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POPSChristianity Today on torture David Gushee for the evangelical Christian magazine Christianity Today on five theological grounds for the unequivocal and universal condemnation of torture by Christians, and why, from a Christian perspective, no exceptional circumstances can ever justify the use of torture. From February 2006.
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POPSTorah Borntrager on "how I escaped the Amish" A young woman who was raised Amish, but who left the community at age 15, tells her story. This is an interview by Tim Ferris (the time-management guru) -- not what I expected to see at his blog at all, but I assume it's genuine.
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POPSReflections on James Dobson, child-rearing, and U.S. political discourse For some time, Dr. Dobson has been known for his insistence that a key component of parents' responsibility is the inflicting of controlled violence on their children in order to make them obedient, virtuous, and "God-fearing." Here a blogger considers links between Dobson's typical language of war, as pertinent to child-rearing, marriage and homosexuality, and foreign policy.
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POPSHuman sacrifice in nursery rhymes According to this commentator, the traditional rhyme "London Bridge is Falling Down" references the pagan custom of ritually sacrificing a young (human) victim at the occasion of building a bridge.
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POPSBradley Burstyn, Haaretz: What 1967 did to Judaism Bradley Burstyn writes in Haaretz last week that 1967, in convincing rabbis that they could be generals and putting them in a position of providing spiritual sustenance to an occupying army, effectively destroyed Orthodox Judaism. A provocative claim.
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POPS"Ear-Ripping-Off Battles" against the devil Fascinating interview, prob. 2005, with Bob Welch, author of "You, the Warrior Leader." Welch, an evangelical Southern Baptist pastor and former Green Beret and wounded Vietnam vet, discusses the application of military thinking to "spiritual war."
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POPSTezcatlipoca as an Aztec "trickster figure" An interesting, unusual perspective on Tezcatlipoca, the Aztec deity variously called "Lord of the Here and Now," "He Whose Slaves We Are," "Enemy on Both Sides," "Obsidian Blade," and "The Mirror's Smoke."
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POPSA struggle for the heart of Islam? Sunni vs. Shiite tension heats up Fareed Zakaria remarks that al-Qaeda began as a pan-Islamic organization and has increasingly turned into an anti-Shiite one. He compares this internal conflict to the extraordinarily bloody struggles that decimated Europe following the Protestant Reformation. I'm a little skeptical ... but it's an interesting comparison.
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POPSArmy of God website Site of the Army of God, the militant anti-abortion group linked to the firebombing of various clinics and the assassination of several doctors.
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POPSUSAF Counterproliferation Center Links from the USAF Air War College to white papers and research documents on terrorism. Includes work by some very widely known and respected researchers, both inside and outside the military, e.g. psychologist Jerrold Post.
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POPSThe Turner Diaries: "Bible of the racist right" I hate to give this site a link ... but for anyone who is interested in understanding the literature of "Racial Holy War," or the so-called "Christian Identity" movement (McVeigh was connected to this), this book is central.
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POPSOrange County mujaheddin? Both John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban", and Adam Gadahn, now a high-ranking al-Qaeda operative, were white kids growing up in California not all that long ago. Julia Rabig looks at their past and the press coverage. From 2004.
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POPSAn al-Qaeda "homegrown": Adam Gadahn The New Yorker profiles "Azzam al-Amriki" (Adam the American), a high-ranking media officer inside al-Qaeda. He's a Jewish convert to Islam from Orange County, CA.
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POPSFundamentalism and history An article by TheRevealer.org's Jeff Sharlet on the relationship between American fundamentalist Christianity and the country's history. His trademark rambling, ethnographic, personal style.
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