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fake authenticity, manufactured dissent, protests, revivals
Manufactured dissent and fake authenticity
12.22.07 | Permalink | 11 CommentsIn the circles I grew up in, “Revival” meant a grand moving of the Holy Spirit. The lame walk, the blind see, the lost are found. God moves in mysterious ways, and the Holy Spirit at a Revival does New Things. Revivals, in practice, are a series of evening worship services, one after another for […]
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cartoons, civil-society, danish-cartoons, free-speech, islam, muhammed, protests, violence
Can’t Muslim fundamentalists take a joke?
02.09.06 | Permalink | 9 CommentsSome three months ago I posted about Danish cartoonists receiving death threats for their depictions of Muhammed. And, well, things have only gotten more intelligent since then, so it’s time for an update. But first, this linktastic post by Jason Pitzl-Waters, which points to this Wikipedia summary of the whole damn thing. And this Christopher […]
