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As White Evangelical Vaccine Refusal Reminds Us, Sometimes Religion is the Problem

By Chrissy Stroop

…f seeing as many Americans as possible get vaccinated, particularly as the Delta strain surges, it’s worth understanding what might motivate even the most resistant populations to take that step. The PRRI report indicates that religious intervention most likely influenced the uptick in vaccinations among the white evangelical population from March to June, from 45% to 56%, with a concomitant decline in hesitancy from 28% to 20%. But the report doe…

Turn on the News: Some Abortion Opponents May Opt For a New Vaccine, But Behind Their Skepticism it’s Often a Different Story — of Disinformation, Conspiratorial Thinking, and White Nationalism

By Daniel Schultz

…hat the original strain has long since been pushed out of the ecosystem by Delta and Omicron (to say nothing of “Omicron 2”). Is there anything to recommend this shot, other than how it was developed? If not, it seems like a pretty cheap tout. Moreover, touting the drug’s fetal-cell-free origins potentially undermines the adoption of rival medications by keeping alive the far-fetched idea that to use them is to be somehow complicit in abortion. Th…

Ping-Pong Politics After Underwear Bomber

By Louis A. Ruprecht

The failed attempt by a would-be Nigerian terrorist to bring down a Delta aircraft over Detroit on Christmas Day must surely rank as the loudest non-explosion whose reverberations have quite literally been heard around the world. International travel over the next week was an adventure, to put it mildly. In Athens, everyone traveling to the United States was patted down and all carry-on items were unpacked and closely examined, without exception;…

Americans Lose Faith, Sinning with Transfats, the Elusive God Particle

By Michael J. Altman

…. Rev. Michael O. Minor is fighting fat from his pulpit in the Mississippi Delta. He may want to mix in a few sermons on marriage. The Bible Belt has a higher divorce rate than the Northeast, researchers say. Some rabbis are getting help from comedy writers for their High Holy Day sermons. Glenn Beck (remember him?) held his rally in Jerusalem on Wednesday. More than 1,000 folks (mostly Christians) showed up. For personal use when the comments sec…

How a Bill O’Reilly Bestseller Helps Explain the Anti-Semitism Behind the Poway Shooting

By Tony Keddie

…lled for protesting taxes that oppressed working-class fishermen and small businesses like Jesus’s “family business,” carpentry. These taxes supposedly bankrolled the luxurious lifestyles of the Roman emperors and Jewish ruling class—a culture the authors reduce to wanton violence and sexual licentiousness (i.e., homosexuality). This fake history relies on superimposed class, geographical, and racial dichotomies. Jesus and his bootstrapping discip…

The Racial Politics of Atheism

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…to the west to predominantly white communities, even the so-called working class ones, and it’s a radically different story. In the book I highlight how de facto segregation has become more intractable now—such that, according to the US2010 project, upper middle class African American and Latino homeowners actually live in poorer neighborhoods than do low-income white people. That cold reality belies bromides about post-racialism, colorblindness…

Obama’s “Other Worldly” Gaffe

By Ira Chernus

…dualism of all: the ‘us against them’ of war. The classic case of working class and lower middle class people driven by poverty to embrace a war party is Nazi Germany; the case that McCain invoked as the classic evil ‘them’ of US history. Of course, US history itself is hardly free of this phenomenon. Hard-hat construction workers attacked peace demonstrators during the Vietnam War era, and then a decade later became “Reagan Democrats,” supportin…

Review: Jews in America: Anti-Semitism, Class Struggle, Secularism

By David Biale

…move to the suburbs coincided with the rise of the Jews out of the working class and into the middle class, a process that typically took one to two generations after immigration. In recent decades Jewish prosperity has grown even more, a theme that the documentary, perhaps out of fear of stirring latent anti-Semitism, does not really investigate. But it is worth doing so. Why were the Jews able to make it in America so successfully, outstripping…

Confessions of a Hater

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…he shocked me once again when he said, “Y’know, I didn’t want to take this class, because I don’t care about religion. But, when I came in here on that first day, I thought, ‘Great, a damn religion class taught by dyke.’” I laughed out loud —and a new, if still uneasy, friendship began to take root. After that, he stayed more often after class, one day whipping out his phone to show me a photo of a white supremacist leader standing up in a convert…

Fresh From Horrors of Draconian Anti-Abortion Laws, Christian Right Hoosiers Consider Draconian Anti-Abortion Law

By Chrissy Stroop

…a ten-year-old girl impregnated through rape. Meanwhile, a campaign called Business Leaders for Hoosier Liberty is gathering signatures on a petition to Indiana lawmakers not to further restrict abortion access in the state. Braunlin says of pro-business Republicans that “they speak up late” on the issues of justice that seem likely to affect their bottom line, but they do eventually speak up. She also thinks there’s been something of a sea change…