“How can you defend White evangelicals?” asks Diana Butler Bass (photo, right), a writer and scholar on religion and culture (bio here). You can’t. Rallying behind a “messiah” who has no morals, is a cheater and liar, a serial adulterer and bankrupt, with the governing [...]
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ISIS bombs Kabul girls’ school
“A bomb exploded near a girls’ school in a majority Shiite district of west Kabul on Saturday, killing at least 30 people, many of them young pupils between 11 and 15 years old,” NBC News reported on Saturday, May 8, 2021 (photo, left; read story here). The Taliban denied responsibilit[...]
Is Donald Trump the Messiah?
I was going to say “no,” but then something stopped me, and made me write: “Hell no!” Because if he is the second coming, which a lot of Americans apparently believe, then Satan is laughing his ass off down in Hell. In August 2019, Bess Levins, a politics correspondent for [...]
Is insulting a student “academic freedom”?
A professor at an Ohio public college sued his employer after being written up for calling a transgender student “Mr.” in class. Nicholas Meriwether (photo, left), a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University, claims a First Amendment speech and religious right to call a student se[...]
What science says about gender
While a battle over transgender rights plays out in Congress, GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene — after being barred from serving on congressional committees for her past terroristic comments — is drawing attention to herself by going around saying, in effect, “boys are boys, and gir[...]
February 7th, 2021 - 5:38 am § in Religion
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: In Berlin: One Building, Three Religions
Berlin’s “House of One” — read more here.[...]
A Hannukah Surprise
Of Hannuka and the Ojibwe It was a treat to open Al Jazeerah this morning and read about Anton Treuer and his fight , very much in the spirit of the Maccabees, to restore his people’s heritage. I was so excited, I called Anton. How fine it is on the day of memory of our […][...]
Pastor says Trump foes should be shot by firing squads
Law & Crime reports (here), “A far-right pastor and conspiracy theorist who was once banned from YouTube for hate speech … [has] some thoughts about why … the Trump administration was moving to make firing squad executions a thing again in a lame-duck session. Rick Wiles believ[...]
Retired colonel with Ph.D. in history couldn’t pass a 9th grade civics test
Douglas V. Mastriano (photo, left) is a retired Army colonel with big political ambitions and small understanding of democracy. Born in 1964, son of a Navy lifer, he graduated from a tiny Baptist college in Pennsylvania (info here) and received an Army commission at age 22. (His bio — read it [...]