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The Clenched Fist of Truthiness: Why Religion Won’t Fix This

By Daniel Schultz

…terms” here, implying a final battle between good and evil. No matter, the point is made: the worldview of this video is stark, antagonistic, and manicheaen, drawing sharp and exclusive boundaries between those on the NRA’s side and those outside their camp. Loesch’s utter revulsion for the latter group is really something—and by “something,” I mean “ugly and more than a little disturbing.” While the NRA video isn’t explicitly religious, it seems…

‘Restart the Economy’ is a Prayer to a Conservative God Who Demands Human Sacrifice

By Stephen Young

…st to Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” to modern social commentators. One recurring point is that the depravity of Moloch was reflected in his insatiable lust for innocent flesh. How could anyone worship such a monster? Readers have drawn further connections: human sacrifice marks not only Moloch as evil, but also the population who offers their children to him. This is the biblical justification given for why Israelites should exterminate Canaanites, the…

Jesus in 3D: The Shroud of Turin Meets the 21st Century

By Peter Manseau

…technologies of the day. But maybe so much focus on explanation misses the point. Belief—any belief, whether in God, the Resurrection, even the Force—requires a partial abandonment of the rational. This does not mean that faith is irrational, only that it involves a recognition that there are some things that can be explained only through acknowledgment that proof is not always the highest good. Faith fashions itself as a challenge to our assumpti…

Neil Gorsuch Shows How Donald Trump Loses (Some) White Evangelical Christians

By John Stoehr

…orting him isn’t protecting “religious freedom” or outlawing abortion. The point is seeing people punished who deserve to be punished—and enjoying it. This is why recent discussion over the alleged loss of support among white evangelical Christians is pretty meaningless. True, Trump had sky-high approval in March, and true, that approval dropped around 10 points a month later. But that didn’t indicate a serious shift. His approval was sky-high acr…

David Carr’s Secret to Honesty: Sin

By Daniel Silliman

…trust him. It’s a funny thing about journalists and trust. Skepticism is a point of professional pride. “If your mother says she loves you,” the j-school saying goes, “check it out.” At the same time, journalists want to be trusted. They need sources to trust them, first of all, and then readers and viewers. To be a good journalist, you need people to trust you even as you don’t trust anyone. That’s credibility. The word has even become a kind of…

Does Church Temper Trump Voters’ Views on Race? New Report Whitewashes Conservative Christian Problem

By Timothy Gloege

…elming majorities agree with overtly racist myths. But what about the main point: that religious conservatives are less racist than their non-church-going counterparts? Unlike feeling thermometers, these questions generate no discernable correlation between church attendance and less racist views. They demonstrate only that church-going Trump voters are more likely to be assimilationists, while segregationists cluster among non-church-goers. Churc…

Taqwacore Roundtable: On Punks, the Media, and the Meaning of “Muslim”

By Shahjehan Khan

…If not, why? Is it the music (the genre being very particular to the Anglophone world)? the underlying thought of treating “Muhammad as punk rocker?” BU: What an ignorant question. Anglophone world? Punk is ten times bigger in Kuala Lampur than it ever will be in the UK, France, or Germany. Or America. No, the reason for forming the Dead Bhuttos, and the rush to put a single online was to show, at least cosmetically, that Pakistan was as capable…

Capricology: Television, Tech, and the Sacred

By Diane Winston

…ng to explore the limits (if any) of these body part replacements. At what point do we say that this is a different “person” than the original? Should we draw the line at the brain (a la the jar heads in Futurama)? Should it even matter? Perhaps the best twist in the pilot was the fact that Zoe’s virtual creation (not her own avatar, but a copy of her avatar) knows that she has all the memories and life-experiences of her creator, and yet, that sh…

Sex, the Body, the World: It’s R. Crumb’s Bible Now

By Naomi Seidman

…adings but inevitably also to its translation out of Hebrew. As Buber also pointed out, Hebrew is much richer in corporeal language than the languages of its greatest translations: the preposition translated as “before” is, in Hebrew, “to the face” [lifney], while the word yad (hand) appears in a host of prepositions and expressions and the literal meaning of the biblical term for “patience” is, somewhat more oddly, “length of nostrils” [erekh apa…

The Theology That Inspired the Poway Synagogue Shooting (and New Zealand) Remains Strikingly Commonplace

By Ivan Strenski

…way to try to control the narrative. Fuck it jew, we’ve passed the tipping point and the narrative is now ours to write. [Emphasis mine.] The author of this post is not about to let Jews “replace” him any more than John T. Earnest accepted that Jews would “replace” him. Not to single out the Orthodox Presbyterians, it should be noted that all three Abrahamic religions deploy supersessionist talk and often a bloody history to go with it. Each succe…