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Seven Years After Hurricane Katrina, Reflecting on the Fallacy of Divine Retribution

By The Editors

…us Groups Ignore Him LEVI MCLAUGHLIN • Mar 17, 2011 While it appears as if Japan, like America, has its share of vocal public figures eager to equate disaster with apocalypse and to use mass human suffering as an excuse to propagandize, Japanese religious groups have joined together—largely under the media radar—to help in the relief effort. The Heresy of End Times Predictions LOUIS A. RUPRECHT • Jun 6, 2011 Apocalyptically-minded souls—nationalis…

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

By Elad Nehorai

…this cultural need and at creating cultural boundaries that allow them to promote toxic ideologies and spread bigotry without consequence. This is why trans people are being targeted: the Right has drawn their line in the sand. And in so doing, they’ve affected the mainstream as well. Trans and queer rights are suddenly up for debate in the press; pundits debate the pros and cons on cable news and in op-eds. Democratic voters—usually white, often…

When Are You Dead? Science Just Made the Work of Religion a Bit More Difficult

By Arri Eisen

…nt shamans in different tribes. Is it when your heart stops working (as in Japan and Shintoism)? When your soul leaves your body (as in Tibet and Buddhism)? When your brain stops working? When a certain part of your brain stops working? Who decides when you’re dead? Can you be dead in body, but not in mind? Vice versa? Cogito ergo sum? A new study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine adds intriguing neuroscientific fuel to the fir…

Imagine No Religion: Sustaining Morality Without God

By Konstantin Petrenko

…The one advantage of religiously-based morality—the fact that it claims to promote “absolute” or “objective” values—is also its greatest weakness. For one, religious ethics require belief in certain theological doctrines or sacred texts, limiting moral discourse to one religious tradition and excluding the majority of humanity. In an increasingly pluralistic and globalized society, religiously-based ethics cannot produce any sort of moral consensu…

The Terrorism & Poverty Myth

By Ira Chernus

…will be more terrorist attacks against us and Europe, and perhaps against Japan and Australia, as long as that factorial difference of 32 in consumption rates persists. For this claim Diamond presents no evidence. He can’t—not only because it’s not his field of expertise, but because real evidence to support the claim does not exist. It’s one of those cliches that get repeated over and over, even by really smart people, because “everyone knows it…

The Problem with AMC’s Sci-Fi Hit Humans

By Andrew Aghapour

…makes sense since swans are well designed for floating along lakes. Visit Japan’s first robot-staffed hotel, and you’ll interact with a number of theroids, including a robotic dinosaur. If the dinosaur accidentally hurts you, and you’re elderly, you might be taken care of by a bear. This cuddle bot is a patch of interactive fur, in case that’s your thing. Of course animals aren’t always the best shape for tasks, either. Hotels around the world ar…

Global Anti-Gay Forces Plot Against ‘Satanic’ Equality Movement

By Peter Montgomery

…n under investigation by the officials in the prime minister’s office for “promoting homosexuality” since mid-March. The organization has been trying to resolve the matter quietly, but activists in Uganda say privately the investigation could be the beginning of an ominous political turn they have long feared — that the law would work not only to destroy the lives of hundreds of LGBT individuals, but also would become a weapon used against critics…

Countering the “Countering Violent Extremism” Program

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…Su’s recent book, Exporting Freedom, examines the US-occupied Philippines, Japan and Iraq. “[N]o doctrinal position or school can be identified as causing the actions of jihadi groups.” Since 2009, US military chaplains have engaged with local religious leaders overseas to advance American strategic objectives: gathering cultural intelligence, promoting religious tolerance, and patching up relations with local citizens whose lives have been damage…

Better Science Through God?

By Nathan Schneider

…e important research takes place in non-Christian countries like China and Japan and by their nationals working in the West, a totally theology-centric narrative seems less and less plausible. But even an anecdotal survey of what ways of thinking uphold the everyday habits of science today don’t quickly draw one’s mind to religion, nor do they necessarily stand in opposition to it. As in any profession, there are professionals competing for advanc…

Taqwacore Roundtable: On Punks, the Media, and the Meaning of “Muslim”

By Shahjehan Khan

…that Pakistan was as capable of putting out punk rock as Turkey, Malaysia, Japan, and Lebanon. The USA is good to sell obscure Malaysian and Japanese records in, but it’s not a good place to play this kind of music. We’d do much better in South Eastern Asia, which yes, we get a lot of traffic from online. Tons of people from Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia add us. We’ve been covered in the major Malaysian music magazine. I think it makes more s…