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4 (More) Nails in Discovery Institute’s Coffin

By Lauri Lebo

…said about the event in a news release, “The evidence is clear: Darwin was wrong about the origin of new species, organs and body plans. We are ready to show the next generation of young scientists just how wrong Darwin was.” Of course, one of Discovery Institute’s featured tactics is to pretend that Darwin’s theory exists in a vacuum and that the scientific world has learned nothing in the past 150 years to advance knowledge of evolution and how…

Fact-checking Scripture: “Those who do not work should not eat.”

By Daniel Schultz

…onsciousness of the vast majority of Americans. There’s nothing inherently wrong with citing it or even wrangling over its proper interpretation. But the entire story illustrates just how difficult it can be to lift a passage from its context 2,000 or more years removed and wield it appropriately. On a scale of 0-5 Satans, we rate Josh Protas’ statement a 0 as incomplete. Caitlin Dewey gets half a Satan for accurate but glitchy reporting: Jodey Ar…

Back to Basics: Feminism 101

By Amina Wadud

…urs must be wrong. And you are not intelligent if you do not give up your (wrong) opinion and take up my (right) opinion. I am way too old to think everyone will have my opinion, no matter how convinced I am. So I am okay if others have opinions different from mine. Although some people respond to the blogs as if I have to take up their opinions! The idea behind istikbar, the rejection of Satan to surrender to the truth because he deemed himself b…

Bibi’s Bad History

By Shaul Magid

…ech focused largely on Iran’s nuclear program exhibited everything that is wrong with his understanding of world history and his Zionism. The rhetorical structure of the speech was brilliant, though less for what it said than for what it implied. The speech begins by drawing a seemingly exclusive line from Abraham to the modern Jews. What is conveniently missing is that Muslims also view their lineage as extending back to Abraham; according to mos…

Even Conservative Pollsters Find Growing Support for Gay Rights

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…rvative South are less accepting of gays and lesbians; but even there, the numbers are encouraging. Fifty-five percent of men said they strongly or somewhat agree that there’s nothing wrong with same-sex marriage, while 47 percent of blacks said the same thing, and a majority of southern millennials, 56 percent, agreed. In fact, out of all of the subcategories, it’s only in the black community where the majority of people were strongly, or somewha…

In Speech to Religious Broadcasters William Barr Warns of Secular Tyranny, Promotes Christian Tyranny

By Chrissy Stroop

…ht religion could be a substitute for morality. We now know that they were wrong on this point.” What Seidel means here, as he details in his book, is that as Enlightenment elites, the Founding Fathers believed that they were educated and cultivated enough to be moral without religion, but that the masses were too uncultivated to do the same. The masses would therefore require religion. Seidel maintains that the founders were wrong on this point,…

It’s the Theology, Stupid: Why the Shocking SBC Report is Anything But Surprising

By Chrissy Stroop and Jessica Johnson

…sexual abuse. It’s like, our [Christian] way of doing “it,” no matter how wrong or harmful, is still more redeemed somehow, so therefore we don’t need to regulate who leads our churches, or how people decide whether or not this church is “safe” for them. “Evil” is individualized through sin. So long as “bad apples” are excised, we’ll be ok; so monitoring systems like the OIS are seen as part of the solution, when the root cause runs far deeper. S…

Eddie Izzard on Atheism, Transgender, and “The Invisible Bloke Upstairs”

By Becky Garrison

…if you don’t believe in God, then you can’t have a good sense of right and wrong? This implies you need the invisible bloke to tell you how right and wrong happens. There’s no proof of that because it means that all native tribes should be bad. Also, who was this this invisible person? Can’t he just turn up? We’ve got a few questions. If he knows about good and bad, why didn’t he use any of his powers to stop Hitler? He could have just made it so…

Eat, Pray, Trash: What the Critics Don’t See

By Ben Brazil

…t’s priv-lit do so not because her path to wholeness is always and utterly wrong (though they strongly indict self-help literature generally), but because they think she directs all women to a path that is only available to the rich. In the end, then, these commentators aren’t entirely detached from the culture they criticize. They accept the premise of a desire for authenticity, a therapeutic language, and a sense that all of us must choose our o…

My Lent: Ashes, Addiction, and the Reality of Hell (Pace Rob Bell)

By Debra Dean Murphy

…t to take the “come, let us reason together” approach to this unattractive wrong-headedness; but as of late, caught up in the exhausting realities of addiction and the hell it creates, I simply want to say (uncharitably, I admit): What the fuck is wrong with you people? Lent reminds us that we’re all in the same boat—the sinking ship of our failed attempts to save ourselves, love ourselves, and save those we love. The ashes are not mere symbol; th…