From The Commoner Full title: Islamic Anti-Authoritarianism against the Ulema-State Alliance: A Review of Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment The second part in a series on Islam, humanism, and anarchism. Originally written by Javier Sethness, this review includes an alternate perspective by Jihad al-Haqq. Building on my critical review […]
The reporter talks about his life inside the “evangelical Christian bubble.” 10 hr ago Jon is the chief national correspondent for Yahoo News and the host of “The Long Game” podcast. His first book was Camelot’s End: Kennedy v Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party, and […]
Drama in the atheist milieu. Atheo-liberals vs conservative pagans. Robert M Price has once again found a way to ruffle feathers. Recently, he shared a video created by an evangelical Christian with extreme views who gleefully mocked my emotional response to dropping Price from MythVision. The incident has […]
The Weekly Dish The Catholic theologian dives into the deep questions of the human experience. Mar 17 (Apologies this email didn’t go out on Friday — though the episode was delivered as usual.) James is a Roman Catholic priest, theologian and writer. His life’s work has been the […]
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By Keith Preston March 13, 2023 Whatever the flaws in the Milgram, Zimbardo, and other similar experiments, the findings are well demonstrated by real-life experience. The Asch experiments demonstrated the same basic thesis, which is obvious when ordinary human behavior is observed. A primary difference I have with […]
Are humans fundamentally good or bad? These intellectual currents shape the discussion to this day. L.P. Koch Feb 19 For decades now, we have witnessed a push towards the idea that humans are fundamentally good at heart. The massive international bestseller, Human kind by Rutger Bregman, even […]
An inverted metaphysics Rolo Slavskiy 8 hr ago So. Christian morality. It’s important, wouldn’t you agree? The people who have the most beef with Christianity are the ones who chafe the most against the moral code of Christianity. In particular, the sexual prohibitions. Of course, most of us […]
The normie gay writer has a compelling story of survival. Feb 3 After working as a hairstylist for over a decade, Ben got a creative writing degree from Columbia University and started contributing to publications such as Newsweek and The Washington Examiner. Raised in a Christian cult, he’s […]
For contest #361, we drop into one of the most majestic cities in history. Chris Bodenner 23 hr ago (For the View From Your Window contest, the results below exceed the content limit for Substack’s email service, so to ensure that you see the full results, click the […]
Peter R. Quiñones 5 hr ago There are two questions that I think would probably top most lists when it comes to the knowledge most humans desire: “What is my purpose in life?” and “What happens after I die?” The second question is one that causes considerable tension, […]
I was lucky enough to interview one of my heroes, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, in early 2021 about her background, the similarities of Wokeness and Islam and more. After the interview, I showed her the trailer for my series, and she thanked me for my work, which blew me […]
By Leah D. Schade Patheos Weight shaming and sizeism have no place in the church. It’s time to embrace all body types and celebrate the diversity of bodies in every shape and size. Photo by i_yunmai on Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/5jctAMjz21A It’s that time of year again when churchwide and […]
Krystal and Saagar discuss Trump coming out to blast evangelical leaders for lacking in support for his 2024 presidential bid.
January 14, 2023 US News US Court Upholds Religious Schools Title IX Exemption Share* READ MORE Advertisement: Cryptocurrency SEC Crackdown on Crypto Continues With Charges Filed Against Gemini and Genesis Share* READ MORE Economy IRS Announces Start of 2023 Tax […]
The teacher told a Swedish newspaper she has been followed home by students threatening violence against her and has considered wearing a protective vest to work January 04, 2023 editor: REMIX NEWS author: Thomas Brooke A Swedish teacher who works at a school in a Stockholm suburb with […]
Michel Houellebecq faces official complaint from the biggest mosque in France after he suggested Muslims leave France January 03, 2023 editor: REMIX NEWS author: John Cody The Great Mosque of Paris has filed a complaint against Michel Houellebecq, considered France’s greatest living author, after he said that the […]
Voice of America Senegal, home to the largest mosque in West Africa and with a 95 percent Muslim population, is widely recognized for its strict adherence to Islam. And yet each year at Christmas, streets and city squares are aglow with holiday lights and storefronts filled with tinsel […]
New York Review of Books I have been interested for a long time in theology and also in science. These two brilliant fields of thought have been at odds, supposedly, since the rise of what might be called the modern period, say, beginning in the nineteenth century. Marilynne […]
Blog of the West: I made another commentary after several weeks of deliberation.
Jesse Watters looks like the deputy mayor who wants to turn the town rec center into a golf course in an 80’s movie.
Institute for Virtue Research “Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.” – 1 Corinthians 6:18 Oral sex is an act in which the genitals of one partner are stimulated by the […]
To sustain our ability to stand apart from the world we must rediscover the covenant Martin Geddes 16 hr ago I go to church daily… but only with close friends, and mostly in the virtual world. These church conversations are a continuing reflection on moral matters, located in […]
By Simone Carter On 12/16/22 at 12:55 PM EST Satanic Temple Offers After School Program In Atlanta Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedInShare on RedditShare on Flipboard Share via Email Comments U.S. Fox News Jesse Watters School Religion Fox News aired an uncomfortable interview with […]
Andrew Sullivan, The Weekly Dish Carl Trueman is a Christian theologian and ecclesiastical historian. He’s currently a professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College, as well as an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. He’s the author of many books, but in this episode, […]
New York Review of Books Sponsored by Classical Pursuits Sean Wilentz The Emancipators’ Vision Was abolition intended as a perpetuation of slavery by other means? Natalia Ginzburg and Alba de Céspedes On Women: An Exchange “That article of mine spoke of women in general, and said things we all know: […]
December 1, 2022By Neema Parvini “The Restoration of the Catholic Religion in Strasbourg,” a 1681 oil painting commemorating King Louis XIV of France’s annexation of the German Protestant city of Strasbourg that year. The city was important to France because of its strategic position on the Rhine. Though […]
The Signal How prominent is “Christian nationalism” becoming in the U.S.? Curtis Chang on the challenges for American democracy, and American Christians, from “the secular god of politics.” Thomas Vitali “We need to be the party of nationalism,” the U.S. Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene told an interviewer […]
The Corbett Report 12 min ago by James Corbett corbettreport.com December 11, 2022 Remember the Supreme Court of the United States’ momentous 2018 decision on Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission? Probably not, huh? But what if I say “the gay wedding cake case”? Starting to […]
New from Telos Press: Approaches: Drugs and Altered States, by Ernst Jünger. Order the paperback edition today in our online store and save 20% by using the coupon code BOOKS20. Also available in Kindle ebook format at Amazon.com. Approaches: Drugs and Altered States by Ernst Jünger Translated by […]
Most people in Britain choose, where possible, to live with those of a similar ethnicity and nationality. History tells us that national states which include too many separate groups, so-called multicultural societies, do not tend to be stable and peaceful.
By CHINEDU ASADU and DAVID CRARY of The Associated Press and CATHERINE PEPINSTER of Religion News Service FILE – Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, front row, centre right poses for a photo with bishops from around the world at the University of Kent, during the 15th Lambeth Conference, […]
Withered Rose Dec 3 As of 2022, we live in a world of competing post-modernities. Post-modernity, a politically and emotionally charged word if there ever was one, will, for our purposes, simply mean “what comes after modernity.” This assumes an understanding of “modernity”, which is in short supply. […]
Tulsi Gabbard opens up about the importance of her faith and how the Democrat party has come to resent religion. The former Hawaii Congresswoman shares how her personal relationship with God grounded her on the presidential campaign trail while opening her eyes to the growing hostility from inside […]
November 28, 2022 Congress Respect for Marriage Act Is ‘Dangerous Legislation’: Rev. Franklin Graham Share* READ MORE Safe and Effective: A Second Opinion | Documentary “Safe and Effective” is the mantra authorities have been using to push COVID vaccines. But are the vaccines really […]
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most brilliant and dangerous minds of the 19th century. His uncompromising and often brutal ideas smashed the comfortable presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science. His was a world not just bereft of God but almost of humanity, breathtaking […]
By Ariel David, Haaretz Vast review finds no evidence that the Torah laws were commonly observed before the second century B.C.E., says Prof. Yonatan Adler. Not all agree. When was Judaism born? Tradition says it emerged more than 3,000 years ago at Mount Sinai, when God gave Moses […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: The largest religion on earth is not Christianity or Islam: it’s the widespread, faith-based belief system which holds that humans are separate from each other and from the world. Humanity is becoming less religious as awareness expands that religions […]
The 19th century saw a flurry of smaller new religions, including Jehovah’s Witnesses and Baha’i. And the 20th gave us Scientology. Even today we’re inventing new religions that, in centuries’ time, may outsize Christianity or Islam. They’re all a bit silly, but what religion isn’t? What matters is […]
An interlocked mix of faith, politics, and identity lies at the root of America’s unique bond with the Jewish people, argues Walter Russell Mead. Jorge González-Gallarza November 1, 2022 The Social Order The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel and the Fate of the Jewish People, […]
Fr Sean Sheehy said that he believed that the Bishop of Kerry was ‘muzzling the truth in order to appease people’. File photo of a man holding rosary beads (Brian Lawless/PA) By Gráinne Ní Aodha, PA November 01 2022 09:19 PM A priest who gave a widely condemned […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Those dusty old dominionist douche bags in the Supreme Court really kicked the Democrats a Midterm field goal when they shot down Roe this summer. After tanking the fucking economy with their nuclear proxy war in Ukraine and […]
By Natalie O’Neill October 26, 202211:39am New York Post More On: pope francis Here’s what Pope Francis, Apple CEO Tim Cook may have discussed ‘Error and a horror’: Pope warns of nuclear war risk as he appeals to Putin to ‘stop’ in Ukraine Biden’s student-debt house of cards, […]
Why secularization and cultural liberalism are inevitable Richard Hanania While writing my essay on the triumph of Fukuyama, I considered including something about recent protests in Iran but ultimately decided against it. The relevance of the ongoing disturbances in that country was addressed in a response to my […]
Irving Kristol’s protege wants to make Christian Zionism into the American state religion. By Andrew Sullivan, Weekly Dish Yoram Hazony is a philosopher, Bible scholar, and political theorist. He founded the Shalem Center, a research institute in Israel, and he’s currently president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem […]
A Billion Years – My Escape From A Life In The Highest Ranks of Scientology | Mike Rinder Grab the book here – 👉 https://amzn.to/35FqNYf One of the highest-ranking defectors from Scientology exposes the secret inner workings of the powerful organization in this remarkable memoir. Mike Rinder’s parents […]
Declan Leary Oct 8, 2022 12:03 AM The American Conservative At this rate, Jack Phillips will be in court until the day he dies. The now-famous Colorado baker, who has owned and operated Masterpiece Cakeshop since 1993, first faced the fury of the rainbow mob a decade ago, […]
By Steph Solis Axios Photo: Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images The Salem-based Satanic Temple is suing Indiana and Idaho in federal court over their abortion bans, arguing they violate the religious rights of people in those states. Driving the news: The Satanic Temple filed its complaint against Idaho […]
Welcome to the Moonday Special! A weekly series where I will be sharing messages, love, stories, music, meditations, tools, activations, and/or flowing with whatever wants to be shared that week for the highest good. Every Moonday @ 5:55 PM EST. Let’s anchor into that deep heart medicine energy […]
By Justin Meggitt The claim that Jesus was an anarchist has been made by a variety of individuals and movements throughout history. Although there have been significant differences in what has been meant, it is possible to determine the validity of such a judgement. Once initial questions about […]
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