Hand in hand with the lunacy that God uses weather to smite the sinful is the lunacy that by thinking hard enough, the invisible man in the clouds will read your thoughts and do your bidding. So we get what we had here a couple weeks ago, which is Focus on the Family praying for torrential rain of “biblical proportions” during Obama’s acceptance speech on Thursday.

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I’ve more or less been staying away from politics until after the national conventions because right now the political cycle is simply a morass of various messages and screeds being floated as test balloons. The real campaigning won’t start until mid-September.
But Sunday, I awoke to read this story and had to do a double-take:

Obama, McCain [...]

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In Aug. 1974, then-President Nixon resigned as President of the U.S. He resigned because Congress had approved articles of impeachment against him—with the support of Republicans—over the Watergate cover-up.
After nearly 8 years of Bush being in office, we have the issue of the case for going to war with Iraq, wherein we have “Curveball,” the [...]

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Jesus-Freaks and God-trolls are an inherent nuisance for those who engage in an ongoing dialogue about the nature of religion, belief, and the role that spirituality takes in giving meaning to our lives.
Yet the admonishments continue that there is only one “God” and we only need cease questioning, cease seeking, cease giving rein to our [...]

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Letters to the editor in Colorado seem to draw out a special breed of nut. And the Rocky Mountain News provides them with a stage to showcase their idiocy where they stagger about looking like targets at a BB-gun range.

Recently, comments by Mr. Silverman of the ACLU regarding First Amendment rights led me to do [...]

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