Why Dylann Roof Acted on His Racism
It’s all about the apocalypse.
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This Year in Satanism
2014 was the year of the Satanist. In December 2013, The Satanic Temple announced plans…
Read MoreIn OK, a “Christian” And a “Muslim” Decapitation Challenge “Religious” Violence Narrative
Murder often functions as a cultural Rorschach test: the narratives we tell about why people…
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Is ISIS Islamic? Is it a State?
In his September 10th address, President Obama asserted that the Islamic State is neither Islamic nor…
Read MoreBlack Masses Continue to Titillate Conservative Catholics
In May, conservative Catholics mobilized in response to an announcement of a Satanic black mass…
Read MoreThe Sacramental American Day of Thanks
Secular holidays, actually constituting a quasi-sacred calendar, span the entire year: From New Year’s Day, the King Holiday, the Fourth of July, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veteran’s Day, and now, at long last, Thanksgiving Day.
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Who Bombed the Boston Marathon?
No one has yet stepped out of the shadows to claim credit for the horrific bomb attacks on the Boston marathon Monday that killed three and seriously injured over a hundred. But rumors abound.
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Newtown Tragedy: The Horror of No Future
We remember child martyrs in the crusades, young Holocaust victims like Anne Frank, the deaths of Emmett Till and four little girls in Birmingham, Alabama. The children of the day care center in Oklahoma City. Our enduring image from that dark day is a fireman, soaked in blood, carrying a baby on the cover of the magazines. Youth move us because they bring to the light the existential horror of no future.
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Christian Terrorism Comes to Milwaukee
Shooter Wade Michael Page thought he was a soldier in a cosmic war.
Read MoreLessons from the Defeat of the Oklahoma Personhood Bill
A power struggle between personhood lobby and the Republican leadership?
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