“I’ve downloaded and made available the profiles of (almost) everyone on LinkedIn who works for ICE, 1,595 people in total. While I don’t have a precise idea of what should be done with this data set, I leave it here with the hope that researchers, journalists, and activists will find it useful,” Lavigne wrote in his original Medium post, according to a cache visible through Google search at the time of writing.'Don't have a precise idea of what should be done with this data set.' Uh huh. What could possibly go wrong?
Antifa is to any sane and moral person as bad as any alt-right hate group. It has declared itself Grand Inquisitor for the Left, and given itself authority to hunt down, find, accuse and attack any deemed 'fascist', using whatever destructive and violent means necessary. The press, entertainment industry, educational institutions and a fair number of Christian leaders, of course, approve this message. They can taste the United Soviet States of America, and are beginning to corral into the fold all who would not be sent to the gulags.
Ever wonder how followers of Jesus could don armbands with swastikas and goosestep around bonfires of burning books as minorities were rounded up and sent to concentration camps? I give you the 21st century followers of Jesus who appear quite ready to do the same. I guess there's just something in some believers that says no matter how vile, evil, wrong or blasphemous the compromise, when those barbed wire fences go up, I'm sure as hell not going to be on the inside looking out. Sounds harsh, I know. But it's a thought I've had recently.
Reminds me of something I was reading recently (it was talking about Jews, but I think it would apply just as well to Catholics and some protestants).
ReplyDeleteThat's between a religion that is so embedded that it's culture and a religion that is swimming upstream against culture.
If you dispense with Divine revelation, then all you have left is culture and community. You might be able to build a community around culture. American Jews have done so. But the culture depended on eroding differences.
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The common denominator in all these things, from the religious pop songs, to the novels, which inevitably have religious morals built in, and the language, which is built around religious values, is that they integrate the assumptions of faith into daily life. They make religion into culture. And they make faith into culture.
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The liberalizing fallacy has been that each generation could make concessions to modernism by discarding some things that "no modern person takes seriously anyway" while assuming that the next generation would want to keep the things that they kept, instead of throwing away more things to adapt to a modernity that was continually becoming more hostile to traditional religious values.
Eventually throwing things away became Liberal Judaism. And that Judaism became the nothingness it sought to be. The liberal impulse made that Judaism into liberalism, its synagogues into community activist groups and its theology into social justice. Its Rabbis excelled at the language of moral seriousness; but like all Western liberal clergy they had nothing to be morally serious about.
-Source (emphasis mine)