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New Report: Muslim Terrorism a ‘Minuscule Threat’

By Hussein Rashid

…01%. If we take a more realistic number of 4 million American Muslims, the numbers become 0.005% over a decade, or 0.0005% per year. Last year there were 14,000 homicides in the U.S., and with a population of 300,000,000, that’s about 0.0005% of the population are murderers. The report ends with this sage advice: “This study’s findings challenge Americans to be vigilant against the threat of homegrown terrorism while maintaining a responsible sens…

Times’ Link of NOI With Capitol Killer is Based on Flawed Comparison Between Rightwing Christian Nationalism and Black Religious Nationalism

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…. They have also lamented the frivolity, drunkenness, and sinfulness of the 19th century that culminated in the millennialist visions of a 20th century second-coming along with the temperance movement. However, this tradition has a darker side as often racial progress has been lumped in with the iniquities of secularism by evangelical Christians. After the social revolutions of the 1960s, evangelical Christians warned against removal of school pra…

Gun Ownership as Sin—A Strategic, Secular Proposal for Gun Reform

By Ira Chernus

…ic image of a crusade against sin. Of course we can’t simply go back to the 19th century. Moral issues must be addressed in more nuanced terms today. But there are many Americans who still respond strongly to the language of virtue and sin. They might be more open to the arguments for gun control if those arguments were framed in terms of individual moral virtue. The danger here is alienating the many other Americans who cringe at any mention of t…

Mitt Romney’s Prosperity Gospel

By Peter Laarman

…ople. And our god is that God: the one who makes water flow from the rock (Numbers 20:11); who surprises us all the time by blessing us in the least likely circumstances. Mr. President: You need to understand this. You need to work with this, but very, very carefully. Because, like it or not, the endgame in this election is going to be about which candidate does religion better, I fervently wish that Mr. Obama would say a bit more about the proble…

2023 in Review: Year One Without Roe, GOP Code Red, SCOTUS Gone Wild… and a Ray of Hope

By Annika Brockschmidt

…a’s elections when voters thwarted governor Glenn Youngkin’s plan to pass a 15-week abortion ban, J.D. Vance, senator for Ohio, confirmed that the GOP’s “states’ rights” rhetoric on abortion has always been a smoke screen. CNN’s Manu Raju wrote about his exchange with Vance: J.D. Vance, the Ohio GOP senator, says Republicans need to shift their approach on abortion and begin to embrace federal legislation—namely a 15-week ban with exceptions. ‘We…

Condos on Mars: A New Kind of Limit Experience?

By Laurie Patton

…search to find the Ark here on earth. We know of their renewed and deeply spiritual commitment to public service. And those of us who were around for it remember with great reverence and emotion of that night in July of 1969 when human beings first landed on the moon. Exploration is what some theologians and philosophers call a “limit experience”—an experience at the outer boundaries of daily, “normal” human life. It is almost always mysterious;…

Massacre in Mindanao: The Irresistible Urge to Blame Religion

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…otal not less than 300,000 while the MILF cohort, at its maximum strength, numbers just 15,000. Such asymmetric warfare would not be able to continue as it has for more than a decade without the local knowledge of the MILF fighters, the maritime distances, and the rugged jungle areas which comprise the larger Sulu archipelago within which Mindanao is located. It’s also noteworthy that civil society is as vibrant as government is weak in this regio…

Painting Elephants

By Bruce Prescott

…pired fundamentalist televangelists and megachurch preachers to organize in 1979. While Jerry Falwell organized the Moral Majority, others, like Adrian Rogers and Charles Stanley, organized the fundamentalist takeover of the SBC with intentions of using the machinery of the denomination to influence secular politics. This takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention was complete by 1989; purges of moderate denominational executives, agency heads, p…

DeSantis’ Religious Exemption Will Kill—And it Violates the 1st Amendment

By Andrew L. Seidel

…cases in one large California county can be traced to church services. The numbers are even bigger elsewhere. Reuters documents the harrowing story of one infected person in South Korea attending two church services and spreading COVID to another 1,200 people and that that “Church cluster accounts for at least 60% of all cases in South Korea.” Clerics seeking exemption from social distancing orders are not simply asking for a right to gather and w…

How a 15th Century Book on Witchcraft Helps Make Sense of Trump’s Bizarre Baby Execution Story

By Karen E. Park

…ding,” but Trump isn’t merely “lying” here (something he has done more than 10,000 times since taking office). Instead he’s creating a new and lurid narrative based on hatred. The language of truth and falsehood is misapplied in this case, since Trump’s statement about “beautifully wrapped babies” being killed by their mothers can be neither backed up nor disproven with evidence—it wasn’t intended to be. This story is outside the realm of verifiab…