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Way Beyond Atheism: God Does Not (Not) Exist

By Paul Wallace

…never question—in a serious way—the sufficiency of science as a guide to truth. Perhaps he thinks the success of science makes it a self-evident choice when it comes to grounding his worldview; what he does not and will not consider is the very real possibility that science is so successful precisely because it is so limited. To reject this possibility out-of-hand is nothing but intellectual laziness. Dawkins is dogmatically rigid and fixed in pl…

2012 Film Heralds Progressive Utopia, No Effort Required

By Jessica Weisberg

…e, it manages to avoid its real subject: the man who was, somehow, enabled to make it. Why, exactly, does Pinchbeck believe “many” people may not survive the transition to utopia and, even more interestingly, why does he seem to wish this to be true? End-of-the-world predictions have always been motivated by something, whether nihilism, idealism, or power, and there are ethical—and even political—roots of the 2012 movement that don’t appear in thi…

Why Conservatives are Turning on Beck

By Sarah Posner

…onstruct of government isn’t based on natural law and reason, but the construct is that the Qu’ran is the constitution and the clerics rule through oligarchy and lay Muslims have to abide by the clerical injunction of shari’ah.” Beck has never been shy about showcasing rapture-ready end-timers like Joel Rosenberg or John Hagee; his apocalyptic rantings about Islam of late are tinged with that sort of Ezekiel Gog-Magog prophecy — which, in the view…

Tea Party Needs a History Lesson on Islam in America

By Michael J. Altman

…untry.” As he puts it, “Our founding fathers weren’t Muslims, they weren’t breaking for prayers five times a day.” But it’s Dennis who has his history wrong. So, first of all, what did President Obama really say about Islam’s role in America? I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story. The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco. In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President, John Adams, wrote, “The…

Things the GOP Won’t Like about Ron Paul

By Julie Ingersoll

…l liberties, and has mostly been ineffective. He is opposed to the war on drugs, argues that drug addiction in general should be treated medically not criminally, and favors legalization of medical marijuana. On the all-important social issues, Republican Party primary voters are not going to be happy with Paul. He opposes “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” arguing that gay or straight behavior in the military that is disruptive is grounds for dismissal, but…

The Debt Ceiling Crisis and Biblical Economics

By Julie Ingersoll

…illips and his Constitution Party, and Gary North and the Christian Reconstructionists.” But Bachmann’s position on the debt ceiling is likely more significant than Palin’s on the Fed because her view could win the day. It’s much harder to make something happen (eliminating the Federal Reserve) than it is to keep something from happening (raising the debt limit). When tea party leaders like Bachmann seem to think default won’t be Armageddon, they…

Goodbye to Amy Winehouse, Living Celebrity Dead

By Mathew Schmalz

…larify that Amy Winehouse was no Kali. Kali is a Goddess of liberating destruction; of breaking the connections that bind us to the world. Alcohol, considered so polluting within traditional Hinduism, becomes an offering precisely because it suggests transcending the very distinction between pure and impure and other dualisms that prevent us from seeing the unity of all things. While Kali does live at the cremation ground, Amy Winehouse was no Kal…

When Religion Kills: The Narco-Traffickers of the Borderlands

By Luis Leon

…roclaims itself to be in the chivalrous and bloody tradition of Christian crusaders. It seems no coincidence that the group emerged during the Lenten season, which occasions Christian self examination, control of appetites, and spiritual devotion: sacrifice. KTM emphasizes sacrificing for honor, country, and God, and especially for the state of Michoacan. They require that members exemplify these virtues and many others including humility and, rem…

Women, Religion, and Film: Higher Ground Raises the Stakes

By Sarah Sentilles

…ion to God and submission to men are the same in Corinne’s community. A Refusal to Submit Though Corinne is seen by her community (and by herself) as experiencing a crisis of faith, I don’t think that is exactly right. Corinne is not rebelling against God but against institutional structures that have silenced her, marginalized her, and trained her to be afraid of her own mind. She is labeled a troublemaker—a doubter—exactly at moments in which sh…

What Will Orthodox ‘Republicanity’ Look Like?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ered took the form of a rhetorical question: “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” Nothing at all, he concluded. This is an even pithier way of expressing the know-nothingism he deemed essential to Christian faith. Jerusalem was the city, not just of prophecy, but of the paradigmatically impossible and unbelievable event: God’s son dying as a sacrifice for the rest of the world. And Athens? Nothing more than an aging university town seduced by i…