My friend sent me this meme offering a crazy juxtaposition. Before I tweeted it, I wanted to confirm that I was not being a purveyor of fake news. Did Brian Kilmeade of Fox and Friends really say that? And is that a real Dr. Seuss cartoon? Here is what I found. First off, yes, Kilmeade […]
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A simple illustration of the craven nature of the Republican party today
I just watched the MSNBC program Kasie DC in which the host, Kasie Hunt, interviewed Republican politician Rob Woodall. After Woodall defended Trump and dismissed the Mueller Report, Hunt asked him whether he had read the report. He replied that he had not. He had not even read a report that identified ten instances of potential attempts […]
Fahrenheit 11/9. A Brief Review
Today, I tweeted a brief review of Michael Moore’s latest film (released last fall): Fahrenheit 11/9. I decided to post it here as well (albeit in slightly edited form). Just watched Michael Moore’s Trump film Fahrenheit 11/9. Definitely worth watching. It’s less about Trump than the systemic corruption of a political system beholden to monied […]
Christian Post readers reply to my anti-Trump article
Today, Christian Post published my article “If evangelicals are pro-family, then why don’t they care about Trump’s child separation policy?” I expected it to get pushback from the Trumpists and I was certainly right about that. But the vitriol from some folks … wow. Here I’ll note just one comment. In the article, I pointed out that […]
If evangelicals are pro-family, then why don’t they care about Trump’s child separation policy?
A couple of days ago, Ed Krassenstein posted the following tweet decrying the widespread support among American (evangelical) Christians for Donald Trump’s divisive and xenophobic rhetoric against immigrants and refugees: “Jesus Christ would tear down a wall, and give immigrants the shirt off of his back. I’m Jewish and I know this. What the hell has […]
If you support Donald Trump, you do not support personal liberty
Today, my favorite conservative Christian Trump supporter posted the following tweet: If we're afraid to fight for our liberties today, our children will not enjoy them tomorrow. — Dr. Michael L. Brown (@DrMichaelLBrown) June 9, 2018 The irony is impossible to miss. Brown is concerned about protecting religious freedom for his community including, for example, […]
If James Clapper lied in the past, can we trust that he is telling the truth about Trump and Russia?
Yesterday I posted a tweet about James Clapper and Donald Trump. Here is the tweet with Dave GhostBear’s response: James Clapper committed perjury before Congress with regards to domestic spying. He is not a trustworthy source, and you should be wary of him also — David Schoen (@JediGhostBear) May 24, 2018 The Disagreement This response […]
Trump, Comey, and Credibility
James Comey’s much-anticipated book A Higher Loyalty comes out next week and I just read a glowing review in The New York Times. The book does not promise bombshells so much as a powerful and sober inside look at the Trump presidency from the former head of the FBI. And Comey does not mince words as he compares […]
Can Evangelicalism Be Saved? My Debate with Frank Schaeffer
Last week I appeared again on Unbelievable with Justin Brierley. This time the debate was with renowned author and commentator Frank Schaeffer, son of evangelical legend Francis Schaeffer. The topic? Evangelicalism, and specifically whether evangelicalism is worth saving in the age of Trump. Schaeffer argues that it isn’t while I provide an evangelical defence. I […]
Are Positive Stereotypes Immoral?
This past week Donald Trump invited universal condemnation (leaders of the GOP excepted) for his blatantly racist and crude remarks about Africa and Haiti. Those comments were presumably borne by pernicious racial and cultural stereotypes. Trump’s apologists have replied in part by stressing the fact that he is okay with immigrants from Asia. This invites […]
The so-called War on Christmas should be relabelled the War on Christendom
This is the latest header on Donald Trump’s Twitter-feed. While Trump is arguably the most cynical and amoral individual ever to hold the office of president, he knows a good wedge issue when he sees it, and the so-called “War on Christmas” is among the best. We all know the story: secularists and pluralists are […]
Pat Robertson identifies lack of respect for Trump as catalyst for Las Vegas Massacre
I’ll say this for Pat Robertson: he’s got good taste in ties (I’ve always liked Burberry). But to begin a monologue on the catalysts for the Las Vegas shooting by flagging a lack of national respect for Donald Trump? On the contrary, the one bright spot I’ve found in the last several months is the […]
Against Trump’s Absurd Moral Equivalence Thesis
Today Donald Trump presented a moral equivalence thesis according to which protesters against racism are as culpable for violence that resulted in Charlottesville as the neo-Nazis, the Klan, and white nationalists whose views they were protesting. Unfortunately, some Christians have also courted this notion of moral equivalence. Consider, for example, this tweet from Michael Brown: […]
Trump in the light of history: A review of On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2017). C.S. Lewis once observed, “I think no class of men are less enslaved to the past than historians. It is the unhistorical who are usually without knowing it enslaved to a very recent past.” That quote perfectly captures the motivation behind […]
