Religion Dispatches
…tian version of the propagandistic hate, from language to technique, I see coming from the worst corners of the Muslim world. They’re the Mean Girls of our global high school. They deserve one another. But they’re not the adults in the room. So what if you carried a Qur’an? (Actually, I’m happy, but that’s just the small proselyte I have inside of me—think of him as a genie inside a lamp. Plus, that’s not racist, or anthropological. It’s xenobiolo…
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…the United Methodist Church covering that? I think it could be important.” https://twitter.com/ericmetaxas/status/1287829767753019393 But here he betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of what “white privilege” actually is and what it entails. In her book DiAngelo defines it as “a sociological concept referring to advantages that are taken for granted by whites and that cannot be similarly enjoyed by people of color in the same context (government…
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…protecting prestigious white men from responsibility for their own deeds.” https://twitter.com/AnnetteYReed/status/1275414467501793280 Or, more sharply, Anthea Butler (Professor of Religious Studies at UPenn), tweeted, “Enough of this bullshit about the conviction doesn’t mean his scholarship is bad. He was probably sitting at his desk looking at a child being raped while trying to write an article. WTF is wrong with you ignorant, soulless folks w…
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…tial portion of the religious left that’s non-white, and/or not Christian. https://twitter.com/DanaHoule/status/1258950502089449472 I do have some small sympathy for Bruenig’s argument. After all, I too have said there’s not much of a religious left in the U.S. There really isn’t, if you mean a cohesive national movement advancing a unified policy agenda analogous to the Religious Right. That’s in fact why I never capitalize “religious left”: I do…
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…and “renounce every demonic spirit” and “every covenant made with Satan.” https://twitter.com/i/status/1171803697292238853 Like some other fundamentalist supporters, White later attributed the President’s impeachment to “demonic schemes” and “demonic stirrings and manipulations”—literally demonizing the President’s political opposition. What was going on? https://twitter.com/paula_white/status/1207526347289038849 Readers of fundamentalist fiction…
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…efore tweeting, “also which borders? We are Europe. there are no borders.” https://twitter.com/GuardianJessica/status/665303417762394112 It shook the clarity out of my own instinctual American hysterics momentarily, having forgotten that there are more ways to react to an assault on one’s country than to defensively recoil into paranoid isolation. I knew that the European Union’s border policies had not magically erased centuries of unresolved int…
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…wouldn’t adjust their behavior in worship because they weren’t “pansies.” https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1239267305730736130 Others are willing to go some lengths to show they just don’t believe in this whole coronavirus thing: In Arkansas, the Rev. Josh King met with the pastors of five other churches on Thursday to decide whether to continue holding service. Their religious beliefs told them that meeting in person to worship each Sun…
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…meschooling, thanks to Christian Reconstructionist influence on curricula. https://twitter.com/julieingersoll/status/1224886176429084677?s=20 https://twitter.com/julieingersoll/status/1224900693112369154?s=20 Trump’s subsequent appeals to his white evangelical base were more obvious. Right after touting the confirmation of new federal judges on his watch, including “two brilliant new Supreme Court Justices, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh,” the p…
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…em was made inexorably worse when, five-hundred years ago, life began to become so “complicated” that almost no good deed fails to have some negative implications. As Michael, one of the main critics of heaven says: “These days, just buying a tomato at a grocery store means that you are unwittingly supporting toxic pesticides, exploiting labor, contributing to global warming. Humans think that they are making one choice, but they are actually maki…
Read More…tion is now so extreme that they don’t mind executing babies AFTER birth.” https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1100211495223218176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1100211495223218176&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2019%2F02%2F26%2Fhealth%2Fabortion-bill-trump.html However, his statement in Green Bay differs from the earlier statements which deliberately misconstrue laws in order to blame governmental officials…
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