Religion Dispatches
…” The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c March to Keep Fear Alive www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election Fox News Plans for both rallies seem rather fluid at the moment: Stewart said, “there might be special guests.” But whatever they do it will be clever; and I wouldn’t be surprised to see the thing take on a life of its own and draw a big crowd. Since the tea party sweep in this week’s primaries, pundits have…
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…class, consider using previous year’s proclamations found on our homepage: www.religiousfreedomday.com. While arguing over seemingly inconsequential posturing by argle-bargling politicians might not on its face appear to be the best use of anyone’s time, the struggle over the meaning of religious freedom may very well determine the future of democracy in our time, just as it did in the 18th century. As historian John Ragosta told RD last year: A r…
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…rt Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Exclusive – David Barton Extended Interview Pt. 1 www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Exclusive – David Barton Extended Interview Pt. 1 www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook But the two consistently spoke right past each other. Barton rep…
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…Bureau, Current Population Survey (CPS) Database, accessed Feb. 6, 2014 at http://www.census.gov/cps/. Population sums shown are in thousands.] What this means in raw numbers is that the 30% of Millennials who are religiously unaffiliated (15.86 million) are a somewhat smaller group than the 22% of GenXers (17.95 million) who are unaffiliated. Further, in terms of percentages, twice as many 18 to 29 year olds (31%) as 50-64 year olds (11%) is unaf…
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…witterdom leapt at the chance to dunk on the theological heterodoxy of the comment: https://twitter.com/ndrewwhitehead/status/1537028907152588804?s=20&t=3MwrM_U34Ow5MGlki1Ge3g https://twitter.com/originalspin/status/1536865780368801793?s=20&t=3MwrM_U34Ow5MGlki1Ge3g https://twitter.com/clairecmc/status/1537133642706714631?s=20&t=3MwrM_U34Ow5MGlki1Ge3g https://twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/status/1537118021113765891?s=20&t=3MwrM_U34Ow5MGlki1Ge3g Sometim…
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…ed those critical of the VP’s public response to the Coronavirus outbreak: https://twitter.com/JonathanMerritt/status/1234309386467708929?s=20 Graham and George are clear proponents of a “Christian nation,” but Merritt should know better. Did he pause to consider the broader context, one wonders, before tweeting that “mocking [Pence] for praying—like 79% of Americans have done in the past 3 months—is why so many regular Americans despise wine-and-…
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…systematic murder of some six million Jews by the mostly Christian Nazis. https://twitter.com/cherriesandgin/status/1480225544683859973?s=20 If centuries upon centuries of Christian violence perpetrated against Jews and the resulting generational trauma don’t constitute a serious enough reason to object to proselytizing for Kristian and her fellow travelers, perhaps they’re beyond hope. It’s important to consider power dynamics here, and how conv…
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…e it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1232503545120935936 It is not at all a bad thing if, alongside the full recognition of the dignity and equality of non-believers, the Democratic Party embraces leaders who find personal meaning in passages of the Bible associated with social justice Christianity, in sharp contrast to the Christian Right’s ugly and vicious politics toward m…
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…cal Twitter. https://twitter.com/RobGeorge/status/1297948042218426371?s=20 https://twitter.com/NormOrnstein/status/1298042172432949253?s=20 On Sunday night Falwell apparently attempted to get ahead of Reuters’ explosive scoop dropped Monday morning by blaming everything on his wife Becki, claiming she’d had an affair with business partner Giancarlo Granda (now forever known as the Falwells’ Pool Boy), “in which I was not involved.” Granda, however…
Read More…ir faith. That question of openness—the matter and manner in which the LDS community sorts through its own history and practices—is a source of tension among Mormons today. It’s complicated by so many factors—among them the youth of the Church, Mormon feelings of vulnerability to persecution from and misunderstanding by outsiders, the historical value assigned to secrecy when Mormon lifeways were under threat and from the US government in the nine…
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