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Overture To Catholics, From an Episcopal Priest

…it seems, carries fresh disclosures about priestly pedophilia in Ireland, Germany, and (most appallingly) at a Catholic school for the deaf in Wisconsin. Sadly enough, priestly pedophilia is old news by now. What’s new, in the opening of court documents that the Vatican sought desperately to suppress, is that the Catholic hierarchy stubbornly refused to deal with these cases in a way that would protect children against further abuse by predatory…

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Arrest the Pope: New Atheist Effort to Seek Justice in Sexual Abuse Crisis Should Be Applauded

…despread sexual abuse throughout Europe—first in Ireland, then in Austria, Germany and other countries—is the third such round of endemic abuse and cover-up. The first was in the 1980s in the United States arising out of charges of abuse in Louisiana; clean-up was, of course, promised. Those charges were followed by the 2002 Boston Globe exposé; clean up was again promised, but the bishops and cardinals responsible are, in one way or another, stil…

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Pastors for Perry?

…ening in America today that has ever taken place is that which occurred in Germany in the 1920s through the 1940s.” White’s a hero on the religious right speaking circuit, for, as the Iowa Christian Alliance put it in 2007, his advocacy for “the importance of being unwavering in our commitment to stand for Biblical values and defend truth in an increasingly postmodern society.” The Restoration/Renewal Projects are based on a model developed in Cal…

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Dispatches From the Site of a Massacre

…amist government, a Muslim nation that’s been a member of NATO longer than Germany or Spain. Many question whether Turkey has now “abandoned” the West; I wonder whether the question itself is more revealing than any presumed answer. Then I’ll head to Bosnia, where America came to the rescue of a Muslim people who resemble puddles left by a receded tide, stranded in a new Europe that has little room in its imagination for them. My journey is deeply…

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In Tea Party Senate Candidate’s Dissertation, A Nostalgia for a Populist Christian Nation

…l faithful countrymen ‘to remember that when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, his first move toward world conquest was the expulsion of religion from the schools.” Becker’s machinations have been largely lost to history, since historians of the period, to Sasse’s dismay, have focused more on the Vietnam War and Civil Rights Movement than on religion. But as Sasse’s narrative proceeds, it becomes clear that despite failing to amend the Consti…

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Punks vs. Monks: Rockers Speak Out Against Genocide in Myanmar

…he country” and has said, “There is a parallel between what we saw in Nazi Germany and what we are seeing today in Burma.” Punks in Yangon are speaking out against the monk-led genocide to international media. The outsider subculture contrasts with the Buddhist Burmese majority, whose strong reverence for monks discourages openly opposing them. Punks’ response also contrasts sharply with that of dissident-turned-party-leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who…

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Olympic Committee Opposes Memorial for Israeli Athletes Killed in Munich

…ity but also the US Senate, President Obama, the governments of Canada and Germany, and, most recently, Bob Costas in shouting a collective, outraged “WTF” at the International Olympic Committee for refusing to hold a minute of silence in memory of the eleven Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics forty years ago. I have yet to hear any rationale for the IOC’s intransigence on this point. Whatever one thinks of Israel, Palestine, an…

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Pastors Urged to Defy IRS to Defeat Evil, Hitlerian Obama

…e.” He cited Bonhoffer looking the evil of Naziism in the face in Hitler’s Germany. Americans, he said are being “trampled” by the “secular left” because churches and pastors have “stopped defending the truth fearlessly.” Hagee said “We as a people need to become bold and aggressive.” “This is my mantra to my congregation and to America,” said Hagee. “Vote the Bible.”  More specifically, he said, it was impermissible to vote for the Democratic Par…

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Electionpocalypse, Part I (Christianity)

…that failing to go out to vote for Romney would be like being a pastor in Germany in the 1930s and failing to try to stop the Holocaust. Meanwhile, Charisma magazine appears to be the Grand Central Station of election prophecy. On its pages, publisher Stephen Strang has posted his Romney endorsement, along with some dire warnings by other “prophetic” voices, like Franklin Graham, who warned: “This could be America’s last call to repentance and fa…

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From Confusion to Kardashian: Misreading the Middle East

…l, against the rest of the planet (a world map only underlines this). Even Germany, a historically strong supporter of Israel, chose to abstain instead of voting no, as it was expected to.  Hence an undisputed Israeli military victory was also a diplomatic defeat. Writing for the London Review of Books, Adam Shatz explained Israel didn’t win the short war. (How Gazans saw it deserves consideration.) Britain and France have even mooted withdrawing…

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