LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY nebris)

~Is the rise of Christian fundamentalism tied to birth of the suburbs?

LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY cheap_laugh)

In case you didn't read the papers, like the nypost, yet, a story is coming out of Iran is reporting that a new piece of legislation would enforce a dress code on all of Iran. Muslims wear 'traditional (i.e.Arabian) clothing, while non-muslims get color coded. Christians, Red, Zoroastrians, Persian Blue. And, Jews? Why, Jews... Yellow. of course, this is being denied, but Ahmadinejad and others are denying this. why? perhaps, to see how the world would react.

The papers/websites reporting this story as false: ynet.news (jewish), bloomberg, jpost.com says the law is aimed at Muslim women.


Ah, whipping up the flames of conflict....

LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY jehovahsfitness)

At the grocery store today, I was seeking out milk that didn't contain rGBH (I recently watched The Corporation). The kind I found was Promised Land Dairy brand. Now, the name didn't give me any red flags. There's a lot of brands that use religious wording that don't particularly have religious motivations in mind and many without such names that do. However, when I got home I noticed a Bible verse on the label, so I decided to do some sleuthing.

Turns out Promised Land is owned by a Texan businessman by the name of James R. Leininger. From 1987-1997 Leininger spent more than 4.6 million dollars to influence elections and on political issues like tort reform and vouchers. According to the Dallas Star-Telegram this primary season alone he has donated over $550,000 to various state-level Republican candidates. Five candidates he's backing all have "nearly identical" fliers. Interestingly, Leininger also owns a direct mailing business, Focus Direct. Leininger has funded Focus on the Family, the AFA and the Family Research Council and has founded several PACs and a think tank based on the Heritage Foundation's model.

Not to be confused with another James Leininger, a supposedly reincarnated WWII pilot.

More links:
http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=492
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_R._Leininger
http://www.tylwythteg.com/enemies/leininger.html
http://www.texscience.org/reform/leininger.htm
http://www.tfn.org/religiousright/leininger/
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol18/issue22/pols.leiniger.profile.html

LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY polypolyglot)

Monday, May 22nd 7pm. Michelle Goldberg

Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism

Kingdom Coming is Michelle Goldberg’s report on the Christian Nationalism currently sweeping the country—a cultural revolution where every political issue is a battle between good and evil. Goldberg journeys from the deepest South to the Northeast to the far reaches of the West to investigate America’s new & pervasive religious radicalism. Along the way she introduces us to the movers & shakers-- players in & funders of-- the religious right, and to all of the programs, schools and political organizations that are part of it.

“Even while pointing to stark parallels between fascism and the language of the religious right, Goldberg’s vision of America’s future is measured and realistic. Her book is a potent wake-up call to pluralists in the coming show-down with Christian nationalists.”

--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Goldberg demonstrates—elegantly and persuasively—that tens of millions of our neighbors are working hard each day to obliterate the separation between church and state, to supplant scientific rationality with Iron Age fantasies, to achieve a Christian theocracy in the 21st century. This is a terrifying and necessary book.”

--Same Harris, author of The End of Faith



Michelle Goldberg is a senior political reporter for Salon.com and is on the board of directors of the Campaign to Defend the Constitution. Her journalism has appeared in Rolling Stone, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Shift Magazine, The New Republic online, the UK Guardian, and the Utne Reader. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.



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