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Pariah or Charmed Hero: America’s Obsession with Jews and Israel

Listening to Palin and Biden, one is reminded that American support for Israel borders on obsessive. The biblical story of the golden calf reminds us that obsession does not usually produce good...

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“Future of Babylon” Project Preserves History to Some, Ushers in “End Times”...

An uptick in tourism could transform the ancient city of Babylon back into a major destination for tourists, which according to several conservative Christian evangelicals, could set the stage for the...

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Is Obama the Antichrist? Why Armageddon Stands Between the President and the...

While the president has reached out to the faithful, he has yet to realize that he is dealing with a countercultural movement that at its foundation is obsessed with the apocalypse. But he will know it...

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Huckabee in the Holy Land: A Christian Zionist Campaign

The religious right’s preferred presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee recently returned from a visit to Israel. What prompted Time to call it his first campaign stop in the 2012 race?

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Sarah Palin: Bus Tour of Destruction

By the time this book tour is finished, she will have succeeded in splitting the republican party, solidifying a new hard right religious base, and making enough money to turn Alaska into the New...

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Battling The Antichrist By Outlawing Microchips

We can rest easy, knowing that our government wants us to be safe from forced implantation of microchips. But it's not about civil liberties, it's about dispensational paranoia and fear of the “Mark of...

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Evangelicals, Oppose Park51 At Your Own Eschatological Risk

Alright evangelical and/or fundamentalist pundits* opposed to the Ground Zero mosque, whom art thou? Are thee the faithful praying/hoping/waiting for the imminent return of Christ or are thee like the...

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Are You Rapture Ready?

Save the date—Jesus is scheduled to make his second coming appearance on May 21, 2011. 

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A Monumentally Different Kirk Cameron

With his latest film the former teen idol appears to embrace Christian Reconstructionist theology. 

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Rick Santorum, Muslim Theologian and GOP Candidate, Would Bomb Iran

The resurgent candidate believes it's no accident that a non-military nuclear facility is located in a holy city.

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Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?

Five months before the big-budget Left Behind reboot hit theaters, evangelical movie producer Paul Lalonde...

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Tim LaHaye’s World: We’re Living In It

The whipcrack of agon has lashed America’s 2016, and Tim LaHaye has died. The extraordinarily...

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