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Mike Rivage-Seul is a liberation theologian and former Roman Catholic priest. Retired in 2014, he taught at Berea College in Kentucky for 40 years where he directed Berea's Peace and Social Justice Studies Program. His latest book is "The Magic Glasses of Critical Thinking: seeing through alternative fact & fake news." Mike blogs at
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Tuesday, March 26, 2024Even for "Democracy Now" Putin's To Blame for the Rock Concert Massacre Even "Democracy Now," even Amy Goodman are not immune from disseminating Russophobia. They too can be fooled by the Grand Wurlitzer of U.S. propaganda. 
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Sunday, March 17, 2024My Homilist's Writer's Block in the Face of Genocide SUNDAY REFLECTION: I'm sorry. I find it impossible to comment on "God's word" that has been invoked so cynically to justify the sadistic slaughter of far more than 31,200 innocents, more than half of them children and their mothers Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 265826 views) 
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Monday, March 11, 2024Do They Think We're Stupid? Maybe We Are. . . Our "leaders" are evidently convinced that we're all like them complete idiots without a trace of humanity or moral compass. Think about what they tell us about Haiti, Honduras, Tijuana, and Gaza. 
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Sunday, March 10, 2024Netanyahu's Bible Is Not about God SUNDAY REFLECTION: How can anyone with an ounce of humanity or possessed of the most elementary moral compass believe in a God who commands complete genocides including women, the elderly, children, infants, cattle, and sheep?
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Monday, January 15, 2024Following Zionist Logic, Hamas Has the Moral Right to Commit Genocide against Israel If Israel's attacks on Gazans are justified by Palestinian atrocities, Palestinian attacks on Israel are even more justifiable. 
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Sunday, January 7, 2024Cornel West Insists on God's Love for Netanyahu & "Genocide Joe" SUNDAY HOMILY: Dr. West is right. Netanyahu and Biden might deserve our opprobrium and jail time. (They do!) However, they're still somehow our brothers and beloved by the One Yeshua revealed on this Epiphany Sunday. Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 265826 views) 
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Sunday, December 17, 2023GOP Attacks on Higher Learning: What's Education for Anyway? And How about Religion? SUNDAY HOMILY: Today's readings direct people of faith to stand with Gazans in their struggle against an apartheid state turned genocidal. 
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Sunday, November 19, 2023Xi Jinping to Biden: You Can Do Multipolarity The Hard Way or the Easy Way; It's Your Choice! SUNDAY HOMILY: According to Xi, the U.S. can either take the path of cooperation or of opposition. The latter will lead to tragedy for everyone. 
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Sunday, November 5, 2023Scott Ritter, Hamas, Terrorism & The Judeo-Christian Tradition SUNDAY HOMILY: Like the ancient Jews, we're led by hypocrites and liars. They should not be our masters. Though old and feeble, they are not our fathers. They are worthy of contempt and curses. That's what today's readings say. 
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Sunday, October 29, 2023Could Hamas Be the Unlikely Agent of God's Revelation? SUNDAY HOMILY: Hamas has lifted the veil to reveal who's responsible for most of the world's problems. It's the United States and Apartheid-Israel. 
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Sunday, October 22, 2023Not Even God Would Give Unconditional Support to Apartheid-Israelis, But Joe Biden Did! SUNDAY HOMILY: No nation - not Israel, not our own, not anybody's - deserves "unconditional support." 
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Sunday, October 15, 2023Does Apartheid Israel Have the Right to Exist? SUNDAY HOMILY: Does ANY system of apartheid have the right to exist? 
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Sunday, October 8, 2023Israeli-Jewish Terrorists vs. "The Jews of the Jews" Mainstream reactions to Hamas' attacks on Israel are predictably ahistorical, contrary to international law, and shockingly self-contradictory. 
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Thursday, August 24, 2023Putin's A Killer Who's Guilty until (impossibly) Proven Innocent By mainstream media standards of proof (i.e., pure speculation), the U.S. is a "mafia state" much worse than Russia. 
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Saturday, July 29, 2023"Sound of Freedom": Is This Its Underlying Conspiracy? I found the film exceptionally moving, its acting splendid, and its cinematography of the highest quality. However its nearly invisible political viewpoint ends up subtly heroizing the CIA, Homeland Security, and the Colombian police, while vilifying "rebels" against the corrupt authority all three represent. 
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Thursday, July 6, 2023Does Artificial Intelligence Represent The Next Stage of Our Species' Evolution - Or Its Complete Devolution? Does AI represent the next stage of our species' evolution capable of surviving long after we have destroyed ourselves through climate change and perhaps even nuclear war? 
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Sunday, May 21, 2023Marianne Williamson vs. Sean Hannity: the Radical Jesus vs. the Mainstream Christ SUNDAY HOMILY: Sean Hannity's interview with Marianne Williamson contrasted a domesticated Christ with a "weird" Jesus whose followers practiced a kind of communism with Christian characteristics. Series: Marianne Williamson for President (28 Articles, 44937 views) 
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Sunday, May 7, 2023China's More "Christian" Approach to Homelessness Than "America's" SUNDAY HOMILY: China's system is more "Christian" than that of the United States relative to concerns of Jesus and the early church about hunger, poverty, and homelessness. 
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Thursday, May 4, 2023The Mainstream Media Finally Discovers Noam Chomsky: For All the Wrong Reasons Cancel Culture shifted into overdrive last week when "The Wall Street Journal" reported that Noam Chomsky had met several times with Jeffrey Epstein. Why? 
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Sunday, April 30, 2023Williamson & RFK Jr. vs. Biden & Harris = Democracy vs. An Unelected Bureaucracy SUNDAY HOMILY: It's time to support genuine alternatives to old incompetent Joe Biden. Marianne Williamson and RFK Jr. provide them. At the very least, we've got to push to get the three candidates up on the stage for a series of real debates. That's doable. Series: Marianne Williamson for President (28 Articles, 44937 views), Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 265826 views) Page 1 of 22 First Last Back Next 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 View All |
