Religion Dispatches
…to the space as “sacred,” and suggest people will make “pilgrimage” to the site. The language is more than mere museum visitor attending a public institution. The space is hallowed ground. We secular people may not believe we are fetishists, bowing to divine sculptures for help in fertility and war, but our responses at memorials and museums show that we at least continue to be functional animists. There is an animating force at work within the ma…
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…ing across the state, New Rochelle was arbitrarily selected as the primary site of contagion in the state of New York. Moreover, in the days that followed the arbitrary geographic containment zone didn’t limit or contain the COVID-19 outbreak to New Rochelle, but within a matter of days, New York City became the epicenter of COVID-19 cases in the state of New York. The inconsistency in public health’s social distancing measures and treatment of Or…
Read More…dly, patently offensive.” Schmitz is the deputy editor of the conservative site First Things. His fight with Yerushalmi (as well as National Review contributor and lawyer David French) is a part of an ongoing intra-conservative battle over Islamophobia. In his latest post at National Review, Schmitz writes, logically dismantling Yerushalmi’s panic: It remains the case that anti-sharia activists have identified a grand total of seven cases in 35 ye…
Read More…UPDATE: In case you had any doubts, check out this lengthy list of pastor and Christian activist endorsements on his site.) …
Read More…than a half-dozen has dwindled to one part-time slot. Its faith issues Web site led this week with greetings for Passover (which was in March) and Rosh Hashanah (which was in September). Faith consultants who once had dozens of clients did not play a role in high-profile Democratic losses in the Virginia gubernatorial race in November and in the special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat of the late Edward M. Kennedy in Massachusetts in January…
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…ings”—especially when you’re building a propaganda campaign. Thus ICC’s website also boasts that carrying a baby to full term protects women from developing breast cancer. Evidently if girls and women want to protect themselves from getting breast cancer later in life continuing a pregnancy by rape and/or incest is a viable immunizer. Significantly, the Coalition of Color preaches a hellfire and damnation theme that is carefully crafted to exploit…
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…which troubled me,” he tells us, when he comes finally to the Alexandrian site of Taxila. This was in 1955. Ever an astute reader of the visual (he published a lovely little book on modern art entitled Look, Listen, Read in 1993), Lévi-Strauss was acutely moved by the Taj Mahal, seeing it as an enriching symbol of what he always dreamed: an authentic blending of Self and Other, in this case the rich aesthetic possibilities opened up by a more cos…
Read More…e says that he represents “1,000 rabbis” in this belief, but their own web site only boasts “800+ members” but does not list specific affiliations. The group of Ultra-Orthodox Jews have apparently been around since 1945, and “seeks to promulgate the cause of Torah-true Judaism through an organized rabbinate that is consistently Orthodox.” Levin says he agrees “with Eileen Donnelly of the Center for Military Readiness that this will hurt the cohesi…
Read More…es that matter most to Jewish Americans,” reads the new section of the web site of the Super PAC Ready for Hillary, Jewish Americans Ready for Hillary! (Don’t forget the exclamation point to indicate your ultimate readiness). “In every corner of this country, members of the Jewish American community are signing up to say that they are Ready for Hillary!” (Again.) According to a press release from Clinton’s effusive Jewish supporters, Rachel Schnei…
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…reputation for saying outrageous things that fake quotes from parody news sites occasionally go viral. After all, Robertson at his worst is so cartoonish that he seems capable of saying anything, so long as it’s offensive right-wing nonsense. And on that note, no, Pat Robertson never said that performing oral sex on women is the root cause of Covid-19. What follows is my personal, and admittedly subjective, top ten list of horrific, outlandish, a…
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