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As Far-Right Surges in US and Germany Debate Rages Over Disqualification of Those Who Would Destroy Democracy

…me-right party known as Die Heimat, finding that it ‘shows disdain for the free democratic basic order.’ In Germany, the hurdles for banning someone from the ballot, or prohibiting a whole party, are high—but due to the country’s genocidal past and the current surge in right-wing extremism (the AfD is leading the polls in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg), demands to use whatever tools the constitution holds to stop the ascent of fascism have bee…

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Just Like January 6, One of the Most Disturbing Aspects of the Right-Wing Coup Attempt in Germany is Who Was Behind It

…e website staatenlos.info mentions ‘Nuremberg 2.0’ as a necessary step ‘in freeing Germany and Europe from fascism and Nazism via the establishment of the SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force) and SMAD (Sowjetische Militäradministration in Deutschland) courts of law with international law enforcement for all Nazi- and war criminals by the Allied High Commission.’ By fascism and nazism, staatenlos.info is referring to the Federal…

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Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

…implemented satyagraha, was not comparable to the situation of the Jews in Germany. What was happening in Germany was much more severe and on a much larger scale. Most importantly, the Jews in Germany had no power over the reactions of their enemies. The Nazis, Buber argued, were radically different from the rulers of South Africa and India. They had explicitly rejected conventional morality and preached a gospel of violence. Indians, in both Sout…

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Driscollpalooza Time… Must Be Book Promo Time

…ownright bizarre things “Cussing Pastor” Mark Driscoll says, usually while promoting a new book, as well as the ensuing negative publicity and essays critical of Mark Driscoll, which somehow increase the popularity of Mark Driscoll’s new book.  Mark Driscoll has a new book coming out, and with suspiciously good timing, he’s managed to initiate back to back controversies. First, he showed up at John MacArthur’s “Strange Fire” conference uninvited a…

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First Draft Of History Today Could Be Fox News Promo Tomorrow

…rica’s past. The organization, which champions faith and defends religious freedom, sent a letter to top publishing companies. Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy, president of Interfaith Alliance, said: The Texas SBOE members certainly are entitled to believe whatever they want about our country and its history. The problem arises when their religious beliefs begin to essentially rewrite history for our children.  Separation of church and state was a core t…

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You Can Take The Boy Out of the Crack House: MyPillow CEO’s New Book Promo Has Deep Roots in American Christianity

…It might as well be as old as Moses, given what a commonplace it is for right-wing Christians. The rest of it is a chestnut of its own. We ought to just be grateful that Lindell isn’t enforcing coronavirus rectitude with a hatchet. (Carrie Nation was also an unabashed self-promoter, by the way.) It’s a strand that goes back to Wesleyan perfectionism and Calvinist propriety, some of the deepest roots of American religion. It may look like faith se…

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Holocaust Humor and The ‘Real’ Germany — As Top Officials Shatter Post-WWII Taboos, German Conservatives Follow GOP Playbook and Charge Ahead

…nicated who belongs to Germany for him and who does not: “Kreuzberg is not Germany. Gillamoos is Germany, ladies and gentlemen.” Kreuzberg is a multicultural, artsy, Left-leaning district of Berlin, whose supposed degeneracy Merz juxtaposes with the wholesome homeyness and patriotism of White, rural Bavarian Gillamoos. Decent, hard-working White country folk, cast as a bulwark of patriotism against the bogeyman image of the debauched, degenerate c…

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How Postwar Germany’s Witchcraft Trials Can Help Us Understand QAnon And Other Conspiracy Theories

…ts in it, widespread mistrust may make accusations more likely. Early West Germany was an uncanny place. A haunted place. A place beset by alienation and secrecy. Alexander Mitscherlich, a psychiatrist who would become one of the Federal Republic’s most prominent and respected critics, described the atmosphere in terms of a “chill” that he said had “befallen the relationships of men among one another.” This chill was “on a cosmic scale,” Mitscherl…

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Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

…f “monks beating gay visitors and nat dancers” at the festival. France and Germany: Why anti-LGBT voices are ‘louder in secular France than in pious Germany’ In a column by “Erasmus”—a regular feature described by the Economist as “notes on the interplay between religion and policy, in the spirit of the Dutch Renaissance humanist and scholar—the magazine observes, “Conservatives speak louder in secular France than in pious Germany.” Some excerpts:…

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Ross Douthat on the Brink

…des. Perhaps, just to be safe, we should kick out all Catholic clergy from Germany, or eject the Catholic Church entirely from any place where it functions. To do otherwise would be “reckless.” If you think that language is offensive, consider that at least I am targeting a religious institution, which can bear responsibility for the actions of its employees. Douthat proposes not just “closing Germany’s borders to new arrivals for the time being,”…

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