Latest Articles: Religion
Wartime Production Levels in Peacetime with This One Weird Trick That Destroys the Human Soul
Post Date: 2019-06-13 09:01:58 by Ada
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People like to talk about all kinds of “isms” – conservatism, liberalism, capitalism, communism, multiculturalism, Islamism, globalism, etc. In reality, there is only one ism that is relevant to our age: consumerism. Both as an ideology and as an applied science, consumerism is the idea that human beings exist to produce and consume products in an endless cycle of pleasure-pain exchange. It is a complete image of man’s purpose in the universe, and it works on all people. For all of mankind’s existence in the universe, we viewed ourselves mainly as divine beings, with a relationship to God, with the purpose of our existence consisting of two things: ...
Martin Luther King, the Sex Tapes, and the New American Dogmatism
Post Date: 2019-06-13 08:40:21 by Ada
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The news broke (in England) back on May 26 that David Garrow, the Pulitzer Prize winning biographer of the late Martin Luther King Jr., had unearthed a cache of new documents, many supposedly under strict lock-and-key at least until 2027, detailing some horrific cases of sexual activity by King, as many as forty such incidents, and one in which King stood by, watched and egged on a fellow black Baptist minister in rape. Here is the background: On January 31, 1977, Federal District Judge John Lewis Smith signed a court order that instructed the FBI to deposit all of its extensive electronic surveillance material—audio tapes, notes accompanying, etc.—with the National Archives, ...
An Argument for the Defense
Post Date: 2019-06-09 18:22:26 by Ada
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On November 27, 1095, Pope Urban II mounted a platform set up in a meadow outside the French city of Clermont, surrounded in all directions by an immense crowd. This is precisely the point where history began as far as the mainstream narrative of the Crusades is concerned. In 1999, the New York Times had solemnly proposed that the Crusades were comparable to Hitler’s atrocities or to the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. And this is precisely where the mainstream narrative of this history ends. God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades, by Rodney Stark This book was recommended to me in the comments of a recent post I had written on the topic of the Crusades, where I offered ...
Somalis have Changed Minneapolis
Post Date: 2019-06-04 10:00:31 by Ada
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By Everyone not lying to themselves predicted when the federal government under Bill Clinton – aided and abetted by Lutheran Social Services, Catholic Charities and World Relief Minnesota -- plopped 30,000 Somalis down into the midst of the kind, virtue-signaling, eager-to-help Midwesterners of Minneapolis (of which I am one) that it would lead to some grave consequences for our community. Now, due to continuing refugee placements as well as chain migration there are an estimated 80,000 Somalis living in the Twin Cities metro area, or more like 79,000 if you subtract those who’ve left the country to join terrorist organizations like ISIS. Anyhoo, here’s a week ...
Pete Buttigieg Equates Radical Shia And Wahhabi Islam With Christianity
Post Date: 2019-06-02 18:20:00 by BTP Holdings
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Pete Buttigieg Equates Radical Shia And Wahhabi Islam With Christianity 4:48 PM 05/17/2019 | US Joshua Gill | Religion Reporter Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg equated radical Shia Islam and the Islamic ideology behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks with Christianity’s capacity for extremism Friday. Buttigieg made the comparison during a Friday radio interview with Hugh Hewitt, arguing that radical Islam, like Christian-motivated extremism,” can have a thousand different flavors.” His comments came in response to the question of whether he believed that radical Iranian Shia Islam was more dangerous than Wahhabi Islam — a variant of Islam that ...
The Dire Emergency of Small-Town America
Post Date: 2019-05-28 07:16:19 by Ada
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Beneath the nostalgic veneer lurks sex trafficking, addiction, and a future diminishing away. . Main Street doubles as a state highway, so there is no lack of admirers. Yet look a little closer, maybe take a stroll in front of the house or step inside, and the rustic charm soon dissipates. The front door, the siding, the white picket fence, are all covered in soot from the passing vehicles. That same traffic is audible, at all hours of the day and night, from every bedroom in the house. It’s an apt metaphor, the owner of the house told me, for what it’s like to live in a scenic country town—attractive at first glance, but dirty and noisome when more carefully examined. The ...
Sacraments of the American Civil Religion
Post Date: 2019-05-27 09:21:31 by Ada
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One myth that Americans live by is the separation of church and state. Some like the idea; others hate it; but the irony is that church and state were not separated at the founding of the United States and are not separate now. In fact, they were united in the sense that the state is a church — the Church of America — and you can’t separate a thing from itself. The religion this church administers is not Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, Islam, or anything else that comes to mind when most people think the word religion. It’s Americanism, a species of nationalism. Nationalism and religion are cut from the same cloth. ~ Sheldon Richman The American civil religion has ...
Ashley Judd, Rose McGowan: We Are Not Part of Harvey Weinstein’s $44 Million Settlement
Post Date: 2019-05-25 21:28:03 by Dakmar
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Ashley Judd and Rose McGowan will not be part of Harvey Weinstein’s $44 million settlement, the actresses announced on Twitter. “My lawsuit against #harveyweinstein is ongoing and I intend to take him to trial,” Judd posted on Friday, with a McGowan responding late into the morning, “I’m not part of this either. Ashley Judd says she’s not part of Harvey Weinstein’s $44 million settlement.” The tweet came one day after it was announced on Thursday that Weinstein, the New York Attorney General’s office, former members of the Weinstein Co. board, and several women who have accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct have tentatively reached a $44 ...
Catholic League Condemns Calif. Confessional Bill
Post Date: 2019-05-25 14:52:41 by BTP Holdings
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Catholic League Condemns Calif. Confessional Bill Catholic League President Bill Donohue (Marty Lederhandler/AP) By Jeffrey Rodack | Friday, 24 May 2019 12:22 PM Catholic League President Bill Donohue blasted passage a bill by the California State Senate, which he says will “require” priests “to violate the seal of confessional.” State senators voted 30-4 to approve the bill requiring Catholic priests to report to civil authorities when a penitent confesses to sexual abuse of a minor. Donohue, in an emailed statement, called the bill “a frontal assault on religious freedom.” This bill is absolutely unenforceable,” he said. “No priest is ...
Leftists Rage After NYT Reports The 'Happiest Of All Wives' Are Religious Conservatives
Post Date: 2019-05-21 15:17:29 by Horse
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The New York Times caused a mass triggering on Monday after publishing a report showing religious conservative women have the happiest marriages. "It turns out that the happiest of all wives in America are religious conservatives, followed by their religious progressive counterparts," the NY Times reported late Sunday. "Fully 73 percent of wives who hold conservative gender values and attend religious services regularly with their husbands have high-quality marriages." "When it comes to relationship quality, there is a J-curve in women’s marital happiness, with women on the left and the right enjoying higher quality marriages than those in the middle -- but ...
Why School Compulsory-Attendance Laws?
Post Date: 2019-05-14 09:56:47 by Ada
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14Imagine if Congress were to enact a law that required everyone to attend church on Sundays. The overwhelming majority of Americans would go up in arms. The concept of religious liberty is so deeply ingrained in our American heritage that there is no way that people, including devout Christians, would accept such a law. That heritage was enshrined in the First Amendment, which prohibits Congress from enacting such a law. Now, suppose things had been the exact opposite. Suppose that from the beginning, the Constitution had authorized Congress to enact compulsory church-attendance laws. Suppose that immediately after the Constitution called the federal government into existence, Congress ...
School District Asks Teachers To Bless Muslim Students and Address Them in Arabic: Report
Post Date: 2019-05-12 20:38:59 by BTP Holdings
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School District Asks Teachers To Bless Muslim Students and Address Them in Arabic: Report Rajesh Jantilal / AFP / Getty Images Muslim worshippers perform the evening prayer at the end of the first day of Ramadan at the Sufi Bhaijaan Darbaar Mosque in Durban, South Africa, on May 07, 2019. (Rajesh Jantilal / AFP / Getty Images) By Ben Marquis Published May 12, 2019 at 12:29am As the left likes to constantly remind everybody, there is generally a separation of church and state in this country. That means the government and public institutions aren’t supposed to overtly endorse any one particular religion over any other. While the left seems to take glee in enforcing that against ...
Evangelicals' Blind Idolatry Of Donald Trump Continues Unabated
Post Date: 2019-05-09 19:19:30 by Ada
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Evangelical leaders, Christian leaders, the Religious Right, TV evangelists: Call them what you will. So many of them have lost all claim to the high road. They have not only lost their integrity and honesty, many of them are nothing more than self-aggrandizing spiritual prostitutes. They have become little more than pandering, groveling, bootlicking toadies for political potentates—one political potentate in particular: President Donald Trump. I don’t mind so much these pandering preachers saying they support the adulterous, philandering, lying, warmongering, bottom-feeder Donald Trump because his politics—not his personal life, mind you, just his politics—are ...
The Holy Hook
Post Date: 2019-05-09 17:22:39 by Ada
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Yahweh’s Trojan Horse into the Gentile City Is the Church the whore of Yahweh? I concluded an earlier article by what I regard as the most important “revelation” of modern biblical scholarship, one that has the potential to free the Western world from a two-thousand-year-old psychopathic bond: the jealous Yahweh was originally just the national god of Israel, repackaged into “the God of Heaven and Earth” during the Babylonian Exile, as part of a public relations campaign aimed at Persians, then Greeks and ultimately Romans. The resulting biblical notion that the universal Creator became Israel’s national god at the time of Moses, is thus exposed as a ...
Landlord to Pay Almost $700,000 After Refusing to Rent to Muslim Tenants
Post Date: 2019-05-04 11:41:12 by BTP Holdings
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Landlord to Pay Almost $700,000 After Refusing to Rent to Muslim Tenants Jenni Fink 1 hr ago A Denver, Colorado, landlord has agreed to pay three men a total of $675,000 as part of a settlement after she was recorded telling her tenant to find an “American person” to sublet her property instead of a father and son, who were Muslim. Rashad Khan, a Muslim, wanted to expand his Boulder, Colorado, restaurant Curry N Kebob into a space in Denver. However, when the current tenant, Craig Caldwell, told landlord Katina Gatchis of the sublet plans, he claimed Gatchis rejected the proposal because of Khan's religion. Almost a year after they were denied, Khan, his father, Zuned, and ...
Pence A Christian? POMPEO?
Post Date: 2019-05-04 07:45:26 by Ada
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There Are Christians Who Love and Christians Who Hate Pompeo: “My Faith in Jesus Christ Makes a Real Difference” Pompeo says God may have sent Trump to save Israel from Iran “As a Christian, I certainly believe that’s possible,” said Mr Pompeo….”I am confident that the Lord is at work here,” Pence, a Catholic Evangelical who almost became a priest: “I made a commitment to Christ.” Christians? These Christians support a war on Yemen in which huge numbers of people are dying of mutilation, cholera, and starvation, a war they could stop with a telephone call. They similarly support butchery of Afghans from the air, massive killing in ...
Pompeo Lies, Cheats and Steals (But He’s Still a Good Christian)
Post Date: 2019-05-03 09:12:57 by Ada
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently recounted to an audience at Texas A&M University that when he was head of the Central Intelligence Agency he was responsible for “lying, cheating and stealing” to benefit the United States. “Like we had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment.” The Secretary made the comment with a grin, noting that when he was a cadet at West Point he subscribed to the Academy honor code, which stated that “You will not lie, cheat, or steal or tolerate those who do.” The largely student audience clearly appreciated and irony and laughed and applauded, though it is not clear what they made of ...
Real-Life Fascist Advocates Medical Fascism in Real Life
Post Date: 2019-05-02 19:07:42 by Ada
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I don’t like to throw inflammatory epithets around casually. Words like “fascist” are overused to the point that they have become almost meaningless. But sometimes, the word is simply an accurate description of a policy or a person. This is one of those cases. This week, the Washington Post ran an off-the-rails opinion piece titled “Anti-vaxxers are dangerous. Make them face isolation, fines, arrests.” It would be easy to mistake this piece for an attempt at satire, but I’m pretty sure it’s not. And it’s not the first time that calls for state violence against those who choose not to vaccinate–or even to adhere completely to the CDC vaccine ...
You Scratch My Back, I’ll Stab Yours (Judeo Christian nonsense)
Post Date: 2019-05-02 13:09:23 by X-15
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“The attack on the Jew . . . is an attack on Christianity itself and on the Judeo-Christian basis of our Western civilization.” San Francisco Chronicle (Oct. 9, 1947) The notion that Western civilization rests on a Judeo-Christian basis is very largely an invention of the 1940s, when Jews felt a sudden and unprecedented desire to join the Western club and lock arms with their Christian “brothers.” Although a palpable oxymoron, the phrase prospered in the years that followed, and is now well established as one of the hardier weeds in the unlovely garden of American political cant. Obviously, there can be no such thing as Judeo-Christian values when Jews specifically ...
Jay DeMarcus Reveals He Previously Placed a Daughter for Adoption: 'I Wanted to Be in Her Life'
Post Date: 2019-04-30 20:49:12 by BTP Holdings
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Jay DeMarcus Reveals He Previously Placed a Daughter for Adoption: 'I Wanted to Be in Her Life' Sam Gillette 10 hrs ago © Provided by TIME Inc. Jay DeMarcus Reveals He Previously Placed a Daughter for Adoption: 'I Wanted to Be in Her Life' Jay DeMarcus and his bandmates of Rascal Flatts moved millions of fans with their hit “Bless the Broken Road” — and his faith-based memoir, Shotgun Angels: My Story of Broken Roads and Unshakeable Hope, out Tuesday, is just as powerful. In one of the most difficult moments of the book, the bassist reveals that when he was in his early 20s, his then-girlfriend of one month, Maggie, got pregnant the first time they ...
San Diego Synagogue Shooter Was Swayed By The New York Times?
Post Date: 2019-04-28 10:13:35 by Ada
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Yesterday John Earnest, a 19 year old white supremacist, entered a synagogue in San Diego with an AR-15 style weapon. Inside the synagogue, filled with Sabbath worshipers, he open fire and killed one person and wounded three. He fled but later surrendered to police officers. Before the attack Earnest uploaded "an open letter" with lots of anti-Semitic and homophobic tropes. He published the link to the letter on the radical right wing site 8ch.net. The open letter is in the question and answer style of an interview: “How does killing Jews help the European race? The European race is doomed? What are you talking about? These Jews were innocent!” Every Jew is ...
Full Open Letter From Passover Synagogue Shooter John Earnest
Post Date: 2019-04-28 07:59:05 by Ada
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An open letter. My name is John Earnest and I am a man of European ancestry. The blood that runs in my veins is the same that ran through the English, Nordic, and Irish men of old. I am a descendant of one of the original colonists of Roanoke—John Earnest. What happened to him I do not know, and nor does anyone. But I do know that he left his wife and son, James Earnest, back in England. This son shortly after made the same daring journey across the Atlantic to the New World. From my mother’s side I inherited the blood of very wealthy Yankees—intelligent, resourceful, uncompromising. From my father’s side I inherited the blood of poor Southern farmers—intelligent, ...
Meet Julio Santana, the world’s deadliest hitman — with 500 kills
Post Date: 2019-04-27 16:16:55 by Ada
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Meet Julio Santana, the world’s deadliest hitman — with 500 kills One-time hitman Julio Santana (right) stopped counting after he reached 492 kills. Julio Santana dropped to his left knee and propped his right elbow on his hip, holding firm his hunting rifle until he had the man known as Yellow in his sights. It was Aug. 6, 1971, and Santana was 17 years old. In his village, deep in the Amazon rainforest where he lived in a hut with his parents and two brothers, he was known as a good shot. But he had only ever hunted forest rodents and monkeys for food. The man he was about to kill, Antonio Martins, was a 38-year-old fisherman with blonde hair and fair skin. Julio had been ...
Christian and Libertarian
Post Date: 2019-04-24 10:16:19 by Ada
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Review of Elise Daniel, ed., Called to Freedom: Why You Can Be Christian and Libertarian (Wipf & Stock, 2016), xv + 144 pgs., paperback. I am a Christian and a libertarian. And not only that, I believe it is entirely possible to be a resolute social and theological conservative and at the same time be an uncompromising and hardcore libertarian. I believe that Christianity and libertarianism complement each other rather than contradict each other. And so does editor Elise Daniel and the contributors to Called to Freedom: Why You Can Be Christian and Libertarian (hereafter Called to Freedom). “We are libertarians because we are Christians,” Daniel writes in the introduction. ...
Zionist Lunatic Mike Pompeo Has Totally Sabotaged Trump’s Entire Foreign Policy Agenda
Post Date: 2019-04-24 09:02:02 by Ada
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Thanks to Mike Pompeo’s efforts, peace talks with North Korea have gone backwards. In fact, based on Pompeo’s track record, he doesn’t seem to have any interest in peace. Out of all of the people Donald Trump has in his cabinet, Mike Pompeo is arguably the worst of them all. This man is a lunatic Zionist warmonger aggressively advancing insane policies that are agitating conflicts around the world. Most recently, he managed to sabotage peace talks with North Korea. The talks, which at first seemed promising, have devolved to a point where the North Koreans are publicly demanding that Trump remove him from the negotiations. They’ve also tested a new weapon to further ...
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