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Zeitgeist A Blend Of Skepticism, Metaphysical Spirituality, and Conspiracy

By Michael J. Altman

…ri Chinmoy Ghose: “When the Power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” Trungpa Rinpoche, Ram Das, and Ghose provide a dose of spiritual humanism that bookends a film filled with conspiracy narratives of corruption and manipulation. Christianity, religion, war, economies; these are all meant to divide and conquer humanity, the film argues, and the solution to the suffering they cause lies in a metaphysical vision of univ…

The Two Mythologies Behind True Detective Come Crashing Down in Finale

By Joseph Laycock

…one of those mythologies won in spectacular fashion. Nic Pizzolatto constructed True Detective’s plot from a pair of sources, the first of which occurred in Ponchataoula, Louisiana, in 2005, when a former pastor told police that his church had turned from “Jesus to the devil.” He claimed they’d been holding Satanic rituals for years that involved animal sacrifice and the molestation of children. Or, as Jezebel put it in its headline, “Did a Horr…

Come Hell or High Water: How the Melodrama of Disaster Leaves Us Vulnerable

By Noah Berlatsky

…minor events. When Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia died, for example, news organizations ran headlines such as “Scalia’s Death May Have Saved the Planet.” Scalia was hostile to Obama’s climate change regulations, and the odds that those regulations would be declared unconstitutional dropped greatly when he died. But alterations in the makeup of the Supreme Court can’t change the fact that we’ve already pumped massive amounts of CO2 into the a…

Jerusalem Countdown: Christian Zionists and the New Israeli Government

By Bill Berkowitz

…rld as we know it is rapidly approaching,” Hagee wrote in his 2006 book, Jerusalem Countdown: A Warning to the World. “Just before us is a nuclear countdown with Iran,” he wrote, “followed by Ezekiel’s war [as described in Ezekiel, chapters 38 and 39], and then the final battle—the battle of Armageddon.” The same year, Hagee founded Christians United for Israel, one of the largest Christian grassroots movements in America. It hosts a yearly July W…

Time for Jews to Abandon the Old Foundation Myth of Israel?

By Ira Chernus

…ntransigent, prejudging outcomes, and inflicting defeats on your opponent. Breaking any of these rules, and certainly all three of them, dooms the negotiation to be fruitless from the outset. Thus, the call for “substantive” negotiations sows the seed of a new Jewish myth, whose basic elements are just the opposite of the old one: Jews and gentiles have to live together; they are inextricably woven together in a single web of relationship, what Ma…

ISIS Claims Responsibility for Orlando Massacre; Legal Gray Area in Jordan Amid Rising Fundamentalism; Push and Pull on LGBT Human Rights at UN; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ion that would have called for the decriminalization of homosexuality and drug use. Russia was joined by Iran, Poland, and several Gulf states in blocking the decriminalization language from being included in a resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly on June 8 that called for ending the AIDS pandemic by 2030. The UN’s Human Rights Council is scheduled to meet this week; BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder reports: A group of five South American countrie…

Reexamining the Shaky Theology That Gives Humans ‘Dominion’ Over All Creation

By Timothy Beal

…its very first letter, the bet (“b” sound), in relation to the rest of the word, re’šit. This word can be taken either as a noun, “beginning,” or as a verb, “began.” If you read it as a noun, as the Greek and Latin translations did, then you take the bet as a preposition, “in,” and you get a simple declarative sentence familiar from the King James Version translation: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” Full stop. What follows…

The Tea Party are Sodomites

By Jay Michaelson

…as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. Amos 4:1-11: Hear this word, children of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. Over and over again, Sodom is linked with oppression of the poor, crushing the needy, and ethical wickedness—never sexual immorality. Indeed, in…

Whose House? Their House: Just Who Was Held Accountable for the 1/6 Insurrection is Telling

By Susannah Crockford

…ter and Facebook, which has drastically limited the reach of his poisonous words. And while Trump continues to support his wealthy and connected accomplices, such as Bannon (whom he pardoned on unrelated charges) and Meadows, he hasn’t stood up for his supporters who face prison and/or financial penalties because of his words. The consequences of the violence on Jan 6 have been meted out unequally. Those facing prison and financial penalties are t…

To Get Through This Time We’ll Have to Shred the ‘Racial Contract’ and Choose Solidarity Over Sacrifice

By Christophe D Ringer

…of the planning commission in Antioch, California suggested letting the virus run its course to kill the weak, elderly and homeless in order to relieve health care and Social Security costs. These perspectives are not outliers. We’re in the grasp of the politics of death over whose lives can be sacrificed (just as Black Lives Matter protesters across the nation). It did not and does not have to be this way. There’s still time to choose solidarity…