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Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   Recently, someone asked me if religious work to convert cultures around the world could be considered a form of religious extremism. Questions like this open doors to uncomfortable rooms. We enter them at our own risk. “If we are going to talk about this,” I offered, “we have to be willing to talk about white supremacy.” To begin, we have to distinguish universalizing religions from ethnic religions. Ethnic religions are local, although they can migrate as followers migrate. Ethnic religions are found worldwide: in the ...

Problem of Evil The Problem of Evil is an extremely well-known and constantly rehashed theological/philosophical argument. It is intended to prove that the idea of the Christian God contains a contradiction. It is often generalized to refer to the 'Judaic-Christian-IslamicGod' (G-C-I God), as all three gods share the relevant characteristics. It is generally assumed that the J-C-I God is both omnipotent and infinitely benevolent. If you do not hold these to be true, the argument will not hold.                 (1) There is evil (pain, suffering, etc.) in the world.      �...

Reviews From SFFILM 2021 by Peter Wong on April 13, 2021 The documentary “Radiograph Of A Family” may primarily be filmmaker Firouzeh Khosrovani’s account of her parents’ marriage.  But it also manages to be an affecting metaphorical mid-20th century history of Iran’s two major cultural strands without being cloying or blatantly obvious. The film’s narration begins with the quietly odd statement “Mother married Father’s photog...

Undark Days before the inauguration of President Joe Biden, at a time when some Americans were animated by the false conviction that former President Donald J. Trump had actually won the November election, a man in Colorado began texting warnings to his family. The coming days, he wrote, would be " the most important since World War II." Trump had invoked the Insurrection Act, the man believed, and he was arresting enemies in the Vatican and other countries. Predicting turbulence ahead, the man urged his wife and two adult children to begin stockpiling essential goods. Please share this artic...

Can Cult Studies Offer Help With QAnon? The Science Is Thin. Many families have become divided over online political conspiracy theories, but the science on “brainwashing” is weak. MICHAEL SCHULSON February 24, 2021 DAYS BEFORE THE inauguration of President Joe Biden, at a time when some Americans were animated by the false conviction that former President Donald J. Trump had actually won the November election, a man in Colorado began texting warnings to his family. The coming days, he wrote, would be “the most important since World War II.” Trump had invoked the Insurrection Act, the...