Why the Disappeared Malaysian Airliner Brings Out the Paranormal
…help find the missing airliner by using the power of remote viewing, a form of ESP….
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Finding the Missing Airliner with Coconuts
…at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport and attempted to locate Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 using a magical ritual that combined Islamic elements with shamanic practices. On Thursday Ibrahim Mat Zin, also known as Rajah Bomoh Sedunia Nujum, delivered a press conference (in which he demonstrated a squint that bore an uncanny resemblance to Pat Robertson.) He initially stated that he had been invited to perform his ritual by one of Malaysia’s “…
Read MorePonzi Pastor, Bacon Terrorism, & Spiritual Jewelry
…nwhile, Angle herself warned that Muslim law was taking over cities in the United States. Posting about religion may lose you Facebook friends. Disney is marketing its new movie about the triple-crown winning racehorse, Secretariat, to “faith-based audiences” and offering special screenings to Christian bloggers and reviewers. The market for spiritual jewelry is heating up as more and more celebrities are sporting bracelets and necklaces with reli…
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How We Got to Super: Grant Morrison’s Visionary Gnosticism
…decades, reading pretty much every periodical in French and English back to 1800 as he looked for reports of “super-constructions in the sky” (what we would now call UFOs) and paranormal people. He found plenty of both. In works like The Book of the Damned (1919) and Wild Talents (1932), Fort created an entire super-vocabulary. Here we encounter things like a super-bat, super-biology, super-chemistry, a super-dragon, super-evil, super-geography, s…
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Founding Father John Adams’ Advice to Rick Perry: Don’t Meddle in Religion
…the Founding Fathers in attempts to legitimate his central thesis that the United States is, and was intended to be, a “Christian Nation.” Surely, then, he would approve of the advice I propose to Gov. Perry: In calling for heavenly solutions to earthly problems, the governor might appreciate the observations of our second president, John Adams. Hearing this, a disciple of Mr. Barton might nod approvingly, and point out that Gov. Perry is indeed f…
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Too Hot for Shul: Rabbis Seek Healthy Israel Dialogue After Gaza
…or Human Rights (formerly Rabbis for Human Rights-North America), which has 1800 affiliated rabbis. “Rabbis tend to be more progressive than their congregations and more knowledgeable” about Israel, Jacobs added, but fear losing their jobs, members, and donations, as well as contending with pushback from their more hawkish congregants—who may well be a very vocal minority. Rabbi Eric Yoffie, the past president of the Union for Reform Judaism, wrot…
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Politics in a Fallen World: Lying, Fact-Checkers, and the Future of Civilization
…r greed, deception, and capitalist success…and he’s running for president. For historians, the picture you are painting is determined by where you put the frame. Since I put the frame at 1800, I’m okay. But if I put it at 2016, I might be hanging myself. * * * Also on The Cubit: Donald Trump has turned Islam into the new communism…
Read MoreThe Politically Incorrect Guide to Ramadan
…da: Hotel chain that has been confusing recently-arrived immigrants to the United States since at least 1965. Actually has nothing to do with Ramadan, Shari’ah, or jihad. Except for the verbal associations I’ve just established in your head. Ramadan Mubarak: Ancient and widely forgotten Ramadan greeting, meaning ‘Blessed Ramadan,’ long since replaced by “Ramadan Kareem” (Noble Ramadan), “Ramadan Revolution”, “Ramadan El-Sisi, Savior of the Nation…
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‘We’re all in this together’: The Perils of Kumbaya Rhetoric
…s of color (e.g. despite making up just a third of the state’s population, 70% of the dead in Louisiana have been African American; in Michigan the numbers are 14% and 40% respectively, etc). The crisis has already condemned low-income families to a shocking level of food insecurity, with one-fifth of American kids now at risk of going to bed hungry each night. Many of those forced to work—especially women of color—will sicken and die in a too-rap…
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What Makes a Human Bomb Tick?
…lobally between 1981 and 2011. So how many of these attackers were, in the classic sense, suicidal? Of course it would we be impossible to investigate all them, and Lankford quite reasonably confines his study to the United States for reasons of statistical accuracy. But he never presents any examples of suicide terrorism that don’t fit is model, and I don’t think it’s because they don’t exist. A more disinterested scholar would not be reluctant t…
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