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Trump’s “Muslim Ban” A Gift to Terrorists

By Ali Olomi

…third of slaves may have been Muslim and some even fought in the revolutionary war like Yusuf ben Ali. Thomas Jefferson kept a Qur’an near his bedside and the other framers were adamant that the United States would be a land of religious liberty for Christians, Jews, and “Mahometan.” The first country to recognize the young independent United States of America was the Muslim sultanate of Morocco. In 1805 Thomas Jefferson even hosted an Iftar dinne…

Trump is a Nightmare, Sure, But Can He Actually Do Anything?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…dom Restoration Act, and any number of ill-fated attempts to block the forward march of marriage equality. But my professional pedigree also breeds skepticism. And although it’s long been clear that the current administration is hell-bent on turning back the clock on basic civil rights for anyone who’s not a straight white evangelical Christian man, I often wonder whether the near-constant panic that circulates among today’s progressive groups doe…

Will the Pope’s Woman Problem Alienate Young Catholics?

By Patricia Miller

…l perpetuate a number of injustices and lead to an exodus from the church—particularly among millennials. The forum, convened by Call To Action, Catholics for Choice, CORPUS and nine co-sponsors, was especially appropriate coming in the midst of a robust discussion of Pope Francis’ relationship to women in the Catholic Church. Writing in the American Prospect, Adele Stan argued that if Francis wants to maintain the church’s relevancy in the develo…

Census Reveals Gay People are Shockingly… Normal

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…olan who have spread the lie that being gay is somehow akin to wanting to marry a parent, a dog, or a piece of furniture. But, as more and more lesbians and gay men raising children move into the neighborhoods of suburbia, the more “normal” gay and lesbian relationships will be. The census shows this is already happening and that more and more gay and lesbian people are feeling comfortable enough to come out on a government form and be counted. Wh…

How a Ruling for Masterpiece Cakeshop Could Embolden White Nationalists

By Sunnivie Brydum

…d in a recent conversation with RD. And although conservative Christians (particularly white evangelicals and conservative Catholics) are going to great lengths to paint themselves as a minority oppressed by creeping secularism and liberalism, “they nonetheless maintain a huge amount of cultural power and cultural authority,” Wenger continued. “And they certainly have been able to use religious freedom as a rallying cry for their own culture wars…

A Peek Inside the ‘Onion’ of Scientology

By Kristin Rawls

…and unless they’re released to the public during an event, those documents are carefully guarded. I looked very hard for a lot of that material, and I did get some. But most everything else was available if you had the right sources. Perhaps in keeping with your goal of objectivity, you didn’t echo the critique that the Sea Organization (a.k.a. Sea Org), which manages the Church, traffics in illegal child labor. Why? The Church of Scientology is…

The Suppression of Sin in Evangelical Abolitionism: The Wilberforce Problem

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…tics, particularly his strident abolitionist positions, were motivated in large part by his evangelical beliefs. But these led him to hold other kinds of positions, too. As Adam Hochschild notes in his book Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves, chief among Wilberforce’s concerns was “the suppression of sin.” He encouraged King George III to issue a proclamation against vice, which included the prosecution of…

Feeding on the Faithful: How Supernatural Thinking Empowered the Third Reich

By Eric Kurlander

…iety to the vampires and werewolves that informed their views of partisan warfare; from the “border sciences” influenced Nazi policies of race and space to the preoccupations with miracle weapons and Götterdämmerung that defined their experience of war and defeat. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic? The first is that nearly everything that can be written about the Third Reich has already been written. Because of the vast…

Was Ghana Anti-Gay Scare Just Politics?

By Warren Throckmorton

…or gays among their tenants in order to report them to the police. If they are arrested, he said, then the courts can test the strength of the law. According to the Joy FM report, Aidoo hoped “to get rid of these people in the society.” Some observers believe the number of sexual minorities may have been inflated in order to whip up opposition to homosexuality which could advance the standing of conservative politicians. Graham Knight, a British b…

The Internet Is Not Killing Religion, Religion is Killing Religion

By Elizabeth Drescher

…or (I just had that one statistics class. Twice.), I turn to the novelist Margaret Drabble to explain what I’m getting at here: You can’t learn everything from the laboratory, that’s what he used to say. The whole is more than the sum of its parts, he told us. The whole behaves differently from the parts, and has different properties. That’s what he taught us, and he was right. It’s out of fashion to say these days, when we spend our time scrutini…