Green Candidate Jill Stein Maintains Anti-Vaxxer Cred
…ent from authority of any kind? Also on The Cubit: The cultural roots of the anti-vaxxer movement Follow The Cubit, RD’s religion-and-science portal, @TheCubit….
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Margaret Cho: God Bless You, F***ing F***ers
…rom pro-choice feminist to Lady Bin Laden. Right now, after covering the latest Palin-alia (including the recent discovery that Palin, as mayor of Wasilla, billed rape victims for the kits required to gather evidence) they are arguing over the meaning of “Christian.” Which signals that the discussion (or wild screeching) is getting distilled down to elemental particles. Or that everyone is squinting and looking down their rifle sights, getting rea…
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Christian Right Claims to be ‘Above Politics’ Are Unbelievable
…r.” Despite inconsistent attempts to avoid being seen as partisan, the anti-Communist Cold Warrior Graham was certainly engaged in politics. Although he’s often contrasted with his son Franklin, Billy Graham’s political efforts to sacralize American society and government, to place them “under God,” were massively influential in the formation of the Christian Right in which Franklin, who claims “I don’t speak on political views, unless they are mo…
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Hey Hey, Ho Ho White Jesus Has to Go… But The Issue is More Complicated Than You Think
…groes of the country believe that God is white-skinned, blue eyed, straight-haired, projected nosed, compressed lipped and finely robed white gentleman sitting upon a throne somewhere in the heavens. Turner, and later Malcolm X, along with other Black religious thinkers, are correct that African Americans have the right to represent God in their own image. However, after we’ve removed pictures of white Jesus, what are the theological issues that r…
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Why Utah Felt the Bern: Mormonism’s Forgotten Progressive Past
…anchised classes, and to solve their financial burdens Smith implemented a complex and communitarian system of property redistribution called “The Law of Consecration.” “If ye are not equal in earthly things,” one of Joseph Smith’s revelations bellowed, “ye cannot be equal in obtaining heavenly things” (Doctrine and Covenants 78:6). Smith—who himself came from a family that faced immense financial troubles—chastised one of his clerks for emphasizi…
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“Exvangelical” Podcast: Safe Space for Those “Living In, Leaving, or Coming to Terms With” Evangelicalism
…of evangelicalism. https://soundcloud.com/exvangelical-podcast/kevin-wright-re-release Episode 16 of Exvangelical is a passionate post-election rebuke of white evangelicals for their Trump support; as Chastain says, “evangelicals bear much of the blame.” When I asked Chastain if he considers American evangelicals to be fundamentalists as a general rule, this is how he responded: I don’t know that all evangelicals are fundamentalists. But I do beli…
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Time’s Up For Politely Anti-LGBTQ Christianity: The Truth About “We Want to Be Known By What We’re For, Not What We’re Against”
…And it’s okay to be known for them. Personally, I want to be known as anti-racist, anti-misogynist, anti-homophobic, anti-Islamophobic, and anti-MAGA. Shall I go on? Few would take issue with these convictions and caution that “Hey! Let’s be known for what we are FOR!” I want my kids to know that I stood AGAINST injustice in real time. Because that’s when it matters: as injustice is unfolding before your eyes. I want there to be no question that…
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Rapture Coming, Mark Your Calendars
…s Veterans Memorial Building to await the return of Christ, an event Camping had promised for two years. Followers dressed children in their Sunday best and held Bibles open-faced toward heaven. But the world did not end. Camping allowed that he may have made a mathematical error….
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SCOTUS’s Incoherent Masterpiece Cakeshop Decision
…some right-wing spin centering on this remark from one of the Civil Rights Commissioners: Freedom of religion and religion has been used to justify all kinds of discrimination throughout history, whether it be slavery, whether it be the Holocaust, whether it be—I mean, we—we can list hundreds of situations where freedom of religion has been used to justify discrimination. And to me it is one of the most despicable pieces of rhetoric that people ca…
Read MoreRD Response to Fox Crit of White Supremacy in Yoga Engages in Victim Blaming
…ots who initially belittled Gandhi and Wolff in the comments section on Foxnews.com and elsewhere. To be sure, by referencing her own work Jain enacts a version of what Edward Said once famously critiqued as the “citationary” nature of Orientalism and its reliance on “antecedent authority” to maintain White supremacist hegemony. For the past thirty years, critical race scholars like Richard Delgado have described this sort of gate-keeping as “impe…
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