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Exclusive: Christian Right Bill Mill, Project Blitz, Hasn’t Gone Away, It’s Just Gotten More Secretive

By Frederick Clarkson

…that they seek a theocracy; try not to be overtly Christian; present secular arguments for their legislation; and attempt to give the appearance that they respect religious pluralism. But they don’t quite succeed. They say, for example, that they’re not out to “change our model of government into a theocracy” and that the bills don’t “mimic or enact any particular religious code.” However, the inclusion of “The Ten Commandments Display Act” isn’t…

Oklahoma Bill Would Violate Basic Freedoms, Rewrite the Ten Commandments

By Andrew L. Seidel

…win conceits—chasing the faintest gleam of the spotlight and imposing his particular brand of conservative Christianity on the schoolchildren of Oklahoma—said of the bill: …the Ten Commandments must and should be on display as a founding document of our country. Our country is founded on Judeo-Christian values, and we should place a priority on learning about this important historical precedent. The breakdown in classroom discipline over the past…

Despite Conflation of Israel with Judaism, Anti-Zionism is More Kosher Than You Think

By Seth Sanders

…slay them … 7 To Me, O Israelites, [you are just like any other nation, near or far] Just like the Ethiopians… the Philistines … And the Arameans What notion of Jewish history explains this? God already puts the people of Judah on notice around 600 BCE: If you really mend your ways and your actions; if you do justice between one man and another; if you do not oppress the stranger, the orphan, and the widow; if you do not shed the blood of the inn…

Women’s Liberation Through Submission: An Evangelical Anti-Feminism Is Born

By Kathryn Joyce

…The Way Home: Away from Feminism, Back to Reality, published some twenty years earlier. Pride made the case in the late ’80s for submission as a revolutionary calling, and Kassian’s evocation of Reddy’s old feminist fight song was as deliberate a declaration that the “True Woman” movement was as revolutionary as feminism had been. “I’m praying that God is going to raise up a counterrevolution of women,” she told the crowd, “women who hold the know…

Scott Walker Loves Jesus. That’s Nice

By Peter Laarman

…d still more resources into the fight—ultimately paying a relatively small number of strikers the then-unheard-of sum of $12 million in union strike benefits. The union had won an overwhelming victory. But within a decade Kohler was shipping the work to new non-union facilities in the South. Just last year the current magnate—yet another Herbert Kohler—pushed through a greatly weakened contract for the small number of Local 833 members still emplo…

I Was Nearly Seduced by David Brooks’ Reasonable Analysis

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…testimony on Capitol Hill Thursday. One is struck first by how entirely separate these two events are in current media reportage, almost as if to suggest that there are good economics and bad, and little in between, whereas most of the actual marketplace exists in that bizarre “in between.” Still more to the point, I was struck by David Brooks’s partial defense of the Greenspan testimony. For Brooks, the testimony was noteworthy for its candor; Gr…

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With ‘Vermin’ Remark Trump Crosses Fully into Nazi Territory

By Robert P. Jones

…red us incapable of calling out instances of actual Nazi ideology. What we are hearing from Trump over the last few weeks are not Nazi-like statements, but outright Nazi sentiments. Lest you think I’m exaggerating, here are just a few selections from Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf that are soberingly similar to Trump’s most recent rhetoric (You can search the text yourself using Project Gutenburg Australia’s open source edition at the link above). Mein…

The Demographic that Should Keep Rove Awake at Night

By Katherine Stewart

…at they are not. They—or at least many of them—do not believe in God, they are charged with lacking “values,” and are suspected of not really being American. But this is nonsense. The unaffiliated do have beliefs, just not necessarily about theistic entities; they have just as many “values” as any other group; and their presence is firmly rooted in American history in helping create the world’s first secular republic. Although the unaffiliated sho…

American Sin: Why Pope Francis’ Mercy is Not Our Mercy

By Kaya Oakes

…something given by God, but given from one person to another. In the new Star Wars film, Finn’s merciful act toward the imprisoned Poe ends up liberating both of them. On Jane the Virgin, the mercy given from parents to children is a reoccurring theme. Even in the recent film Spotlight, it is not the archdiocese of Boston or the priests who molested children who offer mercy to the victims. It’s the reporters who broke the story and got to know the…

Ten of Our Favorite Top Tens

By The Editors

…PAPERS FOR THE JOURNAL OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: Just to show that we are hardcore. Check this site to see what kind of work people are doing in this field. Of particular interest to RD readers, perhaps: “Instruments of Accommodation: The Military Chaplaincy and the Constitution,” by Ira C. Lupu and Robert W. Tuttle or “Undressing Difference: The Hijab in the West,” by Anita L. Allen. 9.) TOP TEN INTELLECTUALS IN THE WORLD Bimonthly US intern…