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...mass movement. They formed as a response to the Rev. Fred Phelps, an attention-crazed fanatic based in Topeka, Kans., who has logged 15 years as a kind of paleo-fundamentalist, gay-baiting performance artist. Last spring Phelps grabbed the already troubling line, taken by preachers such as Pat Robertson, that disasters like 9/11 were God's punishment for American sins, and spun it past the boundary of the outrageous by having his followers crash military funerals with signs like GOD LOVES IEDS (improvised explosive devices) and scream to grieving parents that their children were in hell as divine punishment...
...thought immediately of Mae West’s riposte that “goodness had nothing to do with it.” If Caldwell feels that Christianity is dismissed at Harvard, she might take note of who have become its most visible advocates: Fred Phelps, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Ralph Reed. None are known for promoting Christ’s messages of love, tolerance, and generosity. Care for the poor, the sick, the sinner, and the prisoner is absent from today’s Christianity. The Catholic Church in which I was baptized has spent...
...growing up, I was so proud to see the Technicolor logo on the screen. And today when I see my daughter's name in the credits, I am just as proud. I don't understand Hollywood's reluctance to go digital. Perhaps younger producers will embrace Lucas' vision. Diana Robertson Laguna Niguel, California...
...growing up, I was so proud to see the Technicolor logo on the screen. And today when I see my daughter's name in the credits, I am just as proud. I don't understand Hollywood's reluctance to go digital. Perhaps younger producers will embrace Lucas' vision. Diana Robertson Laguna Niguel, California, U.S. Your headline asked, "Can this man save the movies? (Again?)," and I would say no. Not that Lucas isn't capable of doing almost anything with the art form, but very few people in a theater care about the process that was used to shoot...
...professors argue that the "Israel Lobby"—a "loose coalition of individuals and organizations" including national Jewish leaders, Christian evangelicals like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, Republican congressmen, and columnists for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post—has pushed the U.S. to adopt excessively pro-Israel stances...