Religion Dispatches
…ess or failure based on both strategy and luck. However, the promise of an online RPG complicates this comparison, as Civilization allows players to stay at something of a remove from the action, controlling resources and making decisions but not necessarily being directly drawn into the game as a character. The same is true of The Sims. The Bible Online, by contrast, presumably would allow you to play both with a god-like perspective and as bibli…
Read More…God. Cry out all who will and He will relent. #Japan‘s #earthquake http://www.google.com/url?url=http://twitter.com/lydia_fuson/status/46227101413670912&rct=j&sa=X&ei=aD16Ta7zDo2dgQfG4szVBw&sqi=2&ved=0CFYQrwcwBw&q=japanese+earthquake+and+2012&usg=AFQjCNFev7RkeZbi4eJzisU1d7ZJy8rObQ EspoOriginals Maybe the Mayans were right…. #2012 #Earthquakes #Japan #Haiti Catcasco All I’m going to say is this: if God gave one tiny dog’s scrotum about Japan h…
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…e attacking it on social media—it’s unsurprising to find them in the donor comments. Some of the comments mention Trump, who has promoted the occupation and attacked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau among others. And unsurprisingly, those comments contain violent rhetoric. One donor from Williamsburg, Virginia, writes (at times cryptically); “Trump won. F Hide Biden! F TruDope! All dictators & Traitors will get what they deserve. Praise the Lord.” Mo…
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…rnment promises of “free land” which they turned into tightly-knit farming communities shaped by commitments to pacifism, adult baptism, and family. As Gina Starblanket and Dallas Hunt showed in their own Globe and Mail essay, however, the land that settlers imagined as free wilderness was neither free nor empty. And, they write, the deadly effects of the myths of settler masculinity persist today, as the trial of Colten Boushie’s killer showed. E…
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…holic Charities in Palm Beach has participated in past Democratic National Committees as a delegate or standing committee member. Meanwhile, Hookers for Jesus and the Lincoln Tubman Foundation have right-wing Christian bona fides in spades. The latter’s founder is the daughter of a 2016 primary election Trump delegate. But what blew up into one of Twitter’s top trends Monday night was the offensively named Hookers for Jesus, founded by born-again…
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…t that his leads began to “magically disappear” overnight: https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1324006465389142016 7. Ouch: https://twitter.com/MattOswaltVA/status/1324224471713030144 8. Gomer Pyle with the low-information leadership: https://twitter.com/GorillaMamaWho/status/1324180525456777216 9. Yeah, okay… https://twitter.com/stuartpstevens/status/1324161312323067906 10. I guess this is why? https://twitter.com/ReverendWarnock/status/13243…
Read More…s://twitter.com/Nathaniroberts/status/693169616550498304 https://twitter.com/GodWelcomesAll/status/693167153470509056 https://twitter.com/topherendress/status/694046855370412034 https://twitter.com/lukesedwards/status/693934470747918337 https://twitter.com/caseyfitzgerald/status/693901821941792768 https://twitter.com/revjimrowe/status/693891436928958464…
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…tps://twitter.com/umjeremy/status/793906267274125312 6) https://twitter.com/leahrullman/status/795360690307530752 7) https://twitter.com/EvelynShoop/status/795362779733426176 8) https://twitter.com/stvp68/status/795117474140323840 9) https://twitter.com/kmarnold/status/795230676865974273 10) https://twitter.com/lgbtqtaskforce/status/795001209623027712 …
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…and submitted to Mpofu “as a mentor in prayer.” As she recounts it on the WWW Web site: [God] revealed to me that if I would submit myself and these women under the spiritual leadership of Pastor Vicky that He would raise up an international army of mighty warriors, and together we would enter into a realm of intercession that would change nations. The following year, seeking to assist the family of Rami Ayyad, a Christian bookstore owner who was…
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…Besides, he confessed, he had no other friends than the ISIS baqiyah, the online community, and without them, he said poignantly, he was nothing, It is this cyber network that endures, and will continue to endure, long after the territorial control of the movement has been obliterated. Some journalists and pundits have commented that ISIS is now metastasizing and changing. But in fact it was always a diverse and decentralized organization, loosel…
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