Joe over at Evangelical Outpost has an interesting take on why Christians shouldn’t be getting all worked up about the Pledge: There is a vast and unbridgeable chasm between Americas civil religion and Christianity. If we claim that under God refers only to the Christian conception of God we are either being unduly intolerant or, [...]
Archive for April 1st, 2004
God and the Pledge
Posted in Church & State on April 1, 2004 | 30 Comments »
Kill Them All
Posted in Iraq, Politics on April 1, 2004 | 11 Comments »
Eschaton and Billmon find evidence of the blood lust: O’REILLY: I don’t care about the – colonel, I don’t care about the people of Fallujah. You’re not going to win their hearts and minds. They’re going to kill you to the very end. They’ve proven that. So let’s knock this place down. COWAN: Let’s get [...]
Volunteer Tailgate Party
Posted in Bloggin on April 1, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Inn of the Last Home has the, umm, most unusual VTGP I have seen in a while …
WP: Bush Focus Not on Terror
Posted in Politics on April 1, 2004 | Comments Off
it looks like Richard Clarke was right after all On Sept. 11, 2001, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice was scheduled to outline a Bush administration policy that would address “the threats and problems of today and the day after, not the world of yesterday” — but the focus was largely on missile defense, not terrorism [...]
A Partial Victory for Human Rights
Posted in Politics on April 1, 2004 | Comments Off
The International Human Rights Court has ruled that the United States violated the fundamental rights of fifty-one Mexican nationals on death row. The Court ordered the US to review the sentences to review the sentences. This is not, whatever the right wing will begin to screech over the next couple of days, an anti-death penalty [...]
Real Wrath-of-God Type Stuff
Posted in I do too have a life on April 1, 2004 | 4 Comments »
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria.