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Conservative Christian Book on Obama’s Faith

By Bill Berkowitz

…Mansfield did an interview with Ben Smith, a writer for Politico.com (the online wing of the Politico news organization). In the column, titled “Bush Backer Pens pro-Obama Book,” Smith writes that the book’s “tone ranges from gently critical to gushing, and the author defends Obama—and even his controversial former minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright—from conservative critics, and portrays him as a compelling figure for Christian voters.” Accordin…

The Immorality of Immortality

By Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

…the software of our life, our personal “mind-file” will continue to live ‘online’. For Kurzweil uploading ourselves to a human-made machine is spiritual, because it will exhibit complexity, elegance, knowledge, intelligence, beauty, creativity and levels of subtle attributes such as love. While Kurzweil is reluctant to talk about his own personal belief in God, he does assert that “evolution moves inexorably toward this conception of God, althoug…

RD News Round-Up—September 22, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…article, and the accompanying video, about the Sarah Palin’s churches. On Sunday, September 13, Wilson reported that his “ten-minute mini-documentary, focusing on the Wasilla Assemblies of God” was pulled by YouTube, which called it “inappropriate content.” “At the point the video was censored by YouTube,” Wilson wrote, “it had been viewed by almost 160,000 people. The short of it is that YouTube has censored a video documentary that appeared to…

RDNews: Oct 20, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…es “Constitutionalist Judicial Nominees,” told OneNewsNow, the online news service of Donald Wildmon’s American Family Association, that the “Ten Commandments would be removed all over the place. ‘Under God’ would be removed from the Pledge of Allegiance. The death penalty would be banned. There’d probably be constitutional rights to all sorts of new things like human cloning and physician-assisted suicide. Racial preferences would proliferate.” I…

RD10Q: Spiritual Survival for LGBT Christians

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…I was inspired to write Bulletproof Faith by the readers of Whosoever, the online magazine for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Christians that I founded in 1996. As soon as I put Whosoever on the Web, the hate mail began to pour in. People were offended that there was a magazine out there telling LGBT people not just that God loved them, but that God loved them just as they are—as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender people because God h…

Obamunism? The Traditional Values Coalition Coins a Term

By Bill Berkowitz

…DC and Orlando this week. Other screenings are being organized around the country. ++++++++++ 40 Days for Life Campaign “As the country marks the 36th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling that imposed abortion on the United States, as well as the inauguration of the most outspokenly pro-abortion president in American history, pro-life advocates in some 118 cities across 41 states—plus four Canadian provinces and even Australia—have…

Modern Vampires: Your Neighbors and Spouses

By Joseph Laycock

…at the time. Through the AVA, I began to find more contacts throughout the country and throughout the world. As it turns out, there are many groups of people who consider themselves to be ontologically different from normal humans. There are people who identify with angels, fairies, wolves, etc. By the end of my research I became convinced that this is a sizable community worthy of serious study. What’s the most important take-home message for rea…

This Just In: College Will Make You an Atheist

By Susan Henking

…fraternity, supporting sports teams or, these days, engaging in community service even when not forced to do so by the legal system. Indeed, there are books on choosing your major, Web sites filled with advice, and even quizzes to take online to figure out what major would be best for you. Postmodernism as Gateway Drug to Atheism And, now, there has been an explosion of reporting on choice of college major—and religiosity—in the higher education…

Sex and the Chosen People: Be Fruitful and Multiply, Etc.

By Mandy Van Deven

…I happen to have put in some of the more interesting approaches I’ve seen online. This discussion of marriage practices is especially interesting given the current movement by states in the U.S. to legalize gay marriage. Is this a fortuitous coincidence or a reflection of a larger cultural shift? Both, probably! How do technological advancements complicate Jewish teachings about sex and procreation when sexual intercourse is no longer necessary f…

Sex Work: In Bed with the Religious Right

By Dagmar Herzog

…sex ed in this country is in tatters. That someday we will wonder how the country went crazy for eight years and allowed itself to be bullied over these most intimate aspects of human life. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic? That the religious right is a Make War Not Love crowd, rather than a Make War And Love crowd. That you can’t understand the rise of the religious right if you focus only on virginity rings; you have…