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

By Peter Laarman

…-4 Court handed the White House to George W. Bush by stopping the count in Florida. The question, of course, is how did so many Christians—the vast majority among the 65% of Americans who still identify as Christian—come to believe that Jesus himself identifies as a Small Government conservative, i.e., a fervent fan of free market capitalism and the sworn enemy of sexual minorities, pushy immigrants, and poor people who expect the government to ta…

DeSantis’ Religious Exemption Will Kill—And it Violates the 1st Amendment

By Andrew L. Seidel

…neither includes the right to risk other peoples’ lives. Like all states, Florida already regularly limits worship gatherings that jeopardize public health. For instance, the government prohibits churches from cramming too many people into a building in violation of fire codes. The congregants’ right to gather and worship is limited by the government’s need to protect those congregants from being trampled to death and the community from a fire. P…

T-Shirts and Minarets: The Rending of the Social Contract

By Hussein Rashid

…first case is based in the US and involves the ACLU. Several students in a Florida school district wore shirts that said “Islam is of the Devil.” They were sent home because their clothing was offensive. At least one student is suing, and the ACLUis representing the student. The ACLU is right. Schools have a right to set policy regarding clothing, and most public schools that I am aware of ban the seven words you cannot say on TV. This type of lim…

Should We Expect to See a Rise in Christian Nationalist Violence in the US?

By Nilay Saiya

…rcent of the total population. Similar sentiments have been expressed by a number of other prominent politicians with Christian nationalist inclinations, including Florida governor Ron Desantis, Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, Colorado congresswoman Lauren Boebert, and Texas senator Ted Cruz. This fusion of religion and nation has created a fertile breeding ground for a culture of violence to take root. Of course, Christian nationali…

Not An Honor Killing

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…haron Bailey’s husband shot and killed her before killing himself in their Florida home. Teresa Bugarin and her son were stabbed to death by her husband when she told him she wanted a divorce in November 2008. These women are all victims of a global issue that affects all women, all races, all religions, all cultures, and all genders: domestic violence. Labeling Aasiya’s murder an “honor killing” is not only erroneous, but it covers up the reality…

No More Mosques

By Daniel Schultz

The other day, I wrote about the “fear-based evangelism” practiced by a Florida church intent on burning copies of the Quran. Turns out the American Family Association — or at least Bryan Fischer, its director of issue analysis — is not about to be outdone in the fear-mongering business: Permits should not be granted to build even one more mosque in the United States of America, let alone the monstrosity planned for Ground Zero. This is for one s…

Electability of Biden is More ‘Conventional’—and Less ‘Wisdom’

By Branko Marcetic

…The result is now well-known: not only did Clinton lose swing states like Florida and Ohio, but three dependably blue states in the Midwest flipped unexpectedly red to hand Trump victory. Voter turnout, key to both of Obama’s victories, fell to its lowest level in two decades, with Black voter turnout dropping sharply after twenty years of steady rises. As one African-American non-voter told the New York Times: “Both of them were terrible. They n…

Obama Foes Misrepresent Islam with “Apostate” Tactic

By Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im

…the Ministry, Berkeley, CA. +Adam Gaiser Assistant Professor of Religion, Florida State University +Huma Dar PhD Candidate, Department of South & South East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley +William Shepard Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Retired, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand +Harvey Stark, PhD Candidate in Religion, Princeton University +Seval Yildirim Assistant Professor, Director of Center for International and Compa…

Manufactured Outrage Over ‘Godless’ Democratic Platform [UPDATE]

By Peter Montgomery

…has been reading the supremely misleading David Barton. The same goes for Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who said in his GOP convention address that “faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.” Of course, God is not actually named in the U.S. Constitution—and it wasn’t an oversight. Founders considered and rejected attempts to make the Constitution an explicitly Christian document. Instead they went with no religious test for pu…

Is Tax Evasion a Christian Value?

By Lauri Lebo

…is videos and books, Hovind also runs Dinoland, a theme park in Pensacola, Florida currently closed due to government seizure of assets, according to its web site. I visited the place a couple years ago, just after he was sent to jail, and his son Eric had taken over. It purports to teach creation science, but the place was so cheesy it reminded me a lot of those Jellystone KOA campgrounds with the plywood cutouts of dinosaurs. While I was there,…