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Steve Russell : Hiding Behind a Girl
We are all Malala. Photo from Reuters.I am Malala: Hiding behind a girl By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | January 10, 2013 It is we sinful women who come out raising the banner of truthup against barricades of … Continue reading
Pollyanna : Bad News for the Devil
Cartoon by Matt Kleinman / The Rag Blog.Bad news for the Devil:Yoga is HinduBy Pollyanna / The Rag Blog / November 29, 2010 The Hindu American Foundation has launched a campaign, “Take Back Yoga,” to educate Westerners about the religious … Continue reading
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Tagged Hinduism, Pollyanna, Religious Fanaticism, Satire, Yoga
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Conspiracy Theories : Exhaust Fumes from the Angry
Photo montage by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog.Conspiracies:Exhaust fumes from the angry What better way to divert attention from the catastrophic eight years of the Bush-Cheney administration than to fan the flames of discontent with renewed conspiracy theories and … Continue reading
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Tagged Conspiracy Theories, Larry Ray, Racism, Religious Fanaticism, Right Wing Extremists
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Sweet Jesus! : Pat Robertson says Haiti Made Deal With the Devil
Pat Robertson cites deal with the devilas reason for Haiti quake By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / January 14, 2010 Former United States Presidential candidate and Conservative right wing televangelist Pat Robertson is clearly going further off his … Continue reading
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Tagged Haiti, Larry Ray, Natural Disasters, Pat Robertson, Religious Fanaticism, Right Wing Extremists
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Dark Ages Redux : Trickle Down Feudalism
Doge Enrico Dandolo preaching the Crusade. Gustave Doré (1832-1883) / Wikimedia Commons.The reincarnation of the Dark Ages:White evangelicals are the new Crusaders In place of mote-defended castles surrounded by thatched-roof shanties will be ‘gated communities’ (sporting high-tech surveillance to keep … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Capitalism, Class Warfare, Dark Ages, Economics, Feudalism, Religious Fanaticism, Right Wing Extremists, World History
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Rebecca Solnit : Reflections on Fanaticism
John Brown depicted in detail from a mural by John Steuart Curray titled “Tragic Prelude,” in the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka.Today’s fanatic, tomorrow’s saint It’s popular to think that the world gets changed by nice people, but the lives … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Climate Change, Extremism, Globalization, Philosophy, Religious Fanaticism, Slavery, Social Activism
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Amazing Grace in North Carolina : Halloween Bible-Burning Bash
Graphic composite by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog.It’s a Halloween bible roast!Burning ‘perversions of God’s Word’ By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / October 19, 2009 The Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, North Carolina, has big plans … Continue reading
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Tagged Censorship, Fundamentalism, Religious Fanaticism, Right Wing Extremists
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Gog, Magog and the Burning Bush!
The REAL force behind the Iraq War? Gog the demon as envisioned by Marvel Comics.A French Revelation, or The Burning Bush Now-departed President Bush is a religious crackpot, an ex-drunk of small intellect who ‘got saved.’ He never should have … Continue reading
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Tagged Evangelical Christians, George W. Bush, Iraq War, Religious Fanaticism
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The Foundation of the US: God and Guns?
I didn’t exactly come away from my studies of early American history believing that God and guns were founding principles. It’s a fair perversion of those principles that this fellow exhibits. And I’d bet he has thousands (or millions?) who … Continue reading
Rabbi Arthur Waskow : Murders in the ‘Cathedral’
The US flag flies at half staff outside the US Holocaust Museum, a day after a security guard was killed. Photo from AFP.Murders in the ‘Cathedral’ It is clear that we need to strengthen that twinge of horror at ‘religious … Continue reading
Rabbi Arthur Waskow : Murder is Murder and Abortion is Not
A sign commemorating George Tiller at a candlelight vigil in Wichita, Kansas, where Dr Tiller was murdered on Sunday. Photo by Joe Stumpe / AFP/Getty. I recognize that some other religious traditions do claim it is murder, but I both … Continue reading
Eschenbach: On Letting Go of Religion, Part II
The Case for Intolerance of Religion, Part IIBy Sid Eschenbach / The Rag Blog / December 5, 2008 The Ecumenical Experiment Our tolerance of religion simply prolongs the agony of an ethical system in crisis and conflict. “Ecumenicalism”, the noted … Continue reading
