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Searching for Sex, Life and Abortion on Catholic Google

…om saves us from that blasphemy! The same happened when I searched “stem cell research,” “sex,” “life” and “abortion.” All the articles reinforced the institutional Catholic Church stance on the subjects. Surprisingly, the editors of this site must have forgotten to block out those renegade progressive Catholics (note the sarcasm). When I searched for “women’s ordination” two pro-women’s ordination groups, Roman Catholic Women Priests and Women’s…

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“Japan Gave Us Pokemon, God Gave Them an Earthquake”

…purported 2012 “end of the world” to explain the seismic activity. I’ve collected a sample of these below for you to see through Google’s real-time twitter feed. From the small sample, it’s safe to say there is a “fatalistic” understanding that natural disasters are about sin or God’s wrath. Even insurance companies think so, placing the phrase “Acts of God” as a catchall for everything unexplainable and destructive. Disasters seem to bring out s…

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But What Did We Learn? Hate-Watching the First Clinton/Trump Debate

…ing new to see in tonight’s debate, that I hadn’t intended to watch it at all. It seemed unlikely that I’d learn anything new about either candidate’s positions, and the inevitable rage-out hardly seemed worth it. But then I agreed to write a response, which meant finding a way to engage with something I was pretty sure would be a predictably unhelpful exercise in political theater. What’s a disenchanted voter to do? Hate-watch the debate on Twitt…

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Yes, It Can Be Hard to Be an Atheist in America; Now We Have the Data

…to a friend who lives in New York the other day, he was skeptical. Practically everyone he knows is an atheist, he says, as if this were the most natural thing in the world. As someone who grew up in central Indiana and Colorado Springs, where I was sent to evangelical schools, his attitude both bemused and concerned me. The disconnect just serves to illustrate that how one answers this question may vary wildly depending on where one sits—in some…

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Putin’s Violent Holy War Rhetoric Made it to the Christian Right Fringe — And There’s Reason to Believe it’ll Go Mainstream

…les has long been focused on the concept of antichrist, using it traditionally to peddle unusually violent antisemitic rhetoric, especially against Israel. He has said, “The antichrist system will be Israel,” connecting it to artificial intelligence, or a 2017 comment that, “the Man of Perdition, the one that you call Antichrist, I personal believe he will be a homosexual Jew.” Unsurprisingly he’s peddled QAnon conspiracies—also an apocalyptic fan…

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Theology Fail in Christian Statement on Israel, Judaism, Palestine

…broiled in a painful and divisive debate. The just-released statement “A Call to Action: A U.S. Response to Kairos Palestine” offers a Christian theological critique of the state of Israel and the Jewish religious beliefs that supposedly buttress its policies. Unlike the much-publicized Kairos Palestine statement from 2009, to which this new statement responds, the authors of Kairos USA are American Christian theologians, activists, and church lea…

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Mormon Statement on Feminism is Relevant and Timely… But Only by Coincidence

…ut feminism—along with the “gay-lesbian movement” and questions from “so-called scholars or intellectuals”—were singled out by Elder Boyd K. Packer in his 1993 “Talk to the All-Church Coordinating Council” as especially dangerous to the church precisely because the issues they raise matter to Latter-day Saints, who may feel that “the Church somehow is doing something wrong to members or that the Church is not doing enough for them.” According to E…

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How the Study of Evangelicalism Has Blinded Us to the Problems in Evangelical Culture

…arrying Jesus is my Savior, Trump is my President and other such banners filled the news. “What happened? Why were so many people drawn to somebody who was obviously so not connected to what evangelicals believe by his life or his practices or more?” The sentiment is a familiar one. The mix of astonishment, bewilderment, and concern it contains has come to define people’s reaction to the unwavering support that the majority of those who identify a…

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The Religious Origins of Fake News and ‘Alternative Facts’

…d a pedophilia ring involving members of the Democratic Party, including Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta. Podesta’s emails—released by WikiLeaks, and probably hacked by Russia—revealed phrases like “cheese pizza” and other code words for child sex-trafficking. Hillary Clinton herself may have been involved. The ring seemed to include Satanic rituals. The Clinton campaign was engaged, on the side, with running a child sex-trafficki…

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At Launch Rally in Waco, Former President Sets the Stakes for Trump ’24 Campaign with Apocalyptic, Violent, Genocidal Rhetoric

Donald Trump’s Waco rally this past weekend was, in the end, filled with echoes of the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian compound—just not the kind we like to talk about. And, despite the New York Times profile of the Q-adjacent pastor Charles Pace, who lives on the site of the former Branch Davidian compound,* and his lurid quotes (“Donald Trump is the anointed of God… He is the battering ram that God is using to bring down the Deep State of Bab…

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