@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzWelp, I hope this devoutly wrong-thinking dropkick loses his council seat. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/585377/hastings-councillor-skips-planning-session-at-marae-over-te-reo-and-faith-concerns
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialAh yes, the government of #ProLife & #FamilyValues & #Christianity strikes again, demonstrating their sense of mercy, compassion and common sense.
ICE detains Texas father as son’s health de…
@paulwermer@sfba.socialAh yes, the government of #ProLife & #FamilyValues & #Christianity strikes again, demonstrating their sense of mercy, compassion and common sense.
ICE detains Texas father as son’s health de…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialSpecial Issue of Christianity and Literature: Climate Fiction and Christianity https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/11/19/special-issue-of-christianity-and-literature-climate-fiction-and-christianity
@memeorandum@universeodon.comA Christmas Argument That Ended in Harmony (E. J. Dionne Jr/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/opinion/merry-christmas-happy-holidays-christianity.html?unlocked_article_code=1._E8.ByLj.TLv1WO5nAEHR&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p38#a251224p38
@adrianco@mastodon.socialJohn Loftus has a comprehensive new paper on #Atheist morality: his peer-reviewed paper, "An Atheist Morality Without God", has been published at Religions. http://www.debunking-…
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe paradox of Nazism being both the most capitalist thing possible, defining itself as explicitly anticommunist, while masquerading as "socialism" is difficult to resolve until you understand one thing: fascism pivots around antisemitism (and its extension, conspiratorial thinking).
I'm, of course, not talking about the redefinition of "antisemitism" into meaning any criticism of Israel but rather an anti-Jewish conspiracy narrative rooted in Roman Christianity.
This is critical to understand as MAGA fascism pivots between capitalist and pseudo-anticapitalist with Trump in the middle. Hitler did the same thing. Strasserism helped the Nazis gain power by pulling in the Left. In the Nazis case they killed the Stasserists pretty quickly. Now, I think we're seeing an attempt to make the opposite pivot happen in MAGA. But it's all the same thing.
Fascism can infinitely fail to address the needs of the people while dismissing it's own responsibility for creating the problem by maintaining a permanent enemy.
This is why it's important to understand antisemitism and how to fight it. It's especially important now because the apparatus of violence in Israel is itself a tool of global fascism, and we finally have an opportunity to dismantle the whole thing. But we have to be aware of how fascists can pivot around to block this.
I've been reading Safety Through Solidarity, and I think it's especially relevant at this time.
https://www.akpress.org/safety-through-solidarity.html
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent:
the Maga evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineChristianity as a power tool. Again. Crusaders, Teutonic Knoghts, Conquistadores, the Inquisition; all are inspiration for MAGA.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/01/jd-vance-usha-christianity?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@tokensane@mastodon.me.uk#Trump threatens #nigeria over #christian deaths, but returns Christian converts to Iran.
BBC News - Christian converts are among the Iranians being sent home from US
@servelan@newsie.socialIt starts with 'I hope' and will escalate.
JD Vance Hopes His Wife Will Convert To Christianity - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/10/jd-vance-hopes-his-wife-will-convert-to-christianity/
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social"Smallwood’s signature synthesis of the Black gospel tradition and a host of musical influences, especially classical traditions, made his pen one of the most distinct in musical history.”
—Braxton Shelley, George Washington Williams Professor of Divinity and Music, commenting in Christianity Today on the death of gospel music giant Richard Smallwood
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caIn the Great War, the two sides famously had a truce on Christmas. Playing soccer (football) in No Man’s Land.
In today’s wars the destruction of Ukrainian cities continued overnight and the President of the United States bombed Nigeria in the name of Christianity.
#uspoli #war #russiaUkraineWar #Ukraine #nigeria #christianity https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/115782967595509297
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io"Adams' first ex-wife said he's converting to Christianity because of the 'risk-reward' calculation"
Nice try
@kctipton@mas.toThe Gospel According to ICE: How Christian Nationalists Betray The Faith They Claim to Follow | Tim Hjersted https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the-gospel-according-to-ice/
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialThis church in Minneapolis has an impressive ongoing organisation. Great to see a community helping each other against the threat from Trump/ICE. This is what Christianity is about, something that Trump is far removed of.
https://www.mprne…
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaJust found a cool article about early anti-trans anti-woman Christianity, and the erasure of historical trans women
https://carisemry.substack.com/p/the-christian-roots-of-transmisogyny-019
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThey're doing to America what they did to Christianity (Bill McKibben/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/23/america-christian-evangelical-discrimination-immigration
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p35#a251123p35
@relcfp@mastodon.socialSpecial Issue of Christianity and Literature: Climate Fiction and Christianity
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@fortune@social.linux.pizzaIs uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and
children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt,
tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards
uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half
of the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
-- Thomas Jefferson
@relcfp@mastodon.socialSpecial Issue of Christianity and Literature: Climate Fiction and Christianity
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@memeorandum@universeodon.comVance Says He Hopes His Wife Embraces Christianity, Setting Off Backlash (Amy Qin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/us/politics/usha-jd-vance-christianity-religion-hindu.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p146#a251031p146
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJD Vance defends saying he wants his wife Usha to convert to Christianity (ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jd-vance-defends-wife-usha-convert-christianity/story?id=127068182
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p127#a251031p127
