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“There’s been a tectonic shift in how the leadership of the religious right operates. These folks aren’t as interested in democracy or working through democratic systems as in the old religious right because their theology is one of Christian warfare.”...
by RickElia
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on Sat Feb 24, 2024 at 05:39 AM PST
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if christian nationalists, nazis and other magas aren’t happy with the way their values are being abandoned, their country is being destroyed, and there’s waaay too much DEI, have i got deal for them... i came across a story today in huffpost...
by bobsnothere
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on Fri Feb 23, 2024 at 12:06 PM PST
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When it comes to religious faith nowadays, an apt description might be what former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once wrote about pornography: “I know it when I see it.” To tell you the truth, I’m not seeing much of it – faith, I mean -- when I...
by RickElia
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on Sat Jan 20, 2024 at 05:40 AM PST
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I have seen two diaries on here today about the same story. The Alabama Pastor and Mayor that committed suicide. Both diaries did something that irked me. The Mayor dressed up online claiming online to be a “Transitioning Transgender Curvy Girl”. Now...
by EVail
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on Sat Nov 04, 2023 at 04:24 PM PDT
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F.L. “Bubba” Copeland was the mayor of Smiths Station, AL. (pop. 6,756) and the pastor at First Baptist Church in nearby Phenix City. On Friday at 5 p.m., in front of sheriff deputies who had been called to do a welfare check, he pulled out a gun and...
by TheCriticalMind
55 comments
on Sat Nov 04, 2023 at 02:47 PM PDT
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October 12, 2023 by Netta Ahituv and Nadin Abou Laban In Haifa and Jaffa, joint Jewish and Arab patrols seek to prevent violence on both sides. In the south, Bedouin residents risk their lives to search for victims of Hamas terror. In the shadow...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 05:48 PM PDT
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You probably already know Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s powerful if-then statement, spoken during the apartheid era in South Africa: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” You may not know the sentence...
by patcar
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on Mon Sep 11, 2023 at 02:27 PM PDT
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UPDATE: Friday, Sep 1, 2023 · 5:54:00 PM +00:00 · Dem lightly edited for clarity and to fix grammar/usage/convention errors. As some here may recall, when I was an undergraduate and just after my first degree, I was a fundamentalist. I had a...
by Dem
158 comments
on Fri Sep 01, 2023 at 07:04 AM PDT
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A congregational reading of these words was part of my church’s worship service this morning: Q. What does God forbid in the eighth commandment? A. God forbids not only outright theft and robbery, punishable by law, but in God’s sight theft also...
by EvanJellicoe
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on Sun Jul 30, 2023 at 12:32 PM PDT
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Sometime last year, the Kansas City Star had an article about this church opening its doors for the homeless. The church had removed their wooden pews and replaced them with unattached chairs. These were moved aside and beds for those homeless and...
by nailkeg
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on Sat Dec 24, 2022 at 03:06 PM PST
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Hypocrisy Fundamental Christians claim the Founders established America on “Christian Values” — but they never say what those are. So, absent a list, I will assume that these self-congratulatory moralists live the values they crow about. And that...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Thu Dec 15, 2022 at 10:37 AM PST
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I have for many years believed that the “commercialization” of Christmas was a bad idea, and I’m not one to step out and go shopping during the Christmas season. In fact now that I have a copy of “The Grinch” I believe he was right with his quote...
by PapaBear
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on Fri Nov 25, 2022 at 12:13 PM PST
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If Cancer cells grow unchecked, they take over the vital organs of a body, and the host dies. Some people can live with cancers that may never kill them, like slow-growing prostate cancer. However, other types of cancer can explode and kill someone...
by Nickjlicata
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on Tue Oct 18, 2022 at 06:28 PM PDT
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A new survey from Ligonier Ministries is raising eyebrows within the evangelical community, but it only echoes what many of us have been saying about evangelicals for some time — namely, that they are not a monolithic bloc. This survey, then, is...
by wesmorgan1
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on Tue Sep 20, 2022 at 10:43 AM PDT
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So yesterday I went to the store and lo and behold I saw… Christmas Decorations. In September. Then I got home and sat down to read some news and I saw Lauren Boebert claiming this: “We need God back at the center of our country,” she said. “It’s time...
by Roadie63
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on Sun Sep 11, 2022 at 10:57 AM PDT
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Date: July 21, 2022Author: G.S.Croft Now, I don’t call myself a ‘Christian’. Sure, I absolutely could. I spent two years in a Christian Discipleship program where I studied, not merely ‘read’, but studied The Bible nearly every single day. Not only...
by Frostlight
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on Sat Sep 10, 2022 at 06:00 AM PDT
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There's a lot of back and forth going on on this site about the nature of religion (by which pretty much every author means white Christianity, let's be fair) and how it's either bad or good or might be bad right now but just wait because any minute...
by A Bleeding God
60 comments
on Thu May 19, 2022 at 10:04 PM PDT
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A few weeks ago, my 11yo showed me an ad that had started appearing on some of his favorite YouTube channels for something called PragerU. In his words, “they sound reasonable and educated at first but then you see they are just giving conservative...
by Jeremy Rodden
317 comments
on Fri Apr 22, 2022 at 05:37 AM PDT
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The worshipful infatuation that evangelicals have for Donald Trump has always been starkly hypocritical. Trump is indisputably the most flagrantly faithless person to ever occupy the White House. His ignorance of - and animosity toward - religion is...
by News Corpse
247 comments
on Sun Apr 17, 2022 at 11:29 AM PDT
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As I prepare to walk in the footsteps of St. Francis of Assisi in a few short weeks, I’m immersing myself in his life. At this time in the life of our world, I’m finding myself drawn to Francis’s peacemaking skills. St. Francis exercised peace...
by mbenefiel
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on Thu Mar 31, 2022 at 11:18 AM PDT
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