Search for "VIPREG2024 how to use 1xbet free bet promo code Bosnia and Herzegovina"

How Trump’s Assertion of “Power to Pardon” Tramples the American Sacred

By Spencer Dew

…Schmitt wrote, not only because the term carried traces of its historical use in discussions of God but, importantly, because the “systematic structure” of the term was theological, evoking a metaphysics of the state that functioned as a kind of religious belief. Hitler’s totalitarian power, then, involved a “secularized” version of the miraculous: the Führer’s proclamations cut through the constraints of law just as the divine’s interventions de…

Are (White) Evangelicals Really Dwindling? A Debate Heats Up

By Sarah Posner

…licated.” Because those affiliations are “so complex,” Jones says, and because he used the same standard self-identification definition used by Pew and others, he was able to compare his own data from this year with Pew’s data from 2007. In other words, those comparisons were not apples and oranges. That said, Jones added, even”if you set aside the definition of who is evangelical and who is mainline and look at white Protestants overall (who lean…

3 Takeaways from #Easter2015

By Michael Schulson

…on, ran an entire branded campaign around #crossequalslove. Other churches used Easter as a verb (perhaps in reference to the final stanza of this Gerard Manley Hopkins poem, or simply because our culture verbs almost everything online). “#EasterWithUs,” requested North Point Ministries, also in the Atlanta area. Gateway Church, in Texas, urged parishioners to post a selfie of themselves with someone they’d brought to church, as part of the #Easte…

Why Amy Coney Barrett’s Religion is Fair Game

By John Stoehr

…ngresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote Monday night: “When politicians use faith as an excuse to pass and uphold laws that seize control of people’s bodies but not guarantee them healthcare, feed the poor, shelter the homeless, or welcome the stranger, you have to wonder if it’s really about faith at all.” No, you don’t have to wonder. It’s about their faith, full stop. Millions in this country—white evangelical Protestants and conservative wh…

Court Rules Religiously-Based Restrictions in HHS Contracts with Bishops Violate Establishment Clause

By Sarah Posner

…n the sincerity of the USCCB’s position that the restriction it imposed on its subcontractors on the use of TVPA funds for abortion and contraceptive services was motivated by deeply held religious beliefs.” In other words, the Free Exercise Clause does, of course, protect one’s expression of deeply held religious beliefs. But the Establishment Clause prohibits the government from favoring particular religious beliefs, no matter how deeply held th…

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored

By John P. Slattery

…I urge people to consider in their mystical insights into the relationship between nature and divinity. Bishop Curry’s use of Teilhard’s vision of “fire” at the Royal Wedding comes largely from The Mass on the World, completed in 1923! Sadly, it also seems indisputable that the mature formulations of some of Teilhard’s most famous ideas—e.g., the Noosphere, the Omega Point, the divinization of the species—rest upon philosophies infused with concep…

Don’t Be Fooled By Trump’s Acceptance of Marriage Equality: Here’s What to Expect

By Sunnivie Brydum

…alleged “failure” to adhere to societally imposed gender norms. Desanctis betrays her own ideological preferences by setting up a false dichotomy between trans rights and “religious liberty.” She inaccurately portrays North Carolina’s HB2 as a simple law allowing “businesses to determine their own rules regarding bathrooms and [establishing] rules for bathrooms in government buildings.” She does not mention the fact that under HB 2, trans women t…

Things the GOP Won’t Like about Ron Paul

By Julie Ingersoll

…rous.” He then said bin Laden’s death should change our foreign policy because we are doing what Bin Laden wanted: “He wanted us to stay there, drain our resources and bankrupt our country… the connection between our foreign policy and our financial problems is significant.” These days many Americans are war weary—and that includes Obama supporters who think he has not done enough to get us out. It might look like the time is ripe for deficit-hawk…

The Politics of Anti-Gay Persecution: Gambia, Egypt, Jamaica, Russia, with a Helping Hand from US Religious Conservatives; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Islamist factions. Morals police reportedly arrested men at a Cairo bathhouse on Sunday and accused them of “perversions.” A reporter for a pro-regime TV channel that instigated the raid gloated over the arrest and posted photographs of the men on Facebook. At the Guardian, Brian Whitaker examines the ways Egyptian governments have made political use out of anti-gay persecution, “even though homosexuality is not actually illegal in Egypt.” He rec…

Kim Davis, County Clerk, is Not a Person

By Ivan Strenski

…her moral person? No need to worry about an Eichmann scenario of claiming freedom of moral responsibility because one was just doing one’s job. Both as a legal fiction and as a real person, Eichmann identified with a job that was itself immoral and unjust. Giving out marriage licenses is not in itself evil. Yet, while Kim Davis is still required to sign the name of her moral person to official documents, she still fears implicating her moral pers…