Category: Faiths And Their Followers
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An Opportunity
To: The Council for American/Islamic Relations From: Mitch Berg, Crabby Peasant Re: Well, You Know Dear CAIR: For starters – condolences about last week’s shooting. It’s a horrible thing and proves that even the most placid parts of the First World can be awful, anarchic places. This should be a lesson for a lot of…
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The Real Problem With Ilhan Omar
Some of my conservative – and in some cases “conservative” – circle of acquaintances are exercised over Ilhan Omar’s Muslim faith. Some of the more hysterical believe she’s the vanguard of an invasion bringing “Sharia” law to the United States. In its time, the US has withstood attacks by the greatest empire the world has…
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The GOP Dumbass Bigot Caucus
GOP precinct in Texas is working on removing a high-ranking officer… … Because he’s Muslim : Republican leaders in one of the most populous counties in Texas want to remove a party vice chairman because he’s Muslim, according to emails between party leaders. The emails delivered anonymously to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram indicate the Tarrant County…
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Rena Moran And The Pro-Mutilation Lobby
In the last session, legislation that would have added penalties to parents for subjecting their daughters to “female circumcision” – more accurately called “genital mutilation” – passed by a near-unanimous margin in the House, but stalled in the Senate. The DFLers who opposed the bill carried out the wishes of the far-left “there are no…
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Logic Akbar
SCENE: Mitch BERG is browsing for saw chains at Menards’ in the Midway, when Fudd GLUNK, vice chair of the Ramsey County chapter of “Sharia is Coming! Sharia is Coming!”, walks around the corner. GLUNK: Merg! BERG: Er…hey, Fudd… GLUNK: Islam’s goal is to impose Sharia Law on all of us! BERG: [Looking as if…
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Get Woke, Go Empty
So if you have a church that softpedals the Jesus stuff to focus on social-justice scolding, you’re telling me people will take their spiritual quests elsewhere? Who’da thunk it? This article from the Strib doesn’t call out “social justice warfare masquerading as a church” directly. But…: The Mainline Protestant churches are emptying the fastest, according to…
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Epic Fail
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: This guy lacks the intellectual rigor to preach Christian morality. “If it feels good, do it” appears nowhere in the Gospels and that’s the basis of the abortion problem. If we encourage young people to have sex, some will get pregnant. If we make marriage optional and divorce a…
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Grab A Hammer
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: A Jew turned Christian turned Evangelical says Christians “sold” their principles in supporting Trump. Time to move beyond social battles and forsake the politics of hate, fear and violence. Time to embrace gun control. Time to be like Episcopalians. In other words, Never Trump. He’s not alone. Catholic bishops…
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Faith-Based
As I’ve pointed out in the past, few things annoy me more than the “people” who, when people respond with “thoughts and prayers” after some sort of tragedy or another, bellow “F**K YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS – WE’VE GOT TO DOOOOO SOMETHING!”, where “SOMETHING” invariably means “some emotion-driven knee-jerk response that will do nothing to deal with…
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Earthquake
Americans who are weary of Muslim excuses ask “so when will ‘moderate Muslims’ take a stand against the radicals?” Here you go; one of them is taking a stance against the radicals: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman invited Egypt’s Coptic Christians to visit Saudi Arabia after a rare meeting in Cairo’s main cathedral. Speaking to…
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Billy Graham
He may have been the greatest evangelist in history, claiming to have preached to over 200 million in person over the years. Billy Graham passed away yesterday at age 99. Like Charlton Heston, he broke a lot of Big Left’s narratives: In the 1960s, he ardently opposed segregation, refusing to speak to segregated audiences. “The…
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What’s The Fastest Way For An Obscure Republican To Get Famous Instantly?
Republicans aren’t much for celebrity. We don’t care much about them, and we tend not to be them. Even among ourselves. But if you are a Republican – and, redundant to say, obscure – there still are a few ways to become famous. The big one? Express any view that is grossly out of whack with…
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Oh Grouse All Ye Faithful
I left the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) a few years ago because of the relentless politicization of their services, But on Christmas even, I went back to a local PCUSA congregation for their Christmas Eve concert service; the church has a choir and chamber orchestra and they do a really really excellent musical service. Given…
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Virtue Preaching
The Methodists, like the Presbyterian Church in the USA that I grew up in (and, it’d seem much of American Catholicism to boot) is slowly spinning itself into an institution that observes a holy trinity; social justice the mother, political correctness the other mother, and virtue-signaling the spirit. Witness the United Methodists’ bishop, Dr, Karen…
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Nice Try, Snowflake
A guy named Richard Lindsay, a professed Christian writing on “Patheos” – a “progressive” Christian megablog – “renounces” his right to keep and bear arms: I hereby renounce my right to bear arms.I will not keep guns in my house, in my car, or on my person. I will not rely on guns for self-protection.…
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Appearances
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Somebody threw an improvised explosive from a moving van onto the lawn at a mosque in Minneapolis at 5:00 a.m. last Saturday. Blew out some windows, nobody injured. Governor Dayton is all over this ‘act of terrorism’ which is part of a massive upsurge in violence against Muslims nation-wide,…
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“Terrorism”
Earlier this week “Governor” Dayton declared the firebombing of a Bloomington mosque “terrorism” – notwithstanding the fact that no investigating agency has released any conclusions about motive. Which is a little strange, given that tis’ been five days, now. Make no mistake; there is a xenophobic minority in this state. Eventually, one of them could…
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Blast From The Past
Robert Fisk – the gassy far-left Brit columnist upon whose oeuvre the term “fisk” was launched – is back with a bit of virtue-signaling… …that actually has a point, although I’m not sure Fisk knows it. The headline – “When you watch Dunkirk, remember that it’s a whitewashed version which ignores the bravery of black and Muslim…
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Numbours
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Canadian Mormon convicted of polygamy, faces 5 years in prison. Isn’t having 25 wives punishment enough? It’s Canada, so American law doesn’t apply; but I wonder how this case would come out using the principles of law explained by Justice Kennedy in the gay marriage decision, Obergefell v.…
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People Ask Me…
“…why did you leave the Presbyterian Church of the USA?” And I reply “I didn’t. It left me“.
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Dhim And Dhimmer
SCENE: Mitch BERG is pumping gas at the corner Superamerica when Polly LITTELL – proprietor of the Facebook page “Makeng Minnessota GRAET AGEN” page, pulls up to the next pump. LITTELL: Merg! BERG: Oh, hey, Pollly. (Eyes the meter on the pump, shakes the handle in a futile effort to get it to pump faster).…
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The Religion Of Environmentalism And Health Insurance (UPDATE: Ooops)
The fact that Ben Carson got mocked in the media, while Maxine Waters isn’t considered a national laughinstock, will be prime evidence when we finally have Nuremberg-style tribunals about media bias: And yet she’s taken seriously. UPDATE: Ooops. Parody account. I plead “long day at Grand Old Day”. To be fair, the measure of great…
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The Ark
I saw this story a few years ago, and put it aside until today – the fortieth anniversary of the dedication of the more unusual Catholic churches in the world, Kosciol Arka Pana in Novy Huta, Poland. Which is interesting in and of itself; Nowy Huta is a district in Krakow that was built as a “Socialist…
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More Or Lesch
First, the good news: Rep. Mary Franson has introduced a bill that would expose parents who subject their children to ritual genital mutilation to felony charges and potential loss of custody. It’s currently illegal for a doctor to perform the procedure; if passed into law, Franson’s bill would spread the onus to the parents. This is a good thing –…
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Unwarranted Sanctimony
The Evanglical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), aka “Unitarians with Lutefisk” (Keillor said it, not me!), are the far-left-leaning wing of American Lutheranism. The people who gave us “ELCA hair” are headquartered in Minneaopolis, and often seem to spend more time on politics than faith; among certain ELCA circles, “faith” seems to be little but…