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Romney’s Compliment to the Jewish People Closer to a Slur

By Shalom Goldman

…meeting with the head of MI-6 were quite distressing for those who follow European affairs (though for many in the Republican base a poke at what Donald Rumsfeld once referred to as ‘Old Europe’ might be a welcome thrust). But Romney’s remarks about Jewish superiority were of a different order, and it’s not only the Palestinian leadership that should be aghast at his remarks. Essentially, what the GOP’s candidate for president was saying is that…

Cleansing Monsters: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

By Joseph Laycock

…ey are with American history. Which is a shame because Seth Graham-Smith’s bestselling work of historical fiction is infinitely cleverer than its flashy cinematic counterpart. In a way, the novel is also more disturbing. Despite the fact that its premise demands not to be taken seriously, ALVH draws on and conflates two very powerful symbols: American civil religion and the archetype of the vampire. Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Pride and…

Hagee and McCain Part Ways

By Ira Chernus

…only about half of the people in EU member countries “believe in a god,” a number shockingly lower than anything we find here in the United States. But we might remind our European friends that a political arena free from religious concerns is the exception to the global rule. Even among their own “I” nations, while Iceland’s politics may maintain a secular purity, Ireland and Italy are decidedly more complicated cases. Which is all prelude to ref…

Apocalypse Now and Then: Our Global Death Wish

By Jay Michaelson

…des’ book is only half a volume, for it consciously does not deal with the best-known forms of millennialism: Christian and Jewish ones. This is like writing about soft drinks without mentioning Coca Cola. Yet the dozen cases Landes studies in depth, ranging from the 1856 Xhosa Cattle-Slaying to Marxism and Global Jihad, offer a series of mirrors through which to see more familiar religious and secular movements alike. It’s easy to say that millen…

Sam Harris Says Qur’an “Not That Good”

By Hussein Rashid

…ve never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia.” It’s amazing how imperialism and racism are so closely intertwined and persistent, and always under a veneer of civilization. I know Harris thinks he is being original and provocative, but at best he is being derivative and puerile. I am more shocked that Sullivan, with his awareness of British his…

Cornel West, Using His Powers for Good

By Edward J. Blum

…ile Michael Eric Dyson and Melissa Harris-Perry criticize him for being at best unloving, at worst hypocritical. Like him or not, with a news-making move back to Union Theological Seminary (Reinhold Neibuhr’s old stomping grounds, if Niebuhr ever stomped) and a new book co-authored with Tavis Smiley, The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto, the philosopher who “wants to be like Jesus” keeps calling to those who “have ears to hear.” A Port…

Cozy Cottage or House on Fire? Thomas Kinkade’s Theo-Aesthetic Legacy

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…o Goya in Spain, and William Blake and JMW Turner in England are among the best known. Across the Atlantic the Hudson River School of Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church, and Thomas Cole followed their European counterparts as Westward expansion and continental colonization revealed dramatic new visions of nature: the Hudson Valley, the Catskills, the Rockies, and eventually the Yosemite Valley. Painters impressed viewers with a re-presentation of t…

Caste First, Christ Second, for Some Indian Christians

By Megan Sweas

…ican partners. “It’s a total money-making program of the church from U.S., European countries,” Francis says. The more people they convert, the more money they raise—and little of that reaches those who need it, critics say. Opening scheduled caste benefits to Christian Dalits would further incentivize conversion. Caste as a Way of Life But fundamentally, the difference between those supporting the Supreme Court case—which would allow Christian Da…

American Evangelist Who Sparked Anti-Gay Panic Sued By Ugandan Gay Rights Group

By Sarah Posner

…exuality.” That bill languished after an outcry from the United States and European nations that are among major aid donors to Uganda, but was reintroduced last month. Mr. Lively is being sued by the organization Sexual Minorities Uganda under the alien tort statute, which allows foreigners to sue in American courts in situations asserting the violation of international law. The suit says that Mr. Lively’s actions resulted in the persecution, arre…

A Head Full of Monsters: American History as Horror Show

By W. Scott Poole

…t American history has been a history of horror. It matters that the first European settlers saw the very air of America filled with devils. It matters that Frankenstein’s Monster became America’s most popular monster at a time when medical experimentation on racial minorities had become rather more common that we realize. I think that the it makes sense that the zombie has become our current monster after a historical moment when apocalyptic noti…