LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY wyldraven)

Frank Schaeffer: Crazy For God -- How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back

( Excerpt. Click Headline for Schaeffer's promo site for the book. )

It's apparently scheduled to be released in the coming month, and the reviews look like it will be very interesting. From The Nation article Frank Schaeffer Goes Crazy for God, we read:

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For those not aware of him, you can read more about Frank Schaeffer at Wikipedia. His father Francis Schaeffer was influential in urging political action by such people as Tim LaHaye and Randall Terry of Operation Rescue. You can read more about his influence in "Theocratic Dominionism Gains Influence" by Frederick Clarkson.

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ETA: BookFinder link.

LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY hummingwolf)

There's a rather long post at Making Light about misrepresentations for the sake of advancing the cause of "creationism."

It’s not possible to produce such programs honestly. Chopping logic and falsifying arguments like that can only be done by someone who knows that he or she is doing it. To put it another way: if you know enough about the Book of Job or the Tel Dan stela to make up really effective lies about them that will fit into your preordained agenda, you know enough about them to know you’re lying.

This process of cooking up faith-promoting lies is not evidence of religious faith. Say you profess the basic Christian package: God is omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent, created all things, and wants us to love and understand Him.* If you truly believe that, how can you fear scientific knowledge? Creation doesn’t lie.** Surely it must follow that to know more about it is to see further into God’s ways.

(There are two married women. Both their husbands are accused of being present at a particularly wanton and disgraceful stag party. Both husbands deny it. One wife accepts this denial at face value, dismisses the story, and goes on with her life. The other wife goes into a frenzy of fact-checking, affidavit-gathering, and timeline construction, in order to demonstrate once and for all that her husband couldn’t possibly have been at that party. Which woman has faith in her husband?)

Link via this post from slacktivist.


[Edit: Mods: If one of you could create a tag for "creationism" or "intelligent design," that would be helpful in finding other posts about this topic. There doesn't seem to be a suitable tag currently, though I did toy with the idea of using the "education" tag. Edit 2: Yeah, um, I'll be making that ophthalmology appointment on Monday.]

LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY exotic_princess)

Hooo boy LOL


NYDailyNews article here

"I admire the Islam. There's a lot of good principles in it," he said. "But I just have to say in all candor that since this nation was founded primarily on Christian principles, personally, I prefer someone who I know who has a solid grounding in my faith."

*I LOL'd at this*

In the interview, the senator also said the "Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation."
There is no mention of God, Jesus or Christ in that entirely secular document.