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How Our Demented Capitalist System Made America Insane

“We live in an age when news consists of…Kim Kardashian’s denial that she is the naked woman cooking eggs in a photo circulating on the Internet. ” Hedges: How Our Demented Capitalist System Made America Insane | Economy | AlterNet … Continue reading

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Sex-Loving Evangelicals: A Ploy to Fill the Pews?

Sex-Loving Evangelicals: A Ploy to Fill the Pews? It may have been the first time a bed was ever on stage at Gramercy Theater, a mid-sized performance venue on East 23rd Street in New York City. But the nine-piece band … Continue reading

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The Right-Wing’s 20 Biggest Sex Hypocrites | Sex & Relationships | AlterNet

The Right-Wing’s 20 Biggest Sex Hypocrites | Sex & Relationships | AlterNet the more the GOP became the party of far-right Christian fundamentalism, the more Republican politicians and the evangelists who supported them became involved in major sex scandals. Pentecostal … Continue reading

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Thinking about Thinking

A good and devout man arranges in his mind the things he has to do, not according to the whims of evil inclination but according to the dictates of right reason. Who is forced to struggle more than he who … Continue reading

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11. Wag the Dog

According to Paul, the end of the world does not come about gradually and slowly, but suddenly and unexpectedly.  Nevertheless, I used to believe we were in a slow, downward spiral to destruction.  How did this come to be?   Part … Continue reading

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Was Jesus Christ a Revolutionary? Pt 4

No Complacency But we need to stop here to be sure that no one is taking this as an endorsement of the present world order or, which is also wrong, an endorsement of all the acts of our government. It … Continue reading

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Was Jesus Christ a Revolutionary? Pt 3

No Utopias The first point we need to see then is that whatever the cleansing of the temple may or may not have been about, it was definitely not an attempt to set up an earthly kingdom viewed as a … Continue reading

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