Search for "VIPREG2024 1x bet bonus code El Salvador"

Lincoln, Clinton, and Trump: From Strategy to Spin to Straight-Up Bullshit

By Martin Jay

…contradicted by his public statements. For example, he seems to have genuinely believed that he watched thousands of Muslims celebrating after 9/11 on TV, or that he was an early critic of the war in Iraq, or that the Chinese created the global alarm over climate change. For this reason, many commentators have invoked the philosopher Harry Frankfurt’s famous analysis of “bullshit” to describe what Trump does when he plays hard and fast with the tr…

These Are the New Battlegrounds for LGBT Rights Under Trump

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ality in Trump’s America: Get to Your Statehouses Even before Trump’s unlikely electoral victory, each new legislative session brought a cornucopia of anti-LGBT bills introduced in state legislatures around the country. Oklahoma introduced a whopping 27 anti-LGBT bills at the beginning of the 2015-2016 session. By March, activists on the ground had defeated all of those bills, as had organizers in several other states where bills attempted to codi…

Are You There God? It’s Me, Donald: A President at Prayer

By Peter Laarman

…ways been the best at praying. You know who told me that? Billy Graham himself. He told me, “Donald, you pray better than I do, and I am the most famous Christian in the world.” He told me that last week in a great, great phone call. Oh, and Fred Douglass. I need to get his input, too. Just this morning I told them, the great African Americans who supported me completely, what an amazing job Fred is doing, being recognized more and more. They love…

Gorsuch Confirmed… But Don’t Get Too Bent Out of Shape

By Sunnivie Brydum

…it was with Justice Scalia on the bench. Despite the apparent similarities between Gorsuch and Scalia, I actually believe Justice Gorsuch’s legacy will more closely mirror that of Chief Justice John Roberts. Both are reliable conservatives, and jurists who have a long-documented tendency to elevate corporate concerns over individual complaints. Roberts, who affirmed the ruling Gorsuch originally drafted in Hobby Lobby, seems to be mindful of his l…

“I Speak to God in Public”: Are Young Black Millennials Reclaiming a Theology of Resistance?

By Joshua L. Lazard

…n the midst of his tour, Magnificent Coloring World, he sold out the U.S. Cellular field, the former name of his hometown Chicago White Sox’s stadium. All the while his personal faith was at the center. The almost-24-year-old is the epitome of the young black millennial aesthetic. Born after Bill Clinton was inaugurated as president, he grew up on the South Side of Chicago in the Chatham neighborhood. The son of an aide to Barack Obama and Chicago…

Why Trump’s Evangelicals Won’t Care About Those Budget Cuts

By Julie Ingersoll

…charity, is not economic justice. The degree to which Trump seems an unlikely evangelical standard bearer has been widely explored. (See Sarah Posner and Christopher Stroop for insightful analyses.) Certainly the “alt right” and authoritarian threads are important. Also critical is the argument that some aspects of the Trump agenda are merely tolerated by evangelicals because they care more about fighting abortion/LGBTQ rights and “preserving” th…

Opting for Lucy Over Linus: Watching The Great Pumpkin in the Age of Trump

By Jonathan Malesic

…pecter haunts the narrative—for four decades. I’ve used it to teach about religious belief in college classrooms for more than 15 years. I love the story. I’ve all but memorized it. In an era of heightened political suspicion, argument, and even violence, Charles M. Schulz’s allegory has became about truth, falsehood, and stubborn belief in fake stories. It asks not just about faith and doubt, but also about how we can manage to live with people w…

Some Mormons See a Message in the Angel Moroni’s Fallen Trumpet

By Christopher James Blythe

…isit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Beth-el: [Bet-is House] [el– is GOD] and the horns [trumpets] of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground. *When the trumpet fell off from Moroni on salt lake temple today.” While this sounded reasonable to many, the following day, several Latter-day Saint scholars of Hebrew had criticized the faulty reading of the passage and pointed out that horns referred to th…

US Offers Help For Investigation of Bangladesh Killings

By Peter Montgomery

…Bahamian Trans Lives Matter Campaign, Grace Community Church Pastor Lyall Bethel urged the government to say whether an upcoming referendum on a gender equality constitutional amendment would support a “hidden agenda” or lead to same-sex couples marrying. “The minute the government starts to (discuss) these extreme views, any and every off the wall grouping of people would set out to make their beliefs and practices the norm in this country,” he…

The Left Behind: Why Are White American Christians So Racist?

By Daniel Schultz

…racial equality. It’s a decent hypothesis and response, but simply knowing better rarely solves issues as complex as white supremacy. Social problems are, well, social, and require us to take into account broader patterns and movements. In this instance, it’s worth looking at another trend Robert Jones has chronicled: the decline of American Christianity. Religious adherence and worship attendance in postwar America peaked in the mid-1960s, just a…