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Burning Man: Fear of an Alternative Pagan Social Order

…ings of Pagan scholars like Gus diZerega would help avoid such errors. In addition to these problems, it is certainly a mistake to characterize Burning Man and its adherents in general as Pagan. The festival invokes a multiplicity of spiritual perspectives—including the New Spirituality and Paganism—but it is by no means a Pagan event.  Matthews’ analysis is likewise lacking in self-critique. In my own work I have suggested ways in which early Chr…

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Dominion Theology, Christian Reconstructionism, and the New Apostolic Reformation

…Butler have just posted a terrific overview of the NAR, Pentecostalism, and dominionism in which they critique both the denialists who say that dominionism doesn’t exist, and alarmists who fail to properly contextualize dominionists’ activities. Christian Reconstructionism is the older of the two movements (though the NAR has its roots in Pentecostalism that pre-dates both). There are two of the core aspects of Christian Reconstructionism that ar…

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A Better Form of Atheism: Rescuing the Christian Tradition from Religion

…you have the use of something without owning it. So obviously enjoyment and desire are not incompatible with possessiveness. From what I understand, queer theorists try to point towards an enjoyability, cut loose from the jealousy and possessiveness that structure a traditional heterosexual relationship. It’s interesting to me that so many post-structuralist thinkers are a bit suspicious of pleasure, which is banal, next to the shattering experie…

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RDPulpit: Ahmadinejad Gives Another Victory to the Israeli Right

…bout the racism that led to the Hutu-Tutsi massacres, the destruction of Buddhism in Tibet by Chinese racism, the oppression of women and gays in many Muslim countries, and the list could go on and on. By singling out Israel, Ahmadinejad proves the case for many Israelis that the critique is not simply a matter of rational opposition to oppressive policies, but rather a manifestation of the very hatred that makes it imperative for Jews to protect…

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Christians Should Give Up “Christianity”: An Interview with Peter Rollins

…s the jingles. But what about certainty and satisfaction (which you call ‘addictions’ in the subtitle of the book)? We Americans are told that we can have both, especially in church. If we pray the right way, believe the right way, we can have all these things. Are we not entitled to them? They’re addictions for me because of the way they operate for most of us. They give a fantasy of wholeness whenever we’re really fractured. What I argue is that…

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Is Trying Really Good Enough? ‘The Good Place’ Has a C-word Problem

…person in such a bad and complicated world? And, if so, how? Now in the middle of its last season, the show has hit on its core argument: being a good person is not about moral imperatives and tallying up good-person-points, but rather about trying to be good in everyday life. As the Jamil incident shows, this answer, while potentially hopeful and inspiring, is also limited. By placing so much emphasis on individual acts of goodness, TGP has over…

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The Progress of Christ in Commercial America: A Review of Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult

…rise above all obstacles and can transform myself and succeed against all odds with God’s help; that I can even transcend basic human limitations—suffering, illness, and death—and become God-like in my personal triumph. It’s always about me and “my” God; it’s never about transforming the social conditions that cause so much unnecessary suffering for so many. Lehmann demonstrates how during times of the most acute public suffering, like the depress…

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Andrew Sullivan Really Took This Opportunity to Misread Intersectionality?

…ecent student shut-down of controversial author Charles Murray’s talk at Middlebury College earlier this month. But it was the headline that grabbed our attention: “Is Intersectionality a Religion?” Short answer: no. While Sullivan’s grouchy and dismissive post isn’t likely to knock the earth off its orbit or threaten civilization itself, in the parlance of the day: he just says what other people are thinking. The stakes here are far larger than o…

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Shameful GOP Tax Plan Taxes Reality

…ks of anguished secret writhings among various GOP elements): It’s being peddled as a “middle-class” cut, but is in fact largely an enormous bonanza for the wealthiest: the “middle-class” framing is simply a foil, but a powerful one in the media wars. According to the Tax Policy Center, three-fourths of the plan’s benefits will flow to the top 20% of earners—people making over $149,000. Over the course of ten years, 80% of the benefits flow to the…

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