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Religious Right Historian: Net Neutrality is “Unbiblical Socialism”

…how yesterday David Barton and sidekick Rick Green claimed that FCC-supported net neutrality legislation which, as PFAW put it, “ensures that Internet service providers can’t charge higher rates for faster delivery of content,” violates biblical principles of free market, and that they are “socialist.”   It’s easy to dismiss that charge as nothing more than demagoguery, but in fact, the discussion gives us insight into what they (and the tea parti…

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

…free to live as his Creator ordained—to flourish. Our Constitution grants each of us the liberty to do not what we want, but what we ought.”[59] Project 2025’s agenda also reflects the MAGA movement’s obsession with critical race theory[60] and its framing of public and private efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion as illegal discrimination against White men. It calls for a prohibition on collecting data on racial classifications an…

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When Religion Becomes a Trap Rather Than a Safety Net

…ho insists everyone pray six or seven times a day and get out of bed early each morning for an hour of scripture reading. His wife, for her part, is beyond disappointed to find herself married to a man who cheats on her, uses his job as a traveling salesman to escape his obligations to his children, and rarely sends money home. During Jerry’s rare visits home, the parents’ fights are so destructive that Ricks and her sisters “often locked ourselve…

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Lo and Behold, the Sacredness of the Internet

…tech speculation into theological assertion. Herzog arrived at this religion-inflected point of view from his own longstanding sensibility: anyone who knows this auteur’s body of work will recognize the connections between Lo and Behold and his earlier films. We can reach all the way back to Fata Morgana (1971) to see Herzog’s insistence on finding or creating new myths for our time. In Lo and Behold this approach easily allows Herzog to escape t…

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The “Southern Cage”: How the Myth of the Redemptive Depression Keeps Blacks at the Margins

…Deal, even claimed it as a religious accomplishment modeled on the social teachings of the churches. You note that, initially, many Southern clergy judged the Depression to be a religious problem with religious solutions—prayer, repentance, revival. They often claimed that the government “dole” posed a more serious threat than poverty. What changed their minds? They changed their minds for a few reasons: people needed help and churches couldn’t pr…

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Single, But Married To Jesus

…ople suffer from unemployment, angst, and anger. Now that I got that off my chest, can I and all the rest of black women who don’t care or want to be married get some peace. Sheesh! The only white I want to wear in the immediate future is my Philadelphia Eagles football jersey….

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Fix the Economy GOD’$ WAY: Dave Ramsey’s Great Christian Recovery

…ernment can’t fix this economy. It’ll be restored one family at a time, as each of us takes a stand to return to God and grandma’s way of handling money. —from Dave Ramsey’s The Great Recovery website The Great Recovery for an economy stalled with lingering high unemployment and stagnant income growth starts with acknowledging the Great Mistake of the New Deal, Christian megastar financial advisor Dave Ramsey told a rapt audience last Thursday eve…

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Can I Get Some Birth Control Pills With That Slushie?: Unpacking the Contraceptive Mandate Rollback

…es. The loss of the birth control mandate would put contraceptives out of reach for many of them. Those who are already living on the margins socio-economically and are barely scraping by will end up having to choose between their birth control or having enough for rent or electricity or food. And with the current administration so hellbent on stripping away even more of our country’s threadbare safety net, the choices marginalized groups will hav…

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Paul Ryan Is Like Jesus, But It’s Not What You Think

…scholars took Ryan to the woodshed for his abandonment of Catholic social teaching in favor of the teaching of Ayn Rand. They argued that America was at a “tipping point where the traditional commitment of our government to protecting and advancing the common good is in very real danger of being dismantled for generations.” They accused Ryan’s defenders, who claimed his economic views were in line with his Catholicism, of going “beyond highlightin…

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After Roe: 3 Troubling Trends from the ‘Compassionate’ Anti-Abortion Crowd

…has stepped into this morass. Unlike my classmates, these more sophisticated activists hope to salvage some civility from the shitstorm they helped to create. Readers may have already come across op-eds or expert panels calling on the anti-abortion movement to shift its focus from pressuring the Supreme Court to building some kind of abortion-free utopia, where people with unintended pregnancies find the support they need to carry the baby to ter…

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