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Pastafarian Rights, Israeli Rosa Parks, Orthodox
Jewish P.I.

By Michael J. Altman

…is Pastafarianism. The Church of England may sell its $6 million share in the scandalized News Corp. Controversy continues to surround a south Indian temple and its billions in hidden treasure. In the U.S., second-generation Indian Americans are working to Americanize Hinduism. The Hill Cumorah Pageant wraps up this weekend in New York. The festival takes place on the site where Mormon founder Joseph Smith discovered the golden plates that became…

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Unemployed from being a Burden to
the Rich

By Lauri Lebo

…nd Mike Argento, a columnist at my former newspaper the York Daily Record, offers up a modest proposal about what to do with all those unemployed folks who have been such a bummer to lawmakers, who would rather be focused on more important matters, like giving tax cuts to the rich. Actually, Argento credits a Pennsylvania state lawmaker, Republican Rep. Scott Perry, with coming up with the idea, even though Perry doesn’t know it. Perry recently sp…

Paul Ryan’s Bible, Jim Wallis’, Or None of the Above?

By Sarah Posner

…. He’s obsessed with Harry Bridges, the great union organizer. One night in 1935, after the great strike of 1934, Vereide says God gave him a vision that Christianity has spent 2,000 years looking in the wrong direction. SP: Helping the poor, you mean? JS: Yes. The down and out, the suffering, the weak, and the poor. God doesn’t want to have soup kitchens or social welfare programs, God doesn’t like what FDR is doing. What about the up-and-out? Do…

Melissa Harris-Perry: LGBT Advocates Need Public Progressive Faith

By Peter Montgomery

…to their promised land in Utah, graduated from Brigham Young University in 1964, having spent most of her time there, Harris-Perry says, writing articles about Mormon womanhood. Meanwhile, her father, whose great-great-grandmother was sold as a slave on a street corner in Richmond, Virginia, attended Howard University where he was “converted to Black nationalism” and shared a room with Stokely Carmichael. By the time her mother and father met in…

Devil’s Bookmark: Sex and Drugs and Hating God

By Bernard Schweizer

…uered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God.” Next, Satan offers the quintessential anarchist advice to those seeking revolution: “We were conquered because we failed to understand that Victory is a Spirit, and that it is in ourselves and in ourselves alone that we must attack and destroy Ialdaboath.” One can substitute “the bourgeoisie” or “capitalist hegemony” for “Ialdabaoth” and still get the same anarchist idealism; i.e. that…

Why 9/11 Changed Everything Nothing

By Paul Harvey

…gregated camp and ceremony knew what meaning war gave them in the reunited American republic. Narratives of destruction which fascinated Americans during the war itself had turned to parables of triumph. But it was a particular form of triumph that allowed the heroes of Gettysburg, North and South, to cry together, USA! USA! Americans cried that together during the great national reconciliation of the Spanish-American War, when, as the press widel…

Progressive Christian: Wallis “No Longer Speaks for Us”

By Sarah Posner

…le, I personally know that 17 of them are very LGBT affirming. Out of those 17, NONE have spoken up to defend the LGBT community in opposition to Sojourners and Jim Wallis since this gaff happened. UPDATE #8: On its Facebook page, the Beatitudes Society writes: In the spirit of Jesus who invited ALL God’s Children to the banquet, please join with our colleagues at Believe Out Loud and join the Million Christians for LGBT equality. And let’s invite…

Marxism, the Opium of the Professoriate?

By Theo Hobson

…itical viewpoint. But in a sense ‘critical’ is too weak, too cold: Marxism offers a passionately critical stance. Anything less than Marxism is complacent about the injustice of inequality. The conventional wisdom is not free-market fundamentalism, but a belief that the market can be tamed, made to serve the common good. It wants wealth to spread, but it lacks urgency, passion; it trusts that the status quo is gradually delivering progress. (What…

Pawlenty, Romney Won’t Sign FAMiLY LEADER Pledge

By Sarah Posner

…ion by evil anti-Christian forces; she fights for the “freedom that Christ offers;” and worries that what she believes is “socialism” could “sink civilization.” She speaks the language of Christian rightists of “secular humanism” (and its attendant evils public schools and the like) being on a collision course with righteous, red-blooded American Christianity. She’s on a mission from God; Pawlenty just wants you to know that he likes God a whole l…

U.S. Envoy Minimizes Mounting Evidence of Mass Graves in Sudan

By Frederick Clarkson

…rights activists, Sudanese diaspora, and genocide scholars, for “limited” American military intervention “to destroy carefully selected military assets of the government of Sudan.” In so doing, the coalition invoked the UN doctrine of “Responsibility to Protect” which is an outgrowth of world reflection on the lack of international response to the genocide in Rwanda during the 1990s. Now considered an established international “norm” (as distinct…