Pushback against Beck's social justice comments only fuel Beck.
Top Five (Less Sensational But More Dangerous) Things to Remember About Pat Robertson
Sure, it’s easy to poke fun at Pat Robertson for his 2,000-pound leg press claims or to scold him for his vile Haiti comments, but Robertson thrives on the ‘persecution.’ Our list spins the Robertson moral differently and shows just why he’s been a truly dangerous figure.
The Myth of “Voodoo”: A Caribbean American Response to Representations of Haiti
Notwithstanding Haiti’s Christian character, the Haitian personality, if there is one, has been nurtured by a Vodou civilization that any responsible treatment of the subject must disentangle from the Western world’s manufactured “voodoo” culture.
Haiti and the Push for Theological Questions
Preachers and public figures have often used natural disaster as an occasion to opine about God’s justice, or lack thereof. Or to make the definitive case against a divine order. But Haiti deserves to be addressed on its own terms, and in relation to the needs of those still suffering.
‘Biblical’ Disaster in Haiti: Pat Robertson and the Curse of Unyielding Ignorance
As people around the world begin to reckon with the scope of the catastrophe in Haiti, we offer a set of responses to what was—for those whose work focuses on American religion—a shameful expression of prejudice and ignorance from a once-prominent evangelical leader.
And while we're setting the record straight, let's remember Robertson isn't a Baptist minister anymore. Yep, he ain't a reverend.
Cult of personality or empire?
Once again, Pat Robertson has embarrassed the larger Christian community with his comments on Haiti, but the idea of God as a judge is deeply rooted in American religion.
Pat Robertson and the Curse of Unyielding Ignorance
Televangelist says Haitians are cursed because of a deal with the devil.
Oral Roberts, Pioneering Christian Zionist
Famous for his use of TV to spread the message, Oral Roberts—friend of Israel's first prime minister, David Ben Gurion—helped to popularize the notion that the newly founded State of Israel was an indication that God still acts in history and that events prophesied in the bible were at hand.
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 Jerusalem.
Republican Gomorrah Documents the Christian Right Takeover of the GOP
Despite resorting to demonization and dated paradigms, Max Blumenthal’s muckraking first book traces the fascinating history of the religious right and its web of gothic and aggressive conspiracy theories—making a convincing case that the Republican Party has been “shattered” by a right-wing religious movement.
A Post-Christian America? Not Quite—Though Devoutly to be Wished
Is there a connection between fewer identifying as "Christian" and "junk religion"? If the religious right is losing power why are Democrats so intent on "reaching out" to them?
By the Way: Religious Right Losing its Grip?
College Democrats at Pat Robertson’s Regent U., Notre Dame’s refusal to rescind an invitation to the pro-choice president—younger evangelicals and Catholics are in rebellion and it doesn’t bode well for the once-commanding presence of the religious right.
By the Way: James Dobson Departs the Scene
As the old guard retires, a generational challenge emerges for the Christian Right. Who can lead a movement whose constituency no longer agrees with its core tenets?
The truth about the secret anti-faith clause in the stimulus package.
Pat Robertson “Pleased With Obama” (Video)
Obama’s early choices seem to have resonated with the religious right thus far.
Top Ten Religious Right groups rake in more than half-a-billion dollars; Churches v. Christian Zionism; Bush turns to faith-based groups to bail US out of health care crisis; Saving the GOP from itself?
By the Way: Fractured Religious Right Endorses McCain
Evangelicals meet in Denver to pump fists for McCain; the old leadership wasn't all that was missing...
Rev. Wright has been likened to his biblical namesake, but there’s a crucial difference between Wright’s rhetoric and that of the prophet Jeremiah...
Dispatches from the Beltway: Beyond the Graying and Greening Religious Right
Less strident, less partisan, less defensive—the emerging evangelical center defies the stereotype...
A crop of new books on the waning influence of conservative Christianity in American politics.
Damning America: Right and Left
Reverend Wright’s condemnation of the United States made waves, but right-wing preachers have been railing against America’s sins for years.