Culture Warriors category archive
Establishmentarians 0
Schuyler Mitchell takes deep look at efforts of far right evangelical they-call-themselves Christians to destroy the Constitution’s establishment clause. A snippet:
Realize that this is not about love for God.
It’s about power for preachers.
Establishmentarians Establishing Establishmentarianism 0
Sam and the crew discuss how establishmentarians prayer on the polity.
The Answer: Hate Feeds on Itself 0
The quandary:
Follow the link for the rest of the quandary.
The Privatization Scam 0
Minnesota charter schools to Minnesota: Give us the public’s money, but don’t expect us to tell you what we do with it.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
I wish I could say I found this surprising, but, in these times in which one of our two major political parties has chosen bigotry and hate as part of their platform, I can’t say that I do.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini hears a rhyme swirling from the past.
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*Mark Twain.
Republican Family Values 0
There seems to be a common thread here, does there not?
Honest to Pete, Monty Python couldn’t make this stuff up.
Republican Family Values 0
Steve M. points out that a significant Republican family value is to be “mean for the sake of mean.”
Republican Family Values 0
Michael in Norfolk notes that they are phoning it in.
Establishmentarians 0
Writing at Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino suspects that those who would establish impose their faith might have an appeal.
A Notion of Immigrants, Mean for the Sake of Mean Dept. 0
It is difficult not to find oneself just maybe having a slight twinge of a suspicion that perhaps sadism is a Republican Family Value.
Dissonance 0
As I was preparing to hang the flag out–something I do for national holidays–I thought of others who fly the flag, maybe just not only on holidays as I do but every day, some of them even flying maybe multiple flags from their “I am an inadequate male” pick-up trucks.
I thought of how they congratulate themselves on being such patriots.
And I wondered, as they do that, do they think of the pledge, do they repeat the words
. . . and liberty and justice for all . . . .
to themselves, even as they vote for Donald Trump, the man who puts children in cages?
Establishmentarians 0
Sociology professor Art Jipson takes a deep look at New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), one of the right-wing evangelical they-call-themselves Christian groups that have anointed Donald Trump as Jesus 2.0.
Afterthought:
Methinks the right-wing evangelical they-call-themselves Christian movmment is not at all about the spreading the gospel of love.
It’s about the propagating the power of preachers.
Unjust Deserts? 0
Thom takes exception to Elie Mystal’s column about the recent election, in which Mystal argues that “Trump is our reckoning.”
