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How Mormon is Mitt Romney? Over 50 Jokes For Trump

By Joanna Brooks

…o an ad for the LDS Church: “I’m a husband, father, and leader of the free world. And I’m a Mormon.” Mitt is so Mormon he isn’t as concerned about getting American youth jobs as he is about getting them married. Mitt Romney is so Mormon he tried to convince CNN to let him bring a visual aid to the debate so he could turn it into an object lesson. Mitt is so Mormon that he refers to Congress as “The Great and Spacious Building.” Mitt is so Mormon t…

Romney’s Christian Nation Conundrum

By Sarah Posner

…or Republicans, right? Here’s a summary (full quotes below the fold): Santorum (Catholic): Examining the tenets of someone’s religion tells you how they will govern. But don’t judge their road to salvation. 1 Gingrich (Catholic-come-lately): Don’t judge how someone believes in God, just judge them based on whether they believe in God, because if they don’t, you shouldn’t trust them. 2 Perry (evangelical): I can’t help it if Jeffress went off on hi…

Is Herman Cain’s Long-Running Minstrel Show Finally at an End?

By Anthea Butler

…ic recitations of faith testimonies, then everything is on the table for scrutiny. The GOP has set morality as one of the rules for engagement since the late 1970’s. From the Republican perspective, there are some things, like divorce, that the party can stomach. Look at Newt Gingrich. He has managed to have three wives, a big Tiffany account, and has finally made it to the top of the polls, topping squeaky-clean Mormon Mitt Romney. But not withou…

Ponzi Schemes, Treason, and Cervixes

By Sarah Posner

…ts consume. Tonight, Bachmann hit hard back at Perry, not only over the intrusion of a government-ordered vaccine for “innocent little 12 year-old girls,” but because Perry had done the bidding of pharmaceutical industry cronies who had contributed to his campaign and profited from the sale of the vaccine. This was one of Bachmann’s best debate moments, where she could simultaneously look like she was (1) defending “parental rights,” a big issue…

4 (or 5) American Muslims For Ben Carson to Interrogate

By Haroon Moghul

…d to sit down with Vladimir Putin to discuss the occupation of Ukraine, or Russian support for the brutal Assad regime, then certainly Carson won’t mind sitting across from some American Muslims and asking them to prove their loyalty. Given that we are several million, however, it wouldn’t make sense for him to interrogate every single one of us. So I’ve suggested some names, if only to get him started. If Carson’s willing to address these five fo…

Declaring a Theological State of Emergency: Trump’s Ignorance Must Not Be Ours

By Mary E. Hunt

…principles: peace, human rights and secular governance. We are announcing today the formation of an international initiative: the Muslim Reform Movement.” Do Mr. Trump and the sector of the American public that agrees with him have any such information? I doubt it. Nor do they apparently have much experience with Muslim neighbors who live and work peacefully in virtually every part of the country. Ignorance of religion is an acute problem in the…

“We All We Got”: The Black Church As an Oasis in Baltimore’s Food Deserts

By Kasai Rex

…have been held by congregations at the same Penn-North intersection where CNN and others incessantly broadcasted images of a torched CVS as if it were a dying human being. In warmer months, New Bethlehem Baptist Church, among others, led walks to ward off the drug activity that is the only real option for survival for many in areas where police can’t—or won’t—keep them safe. In Baltimore, symbolic gestures on the pulpit are best complemented by c…

Iowa Republicans Grade Newt’s “Worldview”

By Sarah Posner

…hould be governed by “biblical law,” given that Christianity is the only “true” worldview, in conflict with others, including Islam, secularism, socialism, and paganism. In August, with Perry’s entrance into the race, I argued that he had not internalized the worldview construct as Bachmann had, and focused more on sharing his own salvation story. But Gingrich? Sure, he recently (after two divorces) converted to Catholicism and has been extolling…

“Own Your Heresy”: The Argument Over Who Gets to Do Public Theology Takes a Sharp Turn

By Kaya Oakes

…who signed the letter. It’s also the church of a billion people around the world, each experiencing it in different ways, each living out their faith individually and collectively. And each of those people is qualified to talk about how they live that faith, whether they do so in the op-ed column of the Times, at a potluck, in the middle of the desert, on CNN, or here on RD. It’s when either side tells the other to shut up that the problem starts….

Why ISIS War Would Make Paris Attacks a Success

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…to young Muslims activists as they used to be. Two of their most famous recruits, notorious around the world for beheading ISIS captives, have themselves been killed by target strikes. The number of young people volunteering to join the ISIS forces have dwindled, and scores, perhaps hundreds, have been trying to return home, weary of being used as cannon fodder. ISIS, it appears, is on a downward slide. But perhaps this is precisely what explains…