Religion Dispatches
From handing Paul Ryan a marked-up Bible, to a “must-see” video challenging conservative embrace of both Ayn Rand and Jesus, efforts to turn the Republican Party’s ostentatious religious posture against it miss the point.
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Twilight wars in the Middle East, Japan’s nuclear catastrophe, Deepwater Horizon, worldwide crop failures, massive die-offs of long-established species: it’s all so very scary.
Read MoreA “Judeo-Christian” nation should know that screwing workers is totally abhorrent to the God of the bible.
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Rejecting forty-three years of legal precedent the court voted 5-4 to devote public money to religious institutions. Justice Kennedy wins the 2011 Tortured Judicial Casuistry Award for his remarks.
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At this moment the embattled US labor movement urgently needs strong community-based allies and much greater moral legitimation, yet broad-based strategic and moral support from the religious side has been slow to materialize.
Read MoreAnd the violent bear it away.
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The truth is that the administration simply caved before the still potent specter of so-called “Death Panels”—a specter created last year by the likes of Sarah Palin, John Boehner, and other disingenuous opponents of health care reform. Let’s just say that in this new year, Team Obama is worried to death (pardon the expression) about defending its signature health care law from further assaults from the newly-emboldened Republicans.
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Just about all of the issues that we religious folk insist we really care about—issues like world poverty and hunger, resource wars and environmental degradation, human trafficking, widening domestic inequality, shrinking access to quality higher education, declining on-time graduation rates for low-income students and students of color, urban neighborhood blight, stress-related health problems, declining family life and domestic violence—are directly related to systemic debt oppression.
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There is nothing small-bore or contemptible about a novel that explores the wonder and heartbreak of romantic love against the distant thunder of imperial warfare.
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The 25th anniversary of the Jesus Seminar is a good time to ask if it makes a difference when the Jesus of history turns out to be considerably more interesting than the myth-encrusted Christ created by the church over the centuries.
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