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White Supremacy Erases Its Violence: The Predictable Blaming of Antifa

By Stephen Young

…intains itself. Spend a moment reading about the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898. A group of two thousand white conservatives led a coup that ousted a legally elected “Fusionist” (i.e., Black and White) government, drove it out of town, destroyed Black businesses (i.e., the wealth and job-creating abilities Blacks had developed), and massacred dozens of Black people. They even published a “White Declaration of Independence” in which they declared…

The University of Vermont Might Be Done With Religion, But Religion Isn’t Done With Us

By Megan Goodwin

…its decision to eliminate its Religion Department last week. Enrollments + service + awards = cancelled, apparently? UVM administrators claim their decision is based in cold, hard math: Religion just doesn’t have enough majors. But the number of majors a department has does not equal how much revenue a department generates. Enrollments do that, and UVM’s award-winning faculty members consistently over-enroll their courses. Not to mention that UVM…

There is Another Reason Trump Refuses to Concede the Election

By Chad Bauman

…osperity movement and took the nation by storm. Similarly, the president’s spiritual advisor, Paula White-Cain, is a prominent contemporary figure in the movement, having survived a 2007 investigation opened by Republican Senator Charles Grassley into her finances (and those of several other prosperity preachers). As election returns showed the president’s early lead evaporating into the ether last Wednesday, White-Cain broadcasted a prayer servic…

What is Juneteenth to America? It Has to Be More Than ‘Black 4th of July’ if It’s to Be Truly Meaningful

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…been here before, from Reconstruction to the Black Freedom Movement of the 1950s and 1960s the struggle to form a more perfect union has been continually been rejected in favor of new intransigent forms of anti-black racism. However, with each return to this very spot a portion of the nation’s soul is permanently lost. Prophets such as Douglass, King, and Baldwin have warned us time and time again that the nation cannot continue on this path and…

Satanists Want You to Respond to the Pandemic with Compassion. And Reason.

By Joseph Laycock

…in their respective holes, how is The Satanic Temple (TST) faring? On March 15, TST co-founder Lucien Greaves released a statement announcing that all in-person meetings were cancelled and urging everyone to engage in social distancing. The statement invoked the first of TST’s Seven Tenets, that “One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason,” and reminded readers they have a moral duty to prev…

In Time of Crisis Christians Must Reject Charlatans and Magical Thinking

By Brian Rainey

…dly explanations. Their cults are crude perversions of Christianity in the service of a demonic “free-market” god. And the devotees of this god are dedicated imitators of him. They are money-making entrepreneurs using the language of Scripture, and exploiting humanity’s deep desire for meaning and comfort, to hawk their wares of pure fantasy, group-think and bigotry. Shockingly, but unsurprisingly, some lobbyists and politicians even schemed to pa…

COVID-19 is Concentrating Wealth Even Further; Can we Talk About the Surplus of Powerlessness in the Faith Community?

By Peter Laarman

…ation, it’s 50 years of failure—of taking for granted that the gains of the 1960s and especially the 1970s were secure; 50 years of dithering while the Right was successfully muscling up, building its infrastructure, and capturing and eviscerating government itself. And now Trump. And now this. It’s understandable that we don’t want to talk about failure—and try to learn from it. It’s in our cultural DNA never to dwell on failure (with one notable…

What We Actually Mean By ‘Sacrifice’ During the Pandemic Makes All the Difference

By Matthew J. Walsh

…ularly exposed to the public these days are at genuine risk in their daily service. Sacrificial ideas don’t just seem to be everywhere right now: they are. But what’s meant by the term ‘sacrifice,’ and is its use appropriate for the current state of affairs? What are the implications for the notion of sacrifice as it’s used by some to express a willingness to haphazardly expose portions of the population to a potentially deadly virus? In the U.S.,…

The Christian Right’s Main Moral Argument Against Abortion Rights Completely Ignores This Critical Issue: It’s Time to Raise It

By Elizabeth Freese

…d pregnancy,” it’s forced labor, which is explicitly prohibited by both the 14th and the 13th Amendments to the Constitution and is generally condemned as wrong by all contemporary religious and ethical traditions; and Public support for equitable access to birth control, maternal healthcare, and abortion is essential to “justice for all,” as comprehensive reproductive services are necessary to address gender, racial, and economic inequalities. Th…

Sure, There’s No ‘Religious Left’… If You Ignore Non-White Christians and Non-Christians

By Daniel Schultz

…but is supposed to save America or something? Anyway, Filipovic’s take is fair enough: just because something is hip doesn’t mean it’s liberal, and just because it’s liberal doesn’t mean it’s good on women’s issues. This is true! As Filipovic says, https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/1258781001494470661 But the fun really begins with the next tweet, where she continues, For more than a year now I’ve been mulling a piece about the rise of the…