God Is Not an A hole

12/11/2024

Tiny budget with big hearts! We recently posted our 70th weekly episode. For the first time, we have 1,000 listeners. Here's to joyful diligence!

Special thanks to you if you are or were a financial contributor, or even if you are a listener.

Podcast Episode · God is Not an A**hole · 05/10/2023 · 1 sec

11/12/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxe5y3_bdI0

Rev. David Moore sits down with Josh Molina to talk about Trump's victory in the presidential contest, why and how it happened, and what it means for the cou...

10/31/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8BNNTueyN8&t=245s

This may help explain what has been unexplainable.

Here's the ultimate Trump Prophecy Compilation! Featuring Pat Robertson, Paula White-Cain, Sid Roth, Chris Yoon, Robby Dawkins, Kris Vallotton, Mark Taylor, ...

10/31/2024

Today, from Jawad Musleh:

I don’t know what to say. The situation is catastrophic in Gaza, in Lebanon and here in the West Bank.

What’s happening now in the north of Gaza is unimaginable. Hundreds of people have been killed in Jabalia, Beit Lahia, Beit Hanun. No hospitals, no ambulances, no medics. The wounded bleed to death. Not enough food, not enough water. Apparently, Israel wants to cleanse all the north and evacuate it from all its inhabitants. This is in addition to the continuous bombardment on the other parts of the Gaza Strip and the inhumane situation there.

In the West Bank, the Israeli army has installed more checkpoints and roadblocks between cities, villages, refugee camps, and movement of the Palestinians become more and more difficult everyday. On daily basis, the Israeli army invades Palestinian places to assassinate people, arrest people, demolish houses, expropriate lands.. etc

There are now more than 9000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails from the West Bank, in addition to unknown number of prisoners from the Gaza Strip, estimated 10 thousand prisoners. The situation in prisons is unbearable with continuous and daily attacks, punishment, torture, lack of food, no medical care..

Here in Bethlehem, as you know, many people have lost their income because they depend on tourism. Some people were able to find alternative source of income, and many others still don’t have any income.

We just hope that this genocidal war would come to an end as soon as possible.

10/28/2024

"Abraham is the shared ancestor of all three Abrahamic
faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The empires of the
West often like to leave out the Islam. The empires of the West
used to also like to leave out the Judaism part in this shared
kinship for a long time until the Zionist project made Judaism
useful for empire, rather than fight against it. When the wretched
of the earth become the wretched of the empire."

Linda Quiquivix, Palestine 1492: A Report Back

10/28/2024

“As a citizen of a country openly financing genocide, and as a family that experienced South African Apartheid, the endorsement was an opportunity to repudiate justifications for the widespread targeting of journalists and ongoing war on children.”

After the paper canceled its planned endorsement of Kamala Harris, the owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, said his daughter didn’t speak for the organization. But many staff members questioned his motives.

10/25/2024

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2024/oct/25/joe-biden-formally-apologises-for-indian-boarding-schools-video
Thank you, President Biden.

There is so much more apologizing to do to so many more people, and even that is just the beginning of restoration.

Joe Biden formally apologises for the US government's role in running over 500 Indian boarding schools from 1819 to 1969

10/23/2024

Thank you, Elena Anderson!

"Since October 7, 2023, I’ve increasingly felt disconnected from my progressive community. I’ve witnessed organizations losing funding, workers being fired, and voices silenced for raising appropriate concerns about the U.S.’s unwavering support for Israel’s military campaign against the Palestinian people."

It’s impossible to reconcile the future we desire with the grim reality of the violence we are witnessing today.

10/22/2024

Email today from our Palestinian friend Mazin Qumsiyeh:

The situation in North Gaza is beyond the word catastrophic:
horror, massacres, extermination. People are shot on site as they even try to evacuate injured people, medical personnel are targeted, and hospitals are targeted. No food or water allowed. Israel simply rejected UN and humanitarian organization access. People are dying of injuries and thirst. It would be more merciful to drop a nuclear bomb on them. All to clear North Gaza for Zionist nefarious schemes to control its natural resources (and control the whole region). In some places, they simply rounded people up, forced the women and girls to the south and took men and boys (we remember mass executions like this in 1948 ethnic cleansing). In other cases, they simply sent robot explosives to clear neighborhoods or bombed people (men, women, children) from the air. How could we tell our children and grandchildren that we had a chance to stop this and did not? Please see the below small examples of what is happening and write letters,
stop the world to stop a genocide. Speak out, act now urgently.

The horror is beyond description.

10/19/2024

I think this is the must-read of the year.

Palestine 1492 is a report back of what I see from 500 years of the struggle for life in words, maps, and images in the seven cardinal directions and in the spiral that is time. Throughout, I share conclusions Palestinians, Zapatistas, Panthers, and jaguars have taught me along this journey: that...

10/18/2024

Welcome to the God is Not an As***le podcast. If you are one of the many people done with religious dogmatism, hang on. You might sense transcendence, but your church or other faith community never seemed to get off the ground.

If you realize that honoring your conscience means more than fitting in and keeping hard to explain rules, hang on. You can probably think of the goodness in your tradition, and you try your best to save that baby, but there's so much bathwater. Join your hosts, David Norman Moore Jr. in California and Kerry Connelly in New Jersey, who are collaborating to bring on guests who have found life on the other side of fundamentalism.

Guests with stories of how they have liberated themselves from beliefs that divide us from each other. None of our guest narratives are identical, but we hope you'll find something in common with each of them. We invite you to experience our common bond as we all inspire even more of us to embrace the true self.

God is Not an A**hole: Episode 64: Season 2 Recap

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10/16/2024

Nearly all US service members who were forcibly separated from the military when the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy was in place have now been honorably discharged.

US policy in effect from 1994 to 2011 removed thousands of LGBTQ+ service members, many less than honorably

10/16/2024

Government Accountability: To ensure that California is complying with federal health and safety (OSHA), and providing protections for domestic workers who work for agencies or third parties.

Worker Rights: It strengthens the rights of some 175,000 domestic workers, giving them a clearer path to report unsafe working conditions and receive the support they need to address hazards on the job. .

The following is a press release from the California Domestic Workers Coalition (CDWC). The CDWC is a statewide coalition led by domestic workers and employers across the state.

10/15/2024

I met a woman who helped someone to arrange for an illegal abortion in Florida. She said Florida is a test case for Project 2025.

10/13/2024

Who didn't see this cluster4v

The Pentagon announced it would send the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery and its crew as Israel considered retaliatory attacks against Iran.

10/12/2024

"Native American turnout is especially critical in the upcoming election, when tribal sovereignty could be threatened by the conservative blueprint Project 2025, which states that fossil fuel drilling should be facilitated on tribal lands."

Allie Young, 34, started the Ride to the Polls campaign in 2020 to register new voters in person and online

10/12/2024

"...when it comes to Israel, Mr. Biden hasn’t supported equality under the law. The war in Gaza has made that contradiction impossible to ignore. It is most glaring when Mr. Biden expresses deep empathy for Israeli suffering but relative indifference to the far larger number of dead Palestinians, or when his administration seems to distinguish even between American citizens, showing more concern for those murdered by Hamas than for those killed by Israel’s military."

The American president promised equality. He didn’t deliver.

10/12/2024

What makes the death of David Daniels so clarifying for me is that we were born within a year of each other. David never joined social media, not even LinkedIn, but he may have more real friends than anyone I know.

After finishing his Master of Divinity at Yale, he earned his PhD at Union Theological Seminary and went on to ultimately become Professor of World Christianity at McCormick. He was the external reader for my own Master's thesis, and while I was exhausted and ready to move on from academia, he told me, "David, we need you to get your PhD." Then he connected me with Paul Gundani, Department Head of World Christianity at the University of South Africa, whom he had mentored 20 years earlier.

I learned much from him about pre-colonial Christianity in Africa.

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