Everyone is entitled to the cult of their choice, but yeah…This polling data is interesting. Republican politics infesting the church isn’t the only thing that prompts people to leave the church and become secular, but it certainly does help.
Finally a Kyle segment on atheism, feels like it’s 2013 again
Academic Agent 5 hr ago Recently Andrew Torba released a book called Christian Nationalism which has sparked a more-bitter-than-usual falling out between the Christian and Pagan elements in what is called the Dissident Right, give or take a Pedro Gonzales twitter burst.[1] In short, Christians argue that Christianity […]
Caitlin Johnstone 28 min ago Listen to a reading of this article: “We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities; we are eaten up by nothing.” ~ […]
New York Review of Books From Michael Hulse, poet and acclaimed translator of W. G. Sebald, Rilke, and others THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA A BOOK FOR ALL AND NONE Friedrich Nietzsche Translated by Michael Hulse Introduction by Joanna Kavenna In Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nietzsche’s infamous protagonist sets off on a […]
By David Pan, Telos Since today’s world conflicts often derive from competing notions of universal values, with, for instance, Islam, Russian Orthodox Christianity, Roman Catholicism, the human rights project, and liberal democracy all offering separate foundations for a universal culture, it is tempting to look for a way […]
By Eric Rasmusen Joseph Bottum sees Wokeism as being pseudo-religion, false food feeding spiritual hunger. That is correct. In every man is a God-shaped hole that he yearns to fill. But this spiritual hunger can be satisfied, at least temporarily, by false food, just as you can satisfy […]
Peter R. Quiñones In what is probably one of the least shocking things you’ll read here, a Disney produced animated show being marketed as an “adult cartoon” entitled, “Little Demon” has begun its run on the FXX network. Here’s the plot: Thirteen years after being impregnated by Satan, […]
By Toby Axelrod September 6, 2022 1:26 pm Avitall Gerstetter, shown in 2019, wrote a column critical of conversion in Germany. (Stephan Röhl/Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung via Wikimedia Commons) BERLIN (JTA) – Jews in Germany have been shaken this summer by a diminutive cantor with a big voice. But not in […]
A deep dive into Marc Augier, nickname Saint-Loup. We will look into what he believed and try to add more information about him. Join me on this journey to understand this primitivism, socialist, French SS, Pacifist, pagan man. Ya. he had odd beliefs!
Charisma News Jonathan Cahn (Charisma News archives) In a world more determined than ever before to deny religion, have the gods of old returned to America—and become the unseen catalysts behind the decline of modern culture? New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Cahn has spent his life uncovering […]
By Anna Skinner, Newsweek The Episcopal Church recently backed Episcopalians of any age seeking gender-affirming care in medical, social or other settings. The 80th General Convention, which is the highest governing body of the church, passed a resolution on the endorsement. It specified that Episcopalians seeking gender-affirming care […]
Love, Respect, and gratitude to all~
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave react to Dr. Deborah Birx saying her team overplayed vaccines during her time as Donald Trump’s White House coronavirus response coordinator.
By Paul Engler, Waging Nonviolence Apotentially historic political shift is currently taking place within an unexpected group of Americans: evangelical Christians. In the wake of Donald Trump’s presidency, strains within the evangelical community, especially among people of color, have resulted in significant numbers of people defecting from the right […]
Friedrich Nietzsche provided the first detailed diagnosis of nihilism as a widespread phenomenon of Western culture and warns the world of its consequences, most famously in the parable of the madman where he proclaims that “God is dead”. Nietzsche was concerned primarily with existential nihilism, where life as […]
From No Selves, No Masters by reed w ingalls A friend of mine who teaches foreign language reminded me today of a curious problem in English. We don’t often take the time to understand what our compound words and prefixes do to the meaning of a term. For […]
By Sumit Paul-Choudhury 1st August 2019 Throughout history, people’s faith and their attachments to religious institutions have transformed, argues Sumit Paul-Choudhury. So what’s next? * This story is featured in BBC Future’s “Best of 2019” collection. Discover more of our picks. Before Mohammed, before Jesus, before Buddha, there was […]
By Susan Davis, NPR NASHVILLE — At a recent gathering of thousands of religious conservative activists held by the Faith and Freedom Coalition, one thing immediately stood out: the crowd isn’t as white as it used to be. That’s not an accident, according to founder Ralph Reed. “Our […]
Here’s an excerpt of my conversation with Richard Dawkins on “Is wokeness replacing religion?” where we talk about the budding argument of wokeness, the consequences of the decline of Christianity and religion in the culture, and much more.
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling that Maine violated the Constitution when it refused to make public funding available for students to attend schools that provide religious instruction.
By Caitlin Johnstone If there is a purpose of human life, as near as I can tell from these severely limited sense organs and this very limited brain, it’s to become as conscious as possible. If you were given a video game to play without knowing anything about […]
Krystal and Saagar have Marshall Kosloff interview National Review columnist Nate Hochman about the evolving culture war on the right due to secularization and the waning of the religious right
Mehdi Hasan looks at how religious extremists in the Christian nationalist movement have cast Donald Trump as a messianic figure and threaten to make democracy secondary to empowering Donald Trump as an expression of divine will.
Krystal and Saagar cover the bombshell coverup of sexual assault by the Southern Baptist Church that has rocked the institution from top to bottom
It’s almost as if you shouldn’t take moral guidance from organized religions.
Did the congress members who voted against baby formula get their communion taken away?
Robby Soave and Briahna Joy Gray discuss House Speaker Nancy Pelosi being banned from receiving communion at any San Francisco church by the the Archbishop of the Catholic Church in San Francisco, due to Pelosi’s abortion stance.
Matthew Lyons, a leading “antifascist” intellectual, actually has a pretty good definition of fascism. ” a revolutionary form of right-wing populism, inspired by a totalitarian vision of collective rebirth, that challenges capitalist political and cultural power while promoting economic and social hierarchy. ” See the Lyons article here. […]
Frank has become a little too much of a party-line progressive in recent times for my tastes, but the general historical narrative he outlines in this is accurate. I was an evangelical in the 70s, and Frank’s dad was our CS Lewis or GK Chesterton. Zac & Gavin […]
By Saahil Desai, The Atlantic The evangelical Church is winning on the national political stage, but at what cost to the community? Then: How to quit intensive parenting. Bully pulpit (Shutterstock / Katie Martin / The Atlantic) No religious group has been more closely tied to the rise […]
By William Darling A biography of a remarkable figure, whose politics prefigured today’s social justice, ecology, and gender equality movements Ammon Hennacy was arrested over thirty times for opposing US entry in World War 1. Later, when he refused to pay taxes that support war, he lost his […]
By SOFREP The holder of the highest seat in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, said that the West is partly to blame for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, the Pope said “that barking of NATO at the door […]
Briahna Joy Gray, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave weigh in on Pope Francis appearing to partially blame NATO for the war in Ukraine.
Gurdjieff had a point when he promoted the idea of avoiding identifying with anything.
“THE Austrian thinker, Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), needs little introduction and his books are still revered by millions of people around the world. The Philosophy of Freedom is arguably Steiner’s greatest work, exploring knowledge and perception in the context of a radical framework of ideas that breaks rank with […]
Proto-Protestant Blog Many Evangelicals will undoubtedly celebrate the recent legislative moves in Texas and Florida and both governors (one Catholic and one Evangelical) are certainly viewed as allies or even champions in the Christian Right’s culture wars. Let’s be clear. Sodomy is an abomination and parents that encourage […]
I am probably more in the vein of a “post-postmodernist.” In the latest episode of Marxist Voice, Yola Kipcak combats the ideas of postmodernism, which reject the notion of objective truth or lawfulness in the world. These ideas are at odds with Marxism, which has a rational, materialist […]
Briahna spoke with distinguished fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft in Washington, D.C & former president of The Ploughshares Fund, a public grant-making foundation focused on nuclear nonproliferation and conflict resolution, about the cold hard facts of hot nuclear war. How is the security of “mutually […]
By Samuel Goldman The Week Post-religious America is growing up. That’s the bottom line of a new survey by Deseret News and Marist Poll. Researchers saw declines in religious practice in most demographic groups, but generational differences were especially stark. According to the report, Americans “60 or older […]
By William S. Lind, Traditional Right As of this writing, March 4, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has turned into a typical Russian mess. Ukraine is not dead yet. The Russian army’s logistics have broken down, as they usually do. And Russia has suffered a monumental self-inflicted defeat at […]
I’ve heard a number of evangelicals complain about how conspiracism is making an inroads into evangelicalism. This is why Mike Lindell fits so well in with these folks. What’s absolutely so amazing is that Trump, who is basically anti-christian, is seen as their messiah.
I remember the current head of the Church of Satan Peter H Gilmore saying “We don’t really believe in a Devil or God. We’re basically a bunch of atheists who are really into Halloween.”
It’s all right for Pat. He doesn’t have to worry about death when he’s already dead.
On the passing of the man who would have been Christian America’s version of the Ayatollah Khomeini. ProtoProtestant https://www.garynorth.com/public/23334.cfm He was ‘Scary Gary’ to many – a reference to his cantankerous style. An original member of the Theonomic Three and its last survivor, he married RJ Rushdoony’s daughter […]
Jim Bakker is a well-known fraud, but I have increasingly seen calls for religious persecution and/or censorship from the woke crowd.
So weird seeing Pat come out of the grave— I mean retirement.
By Brendan Morrow The Week The Supreme Court is set to take up a case concerning whether a Colorado web designer may decline to provide her services for same-sex weddings. The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear the case, in which a Christian web designer, Lorie Smith, […]
In other words, there is the temporal self (personality) aspect of us that is always going to be changing and impermanent as it flows through the ever changing circumstances of life (negative and positive; duality)… AND there is the eternal observer within us that is ALWAYS present and […]
Attention goes where energy flows. This energy is great and positive.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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