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In a major liberal initiative to curtail discussion of President Obama’s religious identity, over 70 Christian leaders and denominational heads have signed a letter saying that questions about the religious philosophy of the President of the United States should be ignored and suppressed by the major media. The letter demands that the media “offer no further support or airtime to those who misrepresent and call into question the President’s Christian faith.” [caption id="attachment_4367" align="alignleft" width="161" caption="Unrepentant Nazi collaborator, George Soros"][/caption] The apparent initiator of the letter is Obama associate Jim Wallis of the Sojourners group, a group funded by atheist...

Chris Gillibrand of Cathcon has this picture of the “pastoral team” of a parish in Linz, Austria, a diocese where crypto-Protestant liberal priests disguise their women friends as ordained clergy. The woman on the right is dressed in a garment clearly indicating that she is a deacon. In fact – no offence – she is no more a Catholic deacon than the MacBook on which I’m writing this post. Women masquerading as ordained Catholic clergy in Linz “Stealth priestesses” is the way these ladies are described by their opponents (ie, orthodox Catholics). The use of the word “priestess” might seem...

The Democratic Party for years has yearned for an energetic religious wing. Seeing the power that the religious right brought the Republicans, Democratic leaders realized that if they wanted to build a majority they would need to attract people of faith. Party leaders wanted a religious left and they're beginning to get one – new grassroots organizations, vocal spokesmen, and a candidate conversant in the language of faith.They’re also getting a bit of a surprise: religious Democrats aren’t so easy to control: *The Democratic Party created a Faith in Action unit to help organize religious Democrats. According to the New...

Some unknown author once said, "Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink." Democratic senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took a less cynical and more substantive approach to faith in a recent interview with The New York Times. The quality and depth of one's relationship with God should be personal and beyond the judgment of others, unless one is running for president and chooses to talk about it as part of a campaign plan to win the election. Democrats have been encouraged and coached by liberal evangelical Christian Jim Wallis of Sojourners magazine to talk about...

Class differences in and around Chicago appear to be crystallizing so much that it is increasingly easy for folks to see. One of the most recent examples of this was the release of a report last month titled "Gold Collar -- How State Job Subsidies in the Chicago Region Favor Affluent Suburbs," which details the inequities in the distribution of state-funded subsidies to the detriment of inner-ring suburbs. The study was released by Good Jobs First, a national resource center promoting accountability in economic development and smart growth for working families. The study states that the wealthiest regions of the...

Brian McLaren, chief guru of the "emerging church" movement, feels "dirty" over the execution of Saddam Hussein. A pastor and best-selling author who appeals to "post-modern" evangelicals, McLaren now chairs Jim Wallis' Religious Left Sojourners group. He also is one of Jim Wallis' "Red Letter" Christians, who respond to conservative religionists by insisting that the "red letter" words of Jesus in the Bible actually support causes of the Left. In his latest column for Sojourners, McLaren claimed he is not opining about capital punishment. Instead, he is simply sharing "in personal terms" with "those who support executions" how he reacted...

AMERICAN CHURCH OFFICIALS pleaded for forgiveness for the sins of the United States last week--from the Iraq War, to Bush's rejection of the Kyoto Accord, to the racism exposed by Hurricane Katrina, to economic exploitation, and for the more general American sin of idolatry. The clerics were representing 34 Protestant and Orthodox denominations in America at the Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) meeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil. "Our leaders turned a deaf ear to the voices of church leaders throughout our nation and the world, entering into imperial projects that seek to dominate and control for the...

TOLERANCE We've all heard it--, "tolerance," sometimes noted in terms of being "intolerant." Have you ever noticed that the left uses these terms to describe anyone who doesn't agree with their viewpoint? They reserve their most biting and acidic comments for Christianity. And these charged terms are designed to try to put people "in their place." If you don't agree with homosexuality, you're branded a "homophobe." However, looking at this carefully, the same people who throw around the term "homophobe" are actually heterophobes. In a very, very real sense they are terrified that a rational person might reject having homosexuality...

At the beginning of the 20th Century, the optimism for the future of American Protestant Christianity was at a high level. Like the more-secularized Europeans who believed they had reached the highest levels of civilization (only to have that illusion shattered by World War I less than 20 years later), Protestants proclaimed that they were entering a "Christian Century." Leaders of the so-called mainstream Protestant denominations, such as the Episcopal and Presbyterian churches, especially shared this optimism. Not only were there the obvious advancements of science and increases in the overall standard of living, but the mainstream Protestants also had...