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.
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Her face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, she sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of her feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm . . . . irresistibly propels her into the future to which her back is turned, while the pile of debris before her grows skyward. (Walter Benjamin, revised)
