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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

…ctly which Jews will be respected and what he means by “fully integrated.” Country Club Republican optics—MAGA policies The afternoon saw a thematic shift to foreign policy and the role of state power. First up is Elbridge “Bridge” Colby, a Trump official and remnant of the old guard of Country Club Republicans amidst NatCon’s wild mix of Twitter trolls, brash right-wing populists, fundamentalist preachers and theocrats. Despite the stereotypical…

5 Most Important Quotes from Trump’s Evangelical Summit

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…e going to be saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again, and we’re going to be saying a lot of other things.” 5. On being pro-Israel, and bringing Israel back fast: “I’m 100 percent for Israel. I have been forever. It is an amazing country. It has been shunned by the United States, in favor of Iran and others.” “Israel’s almost like lost to our country. We will bring that back, and we will bring it back fast. We’re going to be close to Israel.”…

Popesplaining: Women Remain “Strawberries” in Francis’s Book on Happiness

By Kaya Oakes

…r iced out of decision-making processes. Women in Argentina, Francis’ home country, have condemned its culture of machismo, which they say is connected to a rise in everything from street harassment to domestic violence to women being set on fire, chopped up, and shoved into garbage bags. Argentinian feminists even have a word for this continuum of male violence against women. They refer to it as femicido, or femicide. Complementarianism has also…

Running Against the Devil: Trump’s Conspiracy-Laden Fight Against Powers of Darkness

By Carmen Celestini

…n to celebrate their new identity. These individuals are warriors for God, country and family against values that do not reflect their religious beliefs and their understanding of American society. The democratic laws of America are created by human minds, the powers, who oppose all they stand for. Fundamentally it’s easier to understand this controlling entity as being comprised of humans bent on the destruction of all that is good and right. As…

Tragic Violence in Libya: No Excuse for Perpetrators—or for Provocateurs

By Haroon Moghul

…Certainly it deserves noting that violence in Libya and Egypt against our country was the action of a minority, but the minority that is willing to resort to violence, spectacle, and brutality always looms larger in the mind than the quiet majority. The fact that many, if not most, Muslims may be offended by anti-Muslim screeds and yet not resort to violence or even make any kind of protest will likely be ignored. (I, for example, find the film i…

Is the Decline of Religion the Decline of Generosity?

By Peter Laarman

…rty and hunger and homelessness continue to soar in this supposedly “rich” country? Similarly, I suppose it’s wonderful news that believers, on average, put in more volunteer hours than nonbelievers. But do these holy helpers ever think to challenge the political-economic power structure that systematically de-funds and eliminates public programs, thereby greatly compounding the need for all this reliance on private charity? Yes, you can do both—y…

In Qur’an Burning We’re All Losers

By Julie Ingersoll

…o religious freedom. One such immigrant Muslim told the Times “In no other country could we have such freedoms—that’s why so many Muslims choose to make this country their own.” While Muslims in European countries face social and legal opposition to their religious practices, Muslims here reported feeling tremendous freedom to practice their religion as they understand it. We had a chance to “get it right” while the rest of the world was getting i…

When I Have Fears The Middle East May Cease To Be

By Haroon Moghul

…ust face the ongoing tragedy of a country that never figured itself out, a country that still does not know how to answer this devastating question: Is a Pakistani an Indian? The circumstances of Pakistan’s birth were far more uncomfortable than most. It was traumatic, violent, and remains a repressed memory in many respects—what else would you do with hundreds of thousands dead in mass slaughter, as neighbors turned on one another? This is how bo…

A Faith-Based Opportunity for Obama

By Sarah Posner

…“to begin a dialogue on the importance of the Bible in the founding of the country.” In 2010, the White House refused to comment on DuBois’ phone call to religious right ideologue David Jeremiah after the latter called the president “a dangerous person” moving the country toward “socialism.” It was obviously an incident the White House would have preferred DuBois just let go. Boorstein’s piece suggests that some critics believe that the office wou…

Christine O’Donnell in 1995: Women In Military Colleges Damage National Security

By Sarah Posner

…ink they’re vital to the security of our country and to the defense of our country. By integrating women into particularly military institutes, it cripples the readiness of our defense. Schools like The Citadel train young men to confidently lead other young men into a battlefield where one of them will die. And when you have women in that situation, it creates a whole new set of dynamics which are distracting to training these men to kill or be k…