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Should We Expect to See a Rise in Christian Nationalist Violence in the US?

By Nilay Saiya

…rcent of the total population. Similar sentiments have been expressed by a number of other prominent politicians with Christian nationalist inclinations, including Florida governor Ron Desantis, Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, Colorado congresswoman Lauren Boebert, and Texas senator Ted Cruz. This fusion of religion and nation has created a fertile breeding ground for a culture of violence to take root. Of course, Christian nationali…

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

By Elad Nehorai

…11 Jews in a Pittsburgh synagogue or the murder of 10 African Americans in Buffalo, New York. If the Jews are manipulating the country into losing its white majority and its Christian character, then killing people and democracy is a small price to pay to maintain control. This is exactly how a good deal of the Right talks—whether the rhetoric is overt or coded—and they’re emboldened by our culture’s failure to roundly condemn such messages. So. W…

Trump’s Potentially Deadly Easter Celebration Has His Daddy’s Pastor’s Magical Thinking Written All Over It

By Peter Laarman

…in the polls as he doles out more of it each and every day. But when I hear Trump blather on in his increasing detachment from reality, I can’t help recalling the E.E. Cummings riposte to all Trump-like bombast and bravado: Buffalo Bill ’s defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what i want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death…

Do the Arguments Against Bathroom Equality Hold Water?

By Patricia Miller

…ay that trans individuals should tough it out in the bodies God gave them. Buffalo Bishop Richard Malone (chair of the U.S. bishops’ conference’s Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth) and Omaha Archbishop George Lucas (chair of the Committee on Catholic Education) called the directive “deeply disturbing” and said it “contradicts a basic understanding of human formation so well expressed by Pope Francis: that ‘the young need to be he…

Catholic Bishops’ Religious Liberty Fight Enables Anti-Jewish Discrimination (Updated)

By Patricia Miller

…“shares the parents’ religious beliefs and moral convictions.” To date, a number of Catholic Charity adoption agencies, including those in Illinois, Boston, San Francisco, and most recently Buffalo, New York, have shut down rather than offer adoption services to same-sex couples. They’ve then turned around and accused civil authorities of putting them out of business because of anti-Catholic animus. Catholic Social Services (CSS) of Philadelphia…

Republican Lauren Boebert Jokes About AR-15s and Jesus — And Yes, She’s a ‘Real’ Christian

By Chrissy Stroop

In the aftermath of the Buffalo and Uvalde shootings—and the 54 mass shootings (and counting) that have happened since—America’s right-wing Christians have been busy defending their “god-given” right to own AR-15s. Like they always do. In response, Twitter has lost its collective mind, as offended Christians (and even some non-Christians) bend over backwards to flood the site with impotent and counterproductive declarations that pro-gun Christian…

A Roundup of Conspiracies and Bad Ideas That Caught on or Gained Momentum in 2023

By Carmen Celestini and Amarnath Amarasingam

…raphic panic has inspired multiple far-right attacks in recent years, from Buffalo in 2022 to Allen, Texas and Jacksonville in 2023. Still, despite the documented connection to violence, media pundits and politicians continue to amplify these ideas without much thought or consideration as to their impact. Just last week, Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy argued on the GOP debate stage that the great replacement theory isn’t a conspiracy theor…

This World Refugee Day, Rising White Nationalism Meets the Largest Refugee Population in History — Which is No Coincidence

By Sara Kamali

…o work—as citizens themselves. This year also bears witness to the highest number of refugees in history, along with a stubborn strain of white nationalism embedded in politics from the local to the federal levels across the globe. This parallel is no coincidence. As I discuss in my book, Homegrown Hate: Why White Nationalists and Militant Islamists Are Waging War against the United States, refugees and immigrants of color, in particular, have bee…

What American Flag-Worship Looks Like to a New Citizen

By Rosalind C. Hughes

…Revd Will H. Mebane, Jr., Interim Dean at St Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral in Buffalo, NY, grew up in the South in a fairly conservative religious household. He encountered the Flag at school and at church, at Boy Scouts – “there was a whole lot of saluting of the flag,” he told me. In high school, where he and his friends were among the first African Americans to integrate a previously all-white school, the Pledge was recited before football games;…

New Age Tragedy in Sedona: Non-Indians in the Sweat Lodge

By Johnny P. Flynn

…ng event in Sedona cost each participant more than $9,000. A search of any number of Web sites advertising these “Indian ceremonies” will turn up sweat lodges that average over $100 per event, and four-day “vision quests” going for around five hundred dollars, “all meals included” and “Visa and MasterCard accepted.” Indians all across the country are upset, saying white people stole the land, killed the buffalo, and now want to steal the religion….