There is much controversy, as there should be, about the (unwise) removal of a video art clip from a privately funded exhibit at the publicly funded Smithsonian. The clip briefly shows ants crawling on a cross. An ambiguous image to be sure, but leave it to the righteous to cry blasphemy. It is a sad [...]
Tags:ants·blasphemy·cross·David Wojnarowicz·Fire in My Belly·First Amendment·sacrilege·Smithsonian
Live Science’s Bad Science Columnist (I kid not) Benjamin Radford has written an article on the “Culture of Blasphemy Among Nonbelievers.” In pursuit of his insulting story, Radford obtained a juicy quote from “Professor Reinhold Aman, editor of the scholarly Maledicta: The International Journal of Verbal Aggression” (I kid not).
While Radford notes that Muslims tend [...]
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In yesterday’s post on the religion of nationalism, I noted that Ground Zero is sacred ground for the believer-patriots of American national religion. If you questioned this assertion, doubt no more — the GOP has produced an incendiary video which declares that Ground Zero is “sacred ground” and that an Islamic mosque cannot be built [...]
Tags:American national religion·blasphemy·Christian America·Civil Religion·Ground Zero·Islam·jihad·Kill the Ground Zero Mosque video·Muslims·nationalism as religion·patriot·patriotism·radical Islam·sacred ground·sacred site
