http://omblog.net/index.html We want to talk about politics and religion; the two things to avoid at family reunions. en-us Thu, 5 Jan 2012 20:49:15 -0600 Thu, 5 Jan 2012 20:49:15 -0600 Easy Blogs ( http://www.easyblogs.com ) http://omblog.net/2012011w.html#e2379 http://omblog.net/2012011w.html#e2379 Thu, 5 Jan 2012 20:49:15 -0600 http://omblog.net/2011125w.html#e2378 http://omblog.net/2011125w.html#e2378 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:15:31 -0600 Frank Schaeffer .....Gary North, who apparently channels both Ayn Rand and Attila the Hun when reading his Bible, has seriously argued that in the Sermon on the Mount the commandments about love are "recommendations for the ethical conduct of a captive people." North... http://omblog.net/2011104w.html#e2377 http://omblog.net/2011104w.html#e2377 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:14:55 -0600 Why Washington feeding frenzies aren't what they used to be. By Jonathan Alter ....Obama's presidency is nearly three years old. It has been nearly four years since the furor over Reverend Jeremiah Wright. During this period, Obama has been reviled... http://omblog.net/2011102w.html#e2376 http://omblog.net/2011102w.html#e2376 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:13:57 -0600 Frank Schaeffer: ....The fundamentalist have replaced economic and political justice with a bogus (and hate-driven) "morality" litmus tests of spurious red herring "issues" from abortion to school prayer and gay rights. The result has been that the masses of... http://omblog.net/2011095w.html#e2375 http://omblog.net/2011095w.html#e2375 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:05:46 -0600 Today Frank Schaeffer is back to talk with Steve Kraske about his memoir; Sex, Mom, & God: How the Bible's Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics--and How I Learned to Love Women (and Jesus) Anyway. They talk about how the attitudes toward sex expressed... http://omblog.net/2011092w.html#e2374 http://omblog.net/2011092w.html#e2374 Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:54:06 -0600 ......there were plenty of moments that should've startled the national press corps. For example, right before Perry's sermon he hugged and thanked one Alice Patterson, an "apostle" from San Antonio who Perry says he frequently prays with. Who was this... http://omblog.net/2011091w.html#e2373 http://omblog.net/2011091w.html#e2373 Sun, 4 Sep 2011 17:25:55 -0600 Frank Schaeffer ...America has a problem: It's filled with people who take the Bible seriously. America has a blessing: It's filled with people who take the Bible seriously. How does this blessing coexist with the curse derived from the same source: the... http://omblog.net/2011082w.html#e2372 http://omblog.net/2011082w.html#e2372 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:56:42 -0600 The viciousness of state officials to the poor and homeless is breathtaking, trapping them in a cycle of poverty Barbara Ehrenreich ...The obvious fallback was disability benefits, but - catch-22 when Joe applied he was told he could... http://omblog.net/2011081w.html#e2371 http://omblog.net/2011081w.html#e2371 Sun, 7 Aug 2011 18:09:45 -0600 Paul Rosenberg ...Setting aside their revisionist history for the moment, there's the more immediate question of how to square the rhetoric of reconciliation with the reality of a de facto culture war. In a guide to Talk2Action's articles on the... http://omblog.net/2011071w.html#e2370 http://omblog.net/2011071w.html#e2370 Mon, 4 Jul 2011 11:41:03 -0600 Frank on a pretty good rant. Too incendiary to link on facebook. Some high points: The "holy books" all the religious cultures mentioned here follow are compendiums of Bronze Age tribal self-serving myths, adopted and updated by ignorant tribes in order... http://omblog.net/2011031w.html#e2369 http://omblog.net/2011031w.html#e2369 Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:58:19 -0600 Austin Cline When military chaplains start telling women in the military that it was right that they get raped by their fellow Americans because God has some "purpose" behind the rape and assault, I think it's time to start reconsidering whether chaplains... http://omblog.net/2011031w.html#e2368 http://omblog.net/2011031w.html#e2368 Wed, 2 Mar 2011 19:31:45 -0600 Frank Schaeffer So when you want to know why the Republicans are willing to destroy American jobs, the economy and the environment, all in the name of "small government" look no farther for "motivation" than the preoccupations of the Evangelicals that have... http://omblog.net/2011012w.html#e2367 http://omblog.net/2011012w.html#e2367 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:36:06 -0600 by Steve Rendall Bill O'Reilly's recent "joke" about decapitating Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank was only the latest example of a demented Fox News culture that permits on-air personalities to fantasize about assassination and other forms of... http://omblog.net/2010123w.html#e2366 http://omblog.net/2010123w.html#e2366 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 08:47:23 -0600 Arun Gupta ....Simply put, the elderly are superfluous to capitalism. With high rates of joblessness the "new norm," more and more people are being made disposable. This leads to an efficient if brutal logic: cutting old-age income and health care will make... http://omblog.net/2010122w.html#e2365 http://omblog.net/2010122w.html#e2365 Wed, 8 Dec 2010 21:49:06 -0600 Tribute to John after 30 years gone.