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Arrest the Pope: New Atheist Effort to Seek Justice in Sexual Abuse Crisis Should Be Applauded

By Frances Kissling

…ests knew someone who abused a child and for complex psychological reasons looked the other way. If the only ones who will do anything about it are people like Dawkins, Hitchens, Robertson, and those who survived, then more power to them. *The Daily Telegraph is indeed not a Rupert Murdoch property as this article originally claimed. It is owned by the identical twin Barclay brothers, though the sentiment remains true that the conservative daily i…

Do Not Arrest the Pope: New Atheists’ Call for the Pope’s Arrest Isn’t Likely to Produce Justice

By Eric Reitan

…can combine with a requirement of clerical celibacy to produce inordinate numbers of priests whose sexuality has become deeply dysfunctional by virtue of failed adolescent efforts to suppress it altogether. But any impulse to reflect seriously on these and other ideas will be compromised if the opposing impulse prevails—by which I mean the Church’s deep-seated impulse to react defensively, to respond in terms of its subjective sense of being besi…

Polygamy, Genius, and the Origin of Religion

By Michael Schulson

…. In that light, an argument like Barash’s sounds hopelessly retrograde at best, and intolerant at worst. But just because a question is uncomfortable doesn’t mean that it should be taboo. Evolution clearly made male and female bodies different. Human brains are subject to evolution, too. It’s possible that natural selection has encoded different behavior patterns in men and women. These differences could show up in proclivities toward certain beh…

Sure, There’s No ‘Religious Left’… If You Ignore Non-White Christians and Non-Christians

By Daniel Schultz

…s, and single-issue groups that make up a loose coalition that despite the best efforts of the Religion-Industrial Complex, cheerfully and successfully resists just about anything in the way of central coordination. Jenkins sees this as a distributed movement, and likes to point to areas where it’s played a crucial role in progressive successes in recent years. (Some of his most interesting reporting has been about Indigenous religious activism ar…

Politics in a Fallen World: Lying, Fact-Checkers, and the Future of Civilization

By Michael Schulson

…for entirely selfish reasons, and lying, could create a society that would look exactly like he hoped a society would look [that was] inhabited by truly virtuous people. They’re indistinguishable. That’s what I mean when I say that the devil wins. The devil, by introducing lying, creates the system that allows civil society to thrive. But now it feels as if this productive awfulness has been distilled into one human being. It feels like we have me…

A Church With a Hole In Its Heart: An Excerpt from Peter Manseau’s “One Nation Under Gods”

By Peter Manseau

…notions of embodied divinity; it was holy even before the first Europeans looked on the people of an unmapped continent and declared that they must know nothing of God. Though it has a long and eclectic spiritual history, the hole sits today in the back corner of a Roman Catholic Church, El Santuario de Chimayo, which is among the most visited religious pilgrimage sites in America. Hundreds of thousands of true believers and curious souls visit e…

Inside Outsourced: Come See Where Your Jobs Went

By Haroon Moghul

…conscious of the shooting schedule and rhythm of workflow to determine how best to meet the daily prayers. Ramadan is also challenging. Making a million decisions during the creative process on an empty stomach, I’ve found, is harder than a full day of hiking up a mountain during the fast. You can also forget about tarawih prayers and seeing friends and family for iftars. You basically miss the things that fasting prepares you to benefit from. Tha…

Protesting Yoga in Schools, But Welcoming Bible Study

By Katherine Stewart

…clear religious agenda for the schools? Oh, that’s easy. You just need to look at the ADF’s client list. Not the ones they’re trying to kick out of the schools, but the ones they are trying to force in. Consider abstinence-only Sex Ed: the many “health” programs for public middle and high school students teaching that the only way to have a safe and moral sex life is not to have one (outside of heterosexual marriage). Abstinence programs in many…

White Nationalist Mottos, the Fate of Jews in the New Christian State, and ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Humor — Day 2 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…Be Hispanic, or to Be Black, or It’s Okay to Be An American, nobody would look twice. But if I say ‘it’s okay to be White,’ I might as well just put on my KKK hood right now, right? Indeed, “It’s OK to be White” has been a right-wing, White nationalist slogan embraced by neo-Nazis since 2017. “I talked to Trump twice today!” For the evening session, Marco Rubio had been announced to give a keynote—but, as many attendees had already noticed, Rubio…

LGBT Activists Challenge Church Anti-Marriage Efforts; Gov’t in Belize Creates Church-State ‘Public Morality’ Commission; Opponents Seek To Stop Finland’s Marriage Equality Law Before It Takes Effect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…with the Mongolian saying “look into your own chest of drawers, instead of looking for something from other households,” it is clear that we need to study what kind of local practices and habits we had in terms of sexual minorities in our social and cultural frameworks. As the masterpiece “One Day in Mongolia” reflected the ordinary lives of Mongolians of that time, it aimed to describe life as it was. Besides painting and arts, our scholars shoul…