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‘Culting’: From Waco to Fundamentalist Mormons

By Catherine Wessinger

…ng.” Such stereotypes increase public outrage against religious groups and help to make the believers seem like outsiders. After the deaths of a total of 74 Branch Davidians in the fire at Mount Carmel on April 19, 1993, self-examination by reporters in the print media revealed that the application of the term “cult” to the Branch Davidians helped created a social context in which FBI agents could wage psychological warfare against the community a…

Porn-Again Christians: What Happens When a Biblical Literalist Launches a Sex Site?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…de of sex.” Men, he says, have “polygynous nature,” and sites like his can help them “virtually” experience their natural polygynous nature without them going out and sinfully having sex with other women outside of marriage. He readily admits that the images he posts are not heavily vetted. Some are sent to him by users of the site, but others, he says are simply pictures he found on the web and if “she appears be 18 years or older I will use on t…

Here’s What Hospital Care Could Look Like in a Post-Roe World

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…bortions are done at that hospital and they try their hardest to make that number zero.” Most doctors aren’t eager to have their medical practices subjected to criminal investigation. However, a few do wholeheartedly support the end of Roe. One of the most disturbing anecdotes in our report involved a pregnant woman who came to a hospital in Ohio with suicidal thoughts. An obstetrician involved in her care told us that an anti-abortion psychiatris…

What Should Truly Disturb Us About Game of Thrones’ Child Sacrifice

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…orter: “It’s all right, Father,” she says. “… It doesn’t matter. I want to help you. Is there any way I can help?” After a telling pause, Stannis answers, “Yes there is.” His child sits up straight and tall. “Good,” she says. “I want to. I am the Princess Shireen of House Baratheon, and I am your daughter.” Shireen is led through a crowd of soldiers, clutching her new toy stag, before she sees the stake and realizes what is happening. “Where’s my…

Religious Freedom Gets Hollywood Treatment

By Daniel Ramirez

…the Church’s new Social Doctrine in the aftermath of the Revolution. This helps to explain why Protestants, teachers, agrarian reformers, and anyone associated with the revolutionary agenda dreaded the arrival of the cristero forces in their towns and villages—their side has a martyrdom narrative too—and why they were relieved at the government’s suppression of the revolt. This also helps to explain the congratulatory telegram sent to President C…

By the Way: Religious Right Eats its Own

By Randall Balmer

…assley, who was first elected to the United States Senate in 1980 with the help of Religious Right activists, had submitted what should have been a routine request to be seated with the state party’s delegation. He is the ranking member of the Finance Committee and the fifteenth-highest ranking member of the entire Senate. Grassley would have been the logical choice to head the state’s delegation. The Religious Right leaders of Iowa, however, said…

The Deafening Silence of “Religious Freedom” Defenders on Trump’s Muslim Ban

By Sunnivie Brydum

…claimed Christian and the white evangelical dominionists he’s appointed to help run the White House. Trump’s “Muslim Ban,” an executive order signed this past Friday, incited panic and protests at airports around the nation, while lawyers from the ACLU and elsewhere turned out in force to file pro-bono habeas petitions on behalf of people detained while trying to re-enter the country with valid green cards and visas. Five federal judges issued nat…

RDBook: Whither the Religious Left?

By Bill Berkowitz

…atmosphere of persecution and fear—and out of reach of programs that might help. As for how he fits in the wider constellation of religious leaders, as a disciple of the late guru of modern corporate management Peter Drucker (who taught at Fuller Theological Seminary) he is more about building a religio-corporate empire than preceding leaders of the Religious Right. Drucker was the theorist of the megachurch, applying business principles to the cr…

Brits Get A Dose of Christian Nation Politicking

By Sarah Posner

…sp the consequences of that neutrality, or the role that faith can play in helping people to have a moral code.” That accusation is abruptly followed by the disclaimer that “[o]f course, faith is neither necessary nor sufficient for morality.” Cameron also lays bare his quintessentially 21st century religiosity, proclaiming that “I am a member of the Church of England, and, I suspect, a rather classic one: not that regular in attendance, and a bit…

McCain’s VP Courts Conservative Evangelicals

By Kathryn Joyce

…harm abortion does to women, and a champion of “father’s rights” with the help of the disgraced ex-Bush appointee Wade Horn (the former pro-abstinence Assistant Secretary of Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services who resigned after funneling one million dollars to his own National Fatherhood Initiative, paying reporters, and directing other grants to programs he oversaw). Rounding out Feminists for Life’s resume…