Author Archives: Bob Felton

Same-sex marriage: The Evangelical Right’s Waterloo

A thoughtful piece at Religion Dispatches speculates that the Supreme Court’s widely-expected affirmation of same-sex marriage rights may setup decades of contention similar to Roe v. Wade. If Greenhouse and Siegel are correct that it was “ordinary politics” that produced … Continue reading

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Marco Rubio: As crazy as Sarah Palin?

Michael Hamar points toward a synopsis of the deranged things taught by the pastor celebrated in Marco Rubio’s campaign biography. An investigation of Rubio’s Miami Baptist megachurch reveals, notably, an anti-homosexual hiring policy, the promotion of demonology and exorcism, Young … Continue reading

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The Will to Power

Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed HithertoII: Criticism of Morality §275   Very few succeed in discovering a problem behind all that which constitutes our daily life, that to which we have become accustomed throughout … Continue reading

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Tried for Apostasy

What happens when a church tries you for apostacy, anyhow? Continue reading

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“I allowed my family to be destroyed”

Wartburg Watch publishes today a sad, first-person account of how a woman’s misguided loyalty to a church tore her family apart. By summer, the boys and I were driving to every service, and I remember standing in the parking lot … Continue reading

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