Religion Dispatches
…e Cone’s black theology with Marxism. Here he is wildly off base and his unfortunate tendency to take everything he doesn’t like, slap it on to his chalkboard, draw lines, and call it a connection, gets the better of him. Unfortunately, he doesn’t always do his homework. Unlike many Latin American Liberationists, black theologians, including Cone, actually tend to reject Marxism as a philosophical source. It is too white, too Western and, tends to…
Read More…whether a certain political advertisement published by Plaintiff violates Ohio’s false statement law.” The Ohio Elections Commission proceeding will be one to watch, not just because of the religious right’s concerted campaign to punish anti-choice Democrats — who otherwise have been allies — merely because they voted for the health care bill. The proceeding will likely shed light on how the SBA List and other anti-choice groups have waged a misi…
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…has called women theologians “the strawberries on the cake,” along with a number of other comments insulting to women more broadly, which hasn’t helped minimize doubts on the part of many women about Francis’ ability to see them as full persons. Gina Messina-Dysert, author of the forthcoming Faithfully Feminist, noted that: Francis has made some important, positive comments about women and said it is time to reexamine the role of women in the chu…
Read More…lessen their power, necessarily. Nor does it mean that they become more comfortable to talk about. It certainly does not guarantee that they can be transcended. What conversation does ensure is that we fulfill our responsibility as citizens to deliberate the issues set before us. We may spark and clash all we want, but as long as we’re engaged, we remain connected. And even unpleasant connection remains a better alternative than the most civil of…
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…I don’t for a moment doubt the basics of evolution and thermodynamics. But Myers was not forced by the facts of nature into these beliefs he so forcefully espouses. Instead, he has done exactly what storytellers do: He has told us a story. That is to say, he has added his own stuff. The problem is that not that Myers is telling us all a story, but that he insists he is not. “Reality,” he writes, “is harsh.” His story is the story you absolutely mu…
Read More…US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that a judge in Mansfield, Ohio, James DeWeese, violated the constitution with the “Philosophies of Law in Conflict” poster he placed on his courtroom wall, which compares the “Moral Absolutes of the Ten Commandments” with the “Moral Relatives of Humanism.” But the media and even church-state separation activists missed the real violation when they reported the story. It may well have been the posti…
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This comic is in reference to The Ohio Student Religious Liberties Act of 2019 which, according to the Ohio ACLU is alarmingly vague and unnecessary. Among other things it says that teachers “shall not penalize or reward a student based on the religious content of a student’s work,” though it doesn’t clarify what, exactly, that means in practice. Critics say that a student may be able to claim in a science class that planet Earth is 6,000 years o…
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…polls for months, which meant that Republicans—who couldn’t afford to lose Ohio—spent big money on Vance: Super-PACs aligned with Mitch McConnell spent more than $30 million on the campaign. While Ohio has moved from swing state to red state over the last few years, Arizona has remained purple. While Trump won Arizona in 2016 decidedly, Biden beat him in 2020 by a thin margin. Masters, unlike Vance, was going up against an incumbent in Mark Kelly—…
Read More…istian Reconstructionist Rocky Bayou Christian School (RBCS) in Niceville, Florida to add significantly to their student numbers by attracting students who could not otherwise effort to attend. They also have an entire program to support home schoolers. RBCS uses Rushdoony’s work in their high school classroom and Rushdoony was their first graduation speaker; they teach only young earth creationism and a version of American history that resembles…
Read More…Florida’s permit is the most widely accepted (some 30 states recognize the Florida permit and Florida even issues non-resident permits to non Floridians that are accepted in many states). Florida’s permit is also really easy to get: I called the gun shop up the street that offers the classes and was told you must be 21, have a drivers license, a “clean record,” and take a $49 two-hour course that doesn’t even include any real shooting. Moreover, M…
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