Or at least so says Christopher Hitchens, responding to Robertson’s claim that the devastating Haitian earthquake (which may have killed upwards of 200,000 innocent people) was the result of “a deal with the devil” made during the Haitian Revolution in 1791. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs called Robertson’s remarks “utterly stupid.” Barry Lynn of Americans United said they were callous and grotesquely insensitive. And Keith Olbermann says Robertson is full of “senile crap.”
Archive for the ‘cults’ Category
Podcast #78 – Pat Robertson Is an Evil Moron
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Podcast #75 – Can Atheists Hold Office in NC?
Monday, December 21st, 2009
Cecil Bothwell has just been elected to the city council of Asheville, North Carolina. He happens to be an atheist. The North Carolina state constitution bars atheists from holding elected office. (For what it’s worth, seven other states still have constitutional provisions that discriminate against non-believers.) Is this a case of continuing institutionalized bigotry, or just an amusingly unenforceable “quirk” left over from the 19th century? (For more on Mr. Bothwell visit cecilbothwell.wordpress.com)
Podcast #67 – Jeff Sharlet (The Family)
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
We interview Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. The Family is both an investigation into the organization that has influenced presidents from Eisenhower to Obama, and a history of American fundamentalism from colonial times to the present. If you don’t read any other book this year about religion in America, read this one. You can buy The Family at Amazon.com.
Sharlet is the co-creator of Killing the Buddha, a literary magazine about religion, and The Revealer, “a daily review of religion and the press.” Sharlet is also a contributing editor to Harper’s and Rolling Stone.
The Family
Friday, September 18th, 2009
Review by John C. Snider © 2009
It is possibly the most influential organization you’ve never heard of. They observe a fanatical devotion to the person of Jesus Christ, yet they are unrestrained by quaint notions of rule-based morality. They are invited with open arms into the halls of power in Washington, DC. Their members include congressmen, senators, governors, ambassadors, generals, captains of international industry, even ruthless dictators. For half a century, no president has dared ignore their annual summons. Their goal is no less than global theocracy dominated by America military, economic and cultural power. Theirs is a “long-term project of a worldwide government under God…more ambitious than Al Qaeda’s dream of a Sunni empire.”
God spoke to him through a box?
Friday, August 28th, 2009By now you may have read of the disturbing case of Phillip Garrido, a California man now in custody for the 1991 kidnapping of 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard. Jaycee’s mother and stepfather have long since assumed she was dead; indeed, the stepfather has been a suspect for years, although he was a helpless witness to the kidnapping.
Goodbye, Neumanns…
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009Earlier this year, Neumann’s wife Leilani was found guilty of the same charge. They could each get as much as 25 years in prison, although if there were any justice they’d get life in prison with no medical benefits other than prayer.
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