Religion Dispatches
…ca with a particular construct of traditional social mores, an adventurous military, and an unfettered corporate capitalism could keep them safe and happy. Liberals, the story goes, only serve to disrupt the good life people could have under a free conservative hand. This has been a monstrous lie. These promises could never be kept. We can say, following Buber, that the myth of eliminationism is a delusion; which does not mean that its proponents…
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…ng against is evidently immaterial. Reinhard Schulze clarifies: the French military visited a comparable level of death and destruction on Algeria as affected Germany in World War II. This fact could explain why so many Algerians were so eager to get out of Algeria, if Caldwell only bothered to share it. But in the service of communicating a deep cultural unease with rapid social change, Caldwell has attempted to provide a veneer of neutral correc…
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…t. But those who did turn up at Folsom Field paid $49 each ($45 for active military) to push past the turnstiles and get a taste of reconciliation and unity—between rich and poor, men and women, and Jews and Gentiles—the necessary prerequisites for the “spiritual warfare” on the road ahead. Theocratic Crypto-Fascists? Back in the mid-1990s, Promise Keepers appeared to be mobilizing the men of evangelical America, pleasing some people and scaring t…
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…He could not simply bite the hand that feeds him $2.775 billion a year in military aid. So he committed himself to a “vision” of “two free peoples living side by side,” hedged in by all the limitations that the foundational myth requires. While the question of whether to pursue a two-state solution is apparently settled, the larger questions remain: Will Jews in Israel, and those around the world who care about Israel, continue to build Jewish li…
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…led on the professor to repudiate his anti-Semitic statements. Similarly a number of students and professors have organized on behalf of Professor Robinson to support both his argument and academic freedom. Many believe that reducing the professor’s criticism of Israeli military offensives to anti-Semitism is ridiculous, just as others contend such charges only contribute toward the silencing of critical voices of Israeli policies. For the sake of…
Read More…eat Depression.” And so he has assembled a team—in the economic and in the military arenas—that is utterly and exclusively a product of the machine. He does not dare roll the dice on the uncontrolled charisma of personality where the economy is concerned; so he ends up seeming to support the bearers of the offices, no matter how corrupt they become. He may be right in this caution. He has ever been a cautious and reasoned and disciplined person. Y…
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…ibed as a fundamentalist or neo-Calvinist Presbyterian pastor, author of a number of books including A Christian Manifesto, and creator of the film series Whatever Happened to the Human Race. Schaeffer is widely credited with rousing the apolitical giant of fundamentalist Protestant voters to action against secular humanism—an opposing religion, in his own description, that could not be squared with a Christian worldview—and to an even greater deg…
Read More…4 Republican National Convention and charged that John Kerry would arm the military with spitballs. But that’s not Miller’s only claim to fame. Earlier in 2004, he gave a speech on the floor of the Senate, asserting that America was on the road to moral ruin because of the separation of church and state. In the speech, Miller backed former Judge Roy Moore (of Ten Commandments fame) and the crafters of the Constitution Restoration Act, which would…
Read More…last month, an entire session was devoted to “Israel, the Middle East, and Military Readiness.” (The event as a whole was designed to bring more African-American and Latino conservatives into the fold of the religious right, but racial justifications for the Israeli occupation abounded in the Israel session.) One common thread among all the speakers there: they had gone recently on a trip to Israel with one-time presidential candidate Mike Huckabe…
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…up from his prophetic dream, he knows what to do. First, he calls off the military campaign against heaven because he realizes that “war engenders war, and victory defeat. God, conquered, 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…
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