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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…OP bashes, ‘deep state,’ climate law,” Greenwire, August 24, 2023, https://www.eenews.net/articles/debate-takeaways-gop-bashes-deep-state-climate-law/. [42] Martin Pengelly, “US hard-right policy group condemned for ‘dehumanising’ anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric,” The Guardian, September 15, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/15/project-2025-policy-manifesto-lgbtq-rights. [43] Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman, “Heritage Foundation Makes Plans…

Religious Right Historian: Net Neutrality is “Unbiblical Socialism”

By Julie Ingersoll

…ant to give FCC the authority to tell people who actually provide the internet [again, they don’t provide the internet, only access to it] what they can and can’t do with it. Now, what people like yourself and myself mean is no government interference; it’s pretty straightforward. Republicans and conservatives have always tried to keep the internet totally free. But of course we know they have not tried to keep it totally free, except in the very…

News Flash from World Net Daily: Easter is Pagan Holiday

By Lauri Lebo

…rs. Joe Kovacs, the executive director of the Christian news website World Net Daily, has penned a column arguing that Easter has roots in paganism. So, in addition to revealing that he is clueless about his own religious holidays (he’s only figuring this out now?), he also displays a stunning lack of consistency: The very first commandment of the Big Ten is perhaps one of the most overlooked in everyday life. In just eight words, it states: “Thou…

Pat Robertson’s Women Warriors Leading Spiritual Warfare In Zimbabwe

By Sarah Posner

…ican Church, she said, but learned, from watching the Trinity Broadcasting Network, that she was “just dying” and had not truly understood the meaning of the bible. Now, she says, she is an admirer of televangelists like the “Prophetess” Juanita Bynum and Joyce Meyer, who has claimed to have preached to over half a million Zimbabweans this year. But it was a book by Kenneth Hagin—credited by many with being the father of the Word of Faith, or “nam…

When Religion Becomes a Trap Rather Than a Safety Net

By Holly Welker

…ks’s protagonist, a young girl trapped rather than supported by the safety net religion is supposed to supply, trying desperately to acquire some security despite parents who repeatedly put her in harm’s way. Ricks’s memoir inspired students to begin writing themselves; some of their short memoirs are compiled in a collection called We Are Absolutely Not Okay. Bowker and Ricks also produced a study guide for other teachers interested in using Hipp…

Lo and Behold, the Sacredness of the Internet

By Martyn Smith

…of a positive future for humanity it often begins to look like the interplanetary human existence proposed by Elon Musk. But does the story of the internet need to be told with all these religious resonances? A visit to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California (down the street from the Googleplex) uses thousands of objects to tell the story of computers and information technology. The museum presents the development of technology a…

RD News Round-Up—Oct.14, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…en new life.” The surge in anti-Semitism has been most visible on the Internet. On neo-Nazi and white supremacist websites and blogs, hundreds of comments have been posted “promot[ing] centuries-old stereotypes and conspiracy theories alleging Jewish control of the economy, banking and the government,” YNetNews recently reported. The ADL noted that a number of posts “have gone so far as to resurrect Nazi-era propaganda with threads such as ‘The Je…

“Japan Gave Us Pokemon, God Gave Them an Earthquake”

By Anthea Butler

…uake in Japan, let’s acknowledge God’s signs. Turn to HIM and pray. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAGYqrANnAw http://www.gamespot.com/forums/topic/27876648/could-the-japan-earthquake-be-gods-punish-for-them-killing-whales?page=0 Tinasongbird73‎ Prayers up 4 the people in japan who’ve experience great loss & heartache frm the earthquakes & Tsunami. God is trying 2tell us something! smitefulsinner‎ RT @rachydivanerd: Re: Japan: the 1st person to s…

It’s Not a Debate: The Christian Century Fails to Advance Discussion on Abortion

By Daniel Schultz

…deserve. A companion to the RNS piece by Christian Century editor [http://www.christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=7229 John Buchanan] asks, Is it naive to hope for a civil conversation on the subject? Can we cease using language that allows for no diversity of opinion? Calling abortion “baby killing” and abortion providers “mass murderers” leaves no room for conversation. There is nothing good about this appalling killing in Kansas. But could i…

The “Southern Cage”: How the Myth of the Redemptive Depression Keeps Blacks at the Margins

By Eric C. Miller

…churches had been doing as they had helped patch together a limited safety net in the early twentieth century. Many southern cities did not offer municipal relief. Instead, denominations and municipalities provided institutional care: poorhouses, hospitals, settlement houses, orphanages, and so forth—all of them segregated, with far more resources for whites than for blacks. Local churches sometimes helped people with food, clothing, and fuel. At…