Showing posts with label theocracy. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 1, 2019

End of Year Takes & Hot New Year Takes on Religion in American Politics & Culture: Evangelicals White & Black, Exvangelicals, & King Cyrus in the White House

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Lisa Sharon Harper via Eliza Griswold, " Evangelicals of Color Fight Back Against the Religious Right "" They'...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Two Threads Not to Miss in Treason of U.S. POTUS: Solidaristic White Nationalism and Its Religious Incarnation in Religious Right

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Patriot: A person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion. Traitor: A person who commits tr...
Monday, January 9, 2017

Robert Leonard on Why Rural America Voted for Trump: A Critique of the Argument

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Robert Leonard's recent op-ed piece in New York Times on why rural America voted Trump is receiving a lot of attention as a coge...
Thursday, December 4, 2014

Frederick Clarkson on Pastor Steven Anderson's Call to Religiously Fueled Violence vs. Gays

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Baptist pastor Steven Anderson of Tempe, Arizona, is at it again. This time, he's calling for homos gay folks to be killed as a...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

A Reader Writes: "Are These Conservative Churches Really . . . a Weird Kind of New World Hebraic Cult?" — Reflections on the Neo-Calvinist Movement in U.S. Evangelicalism

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Several days ago, in response to my posting about how Steve's two aunts who are nuns received the news of our marriage in May, ti...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Frank Cocozzelli on Opus Dei Ties of Supreme Catholic Men: "I Am Concerned about the Strong Influence of an Ultra-Traditionalist Catholic Mindset on the U.S. Supreme Court"

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In light of the recent Hobby Lobby  ruling of the five Supreme Catholic men, Talk to Action has chosen to republish an outstanding se...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

As Southern Baptists, Catholic Bishops, and Mormons Keep Gays in Crosshairs, Other Public Figures Talk of Bloody Revolution

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While the men leading the Southern Baptists, U.S. Catholics, and Latter Day Saints are shoring up the battlements and notching their...
Sunday, March 2, 2014

The Fusion of Religion and Politics: A 19th-Century Southern Republican Leader Rings Warning Bell

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Some days lately, I have to pinch myself to remember that I'm living in the 21st century--as a vocal minority of American citizen...
Saturday, March 1, 2014

Brief Takes from Week's News: "Religious Liberty" Debate and Laws Targeting Gays

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Some short takes from this week's news--these are about the "religious liberty" debate and laws targeting gay citizens:...
Thursday, August 8, 2013

Frank Cocozzelli's Critique of the Neo-Confederate Views of Thomas E. Woods: A New Installment in the Series

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As a footnote to what I just posted  about the seeming rise, in many places of the world, of overtly racist and homophobic movements that...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Frank Cocozzelli's Critique of Catholic Neo-Confederate Fantasies: The Pertinence of the Discussion

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More indicators come out that libertarian darling and possible presidential contender Rand Paul is more than a little taken with neo-Con...
Saturday, July 6, 2013

Quote for Day: David Brooks's "Neurologically Miraculous" Cognitive Dissonance re: the GOP

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At Huffington Post, Marty Kaplan observes that David Brooks appears, well, a tad bit irony-challenged , if he's capable of wri...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Christian Leaders to Supreme Court about Marriage: Not on Our Watch!

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Just as the Catholic bishops began another round of summer solstice freedom songs and freedom dances that will end on Independence Da...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

Recent Commentary on Nation-Dividing Tactics of GOP: Charles Blow, Robert Reich, Frank Cocozzelli

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In his op-ed piece for the New York Times  today, Charles Blow provides some strong reminders about why the self-defeating game of i...
Thursday, June 13, 2013

Book Notes: Ronan Bennett's Havoc, in Its Third Year

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Ronan Bennett, Havoc, in Its Third Year  (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2004) :
Monday, May 27, 2013

A Personal Reflection on Neo-Confederate Clownery

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A brief personal footnote about the neo-Confederate nonsense of the folks Frank Cocozzelli is studying (and I'm very glad Frank ...

Frank Cocozzelli on Neo-Confederate Catholic Ideologues and the Fantasy of Nullification: Memorial Day Reflection

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Early in May, I recommended  an article by Frank Cocozzelli on the rising strand of neo-Confederate ideology in some sectors of the...
Monday, May 6, 2013

Frank Cocozzelli on the Neo-Confederate Agenda of Catholic Thinker Thomas E. Woods

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I've been meaning to recommend Frank Cocozzelli's recent fascinating introduction  to the thinking of an up and coming theorist o...
Friday, January 25, 2013

Catholic Hospitals in Germany Refuse Rape Victim: Theocracy as Taking the Queen's Shilling While Flouting the Queen's Rules

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I find it interesting to read Betty Clermont's essay on the Vatican and Africa, about which I've just posted , alongside the...
Friday, August 17, 2012

Pussy Riot Found Guilty of "Hooliganism Driven by Religious Hatred and Offending Religious Believers"

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Earlier in the week , I linked to the closing statement of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova , a member of the singing group Pussy Riot, which h...