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Jan 25, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
it's new episode day, nerds!

we got so many, many questions that more or less added out to whether or not religion is a problem, violent, warlike, the root of all evil

so

we are

SO GLAD YOU ASKED if RELIGION IS DANGEROUS cartoon megan and ilyse with a speech bubble that says: so g the episode is on every podcast player ever

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Jan 10, 2023 13 tweets 3 min read
no context subtweet reminder that religion IS what people do

that is: religion is what we do with it

it doesn't do anything on its own

and it's not unique in the space it creates for human atrocity OR human kindness

you're not mad at religion

you're mad at people

focus up you can and should be mad about some of the stuff people DO with religion

but religion has no arms or legs or head

it has no ability to act on its own

the stuff you're mad about?

is stuff people do in all contexts
Feb 16, 2022 22 tweets 10 min read
happy new episode day, nerds!

*more* Islam, we hear you asking?

to which we can only reply first things first: if you haven't listened to the episode, you gotta

especially since we are joined by the insightful and provocative Dr. @DebraMajeed

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Sep 8, 2020 42 tweets 23 min read
so I think I'm going to cheat a little bit

bc I'd planned to start from e101 and just tweet you through the anti-racist resources we've tried to provide

BUT our work on e203 & 204 are probably the most relevant to today's action

so...

#ScholarStrike I'm instead going to start with the race & religion timeline we lay out in e203

in part bc it's possible to get a whole PhD in American religions and still miss a lot of this history unless you explicitly go looking for it

#ScholarStrike