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Old Testament ‘Bad,’ New Testament ‘Good’: A Dangerous (and Mistaken) Assumption

By Peter Laarman

…directly or obliquely from the Hebrew Scriptures. He quotes these texts 79 times, 27 times from the Pentateuch alone. The important point is that, for him, the essence of the tradition—and the part he wants to underscore—is God’s merciful heart, though he would hardly claim this as an original insight. To him this would have been blazingly obvious from his deep study of Torah. How, then, did we end up with the peculiar idea that the Christian “law…

Art(ful) History in Texas

By Lauri Lebo

…als, since last week the board voted to delay indefinitely the purchase of new science textbooks that include the changes McLeroy has lobbied for. Because new science textbooks are estimated to cost $350 million, the board opted to bridge the gap between the old and the new science standards with supplemental materials. The board will review and select the materials next spring. Using supplemental materials may be something of a creationist cloak…

Judeo-Christian America: The Fall of the ‘Christian Nation’

By Edward J. Blum

…nation battled European totalitarianism and Nazi genocide; how it created new struggles in America’s suburbs, fraternal organizations, schools, and courts; and how it created a rhetoric for both the Civil Rights Movement and the rise of the new religious right. Through it all, Schultz brilliantly shows that between the labor-capital divide of the 1930s and the racial divide of the 1960s was an ideological contest over the religious composition of…

Tutu’s Daughter Marries Woman & Loses Anglican Priest License; Romanian Anti-Marriage Activists Get 3 Million Signatures; Australian State Apologizes For Harmful Sodomy Laws; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…mittee evaluates countries’ compliance with the Convention on Torture and Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment. Uganda: New documents released in SMUG lawsuit against Scott Lively Sexual Minorities Uganda is represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights in an lawsuit against American anti-gay activist Scott Lively in a novel use of the Alien Tort Statute. This week SMUG and CCR released three expert reports that they say buttress their cas…

Undercover at Falwell’s Liberty University, Finding Common Ground

By Nathan Schneider

…Church in Colorado Springs. Laurie Goodstein and David Kirkpatrick of the New York Times came to Brown to expose the evangelical organizations targeting the Ivy League. During my breaks from school, I set off to follow suit. I took off on road trips that mixed pilgrimage with participant observation. By the end, I had spent time at major megachurches, including New Life, Rick Warren’s Saddleback, the Crystal Cathedral, and McLean Bible Church (ou…

Black Churches are Burning: Is It the 1990s All Over Again?

By Katie Day

…ate responses to this wave of attacks on Black churches. USA Today and the New York Times provided daily coverage, as did major television network news programs. They deployed many reporters on the story, who were in communication with the Justice Department and ATF officials, who were themselves scrambling to keep up with events. President Clinton, facing re-election, met directly with pastors of burned churches and with the National Council of C…

Will the new Jurassic Park movie be an anti-GMO adventure?

By Michael Schulson

…h any new technology (Who gets to control it? How will we know when the tinkering has gone too far?) tend to get lost. In our marketing and in our fictions, we set those roles apart: innovation versus common sense. This generates good stories that can be told in 90 seconds or less. But in the real world, perhaps, we separate them at our peril. Related on The Cubit: In the future will we sue Tony Stark or Ultron? The shared assumption behind creati…

When You Argue With a Fundamentalist You Don’t Know What You’re Asking For

By Nelle Smith

…unity, your life, your entire way of thinking, and your gauge for what is true in the world. Evangelicalism feels so right from the inside. And, for an evangelical, there are no small doubts: growing up in many evangelical churches means to be told, repeatedly, that the devil will always seek a foothold, and once you give him one you’re well on the road to hell, to losing your faith, to destroying your witness. That’s scary stuff. To begin to doub…

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Putin in makeup on the popular Russian social-networking site Vkontakte.” “Russian news outlets are having trouble reporting exactly which image of the Internet’s many Putin-gay-clown memes is now illegal to share,” The Washington Post reports. “Because, you know, it’s been banned.” Finland: 800+ same-sex couples married in first month; Lutheran priests barred from officiating More than 800 same-sex couples were married in March after marriage equ…

Why I Give Zero F*cks What Anti-Gay Christians Think

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…homosexuality as “gospel” (which is a complete bastardization of the “good news” such a word is meant to convey) is to give them a source of authority that they do not possess. What would be our authority to stop believing them? Let me tell you about this guy named Jesus. Back in his day, there were fundamentalists—those religious leaders who had set themselves up as keepers of the orthodox flame. They did, back then, what modern day fundamentalis…