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Black Woman Explains How Tommy Sotomayor Is The Devil! Do U Agree?
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Sermon 20141026 Joseph Anterola #39;s "Culture Wars"
Laity Sunday 1st Peter 2:11-12, 16-17 (NRSV) John 8:1-11 (KJV)
By: Midway United Methodist Church
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Sermon 20141026 Joseph Anterola's "Culture Wars" - Video
The High Holy Days are upon us. No, not that one. The high holy days of Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
And with that, come the culture wars again. Some pundits Muslim, Christian, Jewish, etc. issue annual statements about the pagan origins of Halloween, and why their community should not participate in it. Certain Christian preachers like Pat Robertson opine:
The whole idea of trick-or-treating is the Druids would go to somebodys house and ask for money and if they didnt get money theyd kill one of their sheep, that was the sheep and it was serious stuff. All this business about goblins and jack-o-lanterns all comes out of demonic rituals of the Druids and the people who lived in England at that particular time.
In my own community, many Muslim leaders are politically quite progressive (against racism, against empire, against wealth disparity) but somewhat culturally conservative. In a widely circulated blog post by Imam Zaid Shakir, the charismatic American Muslim leader who is often favorably compared to Malcolm X, he offered a dismissal of Halloween:
One the tragedies of our times is found in the easy willingness some Muslims accept practices, rituals or cultural symbols that have their roots in demonic or occult practices.
This is not going to be one of those columns.
I find myself in a different space. I have zero interest in endorsing or rejecting Halloween on the basis of fitting in, assimilating to, or rejecting mainstream culture. I couldnt tell you anything about the Druids without going on Wikipedia. My concern has nothing to do with the historic origin of Halloween because, lets be honest, many of our religious traditions (and even buildings) have pagan roots. It has to do with what Halloween does for our community, or at least for my neighborhood.
A teenage girl tries on a Halloween costume in Miami, Florida. Halloween is now the second-largest commercial holiday in the United States according to National Retail Federation. Americans spent approximately billion on Halloween in 2013.
Yes, I struggle with certain parts of Halloween. I struggle to see 10-year-old girls dressed up in ways that project a type of precious sexuality. It breaks my heart to see the girls' costume aisle look like something out of a sick, perverted male fantasy. Rape culture, indeed.
Yes, lets just stop with the sexy Ebola nurse outfits, please. Or the female ISIS-fighter costumes.
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Omid Safi: In praise of Halloween's ability to connect neighbors
OK Go - Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction?
If you #39;re new, Subscribe! http://bit.ly/subscribe-diffuser In this edition of #39;Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction? #39;, we sit down with OK Go #39;s Damian Kulash and Tim...
By: Diffuser.fm
Want to stay focused when reading about a topic on Wikipedia, but your curiosity is piqued by the links in the text? Check out this Chrome extension to stay on track.
Visiting Wikipedia to look up information on one topic generally means reading up on several others. The links within the text body are meant to be useful, but can sometimes turn into a huge time sink.
Web comic xkcd illustrates this situation perfectly in "The Problem with Wikipedia." Sometimes, it's just too tempting to click those links to learn about something else.
If you want to stay focused when you're checking out a specific topic, Lifehacker recommends using WikiTweaks for your Chrome browser. WikiTweaks adjusts the formatting of each entry on Wikipedia and adds pop-up summaries of those tempting links, keeping you on the right page.
To get started, install a copy of WikiTweaks for your Google Chrome browser.
A summary pops up for the link. Screenshot by Nicole Cozma/CNET
Head to a topic on Wikipedia. This example will work with panna cotta. As you can see, there are lots of links within the text to tell you about other topics such as: Italian, simmering and even gelatin. Just mouse over one of the links and a small summary will appear. This summary has been pulled from the first paragraph of the Wikipedia entry for that topic.
WikiTweaks button has a recent Wikipedia history. Screenshot by Nicole Cozma/CNET
Another difference you may notice is the formatting of the entire Wikipedia page. Now there is less space in the left and right margins, which makes more use of your screen real estate. Lastly, if you click the WikiTweaks button, you'll see a list of recently viewed Wikipedia entries.
This extension makes Wikipedia more user-friendly by helping you find out what a linked word refers to, without losing track of what you went to the site for in the first place.
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Use WikiTweaks to avoid distractions on Wikipedia