Religion Dispatches
If this t-shirt were on The Daily Show or Stephen Colbert it would be funny; even with the target and the gun. But it’s not on Comedy Central, nor is it funny. The t-shirt is being sold by Reformation Bookstore which is a division of Tolle Lege Press. Reformation Bookstore is one of the broadest outlets for Christian Reconstructionist books, especially those by Rousas John Rushdoony, while Tolle Lege Press has republished the 1599 Geneva Bible, w…
Read More…s. Turn to HIM and pray. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAGYqrANnAw http://www.gamespot.com/forums/topic/27876648/could-the-japan-earthquake-be-gods-punish-for-them-killing-whales?page=0 Tinasongbird73 Prayers up 4 the people in japan who’ve experience great loss & heartache frm the earthquakes & Tsunami. God is trying 2tell us something! smitefulsinner RT @rachydivanerd: Re: Japan: the 1st person to say that the earthquake’s an act of ‘god‘ to…
Read More
…morality police officers heavily monitor LGBT people using the community’s dating websites and internet forums. He stated that it is common practice for a police officer to engage with someone online, agree to meet him or her in person, and then send the messages to the public prosecution to issue a warrant of arrest. As we have reported, homosexuality is not illegal in Egypt, but LGBT people are often targeted for persecution and prosecution unde…
Read More
…’s reputation for fierce honesty in its church coverage helped bolster the site, and Allen’s decades of experience, coupled with the skill of its writing staff, made the site an important voice. In the small hive that is Catholic journalism, Crux had a lot of buzz. What it did not have was a lot of money. The Globe’s strategy was to hopefully attract what editor Brian McGrory described as “big-ticket, Catholic-based advertisers.” But those adverti…
Read More
…my life is very scary.” Gothard, who has never been married, teaches that dating is prohibited (a rule echoed by the Duggars on their television show) “because you’ll give away too much of your heart.” As the blogger Hopewell wrote on Garrison’s blog, the Duggars “view dating as unhealthy, leading to a diminished capacity to love your eventual spouse… They view adulthood as something that begins with a parent-approved marriage and at no other tim…
Read More…th her boyfriend, Micah, because she needs to sort out how she feels about dating. That was an ambivalent moment: Kolby does seem confused about dating, and good for her that she doesn’t fear singleness too much to quit dating someone she’s confused about. On the other hand, I wish Kolby’s takeaway from Teryn’s self-disclosure had not been that purity must be even more high-stakes than she’d realized, and dating even more dangerous. I’ve said it b…
Read More…tle). In 2016, Harris agreed to work on a documentary, I Survived I Kissed Dating Goodbye, with director Jessica Van Der Wyngaard, in response to growing criticism from readers who claimed that Harris’s book—which endorses sexual abstinence and courtship, a marriage-focused, chaste alternative to dating—and other messages from purity culture had done them lasting harm. One critic featured in the film said IKDG promoted a kind of “prosperity gospel…
Read More
…ed them marital housing. China: Activists angered over ban on LGBT content online A government ban on online content featuring same-sex relationships has angered many activists, reports the BBC: There are 84 categories of material that were banned from online video programmes by Chinese censors, including prostitution, drug addiction, extra-marital affairs and what authorities deem to be “unhealthy” views of the family, relationships and money. A…
Read More…receive a skin of blackness, and become a scourge to the Nephites.” * New online version: “Because of their unbelief, the Lamanites are cut off from the presence of the Lord, are cursed, and become a scourge unto the Nephites.” A second changed chapter heading appears in Mormon, chapter 5: * Old version: “The Lamanites shall be a dark, filthy, and loathsome people. . .” * New online version: “Because of their unbelief, the Lamanites will be scatt…
Read More
…. Apache Stronghold, a grassroots organization devoted to defending sacred sites, has challenged the proposed mining plan in court, arguing that destroying their sacred sites would infringe on their free exercise of religion, a right promised to them by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act (1978), and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (1993). This case has precedent working against them, howev…
Read More