When I was young, I had a job that required me to travel throughout the central and mountain states. I frequently drove at night, because it was easier on the eyes than in the daytime. Unfortunately, this part of the country had a dearth of good radio stations that played music at night. The AM … Read more
It’s not accident or happenstance that the radical right chose the Martin Luther King, Jr. birthday holiday to hold its “gun rights” rally in Virginia. It is in reality a white supremacist rally, a sequel to the violent Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally in 2017 (above photo), in support of Trump’s MAGA cult followers’ fantasies … Read more
On Wednesday, Donald Trump for all appearances was suffering from a messianic “God complex,” approvingly retweeting a right-wing conspiracy theorist who said Trump is the ‘King of the Jews‘, ‘King of Israel’, and ‘The Second Coming of God’. Trump himself, while turning to look up to the heavens, later claimed “I am the Chosen One.” This … Read more
One of Donald Trump’s very first official acts as president was his Muslim Travel Ban (version 1.0), on Jan. 27, 2017. Trump’s pandering on anti-Muslim bigotry is a sop to his white fundamentalist evangelical Christian Right base in the Republican Party, and their end-times Apocalyptic cult of the Rapture. And it is inextricably linked to the … Read more
“Fanaticism is not synonymous with faith; it is merely faith at its worst.” – Andrew Sullivan, from America’s New Religions. There is religious fanaticism loose in America. Jonathan Davis writes that “Christian nationalism – including the tendency of many evangelicals to seek power for themselves (and their version of Christianity) – is a threat to … Read more