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Did Darren Wilson Superhumanize Michael Brown?

By Evan Derkacz

…’s description of Brown as a demon, which is dehumanizing enough, it’s the use of “it” in reference to Brown’s face (“it looks like a demon”): This “demon”-ization of Michael Brown reminded me of a recent RD post from Joseph Laycock on “a psychological study suggesting that white people are predisposed to ascribe superhuman and magical qualities to black people.” Then I recalled a passage from earlier in Wilson’s testimony where he likens his grip…

Beyond Alarmism and Denial in the Dominionism Debate

By Anthea Butler

…e numbers alone to bring folks in, they need to interact for like-minded causes. Electing a “Christian” is a like-minded cause, whether you believe in dominionism or not. A politician like Perry knows that he has to get these groups to coalesce together on his side in order to get votes and support. Whether Perry believes what they preach is up for debate, but it is clear that he is willing to use them to the fullest extent to gain the support he…

Religious Kids Are More Selfish: The Stickers Don’t Lie

By Michael Schulson

…zinger: according to Decety and his colleagues, kids from more religious households are less altruistic, and more apt to deal out punishment, than kids from non-religious households. Corollary zinger: on the punishment front, Muslim kids are even more vindictive than Christians. “Nonreligious children are more generous,” explained a headline at Science magazine. “It’s not like you have to be highly religious to be a good person,” Decety told Forbe…

Evangelicals and Newt: Love Him or Hate Him?

By Sarah Posner

…sorry, that’s just not the language an evangelical marriage crusader would use. They would use terms like “sanctity” and “traditional marriage” and “God’s design” and all that. Not that mushy “values we hold so dear.” It’s not just values we hold so dear — it’s God’s command, God’s plan, God’s design for men, women and the family. (Have the Iowans for Christian Leaders in Government read anything Vander Plaats has written?) Of course it’s possible…

“Paleo” is More Than a Fad Diet: Boyd Eaton’s Plan to Return to Eden

By Michael Schulson

…est number, then living at a minimal level with 12 billion people would be better. If you want people living the very best possible lifestyle, then 100 million people would be better. If you stop thinking about only human beings, but thinking about all the rest of the living organisms on earth, clearly the 100 million people is far better for the rest of the organisms on earth than is the 12 billion. How Paleo will the lifestyle of those 100 milli…

Fed. Court Rules Prop. 8 Unconstitutional

By Peter Montgomery

…micus brief: …the religious-liberty interest that Proposition 8 supposedly promoted was to decrease the likelihood that religious organizations would be penalized, under California’s antidiscrimination laws and other government policies concerning sexual orientation, for refusing to provide services to families headed by same-sex spouses. But Proposition 8 did nothing to affect those laws. To the extent that California’s antidiscrimination laws ap…

When Rabbis Seized Control of the Synagogue: The Role of Authority in American Judaism

By Zev Eleff

…l gain a deeper understanding of religious authority and the tensions it caused between lay and religious leaders. Beyond this, I hope scholars and students of American religion will use this work as a model to explore how historical questions might be answered by turning to considerations of religious power and those who control it (and, of course, those who don’t!). Who Rules the Synagogue?: Religious Authority and the Formation of American Juda…

Taking the Christ Back Out of Christmas: Secularizing the Season

By C. Joshua Villines

…Advent—a time when anticipating the celebration of Jesus’ first arrival causes us to focus on the doctrine of His Second Coming. On the night of December 24th we will focus on the Nativity; but we use the time in the four weeks prior to look toward the distant future and the end of time. For this reason, the texts read in Christian churches this time of year are about judgment and divine anger, separating wheat from chaff, or the axe that rests a…

How Julian Assange Is Like A Televangelist

By Sarah Posner

…he feed is unsafe for women or rape victims to look at. And posting the accusers’ names, over and over, because one of the things we’re objecting to is that posting the accusers’ names is subjecting them to massive invasion of privacy, you can find their names and home addresses online, and that might get them hurt or even, like, raped, . . . . And threatening to hack my PayPal, and threatening to hack Tiger Beatdown. . . . Every time I look away…

Tax Cuts for the Super Rich Aren’t Biblical

By Daniel Schultz

…ligious self-definition in terms of opposition to government. You’re not a better Jew by rejecting Caesar’s money, and you’re not a better Christian by cutting taxes on the wealthiest 2% of Americans, even supposing that they ran out and gave all that money away, which seems unlikely. Oh, who am I kidding? Despite Sekulow’s scripture quotes, this has nothing to do with the gospel of Jesus Christ and everything to do with the gospel according to th…