religion

Bauer, Marx and religion - David McLellan

Ret Marut — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:15:59 +0000

The role of the Catholic Church in Yugoslavia's holocaust - Seán Mac Mathúna, 1941-1945

daniel — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:24:00 +0000

During the Second World War in Yugoslavia, Catholic priests and Muslim clerics were willing accomplices in the genocide of the nations Serbian, Jewish and Roma population.

"The Renewal of Medieval Times" in Yugoslavia, 1941

daniel — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:27:11 +0000

There can be little doubt that this article appeared with the agreement of the Fascist Party in Italy, and the Italian Army had already begun to stand between the Ustase and their victims in zones of the NDH under their authority.

Hurricane Katrina, and the good churchgoers of the U.S. South - prole cat

daniel — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:56:51 +0000

Like many frustrated Southerners in the aftermath of the hurricane named Katrina, I drove a small truck-and-trailer full of food and water to South Mississippi. I met some refugees at a camp site, during the trip down. They appeared to be poor whites. One, a native of Bay St. Louis, was snarling against the "looters", using racial epithets.

The continuing appeal of religion - Troploin

Joseph K. — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:30:43 +0000

French left-communist journal Troploin doing exactly what they say on the tin. The social function of religion; "The quest for the supernatural does not stem from an excessive but from a limited imagination built by millenniums of exploitation and oppression: the incapacity to be free on Earth incites humans to situate freedom out of this world. Dreams and desires are displaced persons. This is the stuff religion is made of."

A father and an anarchist

Freedom — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:03:37 +0000

It can’t be often, unfortunately, that the bishop of a major country’s capital city having visited an elderly priest, feared to be dying, and then phones a past archbishop’s former chaplain, a sometime mentor of the present archbishop, to say ‘he spoke of the kingdom of God and proclaimed his undying belief in Anarchy’.

Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity - Slavoj Žižek

aacammy5 — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:50:18 +0000

According to a commonplace, Judaism (and Islam) is a "pure" monotheism, while Christianity, with its Trinity, is a compromise with polytheism; Hegel even designates Islam as THE "religion of sublimity" at its purest, as the universalization of the Jewish monotheism:

Nicaragua set to outlaw abortion

zobag — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:15:00 +0000

Leaders from the Roman Catholic church have helped to draft legislation outlawing abortion in all cases, including cases of rape and abortion to save the pregnant woman's life.

1932: Belfast Outdoor Relief Strike

Steven. — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 11:24:46 +0000

It is important today not only because it is a part of our history that has been denied space in the school books but also because it was a living demonstration that the sectarian barrier can be breached.

1970-1990: The war of counter-insurgency in El Salvador

Steven. — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:44:12 +0000

The crucifixion of El Salvador
For many years, repression, torture and murder were carried on in El Salvador by dictators installed and supported by the US government, a matter of no interest in the US. The story was virtually never covered. By the late 1970s, however, the government began to be concerned about a couple of things.