Dylann Roof Was Wrong: The Race War Isn’t Coming, It’s Here
Not everyone has achieved their whiteness. Some cannot achieve it. Others do not want to attain it, and some live in constant frustration in their failure to secure it.
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Religion Was Not the Reason for the Paris Attacks
Can religious ideology really be blamed for the massacre at Charlie Hebdo? Responding to the New Yorker’s George Packer and others.
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Conservative Christianity’s “Come to Jesus” Moment in Wake of Elliot Rodger Shootings
In the wake of the tragic massacre at UCSB on Friday night in which Elliott Rodger murdered…
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Why Did So Many Black Women Die? Jonestown at 35
Why did this ultimately tragic movement, led by a young white man, appeal to so many African-American women?
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Masculinity and Mass Violence
The recent spate of mass killers all sought to solve their problems with a certain expression of gun violence that maps easily onto the masculinist roots of Christianity and other religious traditions—particularly in more conservative expressions.
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Neither The Joker Nor Godlessness Drove Batman Shooting
Rather than attributing Holmes’ and the Joker’s nonexistent moral compass (and neither seems to have one) to an absence of moral training that would be there if prayer were back in public schools, we may need to look at their apparent lack of a self-conscious narrative as a more telling source.
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