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By The Editors

…ight “damned” America, discredited himself (in the mainstream press) and almo*]}*st took Obama down with him, while McCain’s pursuit of the demented John Hagee’s endorsement almo*]}*st sent the candidate home to Arizona. 3.) TOP TEN RELIGION STORIES FROM CHRISTIANITY TODAY What’s particular to this list, posted by the Billy Graham-founded “magazine of evangelical conviction,” is the focus on international Christianity. Number five on the CT list: Christia…

United By Hate for Proposition 8

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ill view this amendment for what it is, state-sanctioned discrimination and a bible-based prohibition against exogamy, which is reminiscent of previous state bans on interracial marriage that defined America’s not too distant past. This is why I pray that a solid number of black and brown voters embrace Jesus’ ethic of reciprocity on Tuesday. In other words, the Golden Rule: “Do unto others, as you would have them to do unto you!”…

Updated: G-O-D Plays a Bit Part in First GOP Debate

By Daniel Schultz

…ump was clearly the winner, but beyond that, it gets hard to award points. Most of the candidates “won” in the sense that they didn’t flame out and/or eat a live baby on television, and most of them got off a good line or two. Carson didn’t get a lot of speaking time, but he used a bit of humor (“I’m the only one to take out half of a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it”) and thoughtfulness to d…

What Do You Think?: “Padre Oprah” Scandal Has Many Asking Whether Priests Should Be Allowed to Marry

By Frances Kissling

…re of what we called Father “What-a-wastes”… outgoing, kind, good looking, mostly young men who made you wonder what they were doing in the priesthood. They’d make, we thought, great husbands and fathers. But alongside them were many profoundly unhappy and lonely men, poorly adjusted and quietly drinking themselves to death. These men got little help from the church who saw their problem as moral weakness, not a disease; the church made no connect…

Who Would the Buddha Bomb?

By Danny Fisher

…ng our own motives and aspiring to reduce harm and suffering for the greatest number of those at risk.” Ven. Thanissaro Bhikkhu, another notable teacher and translator in the Theravada tradition, disagreed vehemently with Bhikkhu Bodhi’s position, writing a lengthy letter to Inquiring Mind in which he outlined various objections. “The common view—that murderous force is an unfortunate but necessary last resort—is what has caused so much money, tim…

Reactionary White Buddhists Have Joined The Fight Against Critical Race Theory

By Ann Gleig

…Reproducing familiar conservative rhetoric, one of these denounces the “postmodern anti-racism” of Black Lives Matter and Critical Race Theory but adds a unique twist by comparing the current “police racism panic” to the “ritual panic abuses” of the 1980s. Another compares responses to structural racism, climate change, and Covid-19 to mental illness that are “wreaking havoc in Western society.” Just like Campus Reform, he turns to James Lindsay’…

“Can You Tell Me Who The Villains Are?”: Rock and Religion, Irish-Style

By Lisa Bitel

…t things that hardly matter, which are actually the things that matter the most. For the Irish, that means religion. “A victim’s asking for the road to Knock,” begins another great Saw Doctors’ song, referring to the famous pilgrimage site where villagers saw the Virgin Mary in the late 19th century, and where pilgrims come from around the world to await miracles. Just last year, a Dublin man named Joe Coleman gathered hundreds of believers at Kno…

Is Obama the Antichrist? Why Armageddon Stands Between the President and the Evangelical Vote

By Matthew Avery Sutton

…oric is imminent. The vast majority of American evangelicals interpret the most obscure books of the Bible (Daniel, Ezekiel, and Revelation) in a very narrow and particular way. They believe that when these three books are read in conjunction with one another and overlaid with a few of Jesus’ statements, a hidden “plan of the ages” emerges. According to their decryptions, a number of events will transpire just before the apocalypse. These include…

The “Mormon Moment” Yields… Not So Much

By Joanna Brooks

Even after Mitt Romney lost, Mormon media observers felt that his campaign must have yielded a net positive for public understanding of the Mormon faith. But new data released by the Pew Forum suggests otherwise. 82% of Americans surveyed by Pew say they learned little to nothing about Mormonism during the 2012 campaign. Nearly 50% said they still know “little to nothing” about Mormonism, a proportion unchanged from 2011. And only about 40% co…

For Conservatives, the Future Looks Dim… and Gay

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ng op-eds calling for America to return to being a “Christian nation.” Christians must be retrained to war for the Soul of America and quit believing the fabricated whopper of the “Separation of Church and State,” the lie repeated ad nauseum by the left and liberals to keep Christian America – the moral majority – from imposing moral government on pagan public schools, pagan higher learning and pagan media. But it’s just that kind of talk that’s t…