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Civil Religion v. Uncivil Religion; With Deadly Consequences

By Daniel Schultz

…fs of this form of civil religion seem to amount to “Pres. Trump can do no wrong” and “Screw the weak, I want a haircut.” The symbols run to swastikas, Confederate flags and automatic rifles, and the central rituals consist of praising the president for his leadership and that same president attempting to divide Americans against one another, most recently by suggesting that Muslims would be allowed to gather for Ramadan while Christians were bann…

Is Being Trans a Religion? Why the Christian Right Wants You to Think So

By Chrissy Stroop

…rights, and church-state separation. In other words, the American Right is wrong. Being anti-democratic, its leaders are happy to hold on to power by unfair, illegitimate means. At the same time, many of them still crave “respectability” and plausible deniability of their malfeasance, and that’s where rhetorical sleight-of-hand and pseudo-intellectualism come in. Post-truth politics is a powerful tool for authoritarians, because it renders winning…

Becoming the Common: Why I Got Arrested in North Carolina

By Willie James Jennings

…d this week. This was the first time in my life that I found myself on the wrong side of the law—and it was necessary. In North Carolina right now the Republican-controlled legislature has unleashed the most comprehensive set of right-wing draconian bills and laws that anyone in this state has ever seen. Most longtime North Carolinians will tell you that these particular politicians (including Governor McCrory) look nothing like the sensible Repub…

Contrary to Popular Narrative the Supreme Court’s ‘303’ Decision Gutting Civil Rights Laws is not About an Individual Standing Up For Her Beliefs

By Andrew L. Seidel

…o say any analogy to “separate but equal” is “pure fiction.” There’s a lot wrong with this, but let’s close by mentioning just two of the bigger flaws. The first problem I explained in my book, American Crusade: “It’s impossible to draw a logical or consistent line between discrimination against one protected class (race) and another (sexual orientation) because once religiously motivated discrimination is permitted, the line has already been draw…

Bishop John Shelby Spong Declares Victory: Is it Premature?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…at judge that interracial marriage was wrong. Over the years though, those numbers began to move in the other direction until in 1991, only 41 percent would agree that interracial marriage is wrong. What changed in those years was the conversation. Biblical justifications for keeping people from marrying outside of their race began to wane as more and more interracial couples married and the sun still rose in the East and set in the West. Life wen…

Don’t Call it a Turkish Spring

By Haroon Moghul

…rprising, then, that the AKP feels itself to be redressing an undemocratic wrong. The question is: Will Erdogan stop seeing opponents as subversives? Because that’s how Turkish democracy has gone for most of its history. But it’s not just Erdogan. Running from a cloud of tear gas, and then some more, I will not forget returning to a main street very close to Taksim to applause—the open mockery of protesters by local residents, some of whom dismiss…

George Weigel’s Revisionist History Casts Vatican II as a Christian Nationalist Handbook

By Patricia Miller

…ieth century gathering of the Catholic hierarchy. Most will ask: what went wrong? Why was the Catholic Church unable to capitalize on what Pope John XXIII called this “new springtime” for the church, as Catholicism instead sees a winter—at least in the West. George Weigel, a senior fellow at the right-wing Ethics and Public Policy Center and author of Witness to Hope, the bestselling biography of Pope John Paul II, gives us his answer to that ques…

The Anti-Gay Highway

By Kathryn Joyce

…gger and stronger than in America. So the conservatives are relying on the numbers of African leaders; they start fighting mainline church leadership using Africans to win the American battle, and come across as though they care about Africa. Do these renewal church conservatives in America actually care about Africa? They have some explaining to do: here conservatives came to fame because one of the governments, in a broadcast program, accused ma…

Should Christians Confess to Plants? A Cranky Meditation

By Greg Carey

…erty will sit uneasily on my shoulders when confronted by the gospel. I am wrong about more things than I know, and liturgy should bring these wrongs before me in the presence of fellow believers and of God. It appears the Union worship service was part of a course on activism and liturgy rather than a regular chapel service. Perhaps worshipers were informed of the liturgy in advance. Were I asked to confess to plants without knowing it in advance…

Satanists Infiltrate a Ritual Abuse Conference in Oakland: Your Guide to What Happened and Why

By Joseph Laycock

…of SRA and did much to disseminate this mythology to the public. Oprah was wrong?! It was a manufactured panic. In the 1990s SRA was debunked by some prominent experts: FBI agent Kenneth Lanning, retired police officer Robert Hicks, and journalist Debbie Nathan, to name a few. Cognitive scientists such as Elizabeth Loftus have largely discredited the idea of repressed memories. In 1995 even Geraldo recanted his support for SRA, announcing, “I am c…