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No, I Don’t Owe My Yoga Mat to Vivekananda

By Andrea R. Jain

…living up to the standards of the “great seer.” She is confident that “an exercise cult with expensive accessories was hardly what he had in mind.” And, while Vivekananda was responsible for “dazzling some of the great minds of his time,” she adds, “precious few of the estimated 16 million supple, spandex-clad yoginis in the United States, who sustain an annual $6 billion industry, seem to have a clue that they owe their yoga mats to Vivekananda.”…

How ‘Positivity’ Can Lead to Conspiratorial Thinking

By Susannah Crockford

…tion rigging, and that Covid-19 is a hoax. Belying simplistic associations between new age hippies and left-wing politics, there’s a deep distrust for any government, scientific, medical, or technocratic authorities. Rather than an issue of political alignment or polarization, the problem seems to be a gap in systemic thinking. There’s no middle level of society that influences health and wealth; instead there are only individual solutions to larg…

The ‘Health Freedom Movement’ Enters the Covid Era by Disseminating Medical Disinformation

By Susannah Crockford

…ing something called “heavy metal detox” with a list of benefits including better sleep, better mood, and better bowels. It’s an ad for a dietary supplement called ‘Pure Body Extra,’ containing zeolites, which are aluminum and silicon compounds, used most frequently in industrial processing as drying agents in the production of detergents as well as water and air purifiers. They’re also marketed as health supplements, with claims that they can cur…

Rick Perry’s Jesus Imperative: A Report from Saturday’s Mega-Rally

By Sarah Posner

…y involved in the Proposition 8 fight in California in 2008, and now heads Newt Gingrich’s nonprofit Renewing American Leadership, insisted, despite the obvious, that the event wasn’t political. When I asked him if The Response would nonetheless serve to mobilize people politically, he replied, “It will cause people to be more biblical, and by being more biblical there is an impact that splashes out on all arenas, including the body politic.” God’…

Vivek Ramaswamy Represents the Convergence of White Supremacy and Hindu Supremacy — And He May Well Be Trump’s Running Mate

By Usha Kumar

…Ayanna Pressley, a Black Democrat, to “modern grand wizards” of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), and promoted a politics of malevolent race-blindness as a cornerstone of his campaign, tapping into the growing reactionary movement against a substantive and just multiracial democracy. Likewise, Ramaswamy has repeatedly praised Indian PM Narendra Modi, arguing that U.S. actors should emulate the way in which Modi “talked unapologetically about Indian nationa…

Manhattan Declaration Is The New Old Culture War

By Sarah Posner

…ian Conscience,” drafted and signed by Catholics, evangelicals, and Orthodox Christians, an “ecumenism” celebrated by its promoters as evidence of its far-reaching appeal. The document targets reproductive freedom (enemy of the “sanctity of life”) and LGBTQ equality (enemy of the “dignity of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife”) as foes of Christians’ religious freedom. It’s a new document but an old canard. And it’s proof that the…

Mormons Fight Marriage Equality in Mexico; Is Catholic Church Italy’s Anti-Gay NRA?; Nigerian Anglicans Cut Ties With UK Diocese; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Nigeria in early 2014. They note that the law not only criminalizes same-sex sexual activity, but also the “public show of same sex amorous relationship directly or indirectly.” In this context when a man gives a lingering hug to his brother or a woman walks with her arms around the shoulders of her sister, they could end up in jail. Furthermore, this law, though it has been billed as an anti-gay marriage law, prohibits ‘civil unions’ as well as f…

Reality as Revelation: “Hail Caesar!” is the Coen Brothers’ Most Religious Movie Yet

By Elijah Siegler

…ix acts as the suffering son to the unseen strict father (New York studio executive Max Schenk, another historical figure.) It is a typical Coen joke that the two characters laden with most religious symbolism are two out of the only three characters based on real people—perhaps that makes Herbert Marcuse the Holy Ghost? As Mannix takes on the sins of the world, or in this case, the studio backlot, he is tempted three times by a satanic aerospace…

Are They Jewish Bones? Battle for Separation of Synagogue & State in Israel

By Shalom Goldman

…l place—adjacent to the main building. This change will cost the Israeli taxpayer an extra $40 million, and it won’t be completed before 2014. If Qassam rockets fall in Ashkelon soon—as they have done before—this benighted decision could cost lives. A national outcry ensued, which, to tell the truth, is not that rare an occurence in Israel. The opposition parties, the press, the radio and TV stations, and the very extensive Web-based news outlets…

Defending the Helpless: New Bible Highlights Poverty and Justice

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…he poor and oppressed. Far from the media’s gaze, Robertson has used the tax-exempt, nonprofit Operation Blessing as a front for his shadowy financial schemes, while exerting his influence within the GOP to cover his tracks. In 1994 he made an emotional plea on The 700 Club for cash donations to Operation Blessing to support airlifts of refugees from the Rwandan civil war to Zaire (now Congo). Reporter Bill Sizemore of The Virginian Pilot later di…