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This is No Ordinary Anti-Blackness — The Racist History of the Pet-Eating Conspiracy

…odou, which are unfounded and are more likely a consequence of repressed sexual expression in Christianity. Moreover, the late Paul Farmer and other researchers have demonstrated that it was actually Western foreigners traveling to Haiti for sex tourism that first introduced HIV/AIDS to the Caribbean nation. This latest episode reveals a deep-seated Afrophobia, anti-Haitianism, and religious racism against custodians of nature-based African-herita…

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Is Alcoholics Anonymous a Religion?

…eve in, it’s not always clear what we should believe in. Granted, not all experience the West as disenchanted, but experiences of suffering and despair (addiction being one of many) can make a person sense acutely that they lack meaning in their life. AA members often say that they came to the program to stop drinking, but that they stayed to grow spiritually. Whether we read this as evidence of cultish brainwashing or a symptom of our disenchante…

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#Occupy: A Deeper Form of Protest?

…ously is. If we still had a Democratic Congress, we’d have a much fairer tax code (plus better health care, plus a thousand other things). But okay, that’s me. When I look at vast movements in history—fascism, socialism, American capitalism—they arise out of contexts that were, themselves, created by lots of large-scale circular movements which are impossible to trace precisely. Who knows, perhaps the collective weight of Occupy-style consciousnes…

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How Fitbit Helps a Conservative Evangelical College Monitor Students’ Bodies For Christ

…obacco, wearing provocative clothing, and engaging in premarital and homosexual sex. Bob Jones University actually prohibited interracial dating up until 2001. Oral Roberts believed that the survival of his own namesake university depended on its honor code, which mandated not just chasteness and academic honesty, but also that students “practice good health habits and regularly participate in wholesome physical activities.” ORU, like other evange…

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In Crisis, Catholic Church Plays ‘The Jew’

…nd, to take it a step further, from a refusal to consider that the robust expression of adult sexuality might be good for the soul). Beyond that, there is the fact that the Catholic Church itself is one of the all-time leading instigators and purveyors of anti-Jewish sentiment, though this circumstance has been blessedly altered over the past half century. But, again in the words of my congregant, himself a passionate participant in Catholic-Jewis…

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Jerry Falwell Jr. Is Corrupt, but Liberty U’s Problems Go Far Deeper

…contracts to family friends; and how he ordered his staff to violate IRS tax code. Falwell’s been able to get away with such behavior partly because he doesn’t fear his board of trustees, which is essentially just a collection of close friends of the family. As noted above, Mark DeMoss, the one trustee who did speak up in disagreement of Falwell’s endorsement of Trump, was immediately removed from the board—a testament to Falwell’s Trumpian fragil…

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Miracle Whip: Pope John Paul II, Self-Punishment, and The Fast Track To Sainthood

…e more romanticized visions of sexuality are communicated, the limits on sexual expression and experience are unchanged. Sexuality still needs to be controlled or it leads to sin and death. Catholic Cover-ups At the very time that Pope John Paul II was reinforcing the limitations of erotic desire and whipping his own body in order to unite his soul with Christ, the public at large was being introduced to the problem of pedophilia within the Americ…

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Is Michelle Obama Out of Line?

…ultural ideas about black women. She represents neither the fun loving, asexual, selfless, nurturing “mammy” figure, nor its opposite: the hypersexual, unscrupulous “jezebel” type. She is nobody’s “hardcore ho” or “big mama,” as it were. Unable to place her in any prefabricated role, she is unsettling to much of the American electorate. She is an autonomous black woman as humanly complex as the rest of us (which is not to say that “she has issues,…

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Religious Discrimination and the Violence Against Women Act

…der identity (as defined in paragraph 249(c)(4) of title 18, United States Code), sexual orientation, or disability, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity funded in whole or in part with funds made available under [VAWA], and any other program or activity funded in whole or in part with funds appropriated for grants, cooperative agreements, and other assistance…

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What’s Huntsman’s Game Plan?

…ion and, intriguingly, that he “adds to that diversity,” which is probably code for a less-than-orthodox approach to the faith. Huntsman is helped also by the fact that whereas Mormonism may be the most intriguing thing about candidate Romney, candidate Huntsman plays rock-and-roll and rides motorcycles. 3. He needs to show well in New Hampshire, but it’s South Carolina he is banking on. His campaign team is already heavy with recycled McCain pers…

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