Religion Dispatches
…by priests during consecration at mass. Francis and the church’s continuous denial of this history and the shifts occurring all around them means the Catholic church is not a house of stone, it’s a house of cards. And more denial of women’s vocations will only exacerbate the danger of its total collapse….
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…total personnel costs of $12,047,038, though church leaders continue to refuse requests to release the salaries of individual staff members. According to reliable sources, this breakdown would reveal massive discrepancies between the compensation of executive elders and that of staffers who must supplement their church income with food stamps. Also, a quick review of Mars Hill* indicates that the executive elders and not the church are listed as m…
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…thedral. By the grace of God I am alive. My people are being hunted down house-to-house, arrested, tortured, and bombarded by their own government. Our homes, aid centers, and churches have been burned down and the Nuba people are being trampled down. In the months prior to the invasion of Abyei, there were many signs of what was to come: Military equipment—tanks, planes, helicopters and more positioned near the border, as well as looting and burn…
Read More…as Heschel noted, implied that the Dracula character was a Jew, Geller accused Palin’s critics of being the blood-suckers. Perhaps for that and countless other reasons, Geller could use a refresher course on the history of anti-Semitism. Geller shares a victim complex with Palin: each simultaneously declared herself a victim of those who would falsely accuse her of the worst possible crime, while elevating her own self-invention as a prophet soun…
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…mporary US context. It’s not impossible to imagine a scenario in which confused politicians would assert that their new way of being for organized labor is to be against the First Amendment, all in the name of honoring a religiously-informed solidarism that has long since left the building. This merits a degree of worry because passionate advocates like Lew Daly leave no doubt that by “enfranchisement” for religious groups, they mean upgraded lega…
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…sed mastermind of last summer’s white Christian supremacist mass-murder in Norway, as an “accurate” thinker. And called for the deportation of Muslims. And described Nazism as the invention of “homosexual thugs.” And blamed the genocide of American Indians on the alleged immorality of indigenous people. And, most recently, Fischer argued that the First Amendment does not apply to non-Christians, including (and perhaps especially) Mormons. That’s…
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…grandmother had wheels, she’d be a bus. And there is no explanation or excuse for what Lankford writes of Anders Breivik, who massacred 77 people in Norway last year, most of them teenagers: Instead of trying to prevent Europe’s “cultural and demographical suicide,” Breivik should have listened to the King of Pop. As Michael Jackson explained in his critically acclaimed song “Man in the Mirror,” sometimes the best way you can help others is to “t…
Read More…moment. Because most of the people that are in the leadership positions are afraid to speak the plain truth because of the media….We’re not against gay marriage and gay adoption because they’re just bad public policy. We’re against them because homosexuality itself is harmful to the people who practice it and to society….
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…ething of a free-for-all quality, to a Nazi rally. Really. Security is confused, because while the event has ceased to be the lecture it never got a chance to be, no clear red lines have been crossed. Or the College just doesn’t like Geller enough to intervene. 7:50 Geller retreats to a soundtrack of chanting students: ‘Don’t come back! Don’t come back!’ They’re beaming, exultant in their accomplishment, slapping each other’s backs, laughing and c…
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…n,” in which whites were victims rather than aggressors. At the Runestone Museum in Alexandria, Minnesota, contemporary displays about the Dakota War continue to present a narrative of white innocence. Krueger explains, “The Kensington Rune Stone became a tool in a ‘cosmic war’ between the forces of savagery and civilization that used a mythic past to justify the policies of the present.” While the majority of the Scandinavian immigrants to the Mi…
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