Outchurched

Yeah, that’s the harshest post title on Outchurched to date, but it’s also an accurate assesment of this story:

Church Condemns Abortion Performed on Raped Girl, 11

A Vatican official has said the Catholic church will excommunicate a medical team who performed Colombia’s first legal abortion on an 11-year-old girl, who was eight weeks pregnant after being […]

Dear Christians,

Do Katherine Harris’ comments represent your views?

MIAMI (AP) - U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris told a religious journal that separation of church and state is “a lie’’ and God and the nation’s founding fathers did not intend the country be “a nation of secular laws.’’

The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate also said that if Christians […]

From Media Matters: Colson again blamed American “decadence” for inspiring radical Islamic terrorism

Summary: Charles W. Colson again suggested that America and “the West” were inflaming radical Islam through “our decadence,” using as example an Islamic polemicist believed to have inspired Osama bin Laden.

In the August 16 edition of his daily BreakPoint radio commentary, Prison Fellowship […]

An outstanding column by Robyn E. Blumner of the St. Petersburg Times:

Thanks to President Bush and his plan to Christianize the nation’s provision of social services, one’s relationship with Jesus Christ has become a real resume booster. As author Michelle Goldberg reports in her new book, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, Bush has […]

The Daily Show takes on Armageddon:

“At least a couple of those four horsemen of the Apocolypse are saddling up as we speak.”

“156! My God… that’s arbitrarily terrifying! I mean, just the other day it was 152… now it’s at 156! My Rapture Index only says 149!”

Big hat tip to BongoP’o’ndit from Recurring […]

This commentary, from the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University’s publication Neiman Watchdog, suggests that President Bush’s personal religious views are the reason he’s making profoundly bad foreign policy decisions.

Bush’s fundamentalism seen as a decisive, negative factor in his policies: Former White House reporter Saul Friedman says that, for the first time in […]

Media Matters has observed that CNN and other media outlets have been running a large number of stories on Armageddon, and how some “Christians” believe that it signals the End Times… the Rapture and the Apocolypse and so forth. Media Matters has been posting the clips and transcripts, and they’re certainly interesting viewing/reading.

CNN or […]

David Byrne has written an insightful review of the movie “Jesus Camp.”

About the movie:

A growing number of Evangelical Christians believe there is a revival underway in America whereby Christian youth must take up the leadership of the conservative Christian movement.

JESUS CAMP, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (The Boys of Baraka), follows Levi, Rachael, […]

PHOENIX, July 24 — Two former executives of a failed Southern Baptist foundation were convicted here Monday in what prosecutors said was the nation’s largest fraud ever targeting members of a religious group.

William Pierre Crotts, who was president of the Baptist Foundation of Arizona, and Thomas Dale Grabinski, the group’s former chief legal counsel, were […]

In Texas, you’re sane if Satan orders you, but insane if you’re following God’s Orders?

The Texas insanity-defense law requires that a delusional person acting under “orders” from God be judged not guilty by reason of insanity, but that a delusional person acting under “orders” from Satan be considered sane, according to prominent forensic psychiatrist Park […]