Apologies to Thomas Nast for borrowing his September 23, 1871 cartoon captioned: “A Group of Vultures Waiting for the Storm to ‘Blow Over’—‘Let Us Prey” Yes, that’s Satan’s lapdog, Carl Rove behind her, so to speak. . . The media shit-storm over the assassination slur probably hasn’t reached full pitch yet, but who really expects it to even momentarily …
The scene from O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU?— a comedy— depicts a Ku Klux Klan gathering where a black man will be lynched— in a base and brutal attempt to “preserve” the backward “cultural heritage” of racism. Such events occurred in the United States with regularity as recently as the 1950’s. You may be thinking to yourself …
ADAM and EVE by Ernst Fuchs Our friend Sherry at A Feather Adrift has written another thought provoking essay on a range of religious issues. I’ve winnowed out several of her interesting questions for comment here. You will enjoy reading it before you read this response. Is God fully omniscient in time and space? It is literally true that God …
Radical Preacher and Pig Religionist, John Hagee Blogging at the Nation, John Nichols shared the following remarks of radical preacher John Hagee regarding Hurricane Katrina and the city of New Orleans’ “sinful” acceptance of homosexuality: “What happened in New Orleans looked like the curse of God…” Hagee explained after the city experienced a national disaster that cost at least 1,836 …
Unreasoned fear is a master intellectual fraud practiced upon the evolving mortal soul.
