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Rand Paul’s Messianic Campaign Video Shouts “Yes I Can!”

…they know) that they can’t. And it’s too easy for the public to default to complicity in this circle of untruths. The echoes of Messianic movement-building in the Rand Paul video (and surely in many more to come from candidates of all political stripes) aren’t just clichéd. They’re disconnected from any idea of movement that would put into practice a vision of a new America. In a time when the Republican Party’s strategy has been to obstruct any b…

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The Tweets of the Christ

…at grabbed me was the unexpected audience interjections. Innocently: “via @comjudiamurcia: hi from the jewish community in murcia spain.” And, not so innocently, apparently as a result of all the trouble Jesus was putting his girlfriend through: “@marymagdalene: DTMFA.” “What’s DTMFA?” somebody made the mistake of asking, and got this answer: “via @rotinknee2: you dont want to know what DTMFA means its very vulgar if you must check the urbandictio…

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Catholic Nuns Show Bishops How it’s Done on ObamaCare

…at don’t further limit abortion or contraception) through an obscure USCCB committee run by an equally obscure bishop, 7,150 Catholic nuns were willing to sign their names to efforts they see as a direct affront to their mission “to serve our nation’s most vulnerable people.” And, unlike the bishops, they are willing to criticize not just the plan but the whole haphazard, politically driven process that may culminate today with senators being aske…

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Why Natural Disasters Were Perfect Timing for Anti-LGBT Nashville Statement

…GBT people for natural disasters. Ultimately, this reinforcement of gender complementarity and the divine origin of gender differences, framed as a crucial part of what is good about the natural world God created, is a simple re-entrenchment of a position that confirms the stability of the natural world. Unfortunately, as natural disasters continue to worsen due to climate change, we can expect to see more attempts to reaffirm the “natural” or “Go…

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‘The White Privileged Man’s Burden’: If Jesus Was White Who Are We to Question the ‘Privilege’ That Came With it?

…s no better example of “white fragility” than the response of conservative commentator Eric Metaxas to DiAngelo’s video with the following tweet: “Jesus was white. Did he have “white privilege” even though he was entirely without sin? Is the United Methodist Church covering that? I think it could be important.” https://twitter.com/ericmetaxas/status/1287829767753019393?s=20 As expected some members of the Twitterverse took Metaxas to task for the…

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This Just In: College Will Make You an Atheist

…e students who major in the social sciences and humanities are likely to become less religious, while those majoring in education are likely to become more religious. But students majoring in biology and physical sciences remain just about as religious as they were when they started college. Of course, the article itself is not really about a causal link between either religiosity and choice of major or the impact of college major on religiosity….

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Claiming That ‘We Birthed a Nation From Nothing’ CNN’s Rick Santorum Gives a Master Class in Christian Nationalism: An Open Letter to CNN

…g a hole through social media. At a Young America’s Foundation event, your commentator said: https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1386685340522536961 If you think about this country, I don’t know of any other country in the world that was settled predominately by people who were coming to practice their faith. They came here because they were not allowed to practice their particular faith in their own country. And so they came here, mostly fr…

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Jerry Falwell Jr. Is Corrupt, but Liberty U’s Problems Go Far Deeper

…well responds to prominent evangelical pastor David Platt’s apology for welcoming Trump to his church. “Sorry to be crude,” Falwell tweeted, “but pastors like [David Platt] need to grow a pair.” In the online backlash, including one that referred to Falwell as a minister, Falwell responded with the following tweets: https://twitter.com/JerryFalwellJr/status/1136056209679822849 Falwell’s crude and aggressive rhetoric is not unique to him. It partly…

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Why Hulu’s “Handmaid’s Tale” May Be the Wrong Adaptation for Trump Era

…en’s fertility choices imagined in Hulu’s Handmaid’s Tale. https://twitter.com/eleanor_bg/status/845220527925088256   But it wasn’t only the gendered lines of combat that Atwood recognized in the nascent Christian Right—and this is where Hulu’s adaptation appears to take a self-conscious risk that may ultimately make it the wrong adaptation for the Age of Trump. Margaret Atwood’s novel also carefully noted the racialized history of the Christian R…

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Between Butker, Candace Owens, and Nick Fuentes TradCaths are Having a Moment — A Moment With Something to Tell us About Christian Nationalism 

…n X, describing it as having “made the decision to go home.” The picture accompanying the post shows Owens in a traditional Latin Mass church in London, the home of her TradCath husband. https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1782490242026459349?lang=en Just one day after her announcement, the right-wing Catholic Identity Conference listed her as a speaker for their upcoming meeting. The cover image on the Conference’s website features Crusader K…

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