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A discussion of Christianist militia groups
13 Apr, 2010 in Church and State, Politics, Religion Blog, ViolenceI’m not up on my contemporary American eschatology, but some of the comments here pinpointed some rather nuanced, for me, distinctions. The most startling comment was by Prof. Butler from Univ. of Pennsylvania when she made the distinction between merely “believing” in x and the believing that makes x come to pass. Here’s a video [...]
Today a student objected to my calling Iran a dictatorship. “It is a democracy,” he said. He did have a point. There are plenty of other places worse than Iran. Travel plans? Nope. I’ll stay right here in greatly flawed California, in the equally “challenged” US of A. There doesn’t seem to be any question [...]
It’s sad that there’s been an uptick in suicide bombings and the like in Iraq. This was from earlier this month from the BBC: On Monday a female suicide bomber killed at least 41 and wounded more than 100 people in north-east Baghdad. The pilgrims were making their way to the Imam Hussein shrine in [...]
Sad. Sad. From CNN. Shooters opened fire at a gathering outside an eastern Egyptian church, killing six during the celebration of a Christian sect’s Christmas Eve, Egypt’s Interior Ministry reported. The situation for Copts has been deteriorating. This story about Egyptian ID cards and the difficulties Copts (or Christians generally) face reminded me of a [...]
I heard this segment on Public Radio International’sThe World this afternoon. Mexico is the last place I think of when I hear the word “Mennonite”. You can read more about the religion here. We do have a Gator connection, though. Years ago the house that’s across the street from campus (on 19th and Holloway) was [...]