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Tag Archives: religion
New Era, New Priests: E.R. Dodds, Rome, Christianity and Intersectionality
Writing in the American Conservative, here’s Gilbert Sewall on the Oxford classicist, E.R. Dodds. Read the whole thing, really, but here is Sewall discussing Dodds’ Pagans and Christians in an Age of Anxiety (1965): In 380, Theodosius I declared Christianity … Continue reading
Posted in history, Religion
Tagged Andrew Sullivan, Christianity, E.R. Dodds, Intersectionality, John Gray, Paganism, Political Religions, religion, Rome, Theodosius I
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Media Suddenly Interested in Muslim Opinion of Gays
After years of ignoring survey data and news reports that weren’t conducive to boosting Islam’s image, so-called new media is leaping on a Pew survey showing American Muslims to be more LGBTQ-tolerant than white evangelicals. Yes, just that particular strain of Christianity, … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Religion
Tagged catholic, evangelical, Huffpo, Islam, Orlando, pew, progressives, religion
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The “God Gap” Shrinks in a Trump v. Clinton Matchup
This from Religion News Service: The Battleground Poll has the Clinton-Trump God gap at under 15 points, with those who say they go to church at least once a week preferring Trump to Clinton by nine points and those attending less … Continue reading
Posted in politics, Religion, Uncategorized
Tagged Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, religion
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Perhaps a Bad Day to be Secular and Right
Oregon shooter Chris Mercer disliked organized religion and considered himself “conservative, republican.” This according to the Daily Beast. But then, an attempt to paint Mercer as a righty runs into problems. He also expressed sympathy for the race-card-playing black Roanoke … Continue reading
“Nostalgia for the Absolute”
In the course of an article triggered by the bullying of climatologist Lennart Bengtsson, Mark Steyn digs up this extract from a tremendous “imaginary address” by Yale law professor Stephen Carter to America’s Class of 2014, currently so busy, as … Continue reading
Posted in Religion, Science & Faith
Tagged blasphemy and defamation of religion, Climate Change, religion
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Those who can not see God
Rod Dreher has an interesting post up at The American Conservative, The Lie Of Atheism (It’s Not What You Think). He relays a scourging of the New Atheists by Damon Linker. Rod has an interesting passage which I think highlights … Continue reading
Liberal de facto apologia for Islam
In the comments to my post “The double standard” many liberals objected to my assertion that much of the Left engages in a situational criticism of religion, whereby conservative Christians bear the full front of the secular critique, where Muslims … Continue reading
The double standard
A few years ago Markos Moulitas wrote a book, American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right. This is in a long tradition of demonization of American Christian conservatives by the Left. All’s fair … Continue reading
Prince & bishop
One of the major back stories about Bahrain is the disjunction between the religious confession of the ruling family, and the populace. The elite and the monarchy are Sunni, while the masses are Shia. This is of a piece with … Continue reading
Dhimmitude and demise done well
Sometimes readers will ask about a good book on the history of religion, and I’m pretty hard-pressed to recommend something without qualification, caveat, or caution. But I can recommend The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the … Continue reading
Posted in culture
Tagged Christianity, history, Philip Jenkins, religion, The Lost History of Christianity
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