Search for "VIPREG2024 1xbet registration promo code 2024 Dominican Republic"

There’s No Business Like the Bible Business: 200 Years of the ABS

By Paul Harvey

…stian nation. While always willing to work with anyone interested in Bible promotion, the ABS, as Fea explains, “has always gravitated towards the particular expression of Christianity that its board and staff believed to be the moral guardians of America’s status as a Christian nation.” A particularly fascinating narrative line of the book is about the ABS’s key role in “innovation, both in American Christianity and the nation as a whole.” Fea de…

Banning the Burqa Isn’t the Answer

By Rushda Majeed

…went on to say that it wouldn’t be welcome “on the territory of the French Republic.” Not surprisingly, his remarks have sparked intense debate among feminists, Muslim activists, liberals, and conservatives. What does the donning of a burqa really mean, or signify? And would banning it achieve what Sarkozy has in mind—the emancipation of Muslim women? The burqa originated and evolved in different contexts. Most people now associate it with Islam,…

Beinart’s Indictment And The Evangelical Right

By Sarah Posner

…tient American Jew no doubt can see for themselves, this is done all while promoting a mythical — and deceptive — vision of Israel as the Middle East’s only democracy and the land of milk and honey, and playing the victim card whenever any criticism is leveled at it. From the piece: Among American Jews today, there are a great many Zionists, especially in the Orthodox world, people deeply devoted to the State of Israel. And there are a great many…

Martyrdom, Racist Violence, and the Role of Art: Kara Walker’s Religious Turn

By Spencer Dew

…g into the hull of slave ship), and tributes to movements such as the 1968 Republic of New Afrika that sought a separate black state within American territory as well as John Africa’s MOVE community (largely destroyed in 1985 with a militarized police action in Philadelphia that destroyed 65 homes). Kara Walker’s work has always spoken the language of urgency—a visceral, force coupled with conceptual strands that the viewer must slowly unravel and…

RDPulpit: The Prophets of Neoliberalism

By Peter Laarman

…rve God and wealth” (Mt. 5:24). Even before the foundation of the American republic, however, getting and spending enjoyed pride of place among the preoccupations of the European émigrés to these shores. Tocqueville and every other visitor from abroad noticed it immediately: These Americans live to work, consume, and accumulate. The possession of great wealth has nearly always been idolized here, not deplored as anti-social. Bill McKibben has obse…

The Hollowness of the Southern Baptists’ New Racism and Sexual Abuse Amendments

By Miguel A. De La Torre

…and sexist largely in their favor and were designed at the founding of the Republic to afford them with unearned power. Absent from their declaration is any commitment to participate in the tedious task of using their white cisgendered privilege to dismantle these same social structures. Racial discrimination is more than a bias disposition; it’s more than simply calling me a “spic.” Racial discrimination also includes the political pronouncements…

“Tell Me What You Believe About Ferguson, and I’ll Tell You What You Believe About God”: A Missouri Pilgrimage

By Anita Little

…ped in St. Louis suburbs dating all the way back to the Manhattan Project. Republic Services, the Fortune 500 company that owns several of the landfills connected to radioactive contamination, insists that adjacent neighborhoods are safe. Rika Tyler of Hands Up United, who said she wouldn’t even give her dog unfiltered city water, feels it’s yet another form of violence inflicted upon the city’s black and brown residents. “When I think of the murd…

Zeroes and Sums: Is It Wrong to Praise Paul’s Positions?

By Peter Laarman

…rom polite conversation of one Ron Paul, the odd-man-out candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. Odd man, because Paul manages to remain his own, oddly-compounded self. No flip-flopping there; what you see with old Ron is pretty much what you get. But there is some rising degree of alarm in the land because Paul’s record is composed of an admixture of good, bad, and ugly. The ugly being mainly his failure to disavow the support of bl…

The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

…onalist Catholics and evangelical Protestants, which in turn catalyzed the Republican Party, legal conservatism has increasingly inhabited the landscapes and language of religious conservatives. At this intersection between legal and religious conservatism, the natural law tradition—with its rubric of rights and wrongs and moral absolutes on matters of sexuality, reproduction, marriage, the family, education, and religious freedom—has exercised en…

Whatever Happens with ‘Roe’ It’ll Be The Consequence of Six Conservative Justices’ Belief in Authoritarian Lies

By John Stoehr

…cially to themselves, to cover for its real purpose—restoring the American republic to a purer, more Eden-like, state of Christian feudalism. Abortion is about far more than a woman’s right to choice or an embryo’s right to life, or whatever framing that’s convenient at a given political moment. As with much else after the election of America’s first Black president, the political movement against abortion is really a political movement against a…