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Don’t Overlook Endless War in Rise of ISIS

…s, Zionists aimed to colonize Palestine, and the Russians wanted the Bosphorus. World War I gave them their chance. But let’s focus on Iraq. Largely Indian forces, mostly Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus under British command, seized Baghdad from the Ottomans by the end of the First World War. The modern nation of Iraq was born when the British fused three former Ottoman provinces, with major demographic differences between them, and gifted them to a Kin…

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The Christian Roots of the New Age: The Aquarian Gospel

…nment in the Age of Pisces. Now, on the cusp of the Age of Aquarius, that truth is more readily accessible to all. People today are allegedly more receptive to a message that was too early when Jesus preached it, under the Romans. One hundred years later, we may well have our doubts about that overly confident conviction. The image of Jesus as a spirit-savior, as well as the notion that the essence of the salvation that Jesus provides is knowledge…

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5 Reasons the Muslim Brotherhood Won’t Turn On Israel

world, with grand narratives such as Arab nationalism, Islamism, and Third World liberation often running through one another. The appeal of these ideologies has died for a number of reasons, which I discussed in a previous essay. Before we hyperventilate over the possibility of an Iran on the Nile, let’s keep in mind that the Brotherhood is not the dominant force in these protests, its political ideology is weakly formed, its political vision is…

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Freezing Our Way to a Fiery Hell?

…car in for an oil change. Or that taxes are going to be due soon. And the world warms. Global warming is already changing our lives. The science of climatology seconds the fictional Dr. Malcolm’s observation about chaos—everything affects everything else. The earth’s atmosphere is so complex that overeducated scientists still get the weather forecast wrong. For somebody who can’t even balance his checkbook, the math looks worse than its effects….

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Honey, I Shrunk the Church: The Vatican Manages Sexual Abuse, Canonization and the Nuns

…poor, marginalized, ill, young, or otherwise on the periphery of an unjust world. They are Earth-loving and engaged in structural change to eradicate injustice. Their simple lifestyles and commitments to the poor are well known. Their contributions to theology and ministry, their ways of being responsible adults in mature, loving communities are something for the clergy to emulate, not condemn. Alas, when Cardinal Gerhard Müller made his April 30,…

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Frodo and Mormon Share Stage in South Park Mormon Musical

…st moments and for what will most likely be perceived as its deepest incongruities. The incongruity comes from the ease with which the Ugandans and eventually the missionaries embrace this metaphorical model of religion. The central female character, Nabalungi, takes Cunningham’s stories literally, and against the backdrop of her blighted village sings a wrenching song about reaching the storied paradise, Salt Lake City, where, she imagines, the w…

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God Wants You to Work Harder, and to Stop Complaining

…Preposterous-sounding, perhaps, but maybe this is simply a picture of the world in which we already live. After all, corporations are the most powerful organizations of our day; the last three decades have witnessed drastic deregulation of business practices; and further, financial markets do seem to wield more power than our collective democracy over the quality of our lives. Historically, religion, faith, and spirituality in the United States h…

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GMO or No: Problematic Intersections of Religion, Biotechnology, and Food

…d by Muslims in the Global South, some Hindu communities in the developing world have already adopted types of GM grains due to population and food distribution issues. The Buddha lived in a time when genetic material had not been studied. For that reason, David R. Loy extrapolates on Buddhist teachings to find answers as to whether GM foods would be permissible for Buddhist practitioners. Loy also admits that because Buddhism has such porous boun…

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Beinart’s Indictment And The Evangelical Right

…enever any criticism is leveled at it. From the piece: Among American Jews today, there are a great many Zionists, especially in the Orthodox world, people deeply devoted to the State of Israel. And there are a great many liberals, especially in the secular Jewish world, people deeply devoted to human rights for all people, Palestinians included. But the two groups are increasingly distinct. Particularly in the younger generations, fewer and fewer…

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Mark Driscoll Hate-Tweets as Pope Benedict Flip-Flops: This Week in Religion and Social Media

…ess defines Mark Driscoll, the “gentle voice” of the Holy Father’s for his World Communication Day message is hard to recognize in the tone of his earlier message for World Peace Day on January 1. Here, after another year of astonishing religion-infused violence and hate across the world, and just a week before the Sandy Hook shootings, the Pope laid responsibility the lack of world peace largely at the feet of those who support abortion rights or…

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