Religion Dispatches
…s’ humanity goes. Jesus has been depicted over the centuries as African American, Native American, and even female. So, “it was inevitable that Christ is portrayed as queer.” I fully expect that this billboard will meet the same fate as St. Matthew’s in the City’s other risqué portrayals of Christianity. Someone will take out their religious insecurity on this particular baby Jesus, just as they do violence to any other form of Jesus that does not…
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…political entitlement. Open class conflict became a defining feature of American life throughout many decades when Americans still liked bragging to the rest of the world that theirs was a classless society. To be clear, I am not suggesting that the young people drawn to Sanders rallies, or the embittered working class people voting for Sanders, are consciously trying to revive the old ways of resistance. I am not suggesting that most in the Sande…
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