Christianity
Class struggle in first-century Galilee produced the ‘Jesus movement’
March 27, 2023The Jesus movement was part of a pattern of millenarian groups reacting to the inequality around them in first-century Galilee, write the authors of a new study.
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Religious freedom or Christian hegemony? A left Jewish perspective on abortion
July 14, 2022Religious freedom and any similar focus on the religious aspect of the struggle for abortion rights is a battleground set by the reactionary Christian right.
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Extremist-dominated ‘religious freedom’ commission in the U.S. targets Vietnam
April 4, 2022The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom is peddling the same old Cold War anti-communist propaganda.
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Pope should know poverty, not pets, keeps people from having kids under capitalism
January 11, 2022In saying that having pets over children is selfish and cultural degradation, the Pope’s otherwise advanced, 20th century nuance failed him.
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Pope: Neoliberalism and ‘free market’ capitalism have failed the world
October 5, 2020In major encyclical, he calls for a new world system of economic justice and an end to war.
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