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High Schooler says Barbara Ehrenreich’s Book Violates his Civil Rights

By Sarah Posner

…ula “insult” conservative Christianity has played out in settings from the Texas textbook debacle to assertions that teaching tolerance of homosexuality to prevent bullying violates Christians’ religious freedom. And while Ehrenreich’s book isn’t principally about religion, it’s about economic inequality, a topic the religious right believes is resolved by laissez-faire Jesus, not the “statist” solutions that an actual socialist like Ehrenreich wo…

2010: What Did We Believe In?

By Gary Laderman

…o hell, psychological instability of returning veterans with unprecedented numbers committing suicide, veteran services stretched thin—these are only a few items that come to mind though they only scratch the surface of the psychic, social, and cultural scars inflicted by this war. Historically and across cultures, warfare is often the most religious event in the life of any society. Is it any different here, in America, with this war? The patriot…

Evangelical Islamophobia as American as Apple Pie

By Shalom Goldman

…Thomas Kidd, an American religious historian at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. In his timely and perceptive book, American Christians and Islam, Kidd insists that there is something unique about American antipathy to Islam that differs substantially from earlier American Protestant campaigns against Catholics, Jews and other religious minorities. Arguing that “the recent American Christian hostility towards Islam derives from a long historical…

Building Jesus out of Toast, “Pro-Life” Effigies, Apple is a Religion, and Taunting Muslims with Dogs

By Michael J. Altman

…or Ron Ramsey. However, Apple is a religion according to two professors at Texas A&M. Ken Ham, from the creationist group Answers in Genesis, argues that the Smithsonian’s new Hall of Human Origins promotes atheism. Ham is one of the founders of the Creation Museum, proving that one museum’s atheism is another museum’s science. A Methodist minister will be tweeting the Eucharist 140 characters at a time. A Christian graduate student at Augusta Sta…

God’s Promise to Noah for Climate Change Denialism Cited by Potential Energy Policy Maker

By Lauri Lebo

…vironmental regulation. (Also vying for the position is Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), who famously apologized to BP for President Obama’s $20 billion escrow fund to cover damages by the massive oil spill.) Oddly, YouTube’s cited reason for taking down the video was that it was, “… a violation of YouTube’s policy against spams, scams, and commercially deceptive content.” (YouTube’s complaint policy places the burden of proof on the person who has post…

Christians are ‘Jerks,’ The New Scopes Trial, Pastafarians’ Rights

By Michael J. Altman

…just don’t like the use of “fornication” in public. A church billboard in Texas admits that Christians are “jerks.” A church in Charlotte, North Carolina won’t allow a Mormon couple to serve as leaders in their Cub Scout troop because they don’t consider them “real Christians.” A giant statue of Jesus is being built in a small town in Poland. At over 50 meters tall, it will be the largest statue of the Nazarene in the world. Florida’s Qur’an (not…

MRI Jesus, Bush’s Reading List, Ahmadinejad & the Pope…

By Michael J. Altman

…is now recognized as a religion by Great Britain. That only took a few thousand years. A priest at St. Vincent College in Pennsylvania was fired when pornography was discovered on his computer. The story takes an interesting turn, however. It turns out a former student is claiming he downloaded the porn to the priest’s computer and that he then told the priest about it during sacramental confession before it was ever discovered by college administ…

4 (More) Nails in Discovery Institute’s Coffin

By Lauri Lebo

…be terrific if someone sent a link to Don McLeroy to read. Last year, the Texas Board of Education member and ardent young earth creationist successfully led efforts to insert language into his state’s science curriculum that question evolution as it relates to the Cambrian Explosion. Still, after looking over all this, I do have one question. If the DI folk argue that evolution can’t account for the living diversity of the 60 million year time…

The Real Context Of The “Taliban Dan” Ad

By Julie Ingersoll

…er, as Lauri Lebo has documented at RD, the fundamentalist revision of the Texas public school curriculum, and Barton’s role in that.) They believe in an entirely second-class status for women (some believe women shouldn’t vote). They are virulently hostile to gays and lesbians. They believe that any social safety net should be eliminated and replaced by church programs—available only to believers. (And they succeeded in getting an exemption from…

Bullies Flourishing with Christian Support

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…dle School in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District in Houston Texas. Brown, his family said, was “bullied to death” – picked on for his small size, his religion and because he did not wear designer clothes and shoes. Kids also accused him of being gay, some of them performing mock gay acts on him in his physical education class, his mother and stepfather said. • Billy (William) Lucas, 15, a student at Greensburg Community High School…