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Did Richard Dawkins Hand Creationists Their Next School Strategy?

By Adam Shapiro

…ed to ID, could reopen the legal question of teaching ID in public school classrooms. To make sense of this, one needs to begin with the fallout from the Kitzmiller trial. In 2004, members of the Dover, Pennsylvania school board passed a requirement that students in biology classes hear a short statement informing them that “intelligent design is an explanation of the origin of life that differs from Darwin’s view.” Parents of some students sued o…

Explaining Christian Zionism to Israelis

By Sarah Posner

…politics, and the Middle East: Christian Zionists support Israel. When in Washington, they will frame this support—frequently described as biblically mandated love—in political and policy terms, such as opposing a nuclear deal with Iran or negotiations with the Palestinians. (Or, more recently, supporting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming speech to a joint session of Congress.) But at church, on religious television, in books, and at r…

One Year After 1/6, Media Still Refuse to Recognize Authoritarian Christianity

By Chrissy Stroop

…aming and what’s wrong with it, take Jennifer Rubin’s recent column in The Washington Post, “Trump Idolatry has Undermined Religious Faith” in which she laments “the damage the MAGA movement has wrought to religious values” (emphasis in original). By contrasting the two, Rubin thus relegates authoritarian attitudes and behaviors, as well as racist and anti-immigrant sentiment, to a position outside the category of “religious values,” even though s…

Refugee Crisis in the Age of Trump: Getting Holocaust Analogies Wrong

By Sarah Posner

…olocaust analogies—or, rather, criticism of perceived analogies gone awry. Washington Examiner columnist Philip Klein complains that the “left” is “suddenly comfortable” with Holocaust analogies, as supporters of resettling Syrian refugees in the United States warn that we should not turn away people fleeing war, terrorism, and persecution, just as the U.S. turned away Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. The “left” consists, apparently, of Jewish g…

How New Religions Are Made

By Jacob S. Dorman

…ake a cameo in E.P. Thompson’s classic, The Making of the English Working Class. And so, for me, the process of writing this book was a real eye-opener that demonstrated that even small, some might say, “marginal” religious groups are connected in so many ways to so many other groups, crossing lines of space, race, and time. It led me to rethink the utility of the “marginal” and to discover just how rich those religions are as a way of understandi…

In Speech to White Evangelical Broadcasters, Trump Lays Out his White Christian Nationalist Vision

By Robert P. Jones

…t they cannot stand is that in the end, we do not answer to bureaucrats in Washington. We answer to God in heaven. We do, we answer to God in heaven. So today, I come before you as a friend, an ally, and a fellow believer to ask for your help and your support and your prayers for this country. We need your prayers. Most importantly. And I make you a simple promise. In my first term, I fought for Christians harder than any President has ever done b…

The Sanders Insurgency: A Return to the “Secular Sacred”?

By Peter Laarman

…s dream of deliverance, this longing for the overthrow of a predatory overclass, was deep and broad enough to unite labor radicals like Hillman and upper middle class reformers like Jane Addams. It was a dream heartily embraced by a significant cohort of “Social Gospel” leaders (e.g., Washington Gladden, Walter Rauschenbusch, and George D. Herron) who were appalled by what they regarded as the blasphemous identification of most other church leader…

Will House “Freedom” Group’s Core Racism Go Unchallenged?

By Peter Laarman

…e media chatter on about the consequences of a national default on middle-class people’s pensions. They chatter on about “will he or won’t he” Paul Ryan. Almost nobody with a soapbox, and (sadly) none of our religious leaders, talks about broader GOP campaign to strangle what remains of the welfare state. The corporate media let well-fed white guys like Freedom Caucus leader Jim Jordan talk about the need not to saddle his children and grandchildr…

Rick Perry’s Jesus Imperative: A Report from Saturday’s Mega-Rally

By Sarah Posner

…audience, called for the posting of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms and the restoration of school prayer. (Her late husband was instrumental in organizing Washington for Jesus and America for Jesus rallies in the 1980s, which focused on similar themes to those behind The Response.) Thompson added, “There are so many deep things we don’t understand. We don’t understand really what put this president in place… it’s been layers of it…

Trump’s Fervent Christian Zionists Poised to Lead the Military — And US-Israel Relations

By Ben Lorber

…is not possible…I will submit to you, in light of the support you have in Washington DC, the support you have amongst patriotic Americans, amongst Evangelical Christians, amongst Believers, amongst Republicans even amongst some Democrats…buy the [lottery] ticket, take your action, do what needs to be done here in Israel. Because I truly believe this is a moment where America will have your back. Hegseth’s sweeping command would likely be even mor…