A Question of Innocence & Ethics

Examine the Hebrew Torah’s myth of Creation, and you’ll find some holes and leaps in logic. One of these errors in reasoning is in the 1st Book of Moses (aka Genesis 3), wherein is described Adam & Eve’s temptation by “the Serpent” (seraph) and their subsequent failure to meet the conditions that G-d declared. Foundation …

Let’s celebrate this Fourth of July without the myth of white Christian innocence

(RNS) — Which will we honor — the Doctrine of Discovery or the Declaration of Independence? — Read on religionnews.com/2021/07/02/lets-celebrate-this-fourth-of-july-without-the-myth-of-white-christian-innocence/

Nicholas Christakis — How We’re Wired for Goodness | The On Being Project – The On Being Project

Pursuing deep thinking and moral imagination, social courage and joy, to renew inner life, outer life, and life together. A nonprofit media and public life initiative. — Read on onbeing.org/programs/nicholas-christakis-how-were-wired-for-goodness/

Pence and Pompeo Headlined an Event Mounted by a Group That Says the “Christian Era Has Ended” – Mother Jones

And they won’t say if they were paid for their speeches. — Read on http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/05/pence-pompeo-headlined-event-mounted-by-unification-church/

How Long Have We Really Been ‘One Nation Under God’?

How Long Have We Really Been ‘One Nation Under God’? — Read on http://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-long-have-we-really-been-one-nation-under-god/tnamp/

Billy Graham, ‘America’s pastor’? – The Washington Post

He became known as an apolitical preacher. But Graham started out as an ardent conservative. — Read on http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/02/22/billy-graham-americas-pastor/

Opinion: White evangelicals after Trump: What now? – CNN

Opinion: White evangelicals after Trump: What now? - CNN — Read on amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/05/15/opinions/white-evangelicals-after-trump-butler-bass/index.html

The Eugenics Roots of Evangelical Family Values | Religion & Politics

Beth Moore is still making waves. On April 7, soon after announcing her departure from the Southern Baptist Convention, she took to Twitter to proclaim complementarianism “a doctrine of MAN” and to beg forgiveness for supporting the theology of male headship. “I could not … — Read on religionandpolitics.org/2021/05/12/the-eugenics-roots-of-evangelical-family-values/

A Pennsylvania Lawmaker and the Resurgence of Christian Nationalism | The New Yorker

How Doug Mastriano’s rise embodies the spread of a movement centered on the belief that God intended America to be a Christian nation. — Read on http://www.newyorker.com/news/on-religion/a-pennsylvania-lawmaker-and-the-resurgence-of-christian-nationalism

2nd Temple Judaism & Jesus: an Attempt to Unite Noahic Peoples (70 Nations)

Let’s talk about how Jesus chose 70 & sent them, because (to the Hellenistic, 2nd Temple Jew) “the world” meant only the peoples, who descend from Noah, as defined by the ‘Table of (70) Nations’ found in the 1st Book of Moshe (ch. 10), which serves as Semitic origin myth. The 70 names... express symbolically …