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Killing gays may not be helpful

Posted January 16, 2010 by Jacques Rousseau

It’s worth reading this story on NPR to see the extent to which American Evangelical Christians are prepared to foment hatred and prejudice in order to buttress their support bases in the 3rd World – after all, surely all those folk in Africa will one day be able to afford to buy their sermons on DVD?

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Beware the evangelicals

Posted December 14, 2009 by Jacques Rousseau

How can we not caricature religious beliefs, when the only religious pronouncements that reach the public media sound like bad attempts at satire?

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