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Single Greatest Idea Ever: On the 150th Anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species

By Lauri Lebo

…wer people accepted evolution than in the United States.) According to Ron Numbers’ The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, in the wake of the publishing of Origin, Christians in America were, for the most part, able to make peace with Darwin’s theory and evolutionary principles. It wasn’t until the early 1900s, when a series of religious pamphlets, “The Fundamentals,” were published arguing for the acceptance of the B…

Religion Poll Proves that Liberals Are Not Conservatives

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…buy his new book to get all of those details. It would be interesting to see how those 32 percent compare in faith matters with the 51 percent who consider themselves centrists. But that’s not the point of this press release. Instead, Barna’s content to present misleading numbers that do nothing but continue the assault on the “liberal” label—painting us as godless, unchurched, heathens who don’t pray, read the Bible, or have a personal relations…

Denying Darwin: Another Peculiar American Institution

By Lauri Lebo

…battles over religion and science. Fundamentalist Fervor According to Ron Numbers, in his book The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, the rise of Christian fundamentalism in America didn’t really start in earnest until the early 1900s. For the most part, Christians were not biblical literalists and accepted science—including the ideas that the earth was very old and that living creatures changed through time. A typic…

Why is the Pope Popular Among Nones?

By Kaya Oakes

…icans hold a favorable view of him, while 11% have no opinion. Where these numbers begin to get interesting is in religious breakdown. American Catholics appear to be very fond of the pope, with 87% expressing a favorable view of him, but among white evangelicals his ratings are not so high—only 53% favor the pope, whereas white protestants see him positively at a rate of 72%. This may mirror the more conservative stance of many evangelicals versu…

What Should the Vatican Say to the (Last Generation of) Nuns?

By Peter Manseau

…en who will choose to enter the Catholic religious life in any significant numbers. The circumstances that led them to the convent no longer exist, and may not again. Rather than expect further recitations of the litany of permissions from such women, the Vatican would do well to count its blessings that they chose to serve as long as they did. And then it should say, “Thank you.” *** Further reading: Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their…

Palin Goes ‘Hopey-Changey,’ But Don’t Call it Political

By Julie Ingersoll

…s. Concluding the Q&A Ortiz asked: “If Roe v. Wade were overturned and the numbers of abortions drastically reduced, how should we provide support for those children?” Doc Renuart suggested adoption while Palin rambled, pointing out that overturning Roe v. Wade would not immediately end abortion and that a political fight in every state would still be necessary—without a bit of cognitive dissonance concerning her “states’ rights views.” In the end…

Irish Vote Reflects Diminished Moral Authority of Catholic Church

By Peter Montgomery

Irish voters turned out in huge numbers on Friday and cast their votes 62 to 38 percent in favor of amending the country’s constitution to allow same-sex couples to marry, making the overwhelmingly Catholic country the first in the world to legalize marriage for same-sex couples through a national referendum. Trevor Gundy, writing for the Religion News Service just before the vote, had examined the decline of the Church’s power in Ireland. “Many…

Ignoring the Pope on Climate Change is Not Like Using Contraception

By Kevin M. Lowe

…tudies have repeatedly shown that Catholics use contraception in identical numbers to non-Catholics, and generally in good conscience. As Republican attempts to privatize the climate crisis already suggest, conservative Catholics may continue to reject Laudato si just as the vast majority of Catholics have long since rejected Humanae vitae, as Patti Miller noted here on RD. Yet the two issues are not in fact equivalent. For an explanation, we can…

The Islamophobia Election: How “Muslim” Became a Racial Identity

By Michael Schulson

…that racialized component? If we look at the statistics and we look at the numbers, we have more mass shootings in this country than terrorist attacks. The majority of people committing these terrorist attacks are not Muslims. There need to be policies that take into account behavior and political motivation rather than religion or religious identity. Mass shootings are overwhelmingly committed by white men, yet we don’t say, “Well, we need to mon…

By the Way: The Rove of the Religious Right, A Eulogy

By Randall Balmer

…t politically organized. Many, in fact, were not politically active; large numbers were not even registered to vote. But Weyrich saw an opportunity, and by his own account he spent years trying to mobilize evangelicals politically. I met Weyrich only once, at an improbable gathering of religious right types in Washington DC, late in 1990 (improbable because I was clearly out of place in a room full of people like Weyrich, Ralph Reed, Richard Land,…