As I pointed out in the Sunday’s Sermon directly below this one: making abortion legal actually decreased the number of abortions a country has, and abortion numbers have gone nowhere but down in almost every country that has legalized it. So with last Sunday marking the anniversary of the STILL controversial decision of Roe v….
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Sunday’s Sermons: Abortion Rates are HIGHER in Areas Where It’s Illegal
So here it is the weekend of the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and a little earlier in the week brought an Associated Press news story that many of you might have missed given that it was buried under internet blackouts and Republican candidates slap fighting each other like something out of a three Stooges…
Sunday’s Sermon: The Death of Joe Paterno and the Cult of College Football
In a two-for-one first for the site I bring you not one, but TWO Sermons today. So either I’ve gotten a sturdier soapbox than the year I’ve been doing this site or there is a lot to talk about in the world of religion and race this week. Earlier today I recapped all of Mitt…
Sunday’s Sermons: Mitt the Mormon Church Money Launderer? Inside Romney’s Shady Finances
So I know I’m supposed to spend the day after the South Carolina primary talking about Gingrich’s big comeback and how he fought his way past dubious open marriage allegations (probably financed by Romney truth be told) to win a decisive victory that means…something, I guess…Yawn, I’m sorry but I just can’t work up the…
Sunday’s Sermons: So Long to Jon Huntsman, The “Other” Mormon
So today brings news that Jon Huntsman will officially end his Presidential campaign in South Carolina on Monday morning. Now this comes as a shock to…uhhh…errr…maybe Jon Huntsman’s sons? No…maybe his wife? Probably not. Well, I would say it comes as a shock to Huntsman himself but I seriously doubt that’s true either. Now there’s…
Sunday’s Sermons: New Year’s Revolution
Even though no holiday is a bad one–at least out of the major ones that get people out of work for a day–my favorite one remains a combination of the last six hours of December 31st and the entirety of January 1st. There’s just something about the promise of New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day that…
Sunday’s Sermons: Inside the Death of the “Atheist Pope” Christopher Hitchens
This past week, the man known as “The Atheist Pope,” Christopher Hitchens, lost his long battle with cancer. Now, not everyone who follows politics is familiar with Christopher Hitchens. So if I had to pick just one book to sum up the man, I would pick Hitchens’s “God is Not Good” as a pretty accurate place…
Perry’s “War On Religion” Campaign Ad, More False “Christians Are Persecuted” Rhetoric
Most of you have already seen Rick Perry’s by-now infamous campaign ad where he blasts Obama for his “War on Religion.” You probably haven’t seen it on TV–its intended place to be viewed, especially if you live in Iowa where Perry is pining his last ditch hopes to win the nomination–but it’s been steadily making…
Sunday’s Sermons: The Rise of Newt, and the Fall of Frank. Why God?
That title might be slightly misleading. Newt Gingrich’s “rise” to the top of the Republican (scrap) heap probably has as much to do with them exhausting all the other candidates (Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain) in one embarrassing flub after another as it does with anything Newt is doing. And the second slightly misleading…
Sunday’s Sermons: Why Are Evangelical Christians Becoming Pro-Death?
For once the title of an Alabama Liberal post isn’t a rhetorical question, because it’s honestly a stumper for me. How is it possible that the “Kris-chins” that make up the Republican party’s largest block of voters (social conservatives) and who they couldn’t win many races without have become so blood thirsty? For the better…
Sunday’s Sermons: 9/11 Tributes, Emotionally Appropriate or Milking It?
That potentially infuriating title isn’t meant to signal that I already know the answer (unlike most pieces on this site), and I want to say upfront that I legitimately don’t know. On the one hand, it is the ten year anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, a massive event that ripped a hole…
Sunday’s Sermons: Ayn Rand, the Patron Saint of Assholes
So Thursday on the site we had a take down of Libertarianism, but no true rebuke of the bogus mythology would be complete without mentioning this cult’s leader: Ayn Rand. I’m not saying she started Libertarianism–in fact, she didn’t–but more than any one figure, she is the person they look up to. If this movement…
Sunday’s Sermons: Inside the Cult of Ron Paul
Last week The Daily Show ran a piece about how the news media is unfairly ignoring Ron Paul. It was funny, truthful, and I even went to their facebook page to talk about it. Unfortunately, hundreds of people had already beaten me to it. There were perhaps half-a-thousand comments all expressing gratitude for the Paul…