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Moral panic and pop-culture for kids

The Devil Tesla — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:50:37 -0800

Everything in life is real. A 1985 60 Minutes segment on Dungeons & Dragons (part 2) vs Pokemon is a tool of Satan vs The Truth About Harry Potter A Chick Tract on D&D. The Wikipedia page on Dungeons & Dragons controversies. Parody site Landover Baptist on Pokemon. That scene from Jesus Camp where a lady yells about Harry Potter. A clip from Carlie Brooker's Newswipe on news and the psychology of killers that the 60 Minutes clip reminded me of.

I'm a Rough Rider / Filled Up With Christ's Love

billysumday — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:36:14 -0800

Gimme that Christian Side Hug. That Christian Side Hug.

How to Worship

Joe in Australia — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:00:09 -0800

An instructional video on correct worship in the Pentacostal church (SLYT).

"...children which lie, must go to their father the devil, into everlasting burning." -- Cotton Mather

orthogonality — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:24:52 -0800

The idea of witchcraft is hardly new, but it has taken on new life recently partly because of a rapid growth in evangelical Christianity. Campaigners against the practice say around 15,000 children have been accused in two of Nigeria's 36 states over the past decade and around 1,000 have been murdered. In the past month alone, three Nigerian children accused of witchcraft were killed and another three were set on fire.

(not-so) Real Housewives of Lancaster County

Miko — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:21:49 -0800

A new subgenre is rising to meet the significant demand for romance novels that won't corrupt the flesh: Amish Romances. The relatively chaste romances, mostly written by non-Amish authors, the books are selling well, with Cindy Woodsnall's Sisters of the Quilt trilogy leading the pack on the New York Times bestseller list, and many new authors jumping into the game.

Stuff Christian Culture Likes

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:49:53 -0800

Stuff Christian Culture Likes - A preacher's daughter marries another preacher's son and offers an insider's perspective about youth leaders, tips and hawks, sexual jewelry, hot wives, drama teams, video games, Jumbotrons, coffee, graphic design, typography and more.

Jesus killed Mohammed: The crusade for a Christian military

chunking express — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:35:30 -0800

Jesus killed Mohammed: The crusade for a Christian military.

Gays: Vibrating Gatekeepers to Another World

pinothefrog — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:21:11 -0800

"You take the gatekeeper and you confuse his mind. You threaten him and you throw him in the middle of nowhere. Then nobody knows where the gate is. As soon as you lose the whereabouts of the gate, then you have a culture going downhill. What keeps a village together is a handful of "gays and lesbians," as they call them in the modern world. In my village, lesbians are called witches, and gay men are known as the gatekeepers." The Dagara people of Burkina Faso. "Christianity has separated spirit from body and spirit from Earth. And earlier you talked to us about Christianity suppressing your culture. So there’s a suggestion here that suppression of homosexuality would be the way for the Christians to shut down the gateways, shut down the spirit, and shut down our connection with the Earth." Unsurprisingly, the Dagara are popular with Christian missionaries. As well as NGOs. The Dagara Cosmology. Shamanism in the gay community.

Not Safe For Kids

chuckdarwin — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:20:59 -0800

The Junior Christian Science Bible Lesson Show is easily the most terrifying "children's show" ever broadcast. David Nkrumah Liebe Unger Hart is pretty mysterious.

RaDaK

tellurian — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:27:07 -0800

The manuscripts of David Kaufmann, Jewish scholar extraordinaire. Wonderful illuminations, inventive typography and even a little bit of naughtiness.

Paul Anderson was the strongest man in the world.

Joe Beese — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:17:57 -0800

Paul Anderson was the strongest man in the world.

America's Pastor at the Inauguration

digaman — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:11:15 -0800

Gay marriage equals incest and pedophilia. Abortion equals the Holocaust. Or so thinks "America's Pastor Rick "Saddleback" Warren, bestselling author of The Purpose-Driven Life, vocal supporter of Proposition 8, and the spiritual leader chosen by President-elect Obama to give the invocation at his inauguration. But hey -- don't call him a homophobe: He even eats dinner with gays.

Oh, God! Oh God!

msalt — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:47:12 -0800

Christian Nymphos: Not an exploitation site but an apparently sincere, sex-positive celebration of faithful sex. Reclaiming the word Nympho, no less. (NSFW) Previously suggested by fourcheesemac, it turns out, but deep in an election thread where many would miss it.

An Anthology of Privilege Checklists

WCityMike — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:41:23 -0800

Privileges: Gender: 10 things only men can do (Askmen.com), male privilege (wiki), 21 Things Women Can Do That Guys Can't (Cosmo), female privilege (2 3 4 5). Race: white privilege (wiki). Sexual orientation: straight privilege (2) (wiki), cisgendered privilege. Body: able-bodied privilege, non-fat privilege. Money: non-poor privilege (2), class privilege (PDF). Demographics: Christian privilege, American privilege, adult privilege, black male privilege, Muslim male privilege. Combo: gamer privilege, male programmer privilege. Criticism and essays: victim privilege, "Point of Privilege", "We can't be equal while ... ", "Where's My Extra Piece of the Pie?". And, lest this become too serious: pirate privilege and lolcat privilege (the latter via). (Covered in smaller scope previously.)

You've Been Left Behind & I Nailed Your Wife

jonson — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:06:15 -0800

We all know The Rapture is coming soon (although "no one knows the day or hour"), and many of us will want to send out appropriate taunting messages from our heavenly perch to our loser buddies that didn't get chosen. At last, a service provider has arisen to serve this need. At You've Been Left Behind, you can store up to 250 MB of documents to be sent to up to 62 separate emails addresses in the event of the Rapture. Rapture is determined to have occurred when 3 of the 5 team members fail to log in to the site over a 3 day period.

The Christian with Four Aces

chunking express — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:55:03 -0800

The Christian with Four Aces. Bill Sizemore writes about the infamous televangelist Pat Robertson.

iPhones at ACU

Pater Aletheias — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:31:42 -0800

Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas becomes the first university in the US to give out iPhones to incoming freshmen. Concept videos describing how they will be used here (social), here (academic) and here (overview).

Only Visiting This Planet

The Deej — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:31:33 -0800

"I feel like a prize in a box of cracker jacks with God's hand reaching down to pick me up." Larry Norman, "father of Christian rock," dead at 60. YouTubery: 1, 2, 3.

The world wasn't destroyed after all. Sorry about that.

ardgedee — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:01:43 -0800

Mea maxima culpa

Passionate Housewives Desperate for God

zany pita — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:56:10 -0800

Ladies, submit and enjoy! What does the 21st century biblical model for an adult daughter look like? Have you ever wondered about the damage feminism has visited upon our civilization? Prepare to be enlightened...

Not your father's Christian comics

Horace Rumpole — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:42:29 -0800

Move over, Jack Chick. Zondervan's gone manga.

I do not plan on voting for or against any US legislation not directly related to Texas Independence

dersins — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:03:49 -0800

Texan Larry Kilgore is running for a seat in the US Senate. Agree or disagree with the man, he certainly has the courage of his convictions.

God wins in the end, in case you didn't know.

sneakin — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:41:13 -0800

How a Gay Rights Leader became straight is a column by Michael Glatze, one-time editor of Young Gay America magazine. In the column, Glatze explains how be became gay ("I was already weak") and his eventual redemption ("Every time I was tempted to lust, I noticed it, caught it, dealt with it"). When he was still gay, Glatze seemed pretty in touch with gay youth. When interviewed for a Time cover story, he discussed gay teens' alienation saying that today's queer youth just want to be "normal kids." Apparently Glatze wanted to be a normal kid, too! Gay City News had its own take on the Glatze fiasco, quoting him as suggesting America "'examine whether homosexuality should be legal' or if gay sex should instead be punished by 'imprisonment.'" YGAmag responded to Glatze with an open letter. More archived Young Gay America issues here.

A different dark is rising

Joakim Ziegler — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:34:44 -0800

We've discussed David L. Cunningham before, especially the controversial 9/11 docudrama he made. But there's more to the man who's the son of Christian reconstructionist and University of the Nations founder Loren Cunningham. There are a lot of movies he claims to have directed on his IMDB page that don't have any external verification outside of self-published websites, which seems to contradict IMDB policy. Then there's the fear from both pagans and various political bloggers and fans of the books that his upcoming adaptation of the The Dark is Rising fantasy books is going to completely butcher the source material. The movie is produced by Walden Media, the production company owned by conservative christian billionaire Philip Anschutz, who's trying to "clean up Hollywood", in association with 20th Century Fox.

big-eyed

nickyskye — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:13:38 -0800

Big-eyed kitsch art, paintings of waifs and sad eyes, pity kitty and pity puppy. Among this group of painters, Margaret Keane's story is quite interesting. For many years her ex-husband stole the credit for her paintings, she sued and won. Contemporary artists who include the big-eyed theme in their work: the amazing Mark Ryden. The hilarious [nsfw] and dark work of Colin and Sas Christian; Megan Besmirched and her Big Eyed Art Bonanza.