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The Religious Motto That Isn’t Religious: How ‘In God We Trust’ Remains Constitutional [Part 2]

By Andrew L. Seidel

…o be walled off from one another, judges have essentially declared that entrusting this world to God is not a religious sentiment. This proclamation is itself religious. Imagine if these same judges had declared that the ubiquitous John 3:16 or praying the rosary have “no theological or ritualistic” importance because they had been so often repeated. The Christian nationalists’ outrage would, for once, be justified. What American Christian would l…

Why Did an Antisemitic Christian Zionist Have the Chutzpah to Declare That He’d Be Leading a Holocaust March?

By Ben Lorber and Aidan Orly

…art of God’s plan to induce Ukrainian Jews to “return home” to Israel. The International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem (ICEJ) has repeatedly appealed to its global following to support efforts to relocate Ukrainian Jews to Israel by exclaiming this is their “chance to be part of an urgent, historic and even prophetic wave of Aliyah,” as “so many other divine promises are being fulfilled before our eyes through Israel’s restoration to her ancient…

Christian Nationalists and the Holy Gun Crusade

By Thomas Lecaque

…the blood of his enemies ’cause he’s coming back as a warrior carrying a sword. He added to this claim that the sword in question was the AR-15, and that the Second Amendment as a concept came from Jesus. This isn’t simply one church, and if the idea still feels fringe—thankfully—then we should look at the more mainstream idea: the gun as a religious weapon. If Daniel Defense sells their guns using Bible verses, other companies have a much closer…

Fresh From Horrors of Draconian Anti-Abortion Laws, Christian Right Hoosiers Consider Draconian Anti-Abortion Law

By Chrissy Stroop

…handling and worsening an HIV outbreak in Indiana in the 2010s) as Donald Trump’s vice president. But not since the 2015 media brouhaha over Indiana’s anti-LGBTQ Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) has the Hoosier State gotten the kinds of national headlines it’s getting now, in the wake of a ten-year-old rape victim receiving an urgent abortion there that the young girl was refused in Ohio. The doctor who provided the child with abortion car…

Manchester—Last Gasp of a Failing Terror Movement?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…-steady stream of volunteers from expatriate Muslim communities around the world has decreased to a trickle. So although the Manchester attack may have appeared to put ISIS back into the headlines and back into the terrorist limelight, the movement is floundering. One tragically dedicated person with a suicide belt is not the same as a flourishing militant organization. But that raises the question of why someone like Salman Abedi would do such a…

America’s National Conversation about Christianity is ‘Fundamentally Unserious’ — But Not in the Way You Think

By Chrissy Stroop

…an example covered in the report. And, through their court packing under Trump and legislative initiatives like those developed by the Christian Nationalist initiative Project Blitz, America’s conservative Christians are working overtime to keep lack of religion stigmatized. Citing Christian Right attempts to have “In God We Trust” posted in public school classrooms and similar efforts, “The Tipping Point Generation” notes, “It is increasingly cl…

What If Donald Trump is Just as Christian as Evangelicals?

By John Stoehr

…here is no such thing as abuse of power when one has been chosen by God to rule. There is no such thing as obstruction of justice when God alone decides who is worthy of justice. Since God chose Trump, only God can end his presidency, and any attempt to impeach and remove him is, by consequence, a sinful attempt to obstruct God’s will. That white evangelicals genuinely believe this to be true should not in any way be mistaken for religious sentime…

VIDEO: Sam Bee Roasts “President Pence” in America’s Coming Theocracy

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ith current Vice President Mike Pence serving as commander-in-chief after Trump gets his head stuck in a honey jar. (Hey, as Minhaj noted at the other dinner, anything’s possible in Trump’s America, right?) The segment aired at the end of the night and wrapped a multi-part feature imagining Bee roasting several former presidents in period-appropriate attire. The “2018” clip depicts a modern American theocracy, where women must request “a rare exce…

‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data

By Chrissy Stroop

…tten by Emma Graham-Harrison] with whistleblower Chris Wylie broke and the headlines just rolled across the world. I followed the committee for a year. They went to America, the first committee to ever do so, to interview Google, Twitter, Facebook. And as these tech companies lied, and they lied some more, it became a very interesting story. Then it turned out that there was very little will in the UK to pursue any of the regulation that the commi…

Why “Religion or Politics?” Is the Wrong Question

By Kate Blanchard

…n” letter to a Connecticut church in 1802—not knowing at the time that his words would become American gospel—in which he condemned Americans to centuries of shallow conversations (or better yet no conversations) about religion. He states, “religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his god,” and furthermore, “that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.” In other words, “religion” for Thomas Jefferson…