Religion Dispatches
…eople with guns to kill people with guns—he revealed himself here to be clearly oblivious to the downward spiral of that logic. The other point he made is that the shooting was the result of an attack on Judeo-Christian heritage. One commenter noted that the association of Judeo-Christian heritage with Batman seems forced. The stories of the Golden Age of Comics were written primarily by Jews, who brought their historical memories into their work…
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…from international bodies. The bill-drafted by all four Russian parliamentary parties – will allow the country to over turn any decision handed to them by the European Court of Human Rights. Earlier this year, the Supreme court of Russia established that no international treaty held precedence over national sovereignty and any international decision meted out would only be upheld if it didn’t contradict basic Russian law. Speaking at the Russian…
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…eligion itself, then, becomes a drug, at least for the formerly-addicted. Karl Marx, as is well known, recognized religion’s potential to do just that, in labeling religion “the “opium of the people.” Marx is usually taken to have meant that religion is delusional and dangerous, as it dulls our senses like a drug. Both drugs and religion can, certainly, have negative effects, but the metaphor is more ambivalent. Himself a regular opium user, Marx…
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…w which understands its adherents as being soldiers engaged in “spiritual warfare” against the “demons” of the Democratic Party, the LGBTQ rights movement, Planned Parenthood, Black Lives Matter, universities, media, the medical establishment and so on. There are dangerous consequences to such demonization. Andrew Seidel recently told RD’s Chrissy Stroop that Christian Nationalism “created a moral permission structure that granted the insurrection…
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…therings, and become a defensive force against the Bund. Lansky in particular learned a lesson about the necessity of violence in defense of Jews while witnessing his Grodno Jewish community (in what is now Belarus) prepare for a rumored Christian pogrom. Nakam: The Holocaust Survivors Who Sought Full-Scale Revenge Dina Porat Stanford U. Press Nov, 2022 Bernstein traces these early Jewish criminals to the story of the Golem, a violent, amoral mons…
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…te: Jewish organizations, like a faithless and atheistic version of the Maharal of Prague, have contributed to the creation of a golem—the abomination of BLM and mass immigration. And now, through attacks, propaganda, violence, and chaos [referring to the rise in antisemitism since October 7], the golem is rising against its creators…face it, leftist Jews, your resentment towards historic [White Christian] America, or at best your starry-eyed idio…
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…on Friday and will be confirmed as prime minister on June 13. Australia: Margaret Court charges Americans with financing conspiracy against her A feud between former tennis greats continued, with Martin Navratilova calling for the Margaret Court Arena to be renamed for former aboriginal tennis star Evonne Goolagong after Court publicly opposed marriage equality and declared she would boycott Qantas airline “where possible” to protest the company’…
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…o contribute their own unique talents and visions to the event. My particular art form is the academic study of religion and the practice of writing, so I see this book as my way of participating with the community. What is the most important take-home message for readers? Part of my intention has been simply to tell the story of Burning Man and to shed light on its immense ritual diversity. But ultimately I hope to challenge comfortable assumptio…
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…I took away from the discussion was more about my perspective as a former card-carrying member of the Christian Right, and how our different worldviews shaped our ability to see the teen movie trip as a problem. From inside the “hedge of protection”—a Christian ghetto undisturbed by competing viewpoints—the pastors could not fathom 2016: Obama’s America as blatant propaganda. But after Miranda asked whether I had myself seen the movie I was compla…
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…w your audience. This oversize sample inadvertently gives away the credit card number of some eight-five million men, most of whom live in Egypt. ⬆ Earlier on this day, I saw a South Asian gentleman crossing an eight-lane highway while drinking a cup of tea out of a white ceramic mug. He took his time, pausing between lanes to let cars whiz by (at roughly 70 miles per hour) and took measured sips to pass the time, enjoying his hot and fresh caff…
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