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Christianist or Dominionist: What’s in a name?

A handful of terms are in use to describe Christians who want to control society. Other than consistency, does it matter which one is used? Are they interchangeable?

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Was Bachmann debate “submission” question offensive, sexist?

There were plenty of fireworks during last night’s Republican debate in Iowa. Generally bypassed in analyses is a question asked of Michele Bachmann: “As president, would you be submissive to your husband?”

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Pay for prayer? Christian Scientists demand Oregonians fund “spiritual health care”

The Christian Science church demands that the State of Oregon’s healthcare exchange require insurance plans to pay for “spiritual health care” — that is, prayer — alongside real medicine.

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Bachmann: My husband, to whom I am subservient in all things, is off limits

Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann doesn’t want the press checking out her husband’s beliefs. Or anything else about him. But she has publicly declared herself subservient to him in all things; doesn’t that make him as much a candidate as she?

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Anti-Jihadists’ missed opportunity

In Anders Behring Breivik, the anti-jihadist movement had an opportunity to prove their point. Instead, they chose to declare themselves innocent, thus setting their own movement back farther than Breivik ever could.

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American right wing declares selves the real victims of Norway terrorist

Ranging from the predictable — crying that their diatribes played no role in Breivik’s ideology — to the bizarre — accusing the Labour Party of Norway of executing their own in a false-flag operation — the American right wing is grasping at straws attempting to distance itself from Christian Dominionist terrorist Anders Behring Breivik.

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Herman Cain gives thumbs-up to mosque bans

GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain has announced that church-state separation means Americans can ban mosques from their communities.

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Tea Party Nation slides from fringe to insane

A post emailed to all members of Tea Party Nation today illustrates the small organization’s slide from semi-fringe conservatives to full-on loons.

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Fools rush in:  Bachmann and Santorum’s “Marriage Vow” pledge misstep alienates millions

GOP Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann became the first — and probably only, other than nonentity Rick Santorum — to sign on to a Religious Right group’s sex-obsessed and racist “Marriage Vow” pledge.

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David Barton and “slavery for nonbelievers”.  Really?

David Barton. Just hearing his name makes my stomach turn. The man is on a mission to distort American history in his quest to “prove” the United States was founded as a “Christian nation”. But does his website promote the enslavement of non-Christians?

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