Religion Dispatches
…ted representatives of the atheist movement are white and generally male. This disparity is reflected in the leadership of most prominent secular institutions and organizations. The book deconstructs these issues and situates black humanism within a culturally relevant tradition of critically conscious scholarship and political analysis. Further, over the past few years there has been greater interest in atheism and humanism in black and Latino co…
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…ontract establishes the moral and political superiority of whites over nonwhites. It is this racial contract that sacrifices the equality, freedoms and often the very lives of Black people and others who are nonwhite. The police are the enforcers and representatives of the racial contract. Trevor Noah, comedian and host of The Daily Show has breathed new life into this idea. The racial contract allows Noah to connect Amy Cooper calling the police…
Read More…n. For Samantha Power, the US ambassador to the United Nations, Ban was within his rights to make the administrative decision, which has no effect on national laws. Power criticized Russia for trying to “export to the UN its domestic hostility to LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) rights.” Northern Ireland: Supporters rally for bakery in ‘religious liberty’ case In a case similar to the “religious liberty” debates raging in the U.S., where…
Read More…age equality. “I think the ship has sailed and I think the church needs—I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are,” Bell continued. This declaration is the latest step in Bell’s “search for a more forgiving faith,” a process Kelefa Sanneh detailed in The New Yorker last November. Bell first truly rocked the conservative Christian world in 2011 by questioning the existence of hell in his book Love Win…
Read More…ionships that broke down.” In short, Regnerus used flawed research to reach his conclusion, while Gartrell went to the source — same-sex parents raising children, to reach her conclusions. It’s no shock that the religious right would be touting a flawed study to shore up their battle against granting even the basic of human rights to LGBT people. A Gallup poll, published in May, revealed that their argument that homosexuality is somehow “immoral” is…
Read More…hat “the candidate held a midweek conference call with an estimated 1,000 evangelical pastors around the state” last week. Leaders of Gingrich’s National Faith Leaders Coalition include the pollster George Barna, Left Behind author Tim LaHaye, California same-sex marriage opponent Pastor Jim Garlow, and American Family Association founder Don Wildmon. The Gingrich campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. …
Read More…th the headline “Hang them!” the police say Kato’s death is not related to his politics. ”It looks like theft, as some things were stolen,” Judith Nabakooba, a police spokeswoman said. Gay activists disagreed and said Mr. Kato was singled out for his outspoken defense of gay rights. “David’s death is a result of the hatred planted in Uganda by U.S. evangelicals in 2009,” Val Kalende, the chairwoman of one of Uganda’s gay rights groups, said in a s…
Read More…h my beloved wife in the afternoon,” said the 79-year-old. Olive Stone put his foot in his anti-Semitic mouth. Again. A group of pro-life protesters plan to beat and hang an effigy of Lindsey Graham over his decision to vote for Elana Kagan’s confirmation. No report on whether the protestors see the irony of a “pro-life” protest putting a faux murder center stage. In Georgia, Karen Handel and Nathan Deal are trying to out-pro-life each other in th…
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…uenced to some extent by William James, but more systematic and precise in his philosophy, Alfred North Whitehead (most notably in Process and Reality) conceived of a God who is part product-of-all-actual-experience and part repository-for-all-possible-experience. This God stands in relation to individuals, the Many, who in “drops of experience” (a term used by both James and Whitehead) interact with the One in the present. The essential element i…
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…t the state should only protect liberty in the public square. According to him this is insufficient; as “moral agents,” he declares, states should protect moral virtue. To emphasize his point, Wilson, a slavery apologist who has thrown his support behind abusers, claimed: [I]t used to be that the sexually troubled had to keep their kinks hidden away in the closet, but now the conservative Christian has to keep their virtues hidden in the recesses…
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