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Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril

By Chris Stedman

…xtend that claim to other communities—especially ones facing frequent rhetorical and physical attacks. As a minority community in America’s religious milieu, it makes strategic sense for atheists to ally with Muslims, Sikhs, and others. But as a Humanist atheist, I feel a sense of moral obligation to stand up against identity-based hatred, no matter whom it’s directed at. Not only is it absurd to hope that people should care about the lack of acce…

Undercover Bosses as Minor Divinities: What Ever Happened to ‘Take this Job and Shove It’?

By Peter Laarman

…to people who have been paying attention to the degradation of work in Americans over the past 40 years. There is a long historical arc involved that goes something like this: 1. Colonialism brings to these shores the same habits of deference to one’s “betters” that prevailed in Olde England; 2. Revolution undertaken primarily by the gentry keeps these habits of deference going—for a time; 3. Shay’s Rebellion and other outbursts from below sugges…

Is the Satanist Behind 10 Commandments Challenge Sincere?

By Joseph Laycock

…legal team. Future plans involve legally ordaining ministers and using the free exercise clause to claim privileges for Satanists. Satanic ministers could, for example, illegally marry a gay couple and then, when the state refuses to recognize the marriage, claim that their free exercise rights have been violated. Other projects involve the Satanic ideal that one’s body is sacred and inviolable. Expressing disgust that corporal punishment is still…

Impossible Possibilities: Obama and Power

By Jonathan L. Walton

…or the current economic crisis will fundamentally change the principles of free markets, free trade, or transnational corporate dominance that ultimately guarantee a permanent underclass at home and abroad. This is why, aside from skin color and charisma, Martin Luther King Jr. (the actual human rights activist, not the ephemeral color-blind dreamer of American folklore) and Barack Obama have little in common: King desired to revolutionize the wor…

Bipolar Faith, an Autobiography of Race and Mental Illness

By Monica A. Coleman

…and finds it again and again; and one that reflects the particularity of African American experiences. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? It’s complicated. I want readers to understand that mental health challenges are complex. History and culture and race and family and genetics and trauma and fear all factor into what cause mental health challenges. Class, education and privilege may make a difference with accessing healthc…

Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…hing. Finally, I’m reminded of Karen Armstrong’s description of the historical mission Muslims are tasked with: “In Islam, Muslims have looked for God in history. Their sacred scripture, the Quran, gave them a historical mission. Their chief duty was to create a just community in which all members, even the most weak and vulnerable, were treated with absolute respect. The experience of building such a society and living in it would give them in…

How U.S. Conservatives Conjured the Jesus of Their Dreams

By Peter Laarman

…is found in Keddie’s middle section, where he expertly identifies the historical currents that feed conservative Christian ideation. Whereas many historians oversimplify by identifying Calvinism as the Ursprung of free market capitalism, Keddie more precisely singles out Arminianism, the deviation from orthodox Calvinism that reserved some room for human effort in the work of salvation. He pinpoints the crucial contribution of Hugo Grotius, whom t…

Of Love and Lodging: Doctor Who Part VIII

By Gabriel Mckee

…hat’s because the Doctor’s conception of “extraordinary” isn’t the opposite of “ordinary”—he utterly rejects that opposition. He opts for a view that is perhaps a bit more paradoxical, like the simultaneous “lodging” and breaking free that James mentions. Alien spaceships aside, the relationship between Craig and Sophie is extraordinarily ordinary, but that means it’s extraordinarily human—and, for the Doctor, that is the most wonderful thing in t…

The Non-Existent Tea Party-Religious Right God Gap

By Sarah Posner

…he just wanted people to go out and vote in the mid-terms. That idea of America — the America that McDonnell described as founded at Virginia Beach when colonialists planted a cross in the sand and said “we claim this land for Christ” — is the “most radical idea since the Gospel,” said Reed. Tea party events don’t necessarily emphasize this view — although many people who speak at tea parties do. And as Michelle Tennery, an activist who told me sh…

Walt Whitman’s Sacred Democracy

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ates, self-contain’d, different from others, more expansive, more rich and free, to be evidenced by original authors and poets to come, by American personalities, plenty of them, make and female, traversing the states, none excepted… and by a sublime and serious Religious Democracy sternly taking command, dissolving the old, sloughing off the surfaces, and from its own interior and vital principles reconstructing, democratizing society. A religio…