Showing posts with label scripture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scripture. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Valuable Recent Commentary about Link Between White Supremacy and White Christianity in the U.S.

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I'm sorry to have been away for so long. As I noted in a posting some weeks back, we have been dealing with health challenges, and we...
Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Has the Bible Ever Been Used to Assault and Oppress Vulnerable People? Let Me Share Some Important Information with You

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This posting is a footnote to the main story today , the photo-op the man in the White House staged for himself while having troops t...

Bible as Weapon (Upholding Straight White Male Supremacy): Commentary on Yesterday's White House Stunt

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We've reached the 'mad emperor' stage, and it's terrifying to behold | Richard Wolffe https://t.co/hSAx1wkhgZ — The Guard...
Thursday, February 6, 2020

A Report from Trump Country on the United Methodist Split Over Whether to Welcome LGBTQ People or Not

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This is a report from the ground, which is to say, from the white evangelical heartland of the U.S. that is solidly Trump country. It...
Monday, December 16, 2019

Ruth Krall, "The Good Samaritan: Pious Parable or Subversive Instruction?"

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Vincent van Gogh, "The Good Samaritan," original in the Kroller-Muller Museum in Otterlo, The Netherlands, uploaded to Wikimedia...
Friday, August 9, 2019

Ruth Krall, Moral Corruption in the Religious Commons (1)

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Theodore Rombouts, (1597-1617), "Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple" (i) My house shall be called a house o...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Commentary: Political Fall-Out as Catholic Bishops Face Reckoning for Covering Abuse Crimes; German Catholic Discussion of Bible and Homosexuality

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More commentary today that catches my attention, and is especially interesting when read side by side:  Patricia Miller, " I...
Thursday, July 12, 2018

Internet Responds to POTUS' Personal Theologian Paula White & Her Clownish Theology of White Nationalism: "Do You Not Read Your Bible, Sis?"

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. @Paula_White - who commits theological malpractice with nearly every word - advises the president of the United States. Where did she...
Tuesday, June 19, 2018

"The Same [Bible] Passage Sessions Cited Has Been Used to Justify Slavery and Nazism": Valuable Commentary on Sessions' and Huckabee-Sanders' Use of Romans 13

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Dear Jeff Sessions, are you aware that the argument you made today from Romans 13 was a central argument of the German Christian (Pro-Nazi...
Friday, June 15, 2018

"The Bible Is Trending Because It Was Just Used to Justify Ripping Babies from Their Mothers’ Arms and Putting Them in Interment Camps"

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Because it needs to be documented: think of how documentation now allows us to see Catholic religious leaders in Germany and Austria, C...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Quote for Day: Michael Gerson on Selective Biblical Inerrancy of Christian Republicans

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Michael Gerson, " Trump Exposes the Hypocrisy of Christian Republicans ":

Baptist Pastor-Theologian Molly T. Marshall: "Biblical Inerrancy Was a Mere Tool for the Preservation of Patriarchal Power and White Male Privilege

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Molly T. Marshall, " The peril of selective inerrancy ": I contend that biblical inerrancy was a mere tool for the preser...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Week's-End Commentary: "The Judgment of God Has Come"; "The American Gospel Is Garbage. Something Toxic and Perilous Is Going on in Our Churches. Save Your Soul"

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Phillip Bump, " The group least likely to think the U.S. has a responsibility to accept refugees? Evangelicals ": Pew...
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

This Week's Triptych: One Panel, High Times in Jerusalem; Opposite Panel, People Shot Down Like Dogs; In the Middle, White Evangelicals Jubilating

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Left: #Jerusalem Right: #Gaza (Photos taken at the same time this afternoon) pic.twitter.com/8ZerjxRq3A — Patrick Galey (@patrickgale...
Thursday, May 10, 2018

"In Every Case, 'Wives Submit to Your Husbands' Appears in the Same Context As 'Slaves Obey Your Masters'": A Twitter Conversation for You

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In every case, "wives submit to your husbands" appears in the same context as "slaves obey your masters." And yet I...
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Fred Clark on Gerson and Ladd: "Helpful Corrective to Gerson's Longer, Larger Piece Because Ladd Centers the Defining Facts of Slavery, Jim Crow, and Civil Rights"

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Yesterday, when I posted Twitter (and other) responses to Michael Gerson's recent essay on white evangelicals and Trump, I point...
Monday, February 19, 2018

I Learn to Read and Am Given a Bible-Story Book: A Southern Baptist Boy in 1950s Arkansas Learns the Facts of Life

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I am six years old. I have just learned to read. It is 1956. Television has come on the scene. But we read, tell each other stories, ra...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

More Moore (Roy, That Is): Why White Evangelicals Can't Quit Their Man, and the Horrors Posed by "the Alabamization of This Country"

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8 in 10 white evangelicals & 6 in 10 white Catholics & Mormons elected Donald Trump, claiming "pro-life" motivation. ...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

More Commentary on Why Roy Moore's Evangelical Supporters Won't Abandon Him (Hint: Look at How They Reponded to Trump's Boasts About Sexual Assault of Women)

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Alabama voters may send a serial child molester to the United States Senate simply because he claims to be a Christian and is not a Democ...
Monday, November 13, 2017

New Accuser Comes Forward to Say Roy Moore Assaulted Her When She Was a Teen, 53 Pastors Sign Letter Supporting Moore

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The stories keep coming along, and I think it's important to keep blogging about them: