Religion Dispatches
…decades-of-progress/. [91] Anthea Butler, remarks at Stop the Coup 2025 Town Hall, December 17, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWo9hMYUU98 at 17 minutes. [92] Butler, Stop the Coup remarks….
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…mocratic Republic of Congo). Robertson had befriended Zairian strongman Mobutu Sese Seku and pled on the 700 Club for the United States to lift sanctions on his murderous regime. Zimbabwe as “Christian Nation” Together with the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe, the African Centre for Law and Justice is working to garner the support of religious leaders and activists for constitutional provisions that would “affirm that Zimbabwe is a predominantl…
Read More…o this proposition—further government encroachment on personal lives, ambiguously written text—it is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the proposition on many of our employees that brings Google to publicly oppose Proposition 8. While we respect the strongly-held beliefs that people have on both sides of this argument, we see this fundamentally as an issue of equality. We hope that California voters will vote no on Proposition 8—we should…
Read More…n Japan, let’s acknowledge God’s signs. Turn to HIM and pray. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAGYqrANnAw http://www.gamespot.com/forums/topic/27876648/could-the-japan-earthquake-be-gods-punish-for-them-killing-whales?page=0 Tinasongbird73 Prayers up 4 the people in japan who’ve experience great loss & heartache frm the earthquakes & Tsunami. God is trying 2tell us something! smitefulsinner RT @rachydivanerd: Re: Japan: the 1st person to say tha…
Read More…ote. ‘It is with pride in our many accomplishments and confidence in Xe’s future that I announce my resignation as the company’s chief executive officer.’” The company’s re-branding efforts extended to its subsidiaries as well. According to SourceWatch, a project of the Center for Media and Democracy, pointed out that Blackwater Airships is now Guardian Flight Systems, Blackwater Target Systems is GSD Manufacturing, and Blackwater Lodge and Traini…
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…civilians to bring guns and supplies to the Wildlife Refuge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl5rkosu2Ig&feature=youtu.be&t=4m43s #NotAllMormons? The Bundys and some of their followers are Mormons, including a “Captain Moroni” (recalling, as Jana Riess reminds us, the “military stud muffin of the Book of Mormon”). The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has officially condemned their efforts while maintaining that the standoff is “not a Ch…
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…in recent years, it’s become widely commodified and commercialized, trap culture has often signified a lifestyle of drug dealing, gangbanging, street violence and the feeling of hopelessness that can pervade all these things. https://www.instagram.com/p/BV5tHoUBKk2/?taken-by=prettygirlsliketrapmusic “We can’t forget there are real-life experiences that inform trap music, and it’s daily living for a lot people. Many of us consume trap music as ent…
Read More…iscussion hostage because the “rest of us have s**t to do.” And that we should just step up and “take it down a notch for America.” The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Rally to Restore Sanity www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party Not to be outdone, Stephen Colbert appeared from the wings announcing his own competing rally: “The March to Keep Fear Alive.” For his part Colbert promises to “restor…
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…ious freedom and the theocratic society they envision are almost entirely mutually exclusive ideas. So they have had to be smart about it. “We must use the doctrine of religious liberty,” Dominionist theorist Gary North declared in 1982, “to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they…
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…were spending in daily prayers. He then overlaid that with graphs showing cultural decline in order to ostensibly demonstrate the effect of the Supreme Court rulings that removed school-sponsored prayer from the classroom: “Envision a hypothetical machine which can tabulate the annual volume of the prayers being offered. For years it has recorded great numbers of prayers. But suddenly in 1961-63, the index tumbled; millions of prayers were no long…
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