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Far-Right Evangelicals And The Campaign Against Obama

By Frank Schaeffer

…achel Maddow has helped bring the whole issue of subversive far-right evangelical religion to a wider public (and gotten some flak for it). But in the light of the Obama presidency—and the rabid right-wing opposition to it—it’s worth noting that the majority of the lies being told about our president, his programs, and the Democratic Party are originating not just from the right wing but from the evangelical right wing in particular. Destroying th…

You Are More Than Your Brain: A Revolutionary Theory of Consciousness

By John Stoehr

…rinted on, you can’t understand the mind of a germ by looking only at its relatively simple makeup. “Once you see the organism as a unity, as more than just a process,” Noë writes, “you are, in effect, recognizing its primitive agency, its possession of interests, needs, and points of view. That is, you are recognizing its incipient mindfulness.” A stunning illustration of the fact that consciousness does not arise from the brain alone but from th…

Gambian Voters Reject Anti-Gay Strongman Jammeh; Activists Ponder Trump Impact on LGBT Human Rights; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…el also included activists from Indonesia, Thailand and Burma. The ILGA panel, held at the British embassy and supported by Stonewall U.K., was organized by APCOM, a Bangkok-based coalition of campaign groups from across the region. “Asia and the Pacific have seen recent successes, and some major steps backwards, on LGBTI rights,” said Midnight Poonkasetwattana, executive director of APCOM. “We are here to celebrate the gains and mourn the losses….

American Brokenness: A Lament

By Daniel Schultz

…romises could never be kept. We can say, following Buber, that the myth of eliminationism is a delusion; which does not mean that its proponents are deluded, only that “with their speech they breed ‘delusion’ in their hearers, they spin illusions for them.” It is not strictly true that liars believe one thing and say another, as Buber argues. Often enough, as with sexual peccadilloes, this is the case. But many times, the liars believe the falseho…

The “Religious Freedom” President is Gutting the Rest of the 1st Amendment

By Sunnivie Brydum

…tself, and if one of Trump’s preferred Supreme Court nominees is confirmed, the nation may be in for a religious reckoning, where not burdening “sincerely held beliefs” categorically outweighs protecting civil and human rights….

What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ying to free myself? They know that Michelle Obama isn’t a racist and that their vulgar shit has nothing to do with it. But it feels good. It’s the gross thoughts. What if, what if, instead of trying to set myself free to organize with others to make a new Youngstown… What if I just stayed in the dark? It says a lot about the love of the strongman. The way the guns, a weapon, make you feel something….

Modernity’s Fraternity: What Dan Brown Gets Right

By Samuel Biagetti

…The lodges also acted as little schools of government, training new, local elites in elections and legislative procedures. The influence of Masonry was part of the process that democratized and liberalized Europe and North America through a wave of revolutions. The Masonic faith laid the foundations for modern ideology: belief in each person’s and each nation’s right to run their own affairs, in the unlimited power of the human intellect, in the c…

Beverly Cleary, Author of the Ramona Series, Understood Children, Shoes, School, Words, and How it Feels to be Heard, or Misunderstood

By Amy Laura Hall

…social media: Simply LIKING children is not as common as people assume. I felt intensely when I was growing up that a lot of adults—relatives, teachers, neighbors— really hated kids, and tried to disguise it with a lot of for-your-own-good lecturing and gratuitous punishment, plus nasty aggressive humor that was supposedly “just kidding.” Meeting a benevolent adult was always a great relief to me. Cleary was benevolent, and genuinely seemed to lik…

Persecution, Betrayal, and the Zero Sum Fight for Global Domination — Day 1 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…“revival of faith, family and fertility,” while deriding “[anti-populist] elites in Brussels and Washington” along with “our atomised, feminized, self-obsessed culture where autonomy is the holy grail.” The throughline of the opening remarks of both DeMuth and his fellow NatCon leader, Yoram Hazony, was that National Conservatism had arrived and taken charge of the conservative movement in the US. “People on the neo-marxist woke Left will be call…

God’s Obituary: A Humanist Response to Mass Murder

By Anthony B. Pinn

…f self-understood progressive theists. How many times have you heard from well-meaning believers something along the lines of: “we can’t understand God’s plan”? Or, “God understands our pain in this moment and will work justice”? Lodged in such responses is an age-old assumption that suffering can produce larger, positive, consequences on both the personal and communal level. Too much attention to the Book of Job or the highlighting of the deat…