Amanda Terkel, Think Progress. November 20, 2009. A new slogan is making its way onto t-shirts and even teddy bears: 'Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8,' which reads, 'Let his days be few; and let another take his office.”
Devilstower, Daily Kos. November 10, 2009. A new book points out that the ancient Christians -- and even early Americans -- did not share the blind faith of today's fundamentalists.
Joseph Laycock, Thomas Fabisiak, Religion Dispatches. October 27, 2009. The new version will sing the praises of the free market and call young women "floozies" and "bimbos."
Greta Christina, Greta Christina's Blog. October 24, 2009. This isn't Beatrix Potter here. It's more like "Dangerous Liaisons" by way of Quentin Tarantino. With tents, sand, and sheep.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. October 16, 2009. Khristian Oliver is set to be executed next month, after jurors used Old Testament passages to determine whether he should live or die.
Lee Fang, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. August 22, 2009. Students will be expected "to identify significant conservative advocacy organizations and individuals," like Newt Gingrich and the Moral Majority.
Clive Hamilton, CounterPunch. May 25, 2009. Bush explained to French Pres. Chirac that the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog were at work in the Mid-East and must be defeated.
Agence France PresseMay 18, 2009. Rumsfeld displayed the passages over photographs of U.S. forces in Iraq to curry favor with then president George W. Bush.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. January 15, 2009. I always find it astonishing that so many people say they could never vote for an atheist, but they can vote for people like this.
Lynda Waddington, RH Reality Check. November 27, 2008. Evangelical Palin supporters ignore politically inconvenient Bible passages that say only men should be rulers.
Lucinda Marshall, Feminist Peace Network AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. July 1, 2008. Southern Baptist preacher says sinful women rebel against their husbands' God-given authority.
AlterNetJanuary 30, 2008. Fog Facts: Huckabee has radical proposals to change the Constitution based upon his factually incorrect statements on what the Bible says.
Anneli Rufus, AlterNet. November 17, 2007. Author A.J. Jacobs spent a year trying to follow the 600+ laws he found proscribed in the Bible, and concluded he's doomed to live in sin.
Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet. December 4, 2006. After a study revealed that less than 10 percent of evangelicals were Bible literate, James Dobson's Focus on the Family is desperately taking a two-day multimedia Bible boot camp on the road, selling "truth" for $179 a seat.