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Holding Out for a Hero: New ID Book Aims to Save You From Despair of Evolution

By Kriti Sharma

…hardly evidence for the existence of an intelligent designer. Axe, to his credit, admits this, so he builds up his main argument, the one about proteins, with analogy after analogy. He calculates the chances of getting a portrait of Abe Lincoln from randomly arranged pixels, the chances of getting a Shakespearean sonnet from randomly arranged words, the chances of finding this exact spot with a randomly dropped pin, and so on. Undeniable could ha…

Book Bannings Are Bad Enough, But Where Those Involved Are Considered Demonic, the Stakes Could Get Much Higher

By Frederick Clarkson

…nts had) like voodoo dolls, crystals, young adult fantasy books, and tarot cards. “We have a constitutional right and a Biblical right to do what we’re going to do tonight,” Locke declared. He also claimed “… a church has a religious right to burn occultic materials that they deem are a threat to their religious rights and freedoms and belief systems.” The Guardian reported that Locke also said, “…he was fighting the “Free Mason devils” and that……

Yom Kippur Prayers for Corporate Atonement at Occupy Wall St.

By Sarah Posner

…its inequities and iniquities. We’re the ones who use corporate banks and credit cards, take loans we can’t pay back, buy products from and invest in tax-evading multinational corporations, and vote for jerks who put special interests before the public interest. Which is not to say those in power do not have a greater responsibility to the public good. We ourselves have [plenty] to atone for. We have our own sins for which we are culpable. On the…

Russian Multimillionaire Makes Peace with Anti-Christ Milk

By Joseph Laycock

…adopting the strategy of Kuznetsov, whose group burned their passports and credit cards and retreated to a bunker, Russkoe Moloko has found a way to compromise with government authority. David Bromley has argued that violent episodes between government agencies and new religious movements—such as the immolation of the Branch Davidian headquarters in 1993—occur when “a movement and some segment of the social order reach a juncture at which one or b…

25 Things You Can Blame Muslims For

By Haroon Moghul

…o (and 1-9, too), spread to Europe. This is why, in the Arab world, Arabic numbers are called ‘Indian numbers,’ and why, in the West, ‘Indian numbers’ are called ‘Arabic numbers.’ In India they’re just known as numbers. No matter what they’re called, I think we can all agree they make life a lot easier. 2. Coffee Muslims invented coffee, and coffee is a good thing, and no good thing ever dies. At best it goes cold. In fact, one of the reasons coff…

Liberal or Literal? James Wood, Terry Eagleton, and the New Atheism

By Nancy Frankenberry

…herence, it is hard to beat the final paragraph in which Wood puts his own cards on the table: What is needed is neither the overweening rationalist atheism of a Dawkins nor the rarefied religious belief of an Eagleton but a theologically engaged atheism that resembles disappointed belief. Such atheism, only a semitone from faith, would be, like musical dissonance, the more acute for its proximity. It could give a brother’s account of belief, rath…

Donald Trump visits a black church. It goes about as well as you would expect.

By Daniel Schultz

…est time with prepared remarks to begin with. Add all of that in with some cards with the latest attack lines on them and no intuitive sense of how to behave in a church, and the result is disaster. Rev. Timmons shares a bit of the blame, to be honest. You might think that a candidate wouldn’t bash a rival in a speech at a church about sharing water, but Donald Trump, as has been pointed out so many times before, is not exactly like any other cand…

The Revelation of Kurt Andersen: With ‘Evil Geniuses’ a Media Mandarin Discovers Plutocracy

By Peter Laarman

…enterprise” system, it’s safe to say that radical revolution isn’t in the cards anytime soon. But a bourgeois revolution, in which former useful idiots like Kurt Andersen turn their backs on winner-take-all capitalism and insist on a major power rebalancing? Some days I would almost be willing to settle for that. Educated white liberals are hardly the only constituency that matters in a multipolar political culture, and they always tend to get ju…

Vatican Reverses Anti-Liberation Policies in Mexico

By Ruth Chojnacki and Jennifer Scheper Hughes

…ate, an ancient institution revived by Vatican II. In 2000, 341 of Mexico’s 800 deacons served the Diocese of San Cristobal, the largest number of deacons in any Catholic diocese in the world. Vatican suspicion of Bishop Ruiz’s liberationist pastoral strategy resulted in a failed attempt to remove him in 1993. The deacon program came under particular scrutiny after the 1994 Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, with reports that Maya catechists defied th…

Milquetoast Liberal Religion Won’t Challenge Conservative Values: A History Lesson

By Sheila D. Collins

…arge part of the Great Plains, restored wildlife and built a system of over 800 state and county parks. They electrified an entire region of the country, bringing what had been America’s “Third World” up to 20th century standards. They created works of art, gave concerts, set up theaters throughout the country, ran nursery schools, served over 1.2 billion school lunches to needy children, gave immunizations, taught illiterate adults to read and wr…