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Attack on the US Capitol Has Many Journos Finally Taking White Evangelical Authoritarianism and Christian Nationalism Seriously

By Chrissy Stroop

…from the events they had very much laid the groundwork for. https://twitter.com/RDispatches/status/1347596162338082816 For example, NPR framed their coverage with the headline “Faith Leaders Nearly Unanimous in Condemning Assault on Capitol.” Instead of giving visible evangelical leaders the plausible deniability they crave, we ought to be asking how they fostered the fascism in the pews. We should be likewise demanding accountability from the man…

Anti-Gay Groups Running Out of Search Engines

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…l 15 by the marriage-penalty tax,” spokesman Gary Schneeberger told FoxNews.com. “How is offering more money to only one group to offset a perceived inequity not a form of discrimination against those groups not fortunate enough to receive such bonuses?” Fox legal analyst Lisa Wiehl said the law could be challenged on grounds of ‘reverse discrimination’: “because of the equal pay for equal work statute which says that if I’m doing the same job as…

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

By Peter Laarman

…ns, working for companies like Waste Management, 7-11, Hooters, and Flowers.com, are shown to be just plain grateful that the Big Guy in the corner office made the effort to notice them. The way the show is set up, workers get to dream that their diligence will not be unnoticed or unrewarded. More importantly, the bosses get to see themselves in the role of benevolent masters, blessed with the human touch and all but bursting with fellow feeling….

The Failure to Focus on — And Yes, to ‘Cancel’ — Right Wing Antisemitism is a Problem

By Elad Nehorai

…compared to those in response to antisemitism on the Left. https://twitter.com/EladNehorai/status/1557420275758600192 Why is this? First, lest you think I’m exaggerating, the data pretty clearly establishes the fact that antisemitism on the Right isn’t discussed as much as the Left, and it’s true everywhere from social to mainstream media. See, for example, this comparison of historical trends in discussions on Twitter around antisemitism: And th…

How Mormonism Built Glenn Beck

By Joanna Brooks

…red Skousen’s book to be “divinely inspired.” In a recent article for Salon.com, Alexander Zaitchik suggested that Beck “rescued [Skousen] from the remainder pile of history.” But Cleon Skousen was never remaindered among the most politically conservative Mormons, for whom he has been a household name since the 1960s. It is likely that Beck owes his brand of Founding Father-worship to Mormonism, where reverence for the founders and the United Stat…

The Tebow Superbowl Ad: Offense, Defense, or Interference?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…of using thirty seconds to direct you to a much longer ad online. “GoDaddy.com” offered several more sexed-up bits to direct the viewers in precisely the same way, if to a different destination. And there you have it: sex on the one hand, pregnancy on the other. The two have been completely separated in the new media. The Tebows never deign to speak of sexuality; the GoDaddy girls never deign to speak of pregnancy, children, or anything of the li…

What Does God Tweet?, AFA Cites Hitler on Gays…

By Christopher Marchsteiner

…that “There definitely is a God” drew more complaints than any other advertisement all year, reports Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority. If there is a God, he may be on Twitter, at least according to the Web site almightytweets.com. The Revealer claims that the Web site, which allows anyone to post in God’s voice, raises practical questions about God: “How do we know what God wants? Or who He is? How do we know when God is speaking through…

Taking Stock of Religion in Super Bowl 44

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…with religious/political issues. Yet in 2010 they have rejected a Mancrunch.com advert: …even as they have included a Focus on the Family sponsored advert with Tim Tebow. -An advert with a man faking his death is placed in a casket filled with Doritos and a TV, and the ceremony is set in a church. Once the casket is overturned, another man steps up and claims it is a miracle. -Lance Moore catches a football as part of the two-point conversion in t…

Tokyo Governor Says Tsunami is Divine Punishment—Religious Groups Ignore Him

By Levi McLaughlin

…ve been transformed into refugee centers. An article from March 16 on Asahi.com reports that the priest at the Rinzai Zen temple Jionji in Rikuzentakata village is housing 69 refugees who were treated by doctors and nurses from the Japan Red Cross. Seventy to eighty percent of the town’s 8000 households were wiped out by the tsunami. Jodo Shinshu, Japan’s largest traditional Buddhist sect, has cancelled plans for the 750th memorial of sect founder…

Apocalypse Now and Then: How a Biblical Genre Shapes American Politics

By Christopher Douglas

…pulations” to which she attributed his (first) impeachment. https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1171803697292238853 As a package of theological innovations, apocalypse gave hope to the oppressed. Things were going terribly wrong—but soon God would intervene to destroy his cosmic enemies and remake the world. Apocalypse was a kind of theodicy, explaining why God allowed the suffering of His people. Besides an imminent overthrowing of an evil…