Category: Faiths And Their Followers
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To Be Fair, We Don’t Know Where Laura Loomer Stands On All Of This
SCENE: Mitch BERG is parking on the street to go to a private event. He’s trying to wrangle with the stupid newfangle parking meter when Avery LIBRELLE rolls around the corner on a recumbent bike. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Uh… LIBRELLE: Shut up. The “party of faith” is embracing blasphemy! BERG: I’m not actually Catholic, but…
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Take A “W”, Part II
I’ve told the story – Jimmy Carter’s “malaise” speech affected me as a teenager, immensely. It didn’t “make me a conservative” all by itself – but it did start me wondering. The straitened, blighted perversion of the American Dream that Carter seemed to be inflicting on my generation grated on me -and helped start the…
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Eras
Do pseudo-religious cults reflect the times in which they develop? Or does popular culture make the various cults the symbols of the times? I’m sure there’s an online sociologist or philosopher, somewhere, who has thought this before – feel free to point them out – but what the heck. It’s my blog, I’ll derive if…
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The Satanic Choruses
SCENE: The rotunda at the Minnesota State Capitol. A press conference is underway. Standing at the podium, in front of a “Satanic” display, are three members of the Twin Cities Church of Satan: Joshua Micah GUMPKE – a tall, morbidly obese 30-something man with thick, unkempt back hair, and a black neckbeard. His arms are…
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Hey, Mankato!
Here’s your state rep, Luke Frederick, comparing people of faith to slave holders for dissenting from the left on trans ideology: Please shock the world on election day, and send this hamster back to whatever coffee shop he was working at before he latched onto the DFL gravy train.
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Verdict?
I may not have advanced the science of astrophysics in any meaningful way. I’ll take the “L” there. But I think I’ve got one thing on Steven Hawking: Since he isn’t reiterating this theory to us in person today, it’s clear his theory is at least half-wrong.
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Ire On Cue
A “plan” for a “masjid [mosque]-centered development” in Lino Lakes dropped into the chat this week. And it’s generating the usual clouds of ire from the usual suspects. I’ve got my suspicions. We’ll come back to that. First (with emphasis added): Construction on the project is allegedly “expected to begin Fall of 2025.” However, the…
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In Case You Didn’t Have Reason Enough To Be Nervous This Weekend
As Sergeant Esterhaus on HIll Street Blues used to say, be careful out there.
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Life During Wartime
From the “it could be comedy, if it weren’t for what they actually mean” files: Minneapolis representative Brion Curran took some time off from driving hammered through Central Minnesota while thinking she was in the Twin Cities to tell us what’s what: It’s tempting to respond “we know you exist, Rep. Curran. It’s just irrelevant…
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Separation
SCENE: Mitch BERG, at the library checking out audiobooks, is too engrossed to notice Avery LIBRELLE has walked in. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Uggggghhhh…er, hey, Avery. What’s… LIBRELLE: Silence! Conservatives are violating the Constitutional separation of church and state! BERG: Right – the new Alabama law on in vitro fertilization references a majority religious view in…
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Mirthy
SCENE: Mitch BERG is loading some garage junk into a truck. He doesn’t notice Avery LIBRELLE, whjo is walking up the alley writing down the addresses of homes without handicap parking spots. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Uh… LIBRELLE: Christian Nationalists can’t handle freedom of religion! They’re having a cow and melting down over a Satan Club…
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The Spirit Of The Season
This fellow – a Doctor of Intersectional Grievance Studies – is sure nuff gonna show his neighbors what’s what: Where to start: Having spent at least eight years getting a PhD in Intersectional Grievance Studies, it’s understandable he’s not clear on the nuts and bolts of Christian theology – and, being an academic in a…
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Throwback
It’s come up on the blog before – I wasn’t a big Jimmy Carter fan. The consequences of Carter’s one term in office played a disproportionate role in my becoming a conservative in the first place. He’s garnered a lot of hagiography for his philanthropic work over the past 40 years or so – and…
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Righteous Battle
I grew up Presbyterian – and remained in the church because I believe the Presbyterian Book of Workship puts less temporal BS between God and the Man who wants to study Him than any of the alternatives. The Presbyterian Church and the people who work within it have been a huge influence on my life.…
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Purity Test
SCENE: Mitch BERG is cleaning out his garden boxes. Busy hauling stalks to the truck, he doesn’t notice Avery LIBRELLE, patrolling the alley, looking for over-filled recycling bins to report to the city. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Hey, Avery… LIBRELLE: Shut up. The GOP’s new Speaker of the House is anti-science. I have proof! BERG: Huh.…
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False Idols
“Don’t Create False Idols” is a Biblical commandment; essentially saying don’t turn God into a token object. It is important enough to the Christian faith to rate as one of the ten standing orders for the faithful. And, really, it’s great advice for life in general. For example – I’m not one who creates an…
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Off Script
SCENE: One morning at MNDFL Headquarters. An array of progressive Minnesota luminaries are gathered around a table. At the head sits Lieutenant Governor Peggy FLANAGAN. To her right, Ken MARTIN, chair of the DFL. The other seats are occupied by Javier MORILLO of the SEIU, Denise SPECHT of Education MInnesota, Alida MESSINGER of Alliance for…
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Discretion
Western “woke” social imperialism apparently has its limits: If one exhibits “pride” but nobody can hear it, does it exist?
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Common Cause
A friend of the blog emails: Reading this news report at Alpha News, I am struck by this question: Why don’t conservatives make common cause with the local Muslims? They want good educations for their children, just like Moderates, Conservatives, and Christians do. Muslims by and large are much more puritanical about these sorts of…
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Chilling Effect
Not long after the FBI put Catholic worshipers on its politically, motivated watchlist, this happened: Not jumping to conclusions, here – because I don’t think there’s any need to jump. As we continue to wait for the “epic wave of right wing violence“ that Obama promised us, the epic wave of left-wing violence continues.
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The Bullied Pulpit
Remember last year, in the immediate aftermath of the Dobbs decision, when Kansas referred a constitutional amendment banning abortion to a popular vote… …and it lost? In deep-red (but for Wichita and Kansas City) Kansas? Big Left took it as a bit of great news – “Even Red America is pro-choice!” Smarter Americans read it…
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Win-Win
A friend of the blog emails regarding the “Muhammad” flap at Hamline that I wrote about last week: It is entirely possible that Aram Wedatalla read the syllabus for the course last summer, saw that there was a warning about the image of the Prophet and signed up for the course with an eye toward…
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Darn Those Redneck MAGA Fascists
Parents shut down a Dearborn, Michigan school board meeting over the distribution of “woke” books: A school-board meeting in Dearborn, Mich. was shut down earlier this week by hundreds of protesters opposing the circulation of LGBTQ books across the city’s public-school system. Viral videos recorded by a Detroit Free Press reporter circulated on Twitter showing pandemonium breaking out at the meeting…
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That Brave Stance Thing
Rep. Omar: So, Rep. Omar – are you condemning the regime’s actions? Because by your logic, the women of Iran are fighting against being forced to don the hijab… …which you call “Islamophobia” when Americans say it. Just want to be clear, here.
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Stumble Of Faith
I’m a conservative, and a Christian. And I cringe at some of the things said in the name of “conservative Christianity“. Which I hasten to add, because some of the things I’ve seen from “progressive Christians“, including some friends and classmates, this past few days have had me cringing even more. Three things, specifically: “Christ…