Republican Jesus Invites You to Read the Constitution
Speaking of great art (and blasphemy), you simply cannot top this: This is One Nation Under God by Jon McNaughton, who is the Luke Skywalker to Thomas Kinkade’s Darth Vader. Most of what you need to know about this masterpiece is made plain when you see that one of the “positive” characters is holding Cleon [...]
Tags: Americanism, art, Christianism, constitution, Jesus, Kinkade, kitsch, Republicans, Skousen
In the Name of Jesus I Waterboard Thee
May 25, 2009 politics
How’s this for some cheery Memorial Day reading? Some true believer sez: “It’s likely even Jesus would have OK’d water boarding if it would have saved his Mom. He would’ve done the same to save his Dad, or any one of His disciples. For that matter, He even died to save all humans. It’s obvious [...]
Tags: Bush, GOP, Jesus, pacifism, Rumsfeld, torture, war, waterboarding
Terrorists and Torture
May 7, 2009 politics, theology
Give Me Liberty is an underground student newspaper here at Cedarville University designed to give voice to, apparently, the extremely marginalized conservative voice. It’s an outlet for Republicans & Libertarians to join forces and decry the U.S.A.’s obvious devolution into the U.S.S.R. (this was seriously an article). Also in this April edition, there was an article [...]
Tags: beatitudes, Cedarville, Iraq, Jesus, non-violence, pacifism, Sermon on the Mount, torture, war
Constantine’s Sword
Last night I watched Constantine’s Sword, based off the James Carroll book of the same name from seven years ago. It chronicles Christianity’s role in perpetuating antisemitism and our disgraceful ties to violent regimes. The story and critique is mostly clear-eyed, and powerful when it takes a personal bent (Carroll has led a very interesting [...]
Tags: antisemitism, Auschwitz, Dresden, Goethe, Hiroshima, Jesus, militarism, Nagasaki, Nazism, peace, terrorism, war
Say Hello to Republican Jesus
By the way, if you’re sick of the torrent of lies and obfuscations from the McCain-Palin camp, here’s an article on the real case against Obama: The Obama Craze: Count Me Out by Matt Gonzalez, vice presidential candidate for Ralph Nader.
An Open Letter to Christian Troops
Sep 18, 2008 politics, theology
An Open Letter to Christian US Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan: Who and Whose are you? An ex-Army elite powerfully describes why our culture of violence and revenge is diametrically opposed to the radical message of Jesus. Loving the enemy neutralizes the category of enemy.Unfortunately, even with phalanxes of chaplains ready to distort and press [...]
The Gospel from Outer Space
Jun 17, 2008 hitchhiking, personal, reading, theology
Back to our regularly scheduled programming. Here’s an excerpt from Slaughterhouse-Five by the inimitable Kurt Vonnegut: …The visitor from outer space made a serious study of Christianity, to learn, if he could, why Christians found it so easy to be cruel. He concluded that at least part of the trouble was slipshod storytelling in the [...]
All Your Art Are Belong To Us
I went to Oberlin’s Allen Memorial Art Museum today, ostensibly to see Chris Jordan but mostly just because I’m a nerd.
Tags: art, Chris Jordan, Jesus, photos
Derrida-Claiborne-Jesus redux
Feb 10, 2008 philosophy, politics
I want to talk a little bit about my Derrida-Claiborne-Jesus essay. Over the last week I’ve kept thinking about a quote from Jean-Luc Marion that says “Theology renders its author hypocritical… One must obtain forgiveness for every essay in theology.” I take that seriously, and so it’s with fear and trembling that I’ve submitted it [...]
Tags: Cedars, Claiborne, deconstruction, Derrida, James K.A. Smith, Jesus, pacifism, war
Derrida via Claiborne
Feb 5, 2008 personal, philosophy, politics, reading
Like many students, I was saddened to learn on January 30th that Shane Claiborne’s expected campus event had been canceled. In one sense it was simply disappointing that we missed an opportunity to listen and dialogue with Claiborne in person. More importantly, the incident was disappointing in what it revealed about the “forces for status [...]
Tags: Cedars, Claiborne, deconstruction, Derrida, hospitality, James K.A. Smith, Jesus, justice, pacifism, poverty, violence, war
Theological outlaws
Oct 9, 2007 personal, philosophy
If postmodernism is a disposition (and a dis/position), it is a disposition that is more instinctively comfortable for some than others. I want to give a picture for the former, but perhaps it is a picture that’s inviting – an invitation to join the “we” mentioned in the forthcoming passage. It’s a passage by Gavin [...]
Tags: deconstruction, Derrida, Jesus, metanarratives, nihilism, postmodernism
American Pants Party
Sep 20, 2004 movies
Our Earth Today – real time statistics In other news, I would like to extend to you an invitation to the pants party. I don’t think I mentioned I saw American Movie again for the first time in a long while. “It’s alright. It’s ok. There’s something to live for. Jesus told me so.”
Tags: American Movie, Anchorman, Jesus
Jesus Photo Mosaic
Feb 28, 2004 images
To the left is a photo mosaic of Jesus made up of Dead Sea Scrolls. Actually all the images on Photo Mosaic are worth checking out. As mentioned previously, here are The Passion jewelry, including nails. Oh, and how’d you like this for your living room? (all three of the above via growabrain)
Tags: Dead Sea scrolls, Jesus, mosaic