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Scope Bacon, Twttr Hoaxes & Joel Osteen’s Big Reveal

By Deborah Whitehead

…o spread it—the self-justifying, logical circularity of “news” and an (at least initial) inability for users to distinguish between credible news outlets and non-credible ones—that contributed to the plausibility of the announcement. Third, a good hoax hovers on the edge of believability. Like Scope Bacon, Google Nose Beta, or a Martian invasion, a well-crafted prank should have a solid media penetration (multiple and interlinked sources) and just…

“Muslim Gospel” Revealing the “Christian Truth” Excites the Da Vinci Code Set

By Annette Yoshiko Reed

…im to the death of the cross. So they led him to Mount Calvary, where they used to hang malefactors, and there they crucified him naked, for the greater ignominy. Judas truly did nothing else but cry out: ‘God, why hast thou forsaken me, seeing the malefactor hath escaped and I die unjustly?’ By this account, God saved the righteous Jesus and punished the wicked Judas. It is those who do not trust in God to intervene, in fact, who are said in the…

ESPN Commentator says BYU Not Guilty of “Institutional Racism”

By Joanna Brooks

…mer athletes of color who had a positive experience with BYU and the Honor Code: “If Darron Smith wasn’t so hell bent on exposing BYU, the Church and the honor code office as racists, he’d find out that for every Thomas Stancil, Tico Pringle and Ray Hudson, there’s a Brandon Davies, Reno Mahe and Brian McDonald, the latter of which recovered from an alcohol-related probation, joined the Church and served a mission to Washington, DC.” Sikahema’s fu…

What in the Name of the Crusades are Tennessee Evangelicals Doing in Kurdish Iraq?

By Bill Berkowitz

…ect. It is currently operational in Central America, Uganda and the Middle East. Otis’ history in Middle East dates back more than two decades to when his father George Otis Sr., a close friend of Ronald Reagan and former Lear Jet executive, set up the High Adventure radio ministry in Lebanon in 1980. Otis put the station in the hands of Christian Falangists during the Israeli occupation. The US State Department tried to shut him down without succ…

‘Spooky Action’ of Quantum Physics Offers an Alternative Frame for War in the Middle East and the 2024 Election

By Peter Schwartz

…on—one thing may be connected to another but doesn’t necessarily occur because of the other. Correlation implies many causes for a single outcome, which makes it difficult to establish clear causal lines. Quantum entanglement is different—it implies no causes for the parallel behavior of particles across spacetime. Which is what makes it “spooky.” Likewise, within complex cultures and societies, strict causation models tend to break down or prove…

Why the Obama/Hillary Clinton Approach to Middle East Peace is Doomed to Failure

By Rabbi Michael Lerner

There is little chance that peace can be brought to the Middle East unless it is imposed on both Israel and Palestine by the international community. Calling for an International Peace Conference and an immediate cease-fire ought to be the first foreign policy priority for the Obama Administration. Instead, Secretary of State nominee-designate Hillary Clinton’s remarks to the Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday committed the Obama Administrati…

Dilemmas of American Empire: Can Obama Pull Off a Game-Changer in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan?

By Gary Dorrien

…that the U.S. has enabled Iran to become the dominant force in the Middle East. The Shiites are embittered by decades of Sunni tyranny in Iraq and centuries of Sunni dominance in the Middle East. Arab Shiites have not tasted power for centuries, and Iraqi Shiites are determined to redeem their ostensible right to rule Iraq that was denied them in 1920. Both sides and the Kurds have militia groups that are the real powers in Iraq. The main thing t…

Hungarian Mayor Wants to Import White Christians, Ban Muslims & LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…that Deputy Health Minister Hamis Kingwangala “ordered three men who he accuses of being gay to report to police for questioning—or risk arrest.” Same-sex sexual activity is forbidden and punishable by life imprisonment under a section of the criminal code forbidding “offences against morality.” South Korea: Activists denounce LGBT-free education guidelines LGBT equality activists called on the Education Ministry to do away with new sex education…

Trump Order A ‘Death Sentence’ For Some LGBT Refugees? Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nders” and people living with HIV/AIDS. The law sparked a fresh round of house-to-house searches and arrests. Nigeria: Challenges of living under ‘Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act’ The Nigerian Tribune features a story on the challenges facing the country’s LGBT community: Nigeria’s Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act, of 2013, which took effect in January 2014, made a bad situation much worse for the already subdued Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and…

Indonesian Court Rejects Religious Conservatives’ Bid To Criminalize Gay Sex; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…he petitioners were in effect asking the court to formulate a new criminal code because they feared parliament would took take too long to enact changes wanted by the Family Love Alliance. But, in a sign of the challenges that continue to face LGBT people, Associated Press reported on December 15 that a court “has sentenced 10 men arrested in a raid at a gay club and sauna to between two and three years in prison, an activist and a relative of one…