Oh my gosh. The comment of the CNN person to the two other CNN people “victims” of @RezaAslan ‘s “anger”. This is what I am referring to: the clip below begins with Reza’s fully deserved “in your face” comment to the TWO CNN people who were repeating the same clueless Islamaphobic talking points continuing to suggest that Islam is the Continue Reading
Theology for the tragedy of unjust and unwarranted violence Saint Paul tells us just this, “mourn with those who mourn, rejoice with those who rejoiceâ€. It is in bearing one another’s heartache that we are moved towards justice and compassion. But if in the midst of suffering and grief we emerge unchanged, clothed not in resurrected newness, then we’ve failed Continue Reading
Boom! Reagan judge finally has to say “enough!”, and demolish EVERY Right wing talking point. Hopefully this will have a domino effect. His dissent includes a devastating response to virtually every false and/or disingenuous rightwing argument/talking point ever put forth in support of Photo ID voting restrictions, describing them as “a mere fig leaf for efforts to disenfranchise voters likely Continue Reading
Karen Armstrong is one smart, articulate sociological historian. We need to listen to her. We now take the secular state so much for granted that it is hard for us to appreciate its novelty, since before the modern period, there were no “secular†institutions and no “secular†states in our sense of the word. Their creation required the development of Continue Reading
Yes, Reza, this is a good one. Finally someone who understands that “sacred texts” are not always taken literally. It is something an adolescent can understand, but somehow there are those to whom that simple idea seems lost. You tell them that, they say “sure, I understand that”, and then they are right back at it, quoting and characterizing the Continue Reading
The process of taking on the corporate-state power nexus that underpins the extractive economy is leading a great many people to face up to the underlying democratic crisis that has allowed multinationals to be the authors of the laws under which they operate —whether at the municipal , state/ provincial, national, or international level. Klein, Naomi (2014-09-16). This Changes Everything: Continue Reading
NBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin: Sam Harris & Bill Maher’s Islam Argument “Offensive, Ignorant” via NBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin: Sam Harris & Bill Maher’s Islam Argument Is “Flawed Logic” | Video | RealClearPolitics. I imagine that some will call Ayman on his claim that Maher and Harris were using figures from unverified or savory sources, but they were using Pew Research. But I Continue Reading
In the past couple of days? If not, I am LOVING it, and am into Part 3, and it continues to blow my mind. Not that I am SURPRISED by what I am reading, just continually offended by the sheer hubris and downright narcissism of the global elites who enrich themselves off the decadence they unleash on the planet. And Continue Reading
In 2007, the Southern Baptist Convention drew on this passage in a resolution on global warming declaring that Christians should exercise dominion over the Earth, and that the U.S. government should reject mandatory cuts in greenhouse gas emissions http://www.climateaccess.org/sites/default/files/Peach_Baptists and Climate Change.pdf Why, of course they did. Probably THE most accommodating mainline denom of all. Of course, that is assuming Continue Reading
You can’t draw a line between an organism and its environment for the reason that organisms don’t just live in their environment; the environment also lives in them. via Creation Care in the Great Economy: A Conversation with Wendell Berry | Unbound. STRONG Ecotheology. Conspicuous absence of good theology in vast sections of the church in America.
Found this site on a Google search of Ecology, Theology. Sounds theologically consistent with what I has formed in me regarding a theological perspective of both the Occupy Movements and now , The People’s Climate movement , after the big happenings in NY prior to the UN Summit, and in my reading Naomi Klein’s excellent new book This Changes Everything: Continue Reading
At Union Theological Seminary, a remarkably diverse group of more than 200 religious and spiritual leaders will gather for the Religions for the Earth conference. Representing Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, Australia, the Pacific nations and the Arctic, these leaders will bring a much-needed moral perspective to the climate crisis. They represent billions of people of faith. via Religions for Continue Reading
Wrote a response just now to the below comment (which is in a rather long moderation process on the site where it was posted), so I thought to myself, WHY WAIT? I’ll just do my own conversation with immediate feedback, and let the guy know I have replied, and invite others to the conversation. ColtsFan254 • a month ago Continue Reading
while the Islamic State is superficially and opportunistically Islamic, it owes at least as much to secular revolutionary ideologies as to its claimed religion, and borrows heavily from Western systems of organization and pop culture as well. via Why The Islamic State Is Not Really Islamic – The Intercept. This is precisely my comeback to the “New Atheists” who display Continue Reading