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This is Not a Religion Column: The Audacity of Compromise…

By Jeff Sharlet

…d vote often, as the Chicago political machine used to say. The “post-partisan” political faith Obama has come to embrace offers more help than conservatism but fewer guarantees than secular liberalism. It doesn’t demand political loyalty, it asks for earnest acclamation. To conservatism’s business elite and secular liberalism’s political elite, it responds with yet another ruling class: a “responsible” elite. There’s an element of the superhero s…

Op-Ed: Ramadan and Religious Freedom

By Sumbul Ali-Karamali

…prevent them. Moreover, the Muslim sunset prayer takes only three or four minutes. It’s hard to believe that a five-to-ten minute break at sunset for plant workers is a hardship for the employer. The non-Muslim workers at the plant in Colorado, as well as the community in Tennessee, in giving vent to their anti-immigrant and anti-Islam feelings have missed an important point: whatever their personal sentiments about immigrants or other religions,…

The Theodicy of George Carlin

By Kathryn Lofton

…nvent genres. Indeed, it seems fairly obvious to even the most geriatric Amazon shopper that this is a world seething with voices finding volume. George Carlin would mock this abundance even as he occupied it, staring down blog solipsism and paparazzi reality programs with cursing aplomb. Unlike Jacoby, Carlin didn’t believe the youth of America needed more Modern Library and less Good News Bible. Rather, he thought that they needed to know the di…

Raising Children the Right Way

By Jeffrey Feldman

…al and industrial associations in which all take part, but others of a thousand different types—religious, moral, serious, futile, very general and very limited, immensely large and very minute. . . In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others. After “associations,” the most important word in the quote from Tocqueville is “progress.” In Dobson’s la…

A Lone Blogger vs. the McCain-Hagee Alliance

By Bruce Wilson

…and declines in eight. However, the net effect has been an increase in the number of states in the moderate category. In this sense, the Christian Right has been ‘spreading out’ across the states, especially in the South, Midwest, and West. Thus, Christian conservatives have become a staple of politics nearly everywhere.” In short, John McCain’s personal preferences were irrelevant: his route to the presidency was only viable with the help of Chri…

Battlestar Galactica and the Future of American Religion

By Nick Street

…larger than Methodists, Episcopalians and Lutheran combined and double the number of “nones” since that last such survey in 1990. And among the 18- to 29-year-old demographic—the leading edge of a new generation of spiritually and technologically iconoclastic seekers and the core audience for media convergence phenomena like Battlestar—“nones” account for a quarter of the total population and an even higher portion of men. Even as traditional bric…

Ben Stein’s Intelligent Design Film Fans Flames

By Arri Eisen

…stitute has already weighed in. Much of it misses the point. In the ninety minute documentary, Stein frames the creation/evolution discussion as a First Amendment Issue: look at all these scientists who were ostracized by the scientific community because they claim Intelligent Design may have some truth to it. Just the making of this documentary has come complete with charges of misrepresentation, with some scientists interviewed for the film sayi…

Hypocritical Freakout over Shari’ah, but Not Biblical Law

By Sarah Posner

…deral government of stealing the public’s money. Imagine all of that for a minute. There would have been an unbelievable outcry: the anti-Muslim shari’ah fear-mongers would have claimed the Constitution was under seige and the Christian nation under attack by religiously-motivated seditionists. These sorts of arrangements — contractual agreements to submit to dispute resolution outside of the courts, with choice-of-law provisions — are commonplace…

Glenn Beck Takes on Liberation Theology

By Elijah Prewitt-Davis

…ply poured out upon us—so too it reminds us that at a political level, the minute we start constructing political structures that we think are unambiguously right, we are making our own politics into God. Nobody does that more than Glenn Beck. Glenn Beck calls for context at the beginning of his show. Dr. Cone wrote Black Theology and Black Power in 1969 in the heat of the Civil Rights Movement and Beck’s great fear is that immigrants will latch o…

A Primer on Activism from Unitarian Universalists

By Kim Bobo

…he UUA Board of Trustees established a fund to support individuals seeking sanctuary and to aid churches providing sanctuary. Our 2004 Statement on Civil Liberties affirmed our commitment to advocate for the right to due process of immigrants, refugees, and foreign nationals. In 2006 and 2007, the General Assembly passed Actions of Immediate Witness to support immigrant communities, including a call for an immediate moratorium on federal raids and…