If any of you are not regularly reading Bartholomew's Notes on Religion, I highly recommend you begin doing so. In a comment on my post about the Jerusalem Prayer Team, he points to this post, which details the sheer lunacy that exists in the head of Mike Evans, leader of that group. He also has an interesting post up about Doug Giles and his ties to the insane Christian Reconstructionist movement, which I write about often.
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