Truga posted:

it's incredibly funny that a bunch of local fundies achieved in short order what al qaeda couldn't do in a couple decades lmao

Truga posted:

it's incredibly funny that a bunch of local fundies achieved in short order what al qaeda couldn't do in a couple decades lmao

Venomous posted:

but enough about the US,

PERPETUAL IDIOT posted:

There is definitely a fash movement in Greece, especially bad among the youth, but it's still basically the same country that voted for (what was presented as) a socialist government to try to destroy the EU, and got backstabbed for their trouble. The real, no-bullshit Communist party, the same one that crushed its Eurocommunist splitters into irrelevance, still gets around 5%-10% of the vote nationally and mayoralities in major cities.

So, bad, but things could change quick.

Truga posted:

the main US export to europe over the last 10 or so years has been their incredibly stupid culture war, it's not just US anymore

R. Mute posted:

maybe china will belt and road greece to safety, who knows.

SplitSoul posted:

The Danish government has presented its law to ban public desecration of holy scripture and religious symbols, e.g., burning crosses and Qur'ans, but not articles of clothing like the hijab. Penalty will be up to two years in prison. Some legal experts are calling it a reimplementation of the blasphemy law that was struck down in 2017 and hadn't been used to successfully prosecute anyone since 1946, in a case that involved people dressing up as priests and baptizing a doll, although in 1938 it was used to convict a group of nazis distributing pamphlets that alleged the Talmud approved of raping gentile women.

It's already being characterized as "Al-Qaeda: 1, Denmark: 0", "The Muslims have won", etc.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-man-smears-dog-feces-on-far-right-afd-politician/a-66638583

Dudes rock

AnimeIsTrash posted:

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-man-smears-dog-feces-on-far-right-afd-politician/a-66638583

Dudes rock

A Buttery Pastry posted:

the scandal here is that here brought something that belongs in the bedroom into the public.

i say swears online posted:

westboro anglican church

Publisher's description posted:

Sometimes presumed to be a mere relic of British colonialism, the Anglican Church in Burma (Myanmar) has its own complex identity, intricately interwoven with beliefs and traditions that predate the arrival of Christianity. In this essential volume, Edward Jarvis succinctly reconstructs this history and demonstrates how Burma’s unique voice adds vital context to the study of Anglicanism’s predicament and the future of worldwide Christianity.

Over the past two hundred years, the Anglican Church in Burma has seen empires rise and fall. Anglican Christians survived the brutal Japanese occupation, experienced rampant poverty and environmental disaster, and began a tortuous and frustrating quest for peace and freedom under a lawless dictatorship. Using a range of sources, including archival documents and the firsthand accounts of Anglicans from a variety of backgrounds, Jarvis tells the story of the church’s life beyond empire, exploring how Christians of non-Western heritage remade the church after a significant part of its liturgical documents and literature was destroyed in World War Two and how, more recently, the church has gained attention for its alignment with influential conservative and orthodox movements within Anglicanism.

Comprehensive and concise, this fascinating history will appeal to scholars and students of religious studies, World Christianity, church history, and the history of missions and theology as well as to clergy, seminarians, and those interested in the current crises and future direction of Anglicanism.

“Carrying the Cross”: Perspectives on the Church in Burma Today posted:

Bold pragmatism and flexible negotiation within the Anglican Commu- nion were to be thanked for securing successful transitions to small national Churches after the final dissolution of the CIPBC. It is perhaps ironic that the ongoing crisis in today’s Anglican Communion can clearly be seen to stem from the fact that modern Anglicanism, objectively, has successfully adapted to and kept up with the modern world. Whether this is to be applauded, accepted, derided, or deplored is the point at which division of opinion largely occurs.

The 1970s began with a progressive and ecumenical approach to the question of the old CIPBC, but the decade also saw the first real waves of women’s ordination in the Anglican Communion, though there had been isolated precedents. Women’s ordination then gained momentum in the 1980s, leading to its widespread adoption and ratification by the 1990s. The early 2000s saw the initial signs of acceptance of same-sex relationships, including for clergy. All of these developments have been met with large-scale organized opposition as well as the formation and growth of rival Anglican bodies calling for a halt to the revolution.

In England, where this author was born, the Anglican Church projects an air of being a timeless and unchanging feature of the community. Despite obviously diminished social standing, the Church’s historic buildings, civic ceremonies, seasonal events, charitable works, services, and hymns are still part of the fabric of life in England. But this very English view of Reformed or English Catholicism is not only subjective; it is also skewed, for there is little that is stable and unchanging in today’s worldwide Anglican Communion. The Anglican Church stands on very loose tectonic plates...All of this underlines the fact that the Anglican Communion has actually come a long way in the relatively short period of time since the end of the age of empire. For many people, the great turning point was the ordination of women...since the women’s ordination debate, the Church has also seen the advent of same-sex unions, challenges to traditional family values, debate about sexual orientation and gender identity, extensive changes to language and liturgy, and postcolonial identity struggles in much of the world’s traditional Anglican heartland, and this list is hardly exhaustive. One clear feature of the colonial period was the need to patiently understand and sensitively accommodate local culture, from which the Church cannot live in isolation. Similarly, the Church today cannot exist in a state of brooding hostility toward decadent mainstream society, which, as in missionary territory of former times, the Church must either effectively engage with or shrink from the public stage. But a question immediately arises as to the extent to which this engagement means the Church adopting or conforming to society’s values, if at all.

Kassad posted:

Hey now France can't be racist, look at this video they just released to commemorate MLK :

https://twitter.com/education_gouv/status/1696554471805890763

Kassad posted:

Hey now France can't be racist, look at this video they just released to commemorate MLK :

https://twitter.com/education_gouv/status/1696554471805890763

Lostconfused posted:

You can start by paying reparations to Haiti motherfuckers.

Lostconfused posted:

You can start by paying reparations to Haiti motherfuckers.

webcams for christ posted:

lol jesus

https://twitter.com/hum_dunkin/status/1696582474929721709

Ghost Leviathan posted:

That's a surprise, I thought cocaine was like barely any cocaine at all these days, though that might just be Australia

webcams for christ posted:

lol jesus

https://twitter.com/hum_dunkin/status/1696582474929721709

Horseshoe theory posted:

Brothers of Italy or Lega?

webcams for christ posted:

https://twitter.com/hum_dunkin/status/1696582474929721709

Ash Crimson posted:

*Guile voice* CHRONIC GOON

studs n chuds posted:

Truga posted:

AnimeIsTrash posted:

https://www.institute.global/insights/news/sanna-marin-former-finnish-prime-minister-joins-the-tony-blair-institute

Lol

Truga posted:

quote:

Last week more than a dozen German soldiers were photographed visiting a Nazi monument in Crete, Greece. The visit to the "Paratroopers Monument", known in Crete as the Evil Bird, was captured by local paper Haniotika Nea who reported that it coincided with the soldiers' shooting exercises on the island.

Monuments glorifying the Wehrmacht were torn down in Germany following the defeat of Nazi Germany and are today forbidden. The Evil Bird, just outside of the tourist hotspot Chania, honors paratroopers of the Wehrmacht who were involved in the Nazi's brutal invasion and occupation of Crete which continues to traumatize the generation of survivors and their descendants to this day.

Until lightning allegedly struck it down in the year 2000, a large eagle clutching a swastika (the symbol of the Wehrmacht's paratroopers) was perched on top of the monument, which also bears a now damaged plaque with the inscription "they fell for Greater Germany". Earlier this year we reported that neo-Nazis had visited the monument and restored the plaque, which was then removed again the following day by Greek anti-fascists, you can watch our report here: https://x.com/redstreamnet/status/1670857300901339137?s=20

A group called the German Paratroopers Association which says it is made up of veterans as well as active soldiers, and claims to support the Bundeswehr, continues to pressure Cretan authorities to allow them to take ownership of the Evil Bird to ensure its preservation.

The soldiers visit coincides with the rise of the far-right AFD party as the second strongest party in Germany. Many of the AFD's elected officials are ex-soldiers and it is headed by fascist Bjorn Höcke# who is currently facing charges for using a Nazi slogan at a 2021 campaign event. AFD Chairwoman Alice Weidel this week lamented the defeat of Nazi Germany.

During the four year long Nazi occupation of Crete, the Wehrmacht destroyed 106 villages and perpetrated scores of mass executions that left thousands of civilians dead.