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Satanic Harmonies and Zoom Church: Readers Respond

By Daniel Schultz

…on the same piece, summarizing his article thus on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bobsmietana/status/1488645684769218564 This doesn’t help Warren’s case. She says in the article that she thinks online church is part of a larger trend of people gathering virtually rather than in person. That’s a legitimate concern, but it’s nowhere spelled out in her original piece. Nor does it address the concern raised about ableism in response to the piece: it sti…

Catholic Archbishop Takes On Jesuit Magazine’s Slam on “Ecumenism of Hate”; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…itten in Italian, an English version was released on www.laciviltacattolica.com. Titled: “Evangelical Fundamentalism and Catholic Integralism: A surprising ecumenism,” the article looks at the growing similarities in the rhetoric and world views adopted by evangelical fundamentalists and some “militant” Catholic hardliners. More from America magazine: One feature of this “ecumenism of hate” is a clear “Manichean” delineation between absolute good…

All Your Dead Mormons Are Belong To Us

By Jay Michaelson

…h, Prop 8 wouldn’t have passed. So, as a queer Jew, alldeadmormonsarenowgay.com brings together many of my interests. I’m also, of course, into how clearly it highlights the absurdity of this whole situation. First, there’s the weird belief that dead people can be baptized, or that disembodied souls can be offered the chance by well-meaning Mormons here on Earth. That strikes many as weird, and it’s one of many such doctrines that make some Americ…

Why the Hell Does Hell Still Matter?

By Kathryn Gin

…ght and continue to think of themselves, each other, and their nation. The common claim that hell has been on the outs in America since at least 1800 is simply untrue. If anything, 1800 represented a turning point in the other direction. The idea of universal salvation had appealed to both elites like Chauncy and common folk in the late-1700s. The promise that all humans would eventually be saved represented an extreme backlash against the dominan…

The Way of the Brother: How Critics Missed the Boat on Tree of Life

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…nd a promotional website for the film carries the title: twowaysthroughlife.com. Comments on the film (by critics and in the comment sections of major media outlets) typically ape this dualistic proclamation. But as I watch my daughters play, in amiability and animosity alike, I realize The Tree of Life is not merely about parental spouses acting out nature and grace in divergence from their childrens’ lives. The film, and the reality of growing…

Oh My God…

By Gary Laderman

…to eighty percent of all Americans believe in God, an extraordinarily high number compared with other industrialized nations. But what are the characteristics of this God? Do all Americans base their beliefs on a literal reading of the Bible? Is it the same God if some Americans use the term in its personal, theistic sense referring to a transcendent God in heaven and some use it to refer to a pantheistic, immanent power that infuses all of nature…

Ten-Year-Old Hero Confronts Anti-Gay Bigotry

By Lauri Lebo

…rs 11p / 10c Gaywatch – Peter Vadala & William Phillips<a> www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party Anyway, for his stance, Phillips has been invited to be the grand marshal of the Fayetteville Gay Pride Parade, according to On Top Magazine. And he and his parents have accepted the honor. But some “social conservatives” (i.e. bigots) are railing against it, calling it “child abuse.” From On Top: Bryan Fischer, direct…

True Blood: When Marketing Goes For the Jugular

By Joseph Laycock

…ction. This was primarily done online, where Web sites such as TruBeverage.com were created, complete with product descriptions of various synthetic blood types. Vampire profiles began to appear on Myspace, Facebook, and livejournal complete with fake news and fake discussions on how Tru Blood would affect the vampire political structure. YouTube clips began to circulate in which actors in fangs snarled into webcams that the hackers who had found…

Christian Nationalists and the Holy Gun Crusade

By Thomas Lecaque

…sing the same kind of gun the Uvalde shooter had purchased: https://twitter.com/ashtonpittman/status/1530243294868930560 The line used is Proverbs 22:6, and this phenomenon, the use of Biblical passages to sell firearms with an explicitly Christian context, is widespread in the United States. And this shouldn’t be surprising—as Brad Stoddard writes here on RD, “AR-15s are also increasingly the firearm of choice for Christian gun owners who arm the…

Today We Pray for Women for Whom Pregnancy is Not Good News …

By Kiera Feldman

…The National Director of “40 Days for Life” David Bereit told LifeSiteNews.com, “Planned Parenthood has stooped to a new low by exploiting pastors and churches to ‘celebrate’ the slaughter of babies made in God’s image and likeness.” The inclusion of spirituality in the pro-choice movement, the Liberty Counsel proclaimed, was “comparable to the religious leaders in Germany who supported Adolf Hitler.” Of course spirituality already exists in abor…