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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…

Dreaming Cyborg Dreams: Virtual Identity and Religious Experience

By Rachel Wagner

…ive multiplayer online role-playing game, and religious experiences in the online world of Second Life. In each of these examples, the level of immersion in online identity plays a very powerful role in shaping the authenticity of religious experience, as channeled through those digital representations of self that virtual natives call their avatars. Liquid Identity Avatars are digital representations of users that can be designed to fit within a…

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

By Robert P. Jones

…ey, 2021).² 32% believe that because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country, compared to 16% of Americans. Most cheer on Trump’s displays of aggressive and predatory masculinity: 70% agree that “society as a whole has become too soft and feminine,” compared to 38% of Americans. 63% agree that “these days society seems to punish men just for acting like men,” compared…

Status Updates at the End of the World: The Religious Imagination and Our Latest Apocalypse

By Spencer Dew

…imilarly critical of Clinton. It is earthly power itself that’s seen as corrupt; Trump just offers a spectacularly rich example to pair with scriptural critiques. So is this Christian thought? Is this religion? Decades ago, at the peak of the move to stigmatize contemporary religious claims under the derogatory label of “cult,” scholars spoke of the so-called “cultic milieu,” understood as a kind of shadowy underworld of kooky theories, conspiracy…

Iftar: Breaking Fast

By Amina Wadud

…hese parts of ourselves. But the much greater cost is in claiming them. To live fully. To live wholly, but still to be able to say “girl you have to get yur hur did” is beyond the scope, I’m sure, of many of you readers. But that is what it is. Because Prof. Ibrahim and I are also in the same age group, we really have a lot more to work with. It’s almost like we grew up together. We can academize and hang. Even having iftar together was par for th…

Sacred Texting: When Religious Writ Gets Wired

By Rachel Wagner

…Wall has recently been constructed in Second Life, the popular user-built online virtual “world.” The creator of the virtual Wailing Wall, “Xanadu,” explains that the digital wall, “is a peaceful spot to sit and grieve, pray, meditate, or comfort a friend. The wall accepts self-created notecards that are immediately deleted. The idea is to allow The Wailing Wall to bear away your burden.” Given the fact that both walls seem to function as a sort…

Scope Bacon, Twttr Hoaxes & Joel Osteen’s Big Reveal

By Deborah Whitehead

…erase hundreds of billions from the market in a short time, but that’s the world we live in,” said an associate director of equities trading about the incident. April is traditionally a month where we celebrate all manner of jokes, pranks, hoaxes, scams, and tomfoolery. This year, Google, Twitter, and YouTube all got into the April Fool’s Day fun with elaborate pranks. Twitter announced, in a Wheel-of-Fortune-inspired joke, that it was launching a…

Morality Police, Jihadists, Religious Competition, Grindr, & Americans Abroad: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…lesbian kiss scene in the first episode of the new season of Dr. Who. The BBC Worldwide’s London-based compliance team made the cut to conform with laws against same-sex relations and broadcast content in Asian countries such as Muslim majority Malaysia and Indonesia. Viewers in South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore also watched the same censored version…. Jeanne Leong, director of communications at BBC Worldwide Asia, said as an internatio…

Should CNN Religion Writer Accept Award From Religious Advocacy Org?

By Becky Garrison

…United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). (The People for the American Way’s Right Wing Watch offers additional analysis for those looking to further explore this organization.) According to Time Warner’s Standards of Business Conduct (CNN is a Time Warner subsidiary), employees are to avoid conflicts of interest. While they do not address the particulars of journalists being honored by an advocacy group, The New York Times’ “Policy o…