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Bill Gates’ Comments on Covid-19 Vaccine Enflame ‘Mark of the Beast’ Worries in Some Christian Circles

…New Money System 666 (1982), popularized the idea that the Uniform Product Codes (i.e. UPCs or barcodes) were the mark of the beast and would one day be tattooed on human bodies. A trend of ironic barcode tattoos popular in the early twentieth century nods to this idea while commenting on western consumerism. Microchip technology has since replaced the UPC as the most likely candidate for the introduction of a cashless society and thus the mark of…

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High Holidays Watch: Seth Rogen’s Latest Highlights the ‘American Pickle’ of Living with Death

…parents, which he’s never done. On a deeper level, the typical American “happy ending” of the film belies a more profound lesson. Herschel recognizes that life is not only about mourning; and Ben recognizes that life is also about mourning. If all one does is mourn, there’s no relief from one’s anger against God. And if one cannot mourn, there’s no relief from one’s anger against God. The avoidance of death is as frightening as its inevitability….

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The Many, Not the Few: An Anthem for Occupy

…ibition on cell phones, because Makana’s guitar is tuned with a smartphone app. Or, reporters are interested in how Obama, his guests, and security detail responded—or didn’t, as it turned out. But this misses the heart of the story, as Makana’s set at the APEC dinner was less dissenting performance than performative utterance—the songs he played, the protest t-shirt hidden beneath the complaint dinner musician’s suit, and the secretive cell phone…

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The Moral Bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Asceticism

…drives him. He doesn’t go shopping because China ships him clothes and an app brings him wine. He doesn’t buy groceries because UPS delivers his Soylent. All were necessary steps for him to ditch his electricity-sucking appliances so that he could live off the power generated by a solar cell, but what does that say other than that he’s in the privileged position of making other people use his energy for him? Rhinehart certainly means well. Perhap…

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Forgiveness

…k forgiveness from the family and others if not the victim directly. What happened in South Africa was that the family would have the choice to forgive. By forgiving, they raise the perpetrator back up to a level of humanity lost by the act perpetuated. If the family or victim continued to hold a grudge, what actually happens, in a manner of speaking, is they are then brought down to the level of the one who did the offense. This is the logistics…

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Atheists are Americans Too, Vuvuzelas, Etc.

…onservative Christians for his crusade against pornography in the world of Apple.  At least one Indonesian celebrity might agree with Jobs.  Nazril Irham faces 12 years in jail for an alleged sex tape of his that has circulated Indonesia via the web and gotten him into trouble with Muslim authorities.  Instead of porn, many are turning to their iPads for religion.  Need to work on scripture memory?  There’s an app for that.  You can even use your…

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Talking to Noah Screenwriter On Being an Eco-Wacko

…than “the interpretation”. The text is a living thing. It’s a culture of grappling with the text, it’s dynamic. Darren and I come from this world, so that’s how we approached it. But it’s also more freeing as an artist. One thing that you definitely got out of the text was this “environmentalism” angle, which I’d heard about before seeing the movie, but was surprised how present it was in the film. [Noah and his family don’t eat animals, see thems…

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Morality Police, Jihadists, Religious Competition, Grindr, & Americans Abroad: Global LGBT Recap

…solidarity with his antigay Christian peers without endorsing the latter’s appeal to “the African way of life.” Appeals to cultural, as opposed to religious, traditions about sex are especially problematic for Muslim northerners, who are widely rumored among other Nigerians to have a predilection for homosexuality. Notwithstanding their internal contradictions, the convergence of Nigerian Muslim and Christian discourses with respect to homosexuali…

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