Religion Dispatches
…ent to the art. The search took them to Rome, Ravenna, and Turkey; then to Germany. “It took Jesus a long time to die,” Brock says. Not until 965 in northern Germany was the life-sized oak crucifix called the Gero Cross carved. On it, the Christian God was suffering and dying: an image of terror, torture, and desolation. The carving is now in the Cathedral of St. Peter and Maria in Cologne. Could there be a connection that one hundred years later,…
Read More…rder. According to Bray, Americans live in a situation “comparable to Nazi Germany,” a state of hidden warfare, as the comforts of modern society have lulled the populace into apathy. Bray was convinced that a dramatic event, such as economic collapse or social chaos would reveal the demonic role of the government, and people would have “the strength and the zeal to take up arms” in a revolutionary struggle. What he envisioned as the outcome of th…
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…s many members of its own species. The complicity of most churches in Nazi Germany presents a poor argument that the churches have either the needed vision or moral courage to stand up to environments of government-manufactured fear. The good news here may come from our evolutionary sciences. Primatologist Frans De Waal is one of the most respected and influential ethologists writing today whose well-documented optimism is carried in some of his e…
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…nt, is also treasurer of the Mississippi Tea Party. MFIRE’s tagline is “To Promote and Preserve National Sovereignty.” In a recent press release, Hunt said, “We can’t continue to allow the Mexican drug lords, human traffickers, and terrorists organizations to enter our country at will or for illegal aliens to continue to take jobs badly needed in our state and across the nation.” Promoting white nativist views may put AFA at odds with its own alli…
Read More…ceful religion. Prior to founding Dove, they pastored a church in Cologne, Germany. According to local news accounts during coverage of Dove’s 2009 anti-Muslim activities, former congregants, including Jones’ own daughter, claimed Jones and his wife left Germany after being confronted about improprieties in the church structure, including diverting church resources for profit, demanding that church members work for the church without pay, and thre…
Read More…istory” of a Nazi-gay link, claiming “the masculine homosexual movement in Germany created the Brown Shirts, and the Brown Shirts in turn created the Nazi Party.” In a column earlier this year opposing the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, Fischer recycled that 2008 column, adding, “Even today in America, it is chic in some homosexual circles for individuals to wear replicas of Nazi Germany uniforms, complete with iron crosses, storm trooper outfits…
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…fell behind, or would we have rather that, potentially, to complement Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, a Muslim-majority state did its best impression of imperialism? The same Ottomans, in their twilight, were overrun by a nearly fascistic Committee of Union and Progress, whose treatment of the Armenians underlines my point. Then, though the Muslim world achieved formal independence in the 20th century, this was but nominally sovereignty. These co…
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…’s The Human Condition. Arendt was a political theorist who came of age in Germany during the 1920s. Trained as a philosopher (she was a student of Martin Heidegger and also his lover), Arendt, who was Jewish, was forced to leave Germany in the early 1930s, as Hitler rose to power. World War II was an important influence on Hannah Arendt, and is reflected in her writings, which focus on topics like totalitarianism and violence. In The Human Condit…
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…n faith and reason delivered at the University of Regensburg in his native Germany, the pontiff used a quote from a medieval Byzantine Emperor which denigrated the Prophet Muhammad. Benedict then compounded the problem with his implication that Islam has always suffered from a special challenge when it comes to the incoherence of proclaiming a rational faith and irrationally propagating violence in the interest of said faith. Recently, the widely…
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…rd gays are strongly influenced by traditional stigmas, taboos, and values promoted by the Georgian Orthodox Church. Those studies also show that psychological and physical violence often accompany widespread homophobia that is backed by traditional ideologies and a Soviet legacy of condemnation. Gays in Georgia also often face domestic violence within their own families when they reveal their homosexuality. Georgia and its Orthodox Church hosted…
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