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Global LGBT Recap: Adventists Talk About, Not To, LGBT People; British Muslim Group Welcomes Gay-Rights Activist; Homophobia Exports Continue

By Peter Montgomery

…is one of the largest protestant denominations in Uganda and has a growing number of new converts in East Africa. In 2010, in the heat of the “Kill the Gays Bill” media frenzy, the Vice President of the Seventh-day Adventist African Conference vocally supported the law in Uganda while it still included death for those convicted of “homosexuality” (he later said in a classic non-apology apology that he had been misquoted).The Seventh-day Adventist…

Is New Pope’s Take on the Poor All That New?

By Silvia Alves Fernandes and Manuel A. Vásquez

…atholicism far better than the College of Cardinals (which remains heavily European) contains cardinals from the Americas, Asia, and Africa, including Sean Patrick O’Malley, a Franciscan who has been credited with cleaning up the Archdiocese of Boston, which witnessed some of the most egregious cases of sexual abuse and cover up under Cardinal Bernard Law. Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, the Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras and head of Caritas Inter…

Romanian Exorcist Released from Prison, Becomes New Folk Devil

By Joseph Laycock

…him. In 2012, Romanian director Christian Mungiu adapted the case into the film Dupa Dealuri (“Beyond the Hills”). This will probably not be the last adaptation of the story. Survey data suggests that religion is especially important to Romanians compared to other European nations. As Romania’s religious culture continues to develop, even if Corogeanu spends the rest of his life in a hut the story of a murderous priest served by “idolatrous” nuns…

In Gaza Siege, Atheist Author Sam Harris Finds Yet Another Opportunity to Disparage Islam

By Usaid Siddiqui

…y could. Would every Palestinian support genocide? Of course not. But vast numbers of them—and of Muslims throughout the world—would” Harris would like his audience to believe that Muslims have always been gunning for the Jews in a battle for ascendance—but he has not done his homework. Mark R. Cohen, who teaches history at Princeton, disputes the “Golden Age” narrative, which suggests that the Jewish-Muslim relationship was an “interfaith utopia”…

Talking Justice on Twitter: “We Are Breaking Down Barriers”

By Arafat Kabir

…ave lived more in harmony with each other than we have with Christians and Europeans. Some of the greatest cultures and civilizations ever to develop were in Muslim-Jewish Babylon, Muslim-Jewish Ottoman Empire, and Muslim-Jewish Spain. We must remember our history and build on it. When Jews and Muslims attack each other with European and American weapons and money, we might remember that Christian crusaders saw Muslims as pagans and Jews as Christ…

“Muslim Gospel” Revealing the “Christian Truth” Excites the Da Vinci Code Set

By Annette Yoshiko Reed

…arn, which is otherwise known from only two surviving manuscripts, both in European languages. The possibility of a third, with text in Syriac (i.e., Christian Aramaic), would be momentous, even if it were to date to the year 1500 rather than to 1,500 years ago. Some reports, however, have suggested that it isn’t a copy of the GBarn at all. Nevertheless, the notion of the manuscript’s connection with the GBarn continues to attract attention. In 20…

The Holocaust and 9/11 Museums: A Tale of Two Controversial Films

By Todd Fine

…this last suggestion was rather inappropriate given the film’s context of European genocide, several of the letter’s objections were fair and reasonable. The authors criticized a phrasing that insinuated that Hitler’s view of “racial struggle” was tied to his being “Austrian-born and baptized a Catholic.” In an additional problematic maneuver that pieced together two separate statements, the film uncritically quoted Hitler as saying, “I am acting…

The Secret History of Easter

By Joseph Laycock

…the Indo-Aryan migration, “archaeogenetics,” and theories about Proto-Indo-European dawn goddesses (Any and all citations are from Wikipedia). New Testament scholars have noted that since The DaVinci Code became a cultural phenomenon, there’s been a surge of conspiratorial claims about Jesus, the early church, and the influence of Pagan mystery religions. Authors such as Craig Evans and Bart Ehrman have written with bewilderment at the revival of…

What Does Heidegger’s Anti-Semitism Mean for Jewish Philosophy?

By Aubrey L. Glazer

…ulate a vibrant Jewish thinking beyond the binary of theism and atheism. A number of thinkers have reached the conclusion that the aniconic ramification of the monotheistic creed is the undoing and demythologization of theism whence it follows that the final iconoclastic achievement of monotheism would call for destroying the idol of the very God personified as the deity that must be worshipped without being idolized. Levinas had this in mind when…

Atheists Support L.A. Pastor Who Faces “Tribunal” for LGBT Advocacy

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…mophobic policies. Nonetheless, the rhetoric that homosexuality is a white European phenomenon artificially imposed on African descent peoples is still a recurring theme in some black churches. Recently the ATLAH church in Harlem made headlines for a viciously homophobic marquee sign equating homosexuality with whiteness. And terrorist anti-gay legislation in Uganda and Nigeria (sparked and endorsed in no small part by the anti-gay crusades of whi…