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For people concerned about insurrectionist elements of the Republican Party in the Trump era, this story may help sort out some of the paradoxes. For starters, how can a religion be anti-religion? Here are a few excerpts from a story I recently...
by Frederick Clarkson
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on Sat Mar 16, 2024 at 11:14 AM PDT
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Ali Velshi warns of the fringe Seven Mountains doctrine going Mainstream, thanks to "New Moses" Mike — — Imagine my surprise to see this eye-opening story this morning, confirming my serious concerns about the secret agenda of the newly “chosen” Speaker, Mike Johnson. This ‘unspoken and unchallenged’ Nationalist take-over agenda is much more...
by jamess
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on Sat Mar 02, 2024 at 02:30 PM PST
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A number of progressive organizations focus their work on what they deem to be the biggest threats to human wellbeing and even the future: climate change and inequality. It is easy to “blame” ...
by Brynne
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on Sat Dec 30, 2023 at 03:00 AM PST
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Today we’re talking about “City Elders.” No, it’s not a senior citizen group that meets every Thursday morning to discuss books; not a group of retired folks volunteering at a local food bank; not a seasoned group of bocce ball players tuning up their...
by Bill Berkowitz
240 comments
on Wed Nov 15, 2023 at 07:05 AM PST
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Below is a full transcript of an episode of Talking Stick TV, where Reverend Rich Lang of University Temple United Methodist Church in Seattle gives a radio talk about the history of right-wing Christianity in 20th century America and the rise of...
by novapsyche
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on Thu Aug 31, 2023 at 11:06 AM PDT
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An analysis of book banning challenges from across the nation shows the majority were filed by just 11 people described as “hyperactive”. You need to read this Washington Post report, it is only one prong in the larger right-wing attack on democracy....
by annieli
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on Tue May 23, 2023 at 10:15 PM PDT
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For years, musician Frank Zappa spoke of a Fascist Theocracy taking over�the United States. It seemed far-fetched, but the man was serious. Set aside that Mr. Zappa was only a musician�and not a ...
by SebaSloan
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on Mon May 15, 2023 at 06:00 AM PDT
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Recently I brought up the cultural critic Marshall McLuhan, famous for “The Medium Is the Message,” among other trenchant critiques. Here he speaks regarding “Living in an Acoustic World”: The old journalism used to try to give an objective picture of...
by novapsyche
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on Sat Apr 29, 2023 at 12:52 PM PDT
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(Content Warning: This post discusses the problem of the Christian religion and its practice in American society. The article is not intended to be persuasive or evangelical in any form or content because there are those deeply wounded by religion in...
by Canticler
694 comments
on Mon Nov 21, 2022 at 08:30 PM PST
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This week's issue of The New Yorker magazine, features as report by Eliza Griswold on “How Election Subversion Went Mainstream in Pennsylvania.” Then, Editor David Remnick interviewed Griswold, on an important, but under reported dimension of this:...
by Frederick Clarkson
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on Mon Nov 07, 2022 at 04:49 PM PST
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No matter what happens on Election Day, the Christian Right, animated by visions of religious and political dominion, or Dominionism, will still be with us. Unfortunately, Domininionism a subject that is not well understood. The reasons for this are...
by Frederick Clarkson
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on Fri Nov 04, 2022 at 09:51 PM PDT
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Onward Christian soldiers… Will religions finally get taxed because RW militias may join the Family Research Council in registering themselves as churches. Darn that identity politics. (CNN) Katherine Stewart, journalist and author of "The Power...
by annieli
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on Tue Aug 02, 2022 at 10:24 AM PDT
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Photo changed — seems Lewis never actually said the “fascism” quote. Pity. H/T to Friend of Harry Lime.) I wrote a diary the other day (currently on Community Spotlight) titled We are Heading Toward a Post-Millennial Christian Nation. This diary is a...
by Dan K
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on Tue Jul 05, 2022 at 09:16 AM PDT
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When we look at our current dysfunctional politics, we tend to focus on the GOP’s mad lust for power at any cost. As such, we often see the GOP courting of fundamentalists and conservative Catholics as strategic planning on the GOP’s part to get more...
by Dan K
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on Sun Jul 03, 2022 at 09:53 AM PDT
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“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” � ― � George Orwell
When conservatives talk about small government, they mean a government so small it cannot help ...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Wed Apr 13, 2022 at 04:06 PM PDT
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Kayleigh McEnany told the receptive folk at Fox News’s show ‘Outnumbered’ that she wants to fill the world with ‘Christian babies’. McEnany, whose first lie as WH press secretary was to ...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Wed Mar 30, 2022 at 12:18 PM PDT
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Many things have been and will be written about how Roe v. Wade came to be gutted or overturned by the Supreme Court. There have also been and will be many things written about what comes next. One important part of the story in which I am honored to...
by Frederick Clarkson
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on Wed Feb 23, 2022 at 07:50 PM PST
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Religious Freedom Day commemorates the enactment of the the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom on January 16, 1786. The legislation made law one of the most revolutionary and liberatory ideas in the history of civilization. It was drafted by Thomas...
by Frederick Clarkson
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on Sun Jan 16, 2022 at 11:00 AM PST
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School boards are being targeted to expand the base of the Christian Right and the Republican Party going into 2022. Back in October, I wrote at Religion Dispatches about the plans of a nascent Dominionist religious, broadcasting and political empire...
by Frederick Clarkson
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on Fri Dec 24, 2021 at 11:48 AM PST
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Priyantha Diyawadana, a Sri Lankan national who worked as general manager of a factory of the industrial engineering company Rajco Industries in Sialkot, Pakistan, was set upon by a violent crowd on Friday. The mob stripped and tortured him, before...
by TheCriticalMind
66 comments
on Sat Dec 04, 2021 at 12:03 PM PST
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