Carmen Celestini

Dec 21, 2023 | religiondispatches.org | Carmen Celestini |Amarnath Amarasingam |Canada. He

In 2023, the landscape of conspiracy theories witnessed a significant evolution, with some older conspiratorial ideas surviving into the new year and others moving from the fringe to become influential narratives shaping public discourse and political agendas. QAnon, the 2020 presidential election “Big Lie,” the resulting court cases for former President Donald Trump, and those conspiracy theories linked to the pandemic and vaccines have been playing out before us for the past few years.

Jul 10, 2023 | sojo.net | Carmen Celestini

RELIGION PROMOTES WHAT is good in humanity —  mercy, wisdom, charity, justice, compassion. These are fundamental to most religious traditions. But religious institutions and movements consist of humans capable of both good and evil, truth and lies, peaceableness and violence. Most Americans have positive feelings about the role religion plays in American life, according to recent surveys.