Tag: Religious Education
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I Grew Up In The Shadow Of The Holocaust And I Feel That Shadow Growing
It isn’t all that surprising that a racist knuckle-scraper like Marjorie Taylor Greene would compare being compelled to wear a face mask to being sent to Auschwitz. In her heart, you just know Marjorie’s a Holocaust denier. Hell, I bet if Marjorie could go back in time to the Holocaust, she’d be thrilled. The biggest […]
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I Grew Up In The Shadow Of The Holocaust And I Feel That Shadow Growing
According to Donald Trump, “Jews” are a “nationality”. That’s not the first time a country’s leader has started down that road. Throughout most of Europe’s history, Jews were kept apart. In Venice, Italy, they put them on their own little islands and called that area — where the Jews lived — “ghetto”. That’s where the […]
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Here’s The Problem With Letting Religious People Run Things, Part One
An important moment in every kid’s life — an essential moment, really, that will dictate the course of the rest of their life — is the instant they realize that adults (pretty much all of them) are completely full of shit. And adults ARE full of shit. Adults want kids to believe they know everything […]
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I Grew Up In The Shadow Of The Holocaust
It’s National Holocaust Remembrance Day. According to Donald Trump, “Jews” are a “nationality”. That’s not the first time a country’s leader has started down that road… Historically, it never ends well for Jews. I was born in 1959, 14 years after the Nazi concentration camps were liberated. In my brain, those camps never went away. […]
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Why Is It So Much Easier To Sell People Bullshit Than It Is To Give Them The Truth?
Magic is sparkly bullshit. It’s no more real just because it glitters a little.