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A Pair of Exhibitions Demonstrate How Biases Color the History of Jerusalem

By Gordon Haber

…three faiths that share an unshakeable belief in the power of the written word. In other words, Christians, Muslims and Jews have a lot in common. But I couldn’t quite buy into the attempt to portray medieval Jerusalem as a rich mixture of cultures on equal footing. As the title suggests, this is an inclusive exhibition, reflecting our present-day preoccupation with diversity. And just in case you missed the message, strategically placed screens…

Bill Gates’ Comments on Covid-19 Vaccine Enflame ‘Mark of the Beast’ Worries in Some Christian Circles

By Christopher James Blythe

…ciating these ideas with the Mark of the Beast. The video was produced by Tru*]}*News, an outlet run by Rick Wiles who, one RD contributor recently wrote, has a “solid record of antisemitism, racism, and homophobia,” in his piece on the outlet having several times received press credentials from the Trump administration. A similar video posted on March 29, 2020 [and since removed from YouTube — ed], has nearly a million and a half views in mid-April.…

Katy Perry’s Siren Song to Conspiracy Theorists

By Joseph Laycock

…ity. The most vocal critics of “Dark Horse” aren’t establishment conservatives but millennials armed with social media and Illuminati conspiracy theories. By assigning religious significance to the symbols in Perry’s videos, they seek to appropriate some of her celebrity. Whereas formerly pop stars repurposed religious imagery to create art, now consumers can repurpose artistic imagery to create an apocalyptic cosmology….

Why Are Muslims So Concerned with Muhammad?

By Haroon Moghul

…minute trailer? That’s just offensive. In Islam, the Qur’an is the literal word of God, and Muhammad represents the embodiment of those words of God. If you want to know what Islam is in text, go to the Qur’an; if you want to know what Islam is in action, study Muhammad’s life. That’s what Muslims do. They study it, debate it, and investigate it obsessively. Muslims believe the road to goodness, to moral excellence and success in the afterlife, co…

Catholics for Equality Decries USCCB Election as Yielding to “Increasingly Uncharitable Demands of the Pope”

By Sarah Posner

…office of the Knights of Columbus, most recently through the production of videos that demean and discredit gay and lesbian relationships, as well as single parent and extended family households. According to the statement, Kurtz’s report from the ad hoc Committee on Defense of Marriage, Kurtz “makes it clear that our bishops are waging a new political campaign to change the laws in our country,” similar to the battle over reproductive rights: The…

Rep. Smith Suggests a New Protected Class: “Immaturity”

By Sarah Posner

…ast year, the anti-choice activist Lila Rose, notorious for her undercover videos at Planned Parenthood clinics, made the horrifically inappropriate comparison of murdered civil rights activist Emmett Till and a fetus. Just as Till’s mother’s decision to show photographs of her dead son’s battered body ignited the civil rights movement, Rose argued, graphic exposure of abortion would spark a civil rights movement for fetuses. Smith today added som…

Imagine a More Equal You!

By Joanna Brooks

…anxieties. A cheery website offers articles, webinars, social networking forums, and promotional videos featuring Deseret Media executive (and former LDS Church official) Shari Dew with 1980s-style stock footage of apparently independent women jogging, counting money, and sitting at their kitchen tables with their children. And all of this about 30 years after the LDS Church helped torpedo the Equal Rights Amendment through a concerted political o…

Mental Health is a Spiritual and Religious Issue

By Joanna Brooks

…pulation is LDS, it certainly seemed a possibility, even more so given the rumors that his rampage was fueled by anti-government sentiment tinged with Skousen-Beck flavor. But upon reviewing his biography and YouTube videos I found no hints of LDS affiliation. Nor did it seem that the attack happened primarily for political motives. No, it seemed clear to me that Loughner was mentally ill. And that’s when my heart fell. Since then, even as the dea…

Loughner Admired Conspiracy-Minded Zeitgeist Film

By Sarah Posner

…er. Last year, the New York Times ran a piece on “Z-Day, the educational forum associated with the online movie ‘Zeitgeist,’” produced by Peter Joseph. The Z-Day event drew a crowd of 900 in Manhattan and others around the world: “The mission of the movement is the application of the scientific method for social change,” Mr. Joseph announced by way of introduction. The evening, which began at 7 with a two-hour critique of monetary economics, becam…

Huckabee’s Second Bapticostal Bid for the GOP Nomination

By Sarah Posner

…servative columnist, once fretted that Huckabee allowed a Christian Reconstructionist to host a fundraiser for him, and that Christian Reconstructionist views represented his base, despite the charges from some in the religious right that he was insufficiently conservative. Still, in 2012, Huckabee has a different kind of competition: he may find himself going head to head with Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, and Tim Pawlenty for the evangelical vo…