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In recent weeks, following Reverend Raphael Warnock’s stunning win in a senatorial race in Georgia and the nuggets of biblical language and references to Pope Francis’s thoughts in President Joe Biden’s inaugural address, the American political left is atwitter with the possibility that a religious revival in American society can power the progressive left.
In a widely circulated opinion piece by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons and Maggie Siddiqi of the Center for American Progress on the NBC News website, they argued:
“If there was any lingering doubt, last week made it clear: the religious left is not a curious outlier in American politics. The religious references during President Joe Biden’s inauguration, the inaugural prayer service held [on] Thursday morning with a powerful line-up of religious leaders and the swearing-in of the Reverend Raphael Warnock as a newly minted senator are proof that progressive peopl
Why Does Turkey Want to Befriend Israel?
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan gives a speech.
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Can Israelis trust President Erdoğan?
Turkey announced it will reestablish its embassy at Tel Aviv, Israel, Al-Monitor reported last month. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reportedly chose Ufuk Ulutas, a veteran diplomat and Hebrew speaker, to fill the post. This comes soon after several historic normalization agreements between Israel and several Arab states.
Turkey was the first Muslim country to recognize Israel’s sovereignty in 1949. Since then, Turkey had generally friendly relations with Israel. But this changed with the rise of Erdoğan, a strongman and Islamist who has ruled the country since 2003. Israel and Turkey never formally severed their political relations. However, Turkey expelled Israel’s ambassador and recalled its own from Tel Aviv in 2018. This was in response to Israel cracking down on Palestinian protests after the United States mo
The late mentor of Raphael Warnock, pastor and one of Georgia’s Democratic candidates for US Senate, had advocated for the
“destruction of everything white” and
demonized white Christians as “satanic.”
James Hal Cone, who passed away in 2018, was a pastor, professor, and passionate defender of
“black liberation theology,” which he outlined in his 1969 book
“poignant and powerful voice” of high
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Cone has a Wikipedia page that describes his black liberation theology:
His message was that Black Power, defined as black people asserting the humanity that white supremacy denied, was the gospel in America. Jesus came to liberate the oppressed, advocating the same thing as Black Power. He argued that white American churches preached a gospel based on white supremacy, antithetical to the gospel of Jesus. Cone’s work was influential from the time of the book’s publication, and his work remains influential today. His work has been both used and critiqued
Biden Needs A Democratic Senate To Govern
Why? Because the GOP wants to block the Biden agenda. Of course, that’s the point. Or is it really Biden’s agenda? Or Kamala’s agenda? Or Chuck’s? Or Nancy’s? Or “Sandy’s”, even?
Biden campaigned alongside Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock as they try to unseat Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in the January 5th runoff elections, saying he “needs two Democrats from the state of Georgia” to flip the Senate and “he wants to get something done”. It’s so cute that Joe Biden now wants to “get something done”, isn’t it? What does he want to “get done”? Well, confronting the Coronavirus pandemic, for starters. Then, Joe Bidenleap “all other national challenges” in one single bound.