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Jesus Hated War -- Why Do Christians Love It So Much?

Gary G. Kohls, Consortium News. December 28, 2009.

There are no "blessed wars". Yet virtually all evangelical, conservative and many mainstream church leaders were active supporters of the Bush wars.

Christ in Your Tree? The Newest Weapon Against Evil Atheists Bent on Destroying X-Mas

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. December 8, 2009.

Celebrate Christmas morbidly.

Going Undercover in the Crazy, Tragic World of Christian Gay-Conversion Therapy

Sena Christian, AlterNet. December 5, 2009.

Ted Cox posed as a gay man to infiltrate gay-to-straight therapy programs. What he found was equal parts shocking and tragic.

Warriors for Christ: Is Promise Keepers Making a Comeback?

J. Terry Todd, Religion Dispatches. August 17, 2009.

Promise Keepers has repackaged its muscular Christianity and evangelical nationalism for a post-9/11 world.

How Jesus Endorsed Bush's Invasion of Iraq

Damon Linker, Doubleday. October 28, 2006.

In the lead up to the invasion of Iraq, Bush needed the approval of religious leaders to shore up his religious base and a group of Catholic theoconservatives were happy to help him do just that.