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Showing posts with label morals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label morals. Show all posts
Thursday, December 18, 2025
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Charlie Kirk’s Christian America, Part Two (Warren Throckmorton; Telling Jefferson Lies)
In this segment, I examine the notion that there was something remarkably Christian about America's founding era. Last week, I fact-checked Charlie Kirk's viral video defense of the belief that America was founded as a Christian nation in the legal sense. Most of what Kirk had to say was irrelevant or incorrect.
Today, I consider an overview of moral and religious failings during the founding era. Along with guests Jemar Tisby, Mark Noll, George Marsden, Caleb Campbell, and Aaron Cowan, I contradict Charlie Kirk's call to return to America's Christian roots. In fact, those roots don't seem very Christian when one considers the injustice and atrocities throughout the historical record.
From the segment: "With slavery, treachery, mass murder, betrayal and theft embedded in the legacy of the nation, what does it matter how many times a Supreme Being is mentioned in the Declaration of Independence or if the Liberty Bell has Leviticus on it?"
Interview:
Today, I consider an overview of moral and religious failings during the founding era. Along with guests Jemar Tisby, Mark Noll, George Marsden, Caleb Campbell, and Aaron Cowan, I contradict Charlie Kirk's call to return to America's Christian roots. In fact, those roots don't seem very Christian when one considers the injustice and atrocities throughout the historical record.
From the segment: "With slavery, treachery, mass murder, betrayal and theft embedded in the legacy of the nation, what does it matter how many times a Supreme Being is mentioned in the Declaration of Independence or if the Liberty Bell has Leviticus on it?"
Interview:
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Medicine doesn’t just have ‘conscientious objectors’ − there are ‘conscientious providers,’ too (The Conversation)
As one nurse put it: "My Christian beliefs and values and morals informed my decision. … Here's this person who's hurting who needs help. Would my God that I believe in and worship want me to turn my back on her and just stand there and judge her instead of help her?"
Saturday, November 11, 2023
Sunday, October 29, 2023
New House speaker Mike Johnson praised ‘18th-century values’ in speech
Louisiana congressman told audience at 2013 anti-abortion event Americans should live by 250-year-old religious and moral values…
Monday, September 18, 2023
Weekly Roundup: How 9/11 Accelerated Christian Nationalism (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)
Brad begins by tracing the extreme Christian nationalism of the 2020s to the years following 9/11. The thesis: the ways that Republican politicians and conservative pastors responded to 9/11 led to a new chapter of American Christian nationalism.
Dan then picks up the thread to discuss how Black churches and other groups are teaching Black history in Florida given the fact that it is being left out of school curricula in the state.
The episode finishes with an extended discussion of the lapsed child tax credit – and what it says about our country’s morals and priorities.
Interview:
Dan then picks up the thread to discuss how Black churches and other groups are teaching Black history in Florida given the fact that it is being left out of school curricula in the state.
The episode finishes with an extended discussion of the lapsed child tax credit – and what it says about our country’s morals and priorities.
Interview:
Thursday, March 24, 2022
‘Morally bankrupt’: outrage after pro-Israel group backs insurrectionist Republicans
"Aipac's support for these candidates endangers American democracy and undermines the true interests and values of millions of American Jews and pro-Israel Americans who they often claim to represent," said the more moderate but less influential pro-Israel lobby group, J Street. "Whatever their views on Israel, elected officials who threaten the very future of our country should be completely beyond the pale."…
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Corruptible by Brian Klaas - Q&A (Allison Gill; Mueller, She Wrote Book Club podcast)
Author Brian Klaas answers questions about his book and the research behind it, including comments about Putin and other world leaders and politicians.
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Monday, October 4, 2021
Staunch atheists show higher morals than the proudly pious, from the pandemic to climate change | Salon.com
…When it comes to the most pressing moral issues of the day, hard-core secularists exhibit much more empathy, compassion, and care for the well-being of others than the most ardently God-worshipping. Such a reality is necessary to expose, not simply in order to debunk the long-standing canard that religion is necessary for ethical living, but because such exposure renders all the more pressing the need for a more consciously secular citizenry, one that lives in reality, embraces science and empiricism, and supports sound policies — not prayer — as a way to make life better, safer and more humane.
Friday, February 19, 2021
Opinion | Letter to a Young Republican - The New York Times
... The party is politically viable, but it is intellectually and morally bankrupt...
Saturday, February 6, 2021
Impeaching a former president – 4 essential reads
The impeachment of President Trump is an indication that there is a need to mark out, through a definitive statement, what no president ought to do. It will also set the moral limits of the presidency – and, thereby, send a message to future presidents."
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