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Øjvind Fritjof Arnfred :emacs:
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Tredje del af min podcast-serie om skæbne og ritual. Denne episode fokuserer på menneskets skæbne som en personlig skytsånd, og hvordan dette begreb manifesterer sig i forskellige kulturer. Vi taler bl.a. om genius, daimon, yorubaernes ori og indernes mytologiske tvillinger Nara og Narayana.
Tredje del af min podcast-serie om skæbne og ritual. Denne episode fokuserer på menneskets skæbne som en personlig skytsånd, og hvordan dette begreb manifesterer sig i forskellige kulturer. Vi taler bl.a. om genius, daimon, yorubaernes ori og indernes mytologiske tvillinger Nara og Narayana.
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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"They remind us freedom and liberty are vital, whether we happen to believe those rights are ordained by God or pragmatically important because human freedom under just law creates better societies."
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #churches #religion
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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"When asked, white evangelical Protestants were the only religious group with a majority who agreed with stripping U.S. citizens of their citizenship and deporting them if they were determined to be a threat to the country. ...
For too long, the Christian Right has acted as if it speaks for all Christians in America."
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #churches #religion
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"have poured into Minneapolis to train, preparing too bring skills of the resistance back to their communities if and when ICE is deployed back home.
Together, they represent the path to a pluralistic nation that organizes collectively across constituencies."
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #churches #religion
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"They remind us freedom and liberty are vital, whether we happen to believe those rights are ordained by God or pragmatically important because human freedom under just law creates better societies."
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #churches #religion
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"And while it has gained power and pulled the most conservative believers into religious extremism, there remain believers in a tradition that has long motivated other sorts of Christians to fight for social justice.
Hundreds of leaders from a range of faiths—Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim and Indigenous practitioners—" (continued in /5)
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #churches #religion
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"have poured into Minneapolis to train, preparing too bring skills of the resistance back to their communities if and when ICE is deployed back home.
Together, they represent the path to a pluralistic nation that organizes collectively across constituencies."
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #churches #religion
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"When asked, white evangelical Protestants were the only religious group with a majority who agreed with stripping U.S. citizens of their citizenship and deporting them if they were determined to be a threat to the country. ...
For too long, the Christian Right has acted as if it speaks for all Christians in America."
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #churches #religion
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"And while it has gained power and pulled the most conservative believers into religious extremism, there remain believers in a tradition that has long motivated other sorts of Christians to fight for social justice.
Hundreds of leaders from a range of faiths—Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim and Indigenous practitioners—" (continued in /5)
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #churches #religion
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"A recent report from PRRI (Public Religion Research Institute) may be instructive. The poll was done between November 21 and December 8—before the most recent violent attacks by ICE. Then, the majority of Americans opposed political violence even in the name of their own political position. But I think the outliers were the real story: white Christians, white evangelicals, and Christian nationalists."
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #churches #religion
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"When asked, white evangelical Protestants were the only religious group with a majority who agreed with stripping U.S. citizens of their citizenship and deporting them if they were determined to be a threat to the country. ...
For too long, the Christian Right has acted as if it speaks for all Christians in America."
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #churches #religion
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"In a recent New York Times/Sienna Research Institute poll, a majority of Americans polled said they disapproved of how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is handling its job.
But 36 percent do still approve. Who are these people?"
~ Sarah Stankorb
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #churches #religion
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https://sarahstankorb.substack.com/p/one-antidote-to-christian-nationalist
"A recent report from PRRI (Public Religion Research Institute) may be instructive. The poll was done between November 21 and December 8—before the most recent violent attacks by ICE. Then, the majority of Americans opposed political violence even in the name of their own political position. But I think the outliers were the real story: white Christians, white evangelicals, and Christian nationalists."
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #churches #religion
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"In a recent New York Times/Sienna Research Institute poll, a majority of Americans polled said they disapproved of how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is handling its job.
But 36 percent do still approve. Who are these people?"
~ Sarah Stankorb
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #churches #religion
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https://sarahstankorb.substack.com/p/one-antidote-to-christian-nationalist
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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New today: "I regarded Pearland as a bleak place to endure as part of my sacrificial motherhood. So I was surprised to find a temple here where #women were both being celebrated and celebrating with so much joy." https://www.texasobserver.org/a-pearland-pilgrimage/
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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I read Judge Fred Biery's opinion in favor of Liam Ramos and his father differently than Dean Obeidallah does. He discusses Biery's inclusion of two bible verses in his opinion — “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these" and "Jesus wept."
#LiamRamos #immigrants #Trump #ICE #religion
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https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/this-3-page-court-opinion-releasing
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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I read him to be pointing out that the very religion — white Christian nationalism — that they are promoting to justify their barbarism and cruelty is founded on the example of someone, Jesus, whose teachings and life run directly counter to what they are promoting.
This is a necessary move for progressives to make. Those who are pushing back from within faith traditions against ugly applications of religion to justify cruelty deserve support.
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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Whether we like religion or abhor it, it's undeniable that religious bodies and religious ideas play an inordinately powerful role in the US public and political sphere, and it would be foolish not to engage them just because we think religion is a sham or toxin.
I read Biery to be engaging those who misuse religious ideas to justify the Trump regime's cruelty.
Whether we like religion or abhor it, it's undeniable that religious bodies and religious ideas play an inordinately powerful role in the US public and political sphere, and it would be foolish not to engage them just because we think religion is a sham or toxin.
I read Biery to be engaging those who misuse religious ideas to justify the Trump regime's cruelty.
I read him to be pointing out that the very religion — white Christian nationalism — that they are promoting to justify their barbarism and cruelty is founded on the example of someone, Jesus, whose teachings and life run directly counter to what they are promoting.
This is a necessary move for progressives to make. Those who are pushing back from within faith traditions against ugly applications of religion to justify cruelty deserve support.
Obeidallah says — and this sounds right to me — that the point of including those bible verses wasn't to be religious. But he then says the point was to pull at our heartstrings.
In my view, the point was to challenge in a very direct way the use of religion by some Americans to justify cruelty, barbarism, and inhumanity. The USA has famous been called a nation with the soul of a church.
Whether we like religion or abhor it, it's undeniable that religious bodies and religious ideas play an inordinately powerful role in the US public and political sphere, and it would be foolish not to engage them just because we think religion is a sham or toxin.
I read Biery to be engaging those who misuse religious ideas to justify the Trump regime's cruelty.
I read Judge Fred Biery's opinion in favor of Liam Ramos and his father differently than Dean Obeidallah does. He discusses Biery's inclusion of two bible verses in his opinion — “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these" and "Jesus wept."
#LiamRamos #immigrants #Trump #ICE #religion
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https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/this-3-page-court-opinion-releasing
Obeidallah says — and this sounds right to me — that the point of including those bible verses wasn't to be religious. But he then says the point was to pull at our heartstrings.
In my view, the point was to challenge in a very direct way the use of religion by some Americans to justify cruelty, barbarism, and inhumanity. The USA has famous been called a nation with the soul of a church.
FinchHaven sfba
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Are your power bills just too darn low? Are you not paying enough for ram and other semiconductor products? Do you really wish more clean water was polluted?
Well, have the techbros got just the capital and planet sink for you!
A website populated by purely agentic #LLMs, talking to each other, burning thousands of tokens per minute, a thing we all get to pay for. Isn’t that exciting? Oh look, the “ #ai has discovered #religion “.
No it fucking hasn’t. It proves that humans wrote the training, and dogmatism and heteronomy are biases that weren’t taken into account when symbolic systems are algorithmically generated.
See, I told them they should hire philosophers, but did they listen? They never listen. Ima change my name to Cassandra.
https://www.ynetnews.com/tech-and-digital/article/bjggbsslbx
