Religion Dispatches
…r peddling a trite and superficial stereotype of working-class people. If that’s what he did, the Arizona senator did much the same (though his words were reported as a slap at Obama and a defense of the working class). McCain said: During the Great Depression there rose from small towns, rural communities, inner cities, a generation of Americans who fought to save the world from despotism and mass murder, and came home to build the wealthiest, st…
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…on a national level of what is happening and who is responsible. Whether the first anniversary of Jan 6 will bring further violence is unknown, but what is knowable is that without accountability, there will be no peace….
Read More…ut 11% of working Americans, compared to roughly 20-25% of the population that is evangelical—but as we know, religious practice is on the decline in the US*, and boy, it sure looks like organized labor has been mightily energized by the events of the past couple of weeks. What’s more, the strongest correlation with voting is racial, not religious. Not only do blacks vote overwhelmingly Democratic, but Hispanics—the fastest growing demographic in…
Read More…get a hold of some of their to-do lists which should give you an idea of what they’re up to these days. Jim Wallis 1. Keep digging until hit common ground 2. Give Glenn Beck a noogie 3. Clean up donkey dung in Senate chambers 4. Register God to vote 5. Email Bono that just joined R(ED) Glenn Beck 1. Give Jim Wallis a wedgie 2. Order assclown costume 3. Bring cotton candy to the media circus 4. Conduct taste test to find best chalk 5. Buy extra-st…
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…ke a Tibetan!’” enthused Hibbits’ friend, before pulling out the green Mao hat that had been snatched from his head and shredded by China supporters. When he was attacked, Hibbits said, he stood by silently with his hands clasped in front of him: “The non-action of me being dressed this way incites them to violence.” Watching the streetscape from the base of a towering palm tree was a group of actual Tibetan Buddhist monks from San Jose. “The Dala…
Read More…arketers. Herman Cain knows how to sell a product, whether it’s a pizza or himself. As primary season grows closer we can expect him to continue to fashion himself into someone that appeals to the fiscally minded Tea Party and conservative evangelicals. That is, he will try to be the “perfect conservative.”…
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…istic arguments he finds persuasive might not be nearly as persuasive to another rational person who happens to have different intuitions. “There are certain things William Lane Craig takes to be metaphysical intuitions, like that it’s undeniable that the universe must have had a cause—and for me it’s not. My intuitions are quite different,” Parsons says. And what then? He adds, “And then, once we’ve reached that point, there’s just no further to…
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…is fully awake to the suffering and hope of Earth’s people—in a real way, that is what Jesus means—and YOU cannot afford to stay asleep! Even many of the things that blight your personal life—overwork, stress, competition, anxiety, addictions of all kinds—many of these are also connected to living inside the bubble and not recognizing your neighbors or your neighborhood.” The significance of working, and I mean really working, across racial lines…
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…SB 8 since Governor Greg Abbot first signed the bill in May of 2021. But what I was not prepared for was the torrent of social media posts that inundated my Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram feeds after the law went into effect that drew explicit connections between the anti-abortion restrictions and Islam. Hashtags like #ShariaLawInTexas and #TexasTaliban, as well as political cartoons featuring burqa-clad women in black “pray[ing] for Texas wome…
Read More…d mine—at the loss of The Colbert Report is coupled with bitter knowledge that we are now left to for ourselves with Jesus-hating communists who control the media—you know who you are! While The Colbert Report has moved on to its heavenly reward, the show will live on through followers in the Colbert Nation, the memory of patriotic “truthiness,” (and in Comedy Central marathons). In lieu of flowers, please send money to Stephen Colbert’s Super Pac…
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