Monday, May 09, 2005
ch-ch-ch-chainges
My neighborhood drugstore, the very one they rob at the beginning of Drugstore Cowboy , is closing. It was a little, independent, family-owned kinda place that had been there for years and years, of course. I called to get a prescription refilled, and the number had been disconnected. I went by, and it's all desolate and almost empty as they're cleaning out, and the sign on the door says all their prescription records have been transferred to Walgreens. So that's it, nothing left but the corporate chains. I find it depressing beyond all reason.
Friday, May 06, 2005
xtian amerika
Irony Deficiency
George W Bush on National Prayer Day said that 'Those who kill in the name of a great religion are evil people,” but failed to draw the obvious conclusion.
Just Us, Someday
Rev Carlton Veazey explains why Justice Sunday puts the USA on the brink of theocracy. Amy Goodman talks with a social justice Baptist about the antidisestablishmentarian aims of Justice Sunday. And BagnewsNotes explores the media presentation of "Justice Sunday."
Theocracy in action
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled a Virginia county can refuse to let a witch give the invocation at its meetings by limiting the privilege to clergy representing Judeo-Christian monotheism. The daily Kos reports that the East Waynesville Baptist Church has just kicked out all its Democratic members. And Trevor Blake at American Samizdat relays reports of religious bias at the Air Force Academy (big duh), on tax dollars funding bible school in Alaska, and on a Pennsylvania Christian Community Development Corporation receiving federal funding.
How did we get here?
The Columbia Journalism Review discusses how evangelical Christians are creating an alternative universe of faith-based news. Boston Review offers an account of how evangelical Protestantism came to dominate American religion.
For more of the “good news” see TheocracyWatch, which also has links (scroll down on that page) to other groups monitoring our movement toward a society like that presented in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Talents. See also The Revealer, put out by NYU’s center for Religion and Media.
George W Bush on National Prayer Day said that 'Those who kill in the name of a great religion are evil people,” but failed to draw the obvious conclusion.
Just Us, Someday
Rev Carlton Veazey explains why Justice Sunday puts the USA on the brink of theocracy. Amy Goodman talks with a social justice Baptist about the antidisestablishmentarian aims of Justice Sunday. And BagnewsNotes explores the media presentation of "Justice Sunday."
Theocracy in action
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled a Virginia county can refuse to let a witch give the invocation at its meetings by limiting the privilege to clergy representing Judeo-Christian monotheism. The daily Kos reports that the East Waynesville Baptist Church has just kicked out all its Democratic members. And Trevor Blake at American Samizdat relays reports of religious bias at the Air Force Academy (big duh), on tax dollars funding bible school in Alaska, and on a Pennsylvania Christian Community Development Corporation receiving federal funding.
How did we get here?
The Columbia Journalism Review discusses how evangelical Christians are creating an alternative universe of faith-based news. Boston Review offers an account of how evangelical Protestantism came to dominate American religion.
For more of the “good news” see TheocracyWatch, which also has links (scroll down on that page) to other groups monitoring our movement toward a society like that presented in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Talents. See also The Revealer, put out by NYU’s center for Religion and Media.
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