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Social Criticism
Christianity Is Inherently Violent
Nov 13th
All Christians are white supremacists. They’re also all Spanish inquisitors. They all believe the world is six thousand years old. They all believe that women have no right to teach theology to men. They all believe that the institution of slavery is ordained by God and, within appropriate limits, is perfectly just. All Christians hate [...]
No Women Allowed
Sep 20th
A long time ago in a Bible Belt far, far away, a group of male trustees at Ostensible Christian College recently voted never to allow a woman to join their club. Ostensibly Christian education was in that time and place simply too important to be entrusted to the weaker sex. (Women were considered to be [...]
Marcuse on Obscenity
Jun 11th
From Herbert Marcuse, An Essay on Liberation (Boston: Beacon, 1969) pp. 7-8:
This [affluent] society is obscene in producing and indecently exposing a stifling abundance of wares while depriving its victims abroad of the necessities of life; obscene in stuffing itself and its garbage cans while poisoning and burning the scarce foodstuffs in the fields of [...]
