what Firedoglake appropriately named "a pulsating black hole of stupidity" also known as the How to Take Back America conference, and the gang (pictured at left) was all there. "[Phyllis] Schlafly opened the event by saying she believes President Obama is "taking us into socialism."... She said of her organization, Eagle Forum, "fighting feminists is still our main object," arguing that feminism...

As many of you know, I am a cradle Catholic and a volunteer with my parish. Those two facts alone make many of the people there believe that I am actually a conservative. It's actually kind of humorous, a few of us there are underground liberals. There has been talk of developing a signal where one of us draws half a donkey and the other one finishes it. It's a lonely world we live in,...

As a bright and shining example of the outright lies and blatant hypocrisy coming from the far-right over what they have concocted in their tiny, narrow minds as what is going to be President Obama's "indoctrination" of schoolchildren in his remarks next week, I give you the Michael Savage show from yesterday:"The first president in American history who is going to force children to listen to a speech he's going to give.""No American president in...

Yet another Republican with a hotline to God. This time it's that old Appalachian Trail hiker himself, Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina: "Mr. Sanford vowed not to quit despite growing pressure from South Carolina lawmakers and Republican Party officials to resign or face impeachment. He said he intends to complete his term, not to hold on to power but to fight for conservative principles of governance."I feel absolutely committed to the cause, to what God...

Remember Wiley Drake? To refresh your memory, he is the pastor of a church in Buena Park, California who told Alan Colmes on June 2 that he was praying for the death of President Obama. Well, Wiley's not alone. Steven Anderson, pastor of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona said, as part of his August 16 sermon entitled "Why I Hate Barack Obama," that he was going to pray for President Obama to...

I got a lot of response to my post on the Christian Left, so I thought I would add to it and throw in some clarification about what I am talking about. My impetus for writing the first go around comes from three different and unique inspirations. The first comes in my personal view of history. All teachers that teach history have their own slant on the subject. My personal slant looks at the five...

Let me talk about something that has been bothering me for some time. Really, there are two simultaneous trends that combine to create this huge problem. The first began in the 1980 presidential campaign when Ronald Reagan tried to reenergize the fundamentalist Christians to get them back into politics. From that, the Christian Coalition got their start and they went from staying out of politics to dominating local politics like school board elections, city council, and...

I have had the inestimable pleasure from time to time of watching animated and live action children's movies with my kids. As has always been true, there is as much in them for adults as there is for the kids. Think Popeye, Aladdin, The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, The Chronicles of Narnia ... lots of political, religious, social commentary there.I had been putting off watching the movie Wall-E because at some point, I felt...