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

By Peter Montgomery

…He has also adopted the rhetoric of fascists in denouncing his political opponents as “vermin”[2] and immigrants as “poisoning the blood of our country.”[3] At right-wing events and on the campaign trail, he rallies his followers with promises of revenge against elites who ruined their shared dreams of a second Trump term. “I am your warrior. I am your justice,” he thunders. “I am your retribution.”[4] He has vowed to “obliterate the deep state,”…

Porn-Again Christians: What Happens When a Biblical Literalist Launches a Sex Site?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ge and basically that we as young people (or unmarried people) needed to suppress our sexual thoughts until we were married. To dwell on a sexual thought in their teaching was sinful—it was lust. Masturbation was taught as sinful because even if it did not start with lustful thoughts it would lead to lustful thoughts or so they taught us. Also they taught us we were not allowed to enjoy the sexual pleasure of our body apart from our spouse in marr…

First U.S. Visit of the Virgin Mary Confirmed in Wisconsin

By Lewis Wallace

…Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help, where a young Belgian woman experienced apparitions of the Virgin Mary more than 150 years ago. Behind the chapel and small gift shop, visitors can tramp through the snow to a grotto and Stations of the Cross, passing on their way the burial place of Adele Brise, the French-speaking Belgian immigrant who saw and spoke with the Virgin Mary in 1859. In the linoleum-floored crypt, flyers and pamphlets explain the his…

Pat Robertson’s Women Warriors Leading Spiritual Warfare In Zimbabwe

By Sarah Posner

…washing the feet of speakers for that evening’s Women, Weapons of Warfare (WWW) conference. Behind her is a blank movie screen (a reminder that the building once housed the six-theater Old Orchard Cinema) and a panoramic photograph of Bethlehem, flanked by both the Israeli and American flags. The stars of this Stars and Stripes, however, have been replaced with the Ten Commandments. A young woman gently strums a guitar. The dozen or so people in t…

Museum of (In)tolerance for Divided City

By Shalom Goldman

…pe and history. And because it is the “City of three Faiths” it has many supporters and “fans” throughout the world. But fans of Jerusalem, unlike fans of Paris, Cairo, or New York, are a bitterly divided groups of fans, with fiercely contending understandings of the city’s history and landscape. For Jerusalem, though “united” by Israeli government fiat after the 1967 War, remains a deeply divided city. Its Jewish and Arab citizens live in a very…

Australian Prime Minister, Church Leaders Resist Marriage Push; South Korea’s Anti-Gay Christians Block Pride Parade; Morocco Arrests Men for ‘Obscene Act’ of Kissing; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…. Egypt and other members of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation had opposed the UN Human Rights Commission resolution calling for the report. Hussein’s office has also issued a report calling attention to the “pervasive violent abuse, harassment and discrimination” against LGBT people in all regions of the world, citing “hundreds of hate-related killings,” according to AP. Amnesty International this week decried the refusal of Ukranian offic…

The New Normaal: “Black Pete,” Muslims and Whiteness in the Netherlands

By Suzanne van Geuns

…Pete. […] I can only say that my friends in the Dutch Antilles are very happy when they have Sinterklaas, because they don’t have to paint their faces. When I’m playing Black Pete I am – for days! – trying to get that stuff off my face. Denying race’s relevance while affirming it in the same breath, the prime minister is emblematic of the larger Dutch public. Even knowing how people outside the Netherlands will perceive the character, most Dutch…

RD News Round-Up—Oct.14, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ers who attend religious services once or twice a month, moving from 49% support for Kerry in 2004 to 60% support for Obama in 2008. More Americans think Obama is friendly to religion than McCain. 49% of Americans say Obama is friendly to religion, while 45% say McCain is friendly to religion. More than seven-in-ten (71%) say it is important for public officials to be comfortable talking about religious values. Young first-time voters are heavily…

Jerusalem Countdown: Christian Zionists and the New Israeli Government

By Bill Berkowitz

…oney reaches the poor and needy has been questioned), lobbied heavily in support of policies advanced by Israel’s right wing, and opposed The Road Map to Peace. To one degree or another, they are all leaders in the broad movement known as Christian Zionism, now estimated to be about 40 million strong. The End of the World as We Know It Pastor John Hagee, the San Antonio-based preacher who presides over a multimillion dollar ministry, has been cool…

“Japan Gave Us Pokemon, God Gave Them an Earthquake”

By Anthea Butler

The devastating 8.9 earthquake that hit Japan is an opportunity to see catastrophe theology in action. Rather than wait for Pat Robertson-style pronouncements that the earthquake is about evil, homosexuality, or Buddha, I went to Twitter and the internet to see what people are saying about God and the earthquake. The bulk of the tweets are about God helping the Japanese, and prayer for the Japanese, but a number of the tweets are weighing in abou…