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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

…of how much credibility you have with the base.”[25] Vought calls for the abandonment of a democratic norm that has long been embraced on a bipartisan basis that Department of Justice (DOJ) decision-making regarding investigations and prosecutions should be shielded from political pressure by the White House. In his first term, Trump unsuccessfully pressured DOJ officials to investigate his political opponents and back his efforts to stay in powe…

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10 Pro-LGBT #ChristiansVote Tweets From Anti-Gay, Pro-Trump Hashtag Hijack

…t, and loving, despite the vitriol that surrounds us. 1)   https://twitter.com/UAB_Shoob/status/793573502251044864 2) https://twitter.com/maco_nix/status/794174938475352064 3) https://twitter.com/LizWelchLive/status/794147976918642691 4) https://twitter.com/revdrjanet/status/795034285174620160   5) https://twitter.com/umjeremy/status/793906267274125312 6) https://twitter.com/leahrullman/status/795360690307530752 7) https://twitter.com/EvelynShoop/…

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Trump Admin Grant to ‘Hookers for Jesus’ Ignites Twitter Firestorm Over Taxpayer Funded Religious Coercion

…nding in favor of two less established groups whose applications were not recommended by career DOJ officials. The groups in question, the Nevada-based Hookers for Jesus, and the South Carolina-based Lincoln Tubman Foundation, had their grants pushed through by Katharine Sullivan, head of the Orwellianly named Office of Justice Programs, against the formal recommendations of career Justice Department officials which had been made based on the repo…

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11 Election Tweets to Amuse, Infuriate, Enlighten, and Amuse You

…de facto town square over the past 72 hours or so. *** 1. Anyone who watched election night coverage on a major network will recognize this Adderall-fueled song and dance: “…Nickajack Farms, everyone knows that Nickajack Farms has always been carried Trump, ever since 1884…” https://twitter.com/michaelkosta/status/1324202677979516929 2. This ones speaks for itself. (Or, strictly speaking, for God): https://twitter.com/evandeneykel/status/13244379…

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The 11 Best #RealClergyBios Tweets

…non-white pastor—dealing with daily microaggressions. RD spoke to Indiana-based Presbyterian minister Mihee Kim-Kort, who launched #realclergybios as an offshoot of #realacademicbios, to get the story behind the hashtag. Scroll down for the 11 most insightful—or just plain cheeky—tweets. What pushed you to start #RealClergyBios? Clergy constantly seem to have these perfect bios on Twitter and elsewhere, but if we dig a little deeper into their li…

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Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

…payers from having to fund abortions overseas,” and another that would “probably overturn Bush’s prohibition against new embryonic stem-cell research.” In addition, “Obama is also likely to seek to strengthen a Bill Clinton executive order (EO 13166) that discourages English-only policies in federal programs.” “Transition Team Leader John Podesta Is Former Radical Clintonoid Operative,” provides details about John Podesta, the head of the transiti…

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Encyclileaks: Was the ‘Laudato Si’ Leak a Sin or Just a Scoop?

…orward to a sleepless night of encyclical reading followed by the bleary-eyed composition of hot takes and appearances on talk shows and radio on the morning of June 18, when the Vatican officially released it to the world. Then something weird happened: the encyclical leaked three days early. The journalist who wrote an introduction to the leaked draft in the Italian magazine L’Espresso, Sandro Magister, quickly was stripped of his Vatican press…

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“I Can’t Defend My People”: Opting Out of Evangelicalism, Post-Election

…r and author Skye Jethani expressed on his website: Look at what you have become—little more than a political identity with a pinch of impotent cultural Christianity. You’ve become a category for pollsters rather than pastors, a word of exclusion rather than embrace…What was admirable about your name has been buried, crushed under the weight of 60 million votes. I am no less committed to Christ, his gospel, and his church, but I can no longer be c…

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Evangelical Prof’s ‘Biblical Comma’ Tweet Exposes Paradox of ‘Respectable’ Evangelical Anti-Intellectualism

…iage, family, and the nation. For him, the Bible is scary if it offers permeable categories and ambiguity. Of course, reality is full of permeable categories and ambiguity, and authoritarian movements—whether religious, overtly political, or, as is frequently the case, both—are driven to keep that complexity at bay. What Onishi calls Strachan’s “theology of fear” is a powerful weapon in the Christian Right’s battle to uphold white supremacist patr…

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Is Proselytizing Ever Okay? Are We All Proselytizing All The Time?

…oversial outside the church is apparently immaterial to Kristian, and I probably couldn’t come up with a more obvious example of unexamined Christian privilege if I tried. I’ll also just note in passing that justifying a practice on the basis of its being “very old”—the appeal to tradition—is a logical fallacy. The cruel practice of slavery is “very old,” but very few people are willing to openly argue for its validity today. In any case, the occa…

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