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Claiming That ‘We Birthed a Nation From Nothing’ CNN’s Rick Santorum Gives a Master Class in Christian Nationalism: An Open Letter to CNN

By Andrew L. Seidel

…d against the Pequots—one of the genocides of indigenous peoples that Santorum brushes aside. The Puritans waged a holy war on the Pequots, setting fire to a village on the Mystic River, killing 700 indigenous men, women, and children, and selling the survivors into slavery. As I’ve written elsewhere, the genocide was like something out of the Book of Joshua. The Puritans certainly saw it that way. John Mason, the Puritan militia commander and an…

CNN Editor Leaves Over Tweet on Hezbollah ‘Giant’

By Hussein Rashid

Octavia Nasr, CNN’s senior Middle East editor, is no longer with CNN. Her departure from CNN shows a continued lack of consistency when it comes to issues of Arabs and Muslims in the mainstream media. She left for a tweet that said nothing except that she was human. Nasr is of Lebanese descent and proud of her birth land. Because of her professional and personal knowledge of the country, she expressed a sentiment over the death of Marja’ at-Taqli…

CNN’s Disastrous ‘Town Hall’ with Trump Put the Country at Risk

By Robert P. Jones

…litics, compared to only 14% of Americans. Notably, only 2% say they most trust CNN. Most do not blame Trump for the violence on January 6th, and one-third believe our current political and cultural context may justify political violence: Only 15% believe Donald Trump bears a lot of responsibility for the violent actions of the rioters who took over the U.S. Capitol building on January 6th, compared to a majority (56%) of Americans (PRRI survey, 2…

Personhood USA says Romney would Permit “Death Penalty” for “Babies Conceived in Rape”

By Katie Toth

…before about the far-right anti-abortion group’s willingness to bend the truth for attention. Just this year, the home of Personhood USA’s Keith Mason and his family was vandalized. The organization put out a press release blaming “abortion fanatics,” who had forced the Masons into hiding. But when asked about the incident, a police spokesperson said the ‘person of interest’ in the case had personal—not political—motivations. The group also has a…

A Matter of Life and Debt: The Role of Religion

By Peter Laarman

…ing place in the outer court (sometimes called the Gentile Court) of the Jerusalem temple: an event that ensures Jesus will be bound over for trial and quickly eliminated. Everything that Jesus and Paul say about God speaks to God’s surpassing generosity and thus to the need for God-followers to be similarly generous: to release debtors and forgive debt. Islam further intensifies the Abrahamic condemnation of moneylending; Muslims and Muslim cultu…

Trump’s ‘God Bless the USA Bible’ is No Joke

By Cavan Concannon

…ng James translation Bible in an “easy-to-read” format, the “God Bless the USA Bible” (GBUSA) also includes: the US Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and The Pledge of Allegiance. Of course, the GBUSA isn’t the first to make an explicit connection between the Bible and the founding documents of the US. The American Patriot’s Bible (2009) features the New King James translation paired with inserts on Christian theol…

Should CNN Religion Writer Accept Award From Religious Advocacy Org?

By Becky Garrison

…announced that Eric Marrapodi, Senior Producer at CNN and co-editor of the CNN Belief Blog, will be the recipient of its first annual Vine and Fig Tree Award. Named for a reference in George Washington’s letter to the Jews of Newport, the award will be given on September 19, 2013 to a journalist who, in their estimation, demonstrates “excellence in reporting on religious liberty issues.” Other figures honored by the Becket Fund include Gov. and Mr…

Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam

By Susan Henking

…marriage in Homosexuality in Islam. And, of course this is a big issue in today’s news. I admit I sometimes find the marriage equality movement—and the movement for inclusion in the military—paradoxical. On the one hand, of course I want the full rights of citizenship and I am lucky enough to be living in New York! On the other hand, I think of these as two very conservative institutions that got critiqued in serious ways by progressives in my li…

RD News Round-Up: October 27, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ver about Sarah Palin’s religious affiliations, along comes Talk2Action’s Bruce Wilson with another video exposé. Wilson and Ruth, his co-researcher and co-documentarian, have done an extraordinary job trying to bring information about the realities of Sarah Palin’s religious relationships to the spotlight. And while the mainstream media hasn’t picked up on the Palin videos—as they did with Pastor John Hagee’s ‘Hitler was sent by God’ video that w…

Where Trump and Climate Deniers Seem Very Far Away: COP22 in Marrakech

By Donna Schaper

…le, was talking about how finance was not the problem. “There is plenty of finance but not enough projects to finance.” Of course, watching these women, I wasn’t in the blue room or the red room, where decisions are being made and where I imagine things are different. I was in the green room, with all the rest of the people who were knocking on the door of power and responsibility. If you remember the “Doha Miracle Gender Decision” from way back i…