Search Results for:

A00-282 Testking 💾 A00-282 Prüfungs-Guide 🌁 A00-282 Prüfungsmaterialien 🌇 Öffnen Sie ▛ www.itzert.com ▟ geben Sie ⮆ A00-282 ⮄ ein und erhalten Sie den kostenlosen Download 🥢A00-282 Online Test

Before We Scold DeSean Jackson and Others For Anti-Semitism We Need To Talk About ‘Chosenness’

…se public statements which explores their origins and the actual meanings being communicated rather than offering preconditioned responses. ‘Will the ‘real’ children of Israel please stand up’ If we strip both the quote DeSean Jackson shared and Nick Cannon’s podcast comments down to their essential points they reveal the same contentious nature of religious and racial chosenness that pits New World “Others” (Blacks) versus the Old World Others (E…

Read More

We Can’t Have Religious Freedom Without Reproductive Freedom

…ous freedom. But this and other foundational values of democracy have been under siege, as political, legislative and judicial deference is increasingly granted to a narrow band of religious authoritarians we sometimes call Christian Nationalists or Dominionists. (Contrary to stereotype, it’s not just white evangelicals. There are, for example, plenty of allied Catholics who have instigated the otherization and assault on people who don’t share th…

Read More

Good News: Religious Outreach Works On Vaccine Hesitancy. Bad News: We Need It.

…rewards those who have faith with good health and will protect them from being infected with COVID-19 compared to those who say religion is not too important or not important at all in their lives (29% vs. 8%). A highly effective way to move the very religious toward vaccination might be to convince them that in this particular case at least, God helps those who helps themselves. The vaccine is the protection, for them and for everyone around the…

Read More

Synod or Sin Oddly: Vatican Encourages Catholics to ‘Walk Together’ as Long as the Hierarchy Leads the Way and Decides the Route

…many Catholic institutions; where divorced and remarried people are not welcome to share communion; where women who have abortions or become priests are excommunicated. With whom are we companions and co-responsible—and who obeys whom? The ‘process’ calls for local churches to share their insights with their dioceses, then dioceses and other selected groups (for example, religious congregations through their leadership conferences, theological fac…

Read More

Is Tarot Just a Cool Self-Help Deck of Cards?

…created the image of a pure Buddhism that fit the standards of Western Protestant liberal thought, distancing Buddhism from what they perceived as unenlightened elements like appeals to various gods, colorful rituals, and the complex material culture of Buddhism in order to render it palatable and rational for Western use. We’ve seen this phenomenon most recently in the appropriation of mindfulness for Western use. Mindfulness is separated from B…

Read More

FX’s ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’ Adaptation Rejects Reductive Elements of Krakauer’s Book, But Confirms That ‘Mormonism Breeds Dangerous Men’

…hurch had “hidden our truths with their secret combinations.” Allen is our guide to what being a “good Mormon” really means, because he defines it as “extremists” like his brothers. Allen is also an embodiment of the Krakauer-like figure driven by rational skepticism. Upon learning of Mormonism’s true past, he’s ready to dismiss it as a fraud and pronounce its flaws. Then, over seven episodes, he helps Pyre uncover the sickening plot that proved r…

Read More

As Problems for Pregnant People Increase, Catholic Bishops Claim They’re Heroes For Ending Abortion Rights

…ey cannot expect anyone to take them seriously when they nod piously to a “common good” that’s not so common after all. I raise these contradictions not simply for Catholics but for the larger society. The same Catholic bishops who oppose abortion have also led opposition to marriage equality, contraception, and privacy rights, which Justice Clarence Thomas all but teed up as the Court’s next targets. A Catholic theocracy seems to take stronger an…

Read More

Satanic Temple Attorney Discusses Cancelled Scottsdale Prayer Invite

…ion and includes Arizona. In effect, this case could potentially make precedent and guide future municipalities as to what is legal. Scottsdale’s city council voted unanimously to spend $130,000 of the tax-payer’s money to litigate this case. Can you talk about how TST raised money for this case? We sell T-shirts. What ultimately does TST hope to achieve by demanding a right to prayer invocations? What we hope to achieve in the short term is for u…

Read More

Caught in a Fever Dream of Originalism, Can SCOTUS Majority Learn the Lessons of Early America Before it’s Too Late?

…“wall of separation” between governance and religion, but this logic is found repeatedly in our founding documents. From the Declaration of Independence’s admonition that “governments are instituted among men” and not God, to John Adams’ treaty with Tripoli stating that “the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,” the founders echoed clearly and repetitively what, for them and almost all Americans…

Read More

‘Do They Even Read the Bible?’ — Why Exposing White Evangelical Hypocrisy is a Dead End

…r side agrees on what the Bible they’re arguing about even is. The liberal commenter misunderstands how the White evangelical Bible works: Certainly I should assume that the White evangelical means what they say when they speak about the Bible! But the White evangelical Bible isn’t simply a biblical text that speaks to its readers, it’s a complicated assemblage of social, political, and theological assumptions that determine in advance how that te…

Read More