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Religious Right Historian: Net Neutrality is “Unbiblical Socialism”

By Julie Ingersoll

On his radio show yesterday David Barton and sidekick Rick Green claimed that FCC-supported net neutrality legislation which, as PFAW put it, “ensures that Internet service providers can’t charge higher rates for faster delivery of content,” violates biblical principles of free market, and that they are “socialist.” It’s easy to dismiss that charge as nothing more than demagoguery, but in fact, the discussion gives us insight into what they (an…

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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

Religion Dispatches’s sibling publication, The Public Eye—a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the U.S. and Global Right—is back! To celebrate The Public Eye’s return, Religion Dispatches will present a series of articles from the magazine’s Fall 2023/Winter 2024 issue. Former President Donald Trump, nursing personal grievances against “deep state” officials and White House staff who thwarted his plans to stay in power after his 20…

When Religion Becomes a Trap Rather Than a Safety Net

By Holly Welker

The title of Ingrid Ricks’s memoir Hippie Boy: A Girl’s Story comes from the nickname Ricks’s father, Jerry, gives her as a young girl with long, tangled hair. It’s the story of a family in Logan, Utah whose profound dysfunction is rooted in part in religion and in part in the economic and social upheavals of the mid-twentieth century. Born illegitimate in Austria at the beginning of World War II, Ricks’s mother relies on religion to give her lif…

Lo and Behold, the Sacredness of the Internet

By Martyn Smith

Werner Herzog’s new documentary, Lo and Behold, Reveries of a Connected World, begins with religion and never really leaves it behind. As the film opens we are ushered down a hall at UCLA by Leonard Kleinrock, a computer scientist, on our way to seeing the first computer to communicate over the internet. Upon entering the room that was the net’s place of origin, Kleinrock looks into the camera and tells us: “We are now entering a sacred location……

The “Southern Cage”: How the Myth of the Redemptive Depression Keeps Blacks at the Margins

By Eric C. Miller

The public debate about how best to address poverty seems too often like a partisan cage match. Political liberals assign responsibility to the state, while conservatives double down on the argument that the private sector—churches and private enterprise—can better relieve the suffering of citizens. During the 1930s, these competing visions were put to the test in especially brutal fashion. The lessons learned—and the myths propagated—are the sub…

Single, But Married To Jesus

By Anthea Butler

The most recent salvo in the tired, trite racial newlywed lame game is the CNN piece, “Does the Black Church Keep Black Women Single?”, written in response to a blog post on Surviving Dating. My answer is yes, d’oh! So does the white Pentecostal and evangelical church, but of course that’s not the subject of the piece. So why am I upset? Well, for starters, I think the subject is complicated, asinine, and fraught at the same time. I should know….

Fix the Economy GOD’$ WAY: Dave Ramsey’s Great Christian Recovery

By Paul Harvey

Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity. In the midst of good times, many people usually forget God. But many now see the folly of it all, and are ready to hear what God has to say about things. — E. F. Scarborough, Mississippi Methodist, December 1931* The Great Recovery is a grassroots movement spread by people who are tired of looking to Washington for answers. The truth is that the government can’t fix this economy. It’ll be restored one famil…

Can I Get Some Birth Control Pills With That Slushie?: Unpacking the Contraceptive Mandate Rollback

By Sunnivie Brydum

When Vox published the leaked draft of the Trump Administration’s final interim rule effectively gutting the Affordable Care Act’s so-called birth control mandate last Wednesday, journalists, activists, and even one outspoken nun were quick to blast the rule as a blatant attack on women’s rights and the ability to control their reproductive health. And the 125-page draft rule is certainly an assault on the bodily autonomy of any American who happ…

Paul Ryan Is Like Jesus, But It’s Not What You Think

By Sarah Posner

An unnamed Republican leadership aide told BuzzFeed yesterday, “Paul Ryan is the Jesus of our conference. If Paul gives something his blessing, it brings the votes.” For a moment, when I saw the headline, I thought the aide was trying to tap into the Pope Francis frenzy, by suggesting that the Ayn Rand disciple was abandoning the budget-slashing principles that had provoked so much criticism from Ryan’s fellow Catholics. But no, it’s all about th…

After Roe: 3 Troubling Trends from the ‘Compassionate’ Anti-Abortion Crowd

By Robert Repino

In the early ’90s, my Catholic grade school hosted a guest speaker, a member of the Pennsylvania state legislature. After giving our eighth-grade class a basic civics lesson, he opened the floor to Q&A. And, in the excruciating hour that followed, every last question consisted of some variation of, “What are you doing about abortion?” You see, my classmates and I had been so marinated in anti-abortion rhetoric that we couldn’t understand why some…