The Proselytizers: Wall Street Executives and Televangelists
Goldman Sachs executives are sounding more and more like televangelists who say things like "We are doing the work of the ministry" and "Give and it shall be given unto you."
Goldman Sachs executives are sounding more and more like televangelists who say things like "We are doing the work of the ministry" and "Give and it shall be given unto you."
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 10.29.2009 | Comedy
In converting to Catholicism, you are really just switching over your "files" (ideas/customs/most profound expressions of faith) to your "Mac" (Catholic) "hard drive" (brain/immortal soul).
Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.02.2009 | Entertainment
"There's no simple answer to who John Lennon was. Sure, he was a great leader and a peacenik; on the other hand, he was an incredibly violent, narcissistic guy. That was the other side of him, and people just don't want to hear that."
Lauren Cahn | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
I tried to believe in nothing. And I failed.
eSarcasm | Posted 09.25.2009 | Comedy
"I figured, what the hell?" said the King of Kings in a statement issued this morning via a spokesangel. "I find many of the stories on that site divinely amusing."
Cynthia Boaz | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
I am not saying that Jesus was a Stalinist or even a communist, just that it's very clear from his teachings that he believed that people were happier and healthier when they shared with each other.
Dean Sluyter | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living
When the dream of self dissolves, we awake and see that the true church is wherever we are.
The Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
Mark Tapscott, the editorial page editor of the conservative Washington Examiner, has nothing but fire and brimstone for Joe Biden. In an op-ed last ...
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 06.14.2009 | World
No community today is so targeted by violent thugs for no reason other than sheer bigotry as are the Christians of Iraq.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media
Buchanan's support for Holocaust denialism is ever-present, ongoing, and -- as his John Demjanjuk piece indicates -- very strongly stated. Yet NBC has done diddly-poo in response.
Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
None of Buchanan's MSNBC colleagues have called him to task in the more than 10 days since his loathsome column appeared -- not Joe Scarborough, or Chris Matthews, or Andrea Mitchell.
Paul Raushenbush | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
These two opposing statements by Dick Cheney and Jesus Christ bring into sharp relief the contradictions of being a country that simultaneously lays claim to Judeo Christian values.
Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 05.13.2009 | World
Easter is upon us! Easter Week began this past weekend with Palm Sunday and culminates in weekend commemorations of Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Eas...
Tara Stiles | Posted 05.12.2009 | Living
So, I was up late the other night trying to wind down and I got sucked into watching the Discovery channel -- always an educational end to a long day....
Martha St Jean | Posted 05.11.2009 | Media
Using 140 characters or less is definitely a new way to tell the story of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Spencer Green | Posted 05.10.2009 | Comedy
It is the physical and symbolic focus of worship; it is worn by people as a reminder of their faith. And yet, let's face it, the cross does not have quite the same kick as it used to.
Paul Davids | Posted 04.26.2009 | Entertainment
Long before tech support was out-sourced to India, Christianity's founder may have gone there first.
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 04.23.2009 | Green
Wouldn't benevolent God be more likely to be like your mother or grandmother, than like most of our fathers? It's not that I am an avowed atheist, no...
Yahoo! News | Sarah Ktisti and Simon Bahceli | Posted 03.10.2009 | Living
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Sean Hartofilis | Posted 02.07.2009 | Entertainment
Those players from other clubs who'd always credited the Almighty for their successes seem uncertain about how to deal with Jesus as a Yankee, as he represents one third of the Holy Trinity.
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 01.25.2009 | Living
While maintaining a somewhat provocative edge, my holiday message provides a bit of humor, followed by compelling evidence on how the Catholic Church might have originated.
Anita Thompson | Posted 01.25.2009 | Living
While reading Barack Obama's The Audacity of Hope yesterday, I was reminded of the man (the third president) who distilled the teachings of Jesus Christ.
Steven Weber | Posted 01.19.2009 | Style
Christmas is the Dick Cheney of holidays -- it purports to be there for noble purposes but blatantly demonstrates wholly unholy ones.
Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 01.08.2009 | Living
Holiday compassion, which most of us value but seldom practice, is the opposite of holiday commercialism, which most of us practice but never value.
Larry Beinhart | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics
The most interesting, and perhaps the most important, moment in philosophy in the last decade occurred on October 28, 2008, in a hearing of the House ...
Judith Ellis | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business