(The New York Times) — Thomas J. J. Altizer, one of a handful of radical theologians in the 1960s who espoused that “God is dead,” has died in Stroudsburg, Pa. He was 91. His daughter, Katharine Altizer, said the cause was complications of a stroke. Dr. Altizer, who lived in Mount Pocono, Pa., was under […]
Continue reading …(Fox News) — The Dutch businessman who claimed he was a “young god” when he launched a legal battle last month to officially roll back his age 20 years will remain 69. A Dutch court on Monday rejected Emile Ratelband’s request to shave off two decades from his age, saying that amending his date of […]
Continue reading … (KIRO-TV) — Shilo Jama showed us the needle exchange he runs in Seattle’s University District. The supplies, including needles and naloxone, are not all that different from what he found when he visited underground supervised consumption sites in and around Seattle. Jama said his organization, the People’s Harm Reduction Alliance, has no role in running […]
Continue reading …(China Aid) — Despite ongoing attacks from authorities, members of Early Rain Covenant Church have continued to preach on the streets. On Nov. 14, 10 Christians were evangelizing in public when police took them away. The detained were taken into custody as they handed out Christian fliers during a Bible study and were not released […]
Continue reading …(Bloomberg) — China’s plan to judge each of its 1.3 billion people based on their social behavior is moving a step closer to reality, with Beijing set to adopt a lifelong points program by 2021 that assigns personalized ratings for each resident. The capital city will pool data from several departments to reward and punish […]
Continue reading …WASHINGTON (New York Times) — The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to leapfrog federal appeals courts in several cases concerning the president’s decision to bar transgender people from serving in the military. Federal district courts have entered injunctions against the new policy, but no appeals court has yet ruled […]
Continue reading …(The Guardian) — Facebook has been criticized for failing to remove a viral post promoting an auction of a child bride in South Sudan, which eventually led to the payment of the largest dowry ever recorded in the civil war-torn country. The highest bidder was a man three times the age of the 17-year-old girl […]
Continue reading …(ABC News) — Netflix and Warner Bros have settled with a Satanic group that attempted to sue the production company for $50 million ($68.95 million) for images used in its new Chilling Adventures of Sabrina series. On Thursday, The Satanic Temple founder Lucien Greaves released a statement that the lawsuit filed against Warner Bros and […]
Continue reading …(The Insider) — The 26-year-old American who police say was killed by a remote Indian tribe last week, said he believed God helped him dodge authorities and reach the isolated island he referred to as “Satan’s last stronghold.” John Allen Chau, a tourist and Christian missionary from Washington state, wrote in a final diary entry […]
Continue reading …(Newsweek) — Witchcraft and other pagan religious practices increased in the U.S. over the past few decades, with millennials turning to astrology and tarot cards as they turn away from Christianity and other traditionally dominant Abrahamic religions. The number of witches and Americans practicing Wicca religious rituals increased dramatically since the 1990s, with several recent […]
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