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The Bible Says… and Other Myths About Scripture

…o more demotic forms such as the red-letter King James pocket Bible or the dizzying bric-a-brac of the 66-volume Kitto Bible, Ferrell never fails to communicate her contagious delight in the written word. But she is more than a reader of tremendous subtlety and sensitivity, more than a mere bibliophile, and far more than a writer capable of uncanny lyricism herself. She is an historian, first and last. The central contention of The Bible and the P…

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What Penis Theft Tells Us About Belief, Culture, and Our Brains

…schools a lot. It happened once in Belgium in 1999. People got headaches, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and trembling, and they thought it was from drinking Coca-Cola. It spread to five other schools and 147 students total. There were 943 calls to the poison center. It ended up costing Coca-Cola somewhere between $100 to $250 million dollars to try to deal with it. Wow. There’s a fantastic book called Outbreak, edited by R…

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The Resurgence of Right-Wing Anti-Semitic Conspiracism Endangers All Justice Movements

…to offer a meta-explanation: It’s the Jews. Of course, these theories are dizzyingly incoherent. George Soros is a supporter of capitalism and liberal democracy, not socialism, and he is certainly not orchestrating either the migrant caravan, Black Lives Matter, Democratic congressional campaigns, or protests against the Brett Kavanaugh nomination; Frankfurt School theorists have little influence outside of humanities departments; and Jews do not…

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The Zeitgeist Debate

…l Zeitgeist Day last year, writing that the movement “provides a wealth of dizzying information detailing why a new global system is not only preferred, but necessary, and just how we can get there.” (Dizzying indeed.) About the Zeitgeist films’ arguments about currency, Donovan continued, “While many people may find it hard to digest the idea of a world without currency, [Zeitgeist founder Peter] Joseph’s argument that our economic system is the…

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The Best Books Media of 2008

…s called “The Art Seminar” (Routledge; edited with David Morgan) revolves, dizzyingly, around the connections between religion and art. Enemies? Friends? A cadaver replaced by a vampire? As with each series’ volume, the book centers upon a literal seminar conversation among nine participants, in this case on April 17, 2007. They’ve each read the five short “starting point” essays, they talk for the record, and then 29 more people contribute “asses…

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Hajj Journal: Tawaf: How I Fell in Love…

…st SPIN out of control—around and around like a mad dervish, until you are dizzy, drunk with the joy and ecstasy of it. If you have plans to make hajj, I strongly recommend that you plan for hajj tamattu’ in such a way as to arrive in Makkah as close to the new moon as possible for the Zhul-Hijjah, or 12th lunar month. This is approximately one week before the hajj begins on the 8th day. When you first see the Ka’abah, you are supposed to say cert…

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Pope Warns of “Christianophobia”

…at it was. And now the Pope’s reflections took a truly stunning turn. In a dizzying rhetorical flourish, the image of a victimizing Church hierarchy morphs into that of a victimized Christian community over which this Pope stands as shepherd. When the Supreme Pontiff turns his gaze away from long-suffering EuroAmerica, and focuses his gaze on the Middle East instead, a very different picture comes into view. In a year where religious tolerance and…

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AFA: Native Americans Lost their Land for Not Being Christians

…k only brought up a blank page for me. This is a wonderland of bigotry and dizzy logic. Even ignoring the long and tangled web of Native Americans and Christianity—including the conversion of some tribes later removed in the Trail of Tears—how is it, exactly, that a lack of Christian belief translates into justification for deportation, oppression, and forced assimilation? For example: Regarding what he described as the “sexual immorality” of Amer…

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The Social Science Animal: Brooks Argues for Emotion over Reason

…kes his analysis inspiring; though it’s also a bit confusing, perhaps even dizzying. In his New York Times review, philosopher Thomas Nagel chides Brooks for believing and endorsing any old piece of data presented by a cognitive scientist, “however idiotic.” And, so, it seems important (to me) to underscore the extent to which Brooks is echoing and imitating the destiny-shaping ambitions of old school humanists like Rousseau. Indeed, a related art…

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Mr. President, Your Papers Please: The Birther Inquisition

…ten involved torture and death. So the half-hidden logic runs through four dizzying and dismaying steps: 1. Pressure to convert (you need to become more like us) 2. Anxiety about that conversion (I’m not sure you can be like us) 3. Inquisition (I suspect you still are not like us, and probably do not like us) 4. Death (you are not like us because we are still alive, and now we are sure that you do not like us). And thus the real desire hidden with…

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