Religion Dispatches
…th whom and still do God’s work. Yes, it’s a big deal but so is the war in Iraq, public education, the environment, New Orleans, poverty, and the imperial presidency. At times, I wonder if it’s an easier fight than the ones with less obvious (depending on your side) heroes and villains. Evidently Garret Keizer agrees: “How does a Christian population implicated in militarism, usury, sweatshop labor, and environmental rape find a way to sleep at ni…
Read More…ut a “Christocrat,” Perry included him in a controversial 2005 Sunday bill-signing ceremony. The governor, with Parsley, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, and Don Wildmon of the American Family Association on hand, signed a parental notification bill and a gay marriage ban into law at the Fort Worth Calvary Christian Academy. Parsley graced the ceremonies with the statement that gay sex is “a veritable breeding ground of disease.” Perry…
Read More…ned, all the examples that first came to mind started with the letter “I”: Iraq, Israel, India, Indonesia. Of course I quickly thought of exceptions to the rule, like Lebanon, Sri Lanka—and the United States of America. Europeans tell us that they don’t understand why we insist on bringing religion into politics. Their situation is certainly different from ours; according to a 2005 poll, only about half of the people in EU member countries “believ…
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…answer (amazing what trading on your considerable reputation in a disingenuous presentation widely credited for pushing the nation over the edge into an invasion of Iraq will do to your poll numbers). Second and third were George W. Bush and John McCain, respectively….
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…or she knows to be the case. (3) This false utterance is performatively designed to persuade the listener that it is true. And finally, (4) the lie can be called successful if it fools the listener. Typical politicians like Clinton conform, by and large, to this model whenever they varnish or warp the truth. Trump seems to be different. It is not clear that he deliberately dissembles in order to persuade someone else of what he knows is not the c…
Read More…ed to London as political refugees from oppressive, militant state such as Iraq and Iran. And then there’s the US — the suggestion on the number of Latino births is, as far as a I can tell accurate, however, they author of this video doesn’t mention that migrant Latinos are over 90% Christian! And the quote from Momar Qaddafi? no where to be found on the whole internet, except in blog posts quoting this video—there’s too many news sources out ther…
Read More…the violence as an act of faith. Now, I speak out against the bombings in Iraq, because the loss of innocent life is abhorrent to any believing Muslim. I decry the violence as an act of faith. I am against the destruction in Afghanistan, because the loss of innocent life is abhorrent to any believing Muslim. I decry the violence as an act of faith. I was outraged at the Mumbai attacks, because the loss of innocent life is abhorrent to any believi…
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…96 fraud conviction, convicted again in 2006 of stealing $3.6 million from Iraq, with which he purchased, among other luxuries, grenade launchers, and Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, the C.I.A. executive director indicted this past spring for fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering. And yet, if there is this sense in those newly expanded liberal circles that the Republican Party is broken, shattered from within, there remains dangerous confusion about its ra…
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…declared: “President Bush rightly spoke of an axis of evil, but it is not Iraq, North Korea, or Iran. It consists of environmental degradation, pandemic poverty, and a world awash with weapons.” For Caldwell these are not real problems. It is cultural values, the immigrant challenge to them, and above all, the Islamic offense to European norms and values that is the greatest change, the ‘revolution’ that is sweeping Europe and sweeping aside its…
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…e more successful. Morris Sadek, another US-based Coptic Christian, helped promote the film on his website, and may have been the one who arranged for a translation into Arabic and the promotion of the video in Cairo. In Egypt and throughout the Muslim world, the filmmakers finally received the negative publicity and public protests that they’d sought all along. But although many Muslims were offended by the tawdry mocking of their Prophet in the…
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