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Politics/LawJune 22, 2009

Disco-Reggae at Abu Ghraib: Music, the Bible and Torture

By Erin Runions

What does it mean when a country that likes to proclaim itself a defender of freedom plays a song about liberation to people it is torturing?

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- 5 hours ago

According to @C_Stroop we need not look too far to answer the question #WhereWereTheyRadicalized... it wasn't just Fox News and Newsmax, it was home and church. https://t.co/zuy3ebhWUo

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- 9 hours ago

@R_C_Schneider: Christians Must Confront the Lies at the Heart of Whiteness https://t.co/11ubg0pQpb My reflections @RDispatches. “In order to maintain the status quo, it is necessary for whites to believe and keep on believing, that they are innocent.” - Allan Boesak

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- 1 day ago

@AmarAmarasingam: 1. There has been a lot of talk about QAnon and a well-known body of work in the sociology of religion/social psychology called the “failure of prophecy”. A new piece by me and @_MAArgentino for @RDispatches, and a short thread: https://t.co/EhHl5eqgcd

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