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Film No Evil

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 11.20.2008 | Entertainment

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Andrea Chalupa

The self-funded Passion of the Christ brought in $611 million worldwide and counting, in part thanks to Christian groups such as Campus Crusade and Focus on the Family.

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Karl Rove's Bad Advice

Bill Scher | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics

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Bill Scher

Bending over backwards to pander to conservative Christians will only further worry secular voters that conservatives don't properly prioritize issues that are most important to good governing.

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Christian right regroups after Obama victory

AP | ERIC GORSKI | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics

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Pundits declared evangelicals among of Election Day's losers. Conservative Christian leader James Dobson confessed he was grieving. Barry Lynn of Amer...

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A New Faith Coalition

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

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Jim Wallis

Further polling results will help to answer the critical question of why religious voters cast their ballots the way they did. But three factors are likely key to understanding the religious shift.

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Obama Made Gains Among GOP Base Of White Evangelical Voters

New York Times | LAURIE GOODSTEIN | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

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President-elect Barack Obama succeeded in chiseling off small but significant chunks of white evangelical voters who have been the foundation of the R...

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Evangelicals Stay Loyal And Lose

Christine Wicker | Posted 11.05.2008 | Home

Read More: White Evangelicals, The Fall of the Evangelical Nation, Southern Vote, Christine Wicker, Obama, Mccain, Presidential Election, Evangelicals, Home News
Christine Wicker

The Religious Right isn't some new, huge and fearsome development in the United States that tells something frightening about the kind of people Americans are becoming. It's merely The Southern Vote by another name.

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Faith vs. Politics: Hispanic Evangelical Voters Still Split

Jill Colvin | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics

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Jill Colvin

After helping President Bush secure a second term victory in 2004, Hispanic voters have been abandoning Republican candidates and returning en mass to the Democratic Party, polls show.

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James Dobson's 'Letter From 2012 in Obama's America'

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

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Jim Wallis

James Dobson, you owe America an apology. The fictional letter released through your Focus on the Family Action organization, crosses all lines of decent public discourse.

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The Anatomy Of Republican Cataclysm and Democratic Victory

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics

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Frank Schaeffer

The Republican Party has lost the hearts and minds of reasonable Americans of all faiths and ideologies. Independent voters, young people, black people, Hispanics... the list goes on.

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Obama Signals the End of Days, Colorado Evangelicals Tell Irish Times

Dan Treul | Posted 10.29.2008 | Home

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Dan Treul

The story in the Irish paper underscores the kind of comic disbelief that has distinguished foreign coverage and reception of the American presidential campaign this year.

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How I Destroyed the Republican Party

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

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Frank Schaeffer

It is ironic that McCain hammered the final nail into the coffin of the Republican Party by trying to reach out to "my" religious conservatives once again.

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Obama and McCain Tied Among "Born Again" Christians! Says Shocking New Barna Poll

Steven Waldman | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

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Steven Waldman

Keep in mind that Barna defines "Born Again" differently than most pollsters. They base it on a series of theological questions, while most pollsters just ask people if they're "evangelical or born again."

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The Religious Right-Wing Has Already Seceded from the Country

Deanie Mills | Posted 10.16.2008 | Home

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Deanie Mills

The religious right-wingers have become increasingly isolated, they have failed to understand that the rest of the country is not as conservative or fundamentalist as they are.

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Urging "Revolution," Palin's Religious Charity Evangelizes in Schools

Bruce Wilson | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics

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Bruce Wilson

Palin is on the advisory board of a publicly supported Christian nonprofit which states its mission is evangelizing and runs "Religion related-spiritual development" suicide prevention programs in Alaskan public schools.

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How Fundamentalists Became Evangelicals

George Mitrovich | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

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George Mitrovich

One of the candidates for president has publicly acknowledged Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior -- and it's not John McCain.

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Israelis Sending Word To U.S. Jews: We Prefer Obama

Jan McGirk | Posted 10.07.2008 | Home

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Jan McGirk

Israelis across the political spectrum, from leftwing actors to retired spy chiefs and generals, are challenging the conventional wisdom that a Republican hawk in the White House would be in their best interests. Their weapon of choice? Online video.

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Why Is Palin Such a Good Liar For God?

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

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Frank Schaeffer

As we close in on the 2008 election, the increasingly desperate Republicans will do what they have learned to do best: court the sincere but misinformed Evangelical voters by lying to them.

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Evangelical/Republican Racist Hypocrites for McCain, or Redemption?

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics

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Frank Schaeffer

Senator Obama would be ahead in the polls by twenty to twenty-five points if he was white. I can prove it.

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Was Sarah Palin Sent By God to Battle the Anti-Christ?

Steven Waldman | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics

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Steven Waldman

For some time, we've seen the material flowing around the internet arguing that Barack Obama is the anti-Christ or a false Messiah. Now there's a new twist: Sarah Palin is sent by God.

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Fair Questions for Sarah Palin

Jim Wallis | Posted 09.17.2008 | Politics

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Jim Wallis

While the Obama campaign made many mistakes in responding to Sarah Palin, they didn't resort to the attacks on her family and faith that some in the media did.

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Sarah Palin's Foreign Policy Prism

Serge Duss | Posted 09.17.2008 | Politics

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Serge Duss

What's not as well known is that Palin's home church as governor is hosting an event on in March sponsored by the Rev. John Hagee called "A Night to Honor Israel."

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Religion in America: Why Many Democrats and Europeans Don't Get It

Scott Atran | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics

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Scott Atran

A culture's moral compass is not an innate or logical determination, but an underdetermined product of historical contingency and willful choice.

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Palin & Religion: What's Scary, What's Not

Steven Waldman | Posted 09.10.2008 | Politics

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Steven Waldman

The Palin candidacy does pose real church-state questions, as well as many opportunities for hysterical overreaction. Here's a guide to what is and isn't scary, about Palin's mixing of faith and politics.

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To Boldly Go Where No Californians Have Gone Before

Tom Gregory | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics

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Tom Gregory

Now that he has the legal right to marry, actor George Takei sat down with me enthusiastically gushing about his upcoming nuptials to his partner of twenty-one years, Brad Altman.

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McCain's Christian-Right Sop

Christine Wicker | Posted 09.05.2008 | Home

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Christine Wicker

Palin is sending a strange message on abstinence-only sex education; it clearly didn't work for her daughter. Indeed a lot of women are angry about that message and panicked over the enthusiasm Palin seems to be inspiring. Let me offer four reasons to calm down.

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