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Should Evangelical Trump Critics Leave The Movement? Who Cares?

…of adulterous affairs, debauching public morality and justice through the casino and pornography industries.” For decades, evangelicals have overwhelmingly voted Republican, but Trump’s flaws made him an unlikely choice for the group. Trump gathered evangelical support early in the primaries, which continued through July’s nominating convention and through the election—despite multiple high-profile scandals, including his 2005 comments about wome…

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Undercover Bosses as Minor Divinities: What Ever Happened to ‘Take this Job and Shove It’?

…s the despicable way in which we have raised today’s young to buy into the casino mentality, where it’s each for himself or for herself and where learning the art of the con is every bit as important as any real achievement. We coach the best and brightest to slither their way up the greasy pole, while we counsel the dull to become plodding and deferential. We teach both groups to suck up to bosses, albeit in different ways. Third (and obviously s…

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Occupy Judaism: A “Turning Point” in American Judaism

…d by hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt and is funded by, among others, casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. “Those are two people who have made their living by putting other people in the poor house,” Sieradski added. Sieradksi likens this moment of the emergence of Occupy Judaism to the one created when Peter Beinart issued his own indictment of the Jewish establishment, charging that it asked American Jews to “check their liberalism at Zionism’s…

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Putting the “Protest” Back in Protestant: Reclaiming the Spirit of Resistance

…last time white evangelicals spoke out forcefully against the cancer of a casino-based economy—or against state-sponsored gambling in the form of ever-growing state-run lotteries? In Mississippi following Katrina, the good church folk could hardly wait to see those Gulf Coast casinos rebuilt. And then finally we get to what some have called the Religion-Industrial Complex. The RIC’s interlinked agencies represent domesticated Protestantism at its…

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Republican Presidential Candidate Courts Televangelists. So What Else Is New? (Updated with video)

…is unsuccessful 2012 presidential bid when he met with televangelists. The casino mogul isn’t the first Republican (or probably the last) to get cozy with Copeland in particular. In 2008 Mike Huckabee reached out to Copeland as his campaign floundered. At the time, Copeland boasted of being a “rich Jew backed by a richer Jew” and a “billionaire in the kingdom of God.” But Copeland’s influence dates back even further than that. As I reported in my…

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Evangelicals Getting on the Trump Train

…nt prophecies at the presumptive Republican nominee while the unsuccessful casino mogul sprayed insults around the political spectrum (even while having his first heart-to-heart with Paul Ryan). Moore and other evangelical (and Mormon) critics have been taken as a sign that Trump will make limited headway in getting out a vote that is essential for any Republican candidate, Christian conservatives. But the counter-evidence has been mounting for a…

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The Third Jihad, Adelson, and Gingrich

…hari’ah law. Gingrich’s film uses the same star used in The Third Jihad to promote that claim, Zuhdi Jasser, who was also the chief witness in Rep. Peter King’s hearings on “The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community:” Unlike more wild-eyed anti-Muslim agitators like Frank Gaffney (with whom Jasser has collaborated) and Pamela Geller, Jasser comes across as calm, sober and professional. He gained notoriety in 2008, with the rele…

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“Far Too Extreme For America To Accept,” Hamas “Endorsed Obama,” “Forced Abortions,” and More

…e Godless, supported by abortionists, homosexual activists, pornographers, casino gambling, activists calling for legalization of marijuana and the anti-Christian ACLU.” Some of Wheeler’s recent columns at the conservative site Townhall have included “America’s Enemies Prefer Obama,” “Queen of Jihad” (referring to Nancy Pelosi), and “Obama Stimulating Marxist Revolution Using Taxpayer Money.” These, and the ad, are not merely words of political de…

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Romney, Tisha B’Av, and LDS Temples

…that’s making a big push for Jewish voters, with the financial backing of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. On MSNBC this morning, Matt Brooks of the Republican Jewish Coalition was expressing confidence that Obama will have a Jewish problem come election time—based on conversations Brooks has had with Jews around the country who want to . . . have a conversation with the head of the Republican Jewish Coalition. Imagine that! That even Romney’s Jew…

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Updated: Dr. Oz Thinks Anti-Muslim’s Sugar-Daddy Sheldon Adelson is “Not So Bad”

…yens of Islamophobia, Sheldon Adelson. But who can resist that old, smiley Casino tycoon you might ask? Not famed Turkish American Muslim Dr. Mehmet Oz! On the plane ride to Israel, none other than Rabbi Shmuley Boteach interviewed Dr. Oz for the Jerusalem Post. Asked why he chose to come to Israel Dr. Oz replied that it was “an effort to better understand the source of the universal Jewish values that have so positively impacted on the world and…

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