Category: Christianity

Teabagger’s lament

Monsieur d’Nalgar’s introduction:  This Fourth of July ramble, a tear-stained xenophobic summation of just about everything she thinks is wrong with America (according to her spoon-fed propaganda), appeared on page 6A of today’s Sentinel Record.  Enjoy. Protect our America … Dear editor: My fellow Americans, where are our heroes? Some are easy to identify. Some wear uniforms, badges …

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And they that wasted us

… … Do the faithful need a new National Anthem? By Martha Woodroof, 09:34 PM ET, 07/02/2011 … … Oh what a patriotic tempest a small Anabaptist Indiana teapot of a college has provoked: … Goshen College Board of Directors ask for alternative to playing the national anthem GOSHEN, Ind. — The Goshen College Board …

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Sort of domestic terror

Creeping Shariah: Stealth Threat or Conspiracy Theory? By Gefilte, 01 July 2011 … I wanted to find out what the kerfluffle over “creeping Shariah” was all about. After all, this is a Republican worry in thirteen states which have introduced anti-shariah laws. And apparently it’s more serious than even a global economic Depression. So I …

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Keeping it real

The Damaging Three Words of the Declaration of Independence By Alison Owings, 07/ 2/11 08:30 AM ET … When I moved to San Francisco decades ago, I was invited to any number of July 4th gatherings. They all had two things in common. First, they were freezing. What was with this fog? Second, at someone’s …

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Holier than all the martyrs

A racist, messianic rabbi is the ruler of Israel By Sefi Rachlevsky, 02:11 01.07.11 … When King Lior parted from the evildoers, who had detained him for an hour of questioning, he turned to Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, where he was borne on the shoulders of those celebrating his messianic kingdom. Once again, he began to …

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Fides quaer ens intellectum

All good reasoning proceeds from prior commitments and beliefs By Nicholas Lash, Friday 1 July 2011 22.29 BST … Over 40 years ago, I was taking part in a seminar during which the Australian Jesuit theologian Gerald O’Collins defined the theologian as someone who “watches their language in the presence of God”. To get a …

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Sound familiar?

The invasion of Australia By John Pilger, Friday 1 July 2011 21.15 BST … The City of Sydney council has voted to replace the words “European arrival” in the official record with “invasion”. The deputy lord mayor, Marcelle Hoff, says it is intellectually dishonest to use any other word to describe how Aboriginal Australia was …

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