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On God’s side? The challenge of liberation theology
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Religion & Ethics
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6 years ago
Religion is a vital source for change, but it does not yield easily to what the political philosopher John Rawls in 1997 called the ‘public reason’ that enables liberal democracies. In the...
Pope Declares Death Penalty Inadmissible in All Cases
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Religion & Ethics
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6 years ago
Pope Francis has declared the death penalty inadmissible in all cases “because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person,” the Vatican announced on Thursday, in a shift in...
Breaking the Law is Quintessentially American and Biblical
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Religion & Ethics
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6 years ago
Boston Tea Party Creative Commons I find a lot of “They broke the law…Send them back” claims in the immigration debate. While the claims may be intended to shut down the debate,...
To my fellow Christian conservatives: This is no time for a pity party
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Religion & Ethics
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6 years ago
Here in America, nothing that we have suffered for our righteous stands can be compared to what precious believers in different parts of the world have suffered. Among them you do not hear the...
Who Would YOU Have Been in Nazi Germany? The Same Person You Are Now.
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Religion & Ethics
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6 years ago
It’s easy to look back on the injustices in history, while shaking your fist and saying, “Well I woulda…!” This is especially true when we reflect on the WWII era and the rise of Nazi rule...
No, Franklin Graham, God Didn’t Destroy Sodom & Gomorrah Because of Homosexuality
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Religion & Ethics
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6 years ago
It’s a common claim accepted as truth : God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because gays had overrun the place. This past week, Franklin Graham repeated this biblically illiterate and twisted claim...
Pregnant Woman Denied Miscarriage Prescription at Walgreens
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Religion & Ethics
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6 years ago
From MSN: When Nicole Arteaga found out she was pregnant two months ago, she and her husband were ecstatic. But after suffering a previous miscarriage, the couple was hesitant to tell anyone.On...
Nice Try Paula White, but Jesus was a Lawbreaking Refugee
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Religion & Ethics
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6 years ago
President Trump’s top spiritual advisor, Paula White , has been justifying the President’s crusade to torture immigrant and refugee children by ripping them from their parent’s arms and stalling...
A Judge Has Ruled Against Atheists Trying to Put Up the Least Offensive Ad Ever
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Religion & Ethics
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6 years ago
Source A Pennsylvania judge has ruled that a government agency had every right to reject an atheist advertisement, putting a temporary end to a saga that’s dragged on for more than six years....
Church That Posted “LGBTQ Is a Hate Crime” Sign Kicked Out of Building
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6 years ago
Source We don’t often get good news these days, but I think this qualifies. An Indiana church that posted a sign saying that “LGBTQ Is a Hate Crime Against God” was evicted from the building...
Christian Activist: Abortion-Loving Satanists Use Fetal Blood as a Power Source
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Religion & Ethics
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6 years ago
Source Christian Right activist Dave Daubenmire, who said earlier this year that men shouldn’t touch themselves because it’s totally gay, explained on his “Pass the Salt Live” webcast...
‘If Jesus had broken the law then he would have been sinful’
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6 years ago
Vichy Christian Paula White is a faith-healing , prosperity TV preacher who serves on Donald Trump’s advisory panel of obsequious court prophets. Her job is to bless and baptize the president’s...
White evangelicals fear the future and yearn for the past. Of course Trump is their hero.
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6 years ago
Donald Trump is about to name his second conservative Supreme Court justice now that Anthony Kennedy is retiring. Conservative evangelicals are celebrating. They have been waiting, to quote the...
Christian Hate Preacher Will Be Deported from Australia After Harassing Muslims
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6 years ago
Source A Christian pastor was arrested in Australia last night on charges of public nuisance — for harassing Muslims — and the government will soon deport him back to New Zealand. Pastor...
Remembering the ‘boat people’ gives me a sinking feeling
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Religion & Ethics
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6 years ago
One Sunday when I was a kid , Pastor Stady announced that our church had the opportunity to sponsor a family of “boat people.” That was the popular term then — I guess this would’ve been about...
Chris Hedges: "AMERICAN FASCISTS" The Christian Right vs USA
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Religion & Ethics
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6 years ago
NOTE: This video is dated in 2007. It contains a minimal reference to a few Hitler images. This is an interview on CBC's "THE HOUR" last week with author Chris Hedges. Very scary, very...
Rules Without Reasons: Why the Culture Is Eating Evangelicals for Lunch || The Culture always eats Evangelicals for lunch
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Religion & Ethics
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6 years ago
The Bible - how should it be read, how seriously should it be taken, and so on - is a hot topic among evangelicals. (Lots of atheists seem to be pretty confused about the subject, too, but...
The con-game of anti-abortion partisanship that replaced Christianity has been so successful that we forget how recently it was invented
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Religion & Ethics
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6 years ago
First let’s hear from the most enthusiastically obsequious of the Trump-worshipping court evangelicals: Robert Jeffress, who serves in the pulpit of white supremacist fundie icon W.A. Criswell...
Angry Catholic Priest Kicks Mourning Family Out of Church During Woman’s Funeral
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Religion & Ethics
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6 years ago
Source A priest at Saint Mary’s Catholic Church in Charlotte Hall, Maryland decided that a funeral would be a good time to pick a fight with the mourning family, ultimately kicking them out —...
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