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In His ‘Forgiveness Day’ Sermon — a Slightly More Sophisticated ‘GloboHomo’ Rant — Kirill Lays Out an Authoritarian Vision in Which His Version of God Might Dominate and Rule the Human Race

By Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

…espoused by Julius Evola, a right-wing thinker much favored in fascist Italy who is currently invoked across Europe by radical groups. Together these ideas provide a language for traditionalist Orthodox—or what I call Reactive Orthodox—to express their worldbuilding project of moral securitization for the future. Crucial to their platform is the idea that a return to a broadly-cast tradition, not limited to, but most often conjured through, firm…

Updated: G-O-D Plays a Bit Part in First GOP Debate

By Daniel Schultz

…ns support same-sex marriage these days. At the end of the event, Megyn Kelly directly invited the participants to discuss whether or not they’d “had a word from God” about their candidacy. Some viewers might question the appropriateness of such a question, but I thought it was okay. It is the sort of thing that Republican voters might be interested in, and to the extent that it brings out positions that might be otherwise submerged, it’s helpful….

Okay, So ‘Quantum Theology’ Might Need a Bit of Explanation

By Beatrice Marovich

…concrete images, like God as Father, indicating that this is still not really God, only a kind of powerful avatar). Both apophatic theology and quantum physics destabilize our comforting, sedimented, cosmological certainties. Both draw our attention to the fact that our human relationships to (and in) this strange cosmos are much more complex, dynamic, multilayered, indeterminate than we might ever have imagined. But Catherine’s not mystifying sci…

A Rationalist’s Ghost Story

By Gary Jansen

…history. Now, when you start doing research in this field you find out really quickly that there is very little conclusive scientific evidence for the existence of ghosts or angels or demons. I mean that’s why the debate between faith and reason, between believers and non-believers, continues to this day. Most supernatural experiences are written off as folklore, metaphor or just plain superstition. But even though there is very little scientific…

From Closeted Evangelical to Unapologetic Atheist: A “Faitheist” Manifesto

By Chris Stedman

…duate student, so I wanted to see how atheist communities functioned. Frankly, I was a bit astonished by what I found. I noticed right away that one of the only unifying characteristics among many people in attendance at atheist meetings was that many maintained a very strong disdain for religion—one that often carried over into a strong disdain for religious believers. I loved working for Interfaith Youth Core, but in talking with others I realiz…

Mitt Romney’s Prosperity Gospel

By Peter Laarman

…ection is going to be about which candidate does religion better, I fervently wish that Mr. Obama would say a bit more about the problem of cheap grace. Reminding us that people who work very hard for very little are not the abusers of cheap grace, but that others in well-feathered nests who are preaching sacrifice might be in real trouble on the cheap grace front. Obama cannot and should not condemn those in the electorate who buy into Romney’s “…

C’mon, Joel, Swerve a Little Bit

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…t no worse than the others. O’Brien kept hammering the theme, though, that lying and pride are choices we can make, but homosexuality is not. Finally, poor Osteen went to his fallback position, “Homosexuality is not God’s best.” I found that phrase offensive, until I remembered who really was “God’s best” in the Bible. Let’s recap. Abraham, the patriarch of the religion had a child by a handmaid. Moses—a murderer. David—a philanderer and then murd…

The Right’s ‘Grooming’ Rhetoric Didn’t Begin with QAnon — You Have to Go Back a Bit Further to Get to the Source

By Sophie Bjork-James

…na Pushaw, made this explicit, tweeting: “The bill that liberals inaccurately call ‘Don’t Say Gay’ would be more accurately described as an Anti-Grooming Bill.” (The bill, signed into law in late March, prohibits discussion of LGBT issues in kindergarten through grade 3). But now talk of “grooming” is everywhere, from protests outside of Disney World to taunts yelled at LGBTQ people. Many commentators have noted the similarities between this groom…

Little ‘Value’ in New Harris Book

By Michael Ruse

…llent and indicative that religion is absolute nonsense; science will finally show us definitely why. For Harris, therefore, not only will finding the true basis of morality be a good thing intellectually, it will itself be an exercise in moral behavior. So what is the secret that has eluded David Hume and G. E. Moore, and just about every professional philosopher of the twentieth century, including the present writer? It seems to be a matter of “…

Capricology: Tattoos, Blood, Cyber-Dating

By Anthea Butler

…his week, we begin to understand that for the Taurons, tattoos are not simply bodily modifications, but carriers of memory and family—if one knows how to read them. Both Joseph Adama and Vergis are “wearing their hearts on their sleeves.” By using tattoos on the body as a site for memory, the Tauron belief system, like the STO, is firmly rooted in ideas of embodiment, and what it means to be human. Joseph’s struggle to find his daughter’s avatar w…