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WWJD Or The First Amendment?

By Sarah Posner

…is a problem — or even what kind of problem it might be. In contrast, the New Zealand military has plans to remove the engravings and is reconsidering its contract with Trijicon, because “the lettering on the gunsights is fundamentally wrong, could be easily misconstrued and could raise religious tensions.” Fundamentally wrong is hardly the sort of language you’d hear coming out of the U.S. military, which for years has acquiesced to proselytizat…

Expelled Ugandan Bishop Ministers to LGBT

By Richard A. Lindsay

…e tolerant Anglican churches in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, suggesting that the center of the ‘true’ faith—that is, the faith that is still discriminatory towards LGBT people and women—is in Africa and the developing world.” “The African voices that have dared to stand up against overwhelming spiritual, societal, and governmental pressure, like Bishop Senyonjo, Canon Gideon Byamugisha, Bishop Desmond Tutu…

Ritual Killing v. Factory Farming, or, Are There Roosters in Heaven?

By Meera Subramanian

…ng an animal to be stunned before slaughter, following in the footsteps of New Zealand and Switzerland, effectively eliminating the procedures that make meat kosher for Jews or halal for Muslims. As for the sacrificial taking of human life, every Sunday, millions of mainstream Americans partake in a symbolic ingestion of blood and body that is so common in the Christian world that one forgets to use the word “cannibalism.” For the Catholics if not…

Obama Foes Misrepresent Islam with “Apostate” Tactic

By Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im

…sor of Religious Studies, Retired, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand +Harvey Stark, PhD Candidate in Religion, Princeton University +Seval Yildirim Assistant Professor, Director of Center for International and Comparative Law Whittier Law School, Costa Mesa, CA +Linell Cady, co-director of ReligionDispatches, Franca Oreffice Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, and the Director of the Center for the Study of Relig…

Whether We Call White Nationalism ‘Christian’ Is All About Who Gets to Define Christianity

By Ivan Strenski

…y been buzzing about whether Brenton Tarrant’s mass murder of Muslims in a New Zealand mosque should be called “Christian” and/or “religious” terrorism. RD’s Murali Baraji sparked a series of impassioned exchanges for allegedly conflating the Australian shooter’s “white terrorism” with “Christian nationalism.” Even though “Christian nationalists” may lack strong biblical foundations or even a mature theological basis, Tarrant comfortably takes his…

Church of Jedi Takes Advantage of Turmoil

By Gabriel Mckee

…oup claims 30 members in the UK, but has links to similar organizations in New Zealand and the United States. The Darth Vader attack occurred while some of these members were filming a lightsaber battle in their backyard. Arwel Wynne Hughes, wearing a garbage-bag cape and swinging a metal crutch (lightsaber), leaped into the yard shouting “Darth Vader! Darth Vader!” He struck Barney on the head and punched his cousin, Michael Jones, on the leg. In…

‘Cult’ Is an Inaccurate, Unhelpful and Dangerous Label for Followers of Trump, QAnon, and 1/6

By Catherine Wessinger

…being supported and disseminated by powerful media representatives on Fox News and One American News Network (OANN), along with a not insignificant number of elected members of Congress. A great deal of the concern on the part of white people is over their potential loss of status in America. This concern is being expressed in current Trumpist Republican efforts to curb access to voting by people of color and the social panic being fomented about…

A Year After the Non-Apocalypse: Where Are They Now?

By Tom Bartlett

…browsers, confident that reports of a massive earthquake originating near New Zealand would soon appear. Other believers went to sleep, assuming that they would awaken in the presence of the almighty. When the sun rose on May 21, they were taken aback. Maybe it would happen at noon. When noon passed, they settled on 6 p.m. When that came and went, some thought it might happen at midnight. Or perhaps it wouldn’t happen until May 21 was over everyw…

The Resurgence of Right-Wing Anti-Semitic Conspiracism Endangers All Justice Movements

By Ben Lorber

…n 1920 Winston Churchill warned that “Bolshevism among the Jews is nothing new…this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization…has been steadily growing.” That same year, American industrialist Henry Ford began publishing a series called “The International Jew” in his Michigan newspaper The Dearborn Independent, warning readers that “the powerhouse of Communist influence and propaganda in the United States is in the Jewish trade unions…

Holy Hipster Mark Driscoll Continues to Fall

By Becky Garrison

…sts ranking among the top 10 in religion in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway. In January 2012, he became a #1 New York Times bestselling author heavily promoted by his publisher, until Mars Hill removed this designation from his bio following revelations that he had paid ResultSource, a marketing firm that “creates”bestsellers. At present, Driscoll seems to have been dropped by his agent, and his relationship with his current…