No Threat of Christian Nationalism

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Public Theology

Religious Liberty

Ted Peters

Republican National Convention

Donald Trump

Franklin Graham

religious liberty

theocracy

2025-02-23T09:04:21-08:00

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Trump, Unity, and the Scapegoat

Last updated on: February 23, 2025 at 9:04 am By Ted Peters

The near death experience of presidential candidate Donald Trump places him at the vortex of the scapegoat mechanism, wherein Trump becomes the sacred center around which a spirit of national unity could coalesce. Satan casts out Satan by casting out acrimony, division, and violence. In its place we are rewarded with order, unity, and Satan's glee. Read more

Politics and Religion

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2024-09-11T17:52:10-07:00

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UAP Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis

Last updated on: September 11, 2024 at 5:52 pm By Ted Peters

Even with the revival of the Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis (CTH) to explain UAP, it appears that the traditional Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH) remains stronger. Read more

Technology and Religion

2024-07-07T16:15:24-07:00

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ChatGPT Theology’s Image of God?

Last updated on: July 7, 2024 at 4:15 pm By Ted Peters

Can we rightly ask that ChatGPT theology's image of God convey divine love, care, and grace? Yes, indeed. Just recognize that God is real even if God does not literally match our projected images. Read more

Technology and Religion

Religious Art

Art

Artificial Intelligence

Atheism

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Framework of Spirituality

2024-07-05T19:22:00-07:00

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The Soul as Spiritual Core. Soul 8

Last updated on: July 5, 2024 at 7:22 pm By Ted Peters

Might we develop a secular view of the soul as the spiritual core of a person? This is what psychiatrist John Calvin Chatlos offers us. What's unique is Chatlos' experience with substance abusers who undergo spiritual transformation. The steps? First, an oceanic feeling. Second, a sense of self-worth. Self-worth is followed thirdly by a faith process that leads to a transformation of the soul expressed as love for others. He calls it a "Framework for Spirituality." Read more

Technology and Religion

John Calvin Chatlos

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spiritual core

2024-07-02T12:02:28-07:00

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Are UUs going to Mars?

Last updated on: July 2, 2024 at 12:02 pm By Ted Peters

This past week on Star Island in the Atlantic, IRAS hosted an engrossingly intense conference on the astro-sciences and religion. Should we humans depart earth and colonize other planets, leaving our home planet to devolve into lifelessness? Read more

Technology and Religion

Unitarian Universalist

2024-06-18T17:13:32-07:00

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Ancient Alien Alternative History

Last updated on: June 18, 2024 at 5:13 pm By Ted Peters

Whereas I think the alternative history proposed by so-called ancient astronaut theorists is an attempt to support materialism -- even extraterrestrial materialism -- George Mason University professor Jaimie Gunderson proposes a different hypothesis. She proposes epistemological "pleasure." Fascinating. Read more

Religious Art

Ancient Alien

Chariots of the Gods?

2024-06-16T21:55:13-07:00

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Moltmann, Muslims and Al-Mizan

Last updated on: June 16, 2024 at 9:55 pm By Ted Peters

Jürgen Moltmann along with the Muslims composing Al-Mizan have heard our scientists prophesying planetary ecocide and have responded theologically, ethically, and politically. Justice and liberation belong inextricably with sustaining the fecundity of God's creation. Read more

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Technology and Religion

Recreation, Outdoors and Religion

2024-06-11T08:20:26-07:00

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Mirroring Russian Christian Nationalism

Last updated on: June 11, 2024 at 8:20 am By Ted Peters

Are Americans mirroring Russian Christian Nationalism? No, not exactly. Religious nationalism in both lands is sparked by a shared anxiety leading to resentment (French: ressentiment) over the injustice of having traditional culture replaced. This is dangerous. Evangelical, progressive and liberal Christians are right in prophetically judging religious nationalsm. But what we really need is a way to reduce the anxiety that gives rise to it. Read more

Politics and Religion

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American Christian nationalism

Public Theology

Ted Peters

Kirill

Orthodox

Putin

Russian Christian nationalism

separation of church and state

2024-06-05T18:33:01-07:00

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Un-Baptizing American Christian Nationalism

Last updated on: June 5, 2024 at 6:33 pm By Ted Peters

Brian Kaylor and Beau Underwood's new book, "Baptizing America," blames yesterday's mainline Protestants for today's evangelicals and Pentacostals who tout Christian nationalism. What is meant by "Christian nationalism" is so vague that it's become an arrow we can shoot at anybody we don't like. Read more

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