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False Saviors: Trump, Cruz, and the Gospel of the Quick Fix

By Marcia Pally

…complex factors, established powers, long-standing practices, and path dependencies, we suffer a crisis of efficacy. People need to feel effective—and saviors, with their programs of redemption, make us feel so. Duress may begin as material deprivation or fear of deprivation. On Dec. 9 Pew reported that the middle class, once the largest, is the majority no longer; median middle class income has dropped 4% since 2000; four middle income jobs that…

Thanks But No Thanks: How a Noted Theologian’s Defense of Larycia Hawkins Goes Bizarrely Astray

By Scott C. Alexander

…ther.) In his post Volf vigorously defends Hawkins and accuses Wheaton of “enmity toward Muslims,” rather than any theological concern. He also notes that he himself has skin in the game. He’s writing, in part, to reassert his own contention, argued in his landmark monograph, Allah: A Christian Response (and cited by Hawkins herself) that many Christians and Muslims do indeed worship the same God. In an appropriately pointed critique of religious…

Five Ways to Show Solidarity with Muslims Instead of Wearing Hijab

By Hina Tai

…d here in RD, a Washington Post op-ed by Asra Nomani and Hala Arafa that challenged the notion of “hijab solidarity” signals the beginning of a much longer discussion. Here, Hina Tai offers a perspective. Ultimately hijab solidarity does more harm than good. Foremost, hijab solidarity alienates and rejects the voices of Muslim women who do not wear the hijab but who still suffer the burden of Islamophobia. Non-hijabi Muslim women are often pressur…

Cruz and the Evangelical Illusion

By Sarah Posner

…isting his pastor father, Rafael Cruz, to help secure endorsements from prominent figures. The tallying of high-profile evangelical endorsements results in the media reporting a “coalescing” of evangelical backing for Cruz and the impression of an inevitable consolidation of support from this crucial GOP bloc, a phenomenon most visible after Iowa activist Bob Vander Plaats endorsed Cruz last month. Still vital, but less important, is the sense amo…

No, Sunni and Shia Muslims Have Not Been Fighting Forever

By Haroon Moghul

Several days ago, before the Saudi government’s execution of prominent Shia religious leader Nimr al-Nimr took tensions between Riyadh and Teheran to a new high, a reader emailed me a deceptively ordinary question. It’s worth a second look, not only because it helps us get past the simple headlines—check out the front page of the New York Times today, suggesting the Iranian-Saudi rivalry is embedded in and involves all Sunni and Shia—but because…

Why We Must Reclaim “Religious Freedom” from Christian Conservatives

By Bill Berkowitz

…ing “religious freedom” and adding it to its anti-abortion and anti-gay arsenal. In honor of National Religious Freedom Day (celebrated on January 16th) I spoke to Clarkson about his thoroughgoing recent report—When Exemption is the Rule: The Religious Freedom Strategy of the Christian Right (via Political Research Associates)—in which he names the religious freedom strategy one of the “central issues of our time.” Bill Berkowitz: Why did you writ…

The Apocalypse Is Upon Us, Ted Cruz Endorsement Edition

By Sarah Posner

…on, (and this one is still accessible on the internet), “The Battle for Jerusalem: Litmus Test for the End-Time Church,” which Bickle delivered at IHOP’s annual Israel Mandate Conference in June, Jesus is described as “the head of the army” and “politically the head of the nations.” The armies of the world will gather in Jerusalem, Bickle claimed, “to make war against Jesus.” The world’s “kings” and their armies “will be killed with a sword that c…

US Offers Help For Investigation of Bangladesh Killings

By Peter Montgomery

…for the end to the persecution of gay people in the name of Islam. The Jerusalem Post’s report was based on the Saudi daily Eilpah, which cited an interview in a Swedish newspaper. In the interview, Salman Odah stated that “even though homosexuality is considered a sin in all the Semitic holy books, it does not require any punishment in this world. It is a sin that will accompany its committer in the life after death.” In the interview, Salman Od…

Pope and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Declare Shared View of Marriage & Family; Government & Muslim Officials Ramp Up Anti-LGBT Rhetoric in Indonesia; Australian Religious Leaders Ask Parliament to Act on Marriage Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ace for L.G.B.T.I. groups, the Uganda Registration Bureau explained its refusal to register the leading umbrella group, Sexual Minority Uganda, or SMUG, by declaring that the name itself “offends the law.“ The bureau labeled the group “undesirable,” explaining that the organization advocates for the “rights and well-being of lesbian and gay (sic) among others which persons are engaged in criminal activities” under a British colonial law enacted in…

Decoding Scalia’s Secret Hunting Society, From Jägermeister to Medieval Heresy to Buddhist Legend

By Joseph A. P. Wilson

…Justice Antonin Scalia died while on a hunting expedition with several prominent members of a 300-year-old Bohemian secret society, the Order of St. Hubertus. The owner of the hunting lodge where he passed away is a prominent member of this order, as was Scalia’s traveling companion. The order’s motto “Deum Diligite Animalia Diligentes” means “Honoring God by honoring His creatures.” There’s certainly a bitterness to the notion of “honoring” God’…