religion
Fighting back against the homophobic religious right’s hateful misuse of sacred literature
June 6, 2023There is a pattern in the religious right to use—and to misuse—religious texts and traditions to support their revanchist, fascist agenda.
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‘Shiny Happy People’ review: Duggar doc exposes Christian fundamentalists danger
June 2, 2023The series becomes an all too real true-crime exploration into the world of Christian fundamentalists intent on ruling the world.
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Supreme Court considers ‘religious freedom’ ploy to undo labor rights
April 24, 2023Right-wing Christian nationalists want to override union contracts to cement in place preferential treatment for them vs. other workers.
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‘Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict’—book bridges divide between Marxists and Christians
April 4, 2023BOOK REVIEW: Marxists and people of faith continue to treat each other’s core texts with contempt or suspicion, making this book a daring (and sketchy) study.
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Class struggle in first-century Galilee produced the ‘Jesus movement’
March 27, 2023The Jesus movement was part of a pattern of millenarian groups reacting to the inequality around them in first-century Galilee, write the authors of a new study.
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