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Fact-Checking Ben Carson’s Pyramid-ism Misses the Point

By Michael Schulson

…s. Ben Carson thinks that the pyramids were used to store grain. Carson is wrong. But to simply point out that he’s wrong is to miss the point. Carson’s error isn’t an isolated counter-scientific blip in the Sea of Facts that is a presidential election. Instead, it’s an unusual, and therefore unusually revealing, artifact of the strange fact-space in which American elections take place. The one guarantee in this election is that every candidate wi…

Is God a Delusion? A Reply to Religion’s Cultured Despisers

By Eric Reitan

…rong… and then criticized them at precisely those points where he got them wrong. As it turned out, the page was taken from Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion. And so I bought the book, and as I was reading it I thought that one could write an entire introduction to the philosophy of religion just by correcting all of Dawkins’ philosophical mistakes. The idea quickly turned into a book proposal, which I sent to Blackwell (now Wiley-Blackwell). But…

Decoding Romney on Contraception

By Sarah Posner

…d the—and the president’s statement of my policy is completely and totally wrong. The first sentence is somewhat—what’s the right word? Hilarious? Because of course no one has said that “bureaucrats” should tell someone whether they can use contraceptives or not. If he’s trying to speak to his own base—which is likely, given his use of the word “bureaucrat”—he’s got their fears all wrong. Conservatives aren’t saying they’re worried about “bureaucr…

Does the President Need Churching?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ave been wrong. Gary Scott Smith, in addition to smarting a bit over being wrong about his predictions about Obama, believes the president would not only benefit from a sermon and some singing each week, but would also serve as a national role model and encourage others to warm a pew each week themselves. Perhaps. But, is that the real agenda behind encouraging this particular president to get thee to church? I don’t remember anyone issuing a call…

How the Anti-Abortion Movement Gave us Donald Trump — and Why It Could Bring Worse

By Jonathan Dudley

…they must make clear that central assumptions of the pro-life movement are wrong. They must either reject the position that abortion is equivalent to killing children or reject the position that supporting anti-abortion candidates can end or significantly reduce abortion. It may not be intuitive but the first option is easier than it seems. Evangelicals simply need to remember their own history. When the National Right to Life Committee was founde…

Let’s Make it Legal to Execute Disobedient Children!

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…rnately, to try to regulate every last thing anyone does that you think is wrong? It’s not even clear how Fuqua’s position is any more persuasive than its precise opposite—the position of someone who shrugs and says “Eh, people are gonna do what they’re gonna do when it comes to setting up households, finding mates, and raising families. That’s not Christianity’s job to police. On the other hand, maybe the government could do some kind of health c…

Israel Under Bush: The Islamophobia Years

By Joel Schalit

…put it when he declared his support for Obama, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being an American Muslim—but to suggest as much is. To go one step further and target a secular, educated Arab American as though he embodied of every possible concern ‘average Americans’and Jews supposedly have about Muslims is even worse. Never mind that not every Arab American is religious or is of Islamic background—Khalidi is himself half-Christian by birth….

White Evangelical Leaders Still Too Preoccupied With ‘Order’ to Listen to Black Truth

By Chrissy Stroop

…Christian American church? As a leader you should be leading. This is the wrong take. Jesus would’ve stayed & turned the tables!” https://twitter.com/Ashadahya/status/1267819896512999425?s=20 Meanwhile, Jo Luehmann called out prominent evangelical pastor and author Andy Stanley for deleting a take comparing George Floyd to Samson after he was criticized for the comparison, with many pointing out that black lives shouldn’t have to be lost for whit…

This is not a Religion Column: Sarah Palin, American

By Jeff Sharlet

…d by an army of blogger theologians. Like Pegler, they’re honing in on the wrong targets, angling in from the left instead of the right with aim just as shaky. There’s nothing wrong with being a moose hunter, or a snow machine racer, or a red neck, or a holy roller. The gift of tongues is not a form of political expression. At least, not one easily intelligible. What should be worrisome about Palin’s religion and her small town roots is the way th…

Trump’s Inaugural Address Gets an “F” in American Civil Religion

By Spencer Dew

…nificance. The will of the people is not itself the criterion of right and wrong. There is a higher criterion in terms of which this will can be judged; it is possible that the people may be wrong. The president’s obligation extends to the higher criterion. While Bellah does not pursue it, law—the Constitution in particular, set in relation to the Declaration of Independence and assorted statements from the founders—stands as a parallel source of…