Christian Extremism

- FrontPage Magazine - http://frontpagemag.com - ‘Extremist’ Jews and Christians Are Like Islamists?Posted By Joseph Puder On April 12, 2012 @ 12:03 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | No Comments During a recent presentation made by this writer at a meeting attended by religious leaders and held in a Universalist Unitarian Church in New Jersey, the minister/host, in response to hearing the results of a survey addressing the rise of extremist...  

Many "small" things have disappointed me with regard to the way that this country has been run in the past — like not honoring the Geneva Convention, unprecedented secrecy in government, allowing inequity in taxation at the top strata, the ...  

Norwegian Christian rightist mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, whose trial started Monday, pleaded innocent in front of the Oslo District Court. When the court showed his propaganda video, which he posted on the internet just before Breivik embarked on ...  

You guessed it: actually the bandit mastermind was a Muslim imam who was killed in a police shootout. Shades of Luqman Abdullah. How many Christian ministers or priests, and how many Jewish rabbis, have been killed in shootouts with the police lately? "Muslim crime band leader who robbed companies to...  

For Bernard Sabella, Christian lawmaker for Fatah, Israel faces a crucial choice: work for a two-state solution or for the ascendancy of only one. Disillusionment in the future of the peace process comes after years of little progress. For Hamas election ...  

In reality closure due to protests of local Islamic fringe. Jakarta (AsiaNews) - The ongoing protests by a Muslim extremist fringe has led to the closure of three Christian places of worship in the province of Aceh, the only province in Indonesia where ...  

I know my readers are familiar with Pat Robertson and his antics. After all, Robertson is one of the more popular spokespersons for Christian extremism. You've marveled at his idiocy, and you've joined others in the atheist movement in denouncing him plenty of times. So I figured you'd enjoy this compilation of Robertson's greatest misses.H/T to Unreasonable FaithSubscribe to Atheist RevolutionCopyright © 2012 Atheist Revolution. This feed is...  

San Diego Gay & Lesbian NewsAnti-gay extremist planning day of "teaching and preaching" at Oklahoma schoolSan Diego Gay & Lesbian NewsAs hard as it is for some of us to take him seriously, Scott Lively's words and actions bring real harm to real people. His message to the unwitting parishioners at Draper Park Christian Church will portray him as the victim.and more »  

Taking away British Christian foundations would leave the country vulnerable to “the most sinister of ideologies”, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Shrewsbury has warned The Rt Rev Mark Davies used his Easter Homily to express anxiety at the consequences ...  

Aside from the existence of god(s) and the moral superiority many Christians claim for themselves, I think one of the biggest disagreements between Christians and atheists is whether moderate Christians have at least some responsibility for Christian extremists. I, along with most atheists, believe that they do. However, virtually none of the moderate Christians I know agree with this perspective. I suspect that this generalizes to moderates...  

Binding of Isaac: Wrath of Lamb Due in Late MayPiki GeekEdmund McMillen revealed that 2011′s surprise indie hit and Christian extremist lighting rod Binding of Isaac will be getting an expansion in late May. He had revealed its existence and information about the expansion on his Twitter account earlier ...and more »  

Clarion: One Nation Under God?my.hsj.orgThis view unfortunately died in 1980 when Ronald Reagan made the brilliant political calculation that merging Republicanism and Christian Extremism would make the Republican party solvent again. And it did, for a while. But even Reagan was enough of a ...and more »  

OSAMA IS DEAD – BUT WHO's LEFT?CNN (blog)Erik Rudolf was a perfect example of a Christian terrorist. All Christians don't hate themselves because of him. There are extremests everywhere. Hate hate, not other peoples faith. totally disagree. not all religions have a political agenda,nor does ...  

If you look at that tag cloud in the far right sidebar labeled "topics," you'll get a quick idea about the sort of thing I write about here at Atheist Revolution. The tags that are fairly small (e.g., foxhole atheists) represent topics I have written fairly little about, while the big ones (e.g., Christian extremism) are those that have been especially frequent topics. But there are a couple problems with this tag cloud that I need to fix, so...  

I used to wonder whether atheists would ever organize protests of churches. Not churches in general, mind you, but certain Christian extremist churches that had been preaching a destructive message of hate. I reasoned that something like a well-organized picket of such a church might do much to call attention to our efforts and show that we would remain silent no more. I agreed with readers who suggested that picketing might be especially...  

You know how atheists are fond of saying that religious moderates are at least partly responsible for Christian extremism? We are good at identifying problems among religious believers, much better than we are at recognizing similar problems in our own community. We don't generally like to talk about it, but there is something similar going on in the atheist movement. We are willing to overlook quite a bit of bad behavior in order to maintain...  

Thanks to Adam (Daylight Atheism) for letting me know that today is the date set aside for those of us concerned about equality to come together against the war on women. If you visit UniteWomen.org, you can see what is happening in your area. As Adam points out, American women are under attack by the Christian extremist wing of the Republican Party and there are plenty of excellent reasons why atheists and feminists are ideal allies.So, what...  

The United States Military ... a Crusader Force?truthout... their dire concern regarding the proliferation of literature, imagery, insignia, and much more which indicates that, indeed, some do see themselves as the Christian extremist counterparts of their Islamic fundamentalist, Salafi-Jihadist foes.  

FinalCall.com News'Christian terrorist' unapologetic in courtFinalCall.com News“We never heard the media talk about this Christian terrorist, because what he committed was terrorism,” he added. In an online commentary on policymic.com entitled, “What if Anders Breivik were Muslim,” Paul Oliver noted media generally portray Mr.Thom Hartmann: Bush 'Bluster and Bravado' Inferior to Norway's 'Ballads, Not ...NewsBusters (blog)all 502 news articles »  

The PendulumO'Reilly's coverage of Breivik shows lack of cultural understandingThe PendulumAnd on July 26, 2011, conservative Fox News pundit Bill O'Reilly took to the airwaves to blast other media groups correctly identifying Breivik as a “Christian terrorist,” claiming they were attempting to place a negative spin on the religion.and more »  

According to Think Progress, a newspaper in central Louisiana, The Daily Advertiser, ran an ad from a Christian extremist group suggesting that President Obama and the Democratic Party are conspiring to murder Christians. Oh, come on! This has to be some of that liberal media bias we're always hearing about, doesn't it? Judge for yourself:While the ad does not come out and tell readers to murder Democrats, it comes about as close to suggesting...  

Aren't you advocating the US should take out (ie kill) Kony?CNN (blog)Kony is a CHRISTIAN terrorist. Ugandan Govt is also a Christian thug regime that wants to murder homosexuals. African Christians are a pretty blood thirsty backward lot. When Twits like Limbaugh said Obama sent troops to support muslims he was wrong.and more »  

(In the most recent elections held in Egypt, since the fall of the Mubarak regime, the Salafist “Nour” party, members of which are extremist Islamists won 27.8% of the seats in the Egyptian Parliament and the more “moderate”Muslim ...